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by xibalba 5y ago
Ok, where's your data? This article cites the work of Soffia, Wood, and Burchell[1] who "use representative data from the EU to test five of [bullshit jobs theory]'s core hypotheses" and find them to be nonsense based
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by xibalba 5y ago
But VPN usage can be detected and punished. China and Iran already do this. Bottom line is, if you've got the power and the will, you can definitely control the "how" and "what" of internet access in your jurisdic
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by xibalba 5y ago
Would you please demonstrate to me how I, Joe Q. Public, can find out, via collected data that I can access, with whom another person is sleeping with? Or, in lieu of that, walk me through how that would be done with Facebook's, Google
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by xibalba 5y ago
Does not much of the "content moderation" on HN get done via HN users flagging posts?
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The Colonial Pipeline is a monopoly? It appears to be a joint venture between at least 5 energy companies. Or to what monopoly are you referring? There is not mention of any other companies in this article. When hackers start to interfere w
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by xibalba 5y ago
Honest question: Do we, the HN community, believe that we can have good faith discussions about Huawei without the interference of PRC propagandists on the one side and anti-Sino infowarriors on the other?
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by xibalba 5y ago
Steven Sloman at Brown University argues there is good evidence showing when people are asked to explain something in depth, their mind can be changed. Basically, it hinges on the idea of "the illusion of explanatory depth". Peopl
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by xibalba 5y ago
Will you please elaborate? This is interesting and I, and I assume many others, am pretty ignorant with respect to the goings on in Cuba.
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Wasn't this "recommendation" accompanied by a fighter jet? That isn't exact a Milgram scenario.
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> what powers and advances have poor research systems denied us Alternatively, it may be that all the low hanging fruit in the known orchards are picked. But there are still workers reaching for the remaining higher, rarer fruit. Only a
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by xibalba 5y ago
And the world needs this exposed... in aggregate!
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Perhaps my phrasing was not sufficiently clear. I make no a claim that this case falsifies the "bamboo ceiling hypothesis". Rather, it seems like there is quite a bit of evidence in this case that the reasons for Zhu's firi
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by xibalba 5y ago
> another tech CEO/Founder can go to Burning Man, trip on LSD and peyote, brag to everyone they were out of their mind at Burning Man, and face no consequences To which CEO are you referring? Also, the comparative context is very di
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by xibalba 5y ago
In this case, even the author seems to begrudgingly be admitting that this clearly was not a case of racial/ethnic bias. Rather, the company was maturing and professionalizing and the CEO refused to get on board, and even went so far a
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by xibalba 5y ago
The allegations of racial bias and the "bamboo ceiling" are entirely unsupported by this article. The two investors with whom Zhu seems to take issue were born and raised in South Asia and Turkey, respectively. Zhu was replaced by
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by xibalba 5y ago
This could be explained by failures of management in addition to or as opposed to the ability of technical individual contributors.
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Pardon me. I did not mean to imply you were calling for anything. And I agree, the facts look pretty damning. Nevertheless, I fully support a slow, deliberate, and comprehensive evaluation by any authority when evaluating serious accusation
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by xibalba 5y ago
This is what innocent until proven guilty looks like. I, for one, agree with the approach. I don't want to live in a world where people are fired and projects shutdown on the basis of allegations alone.
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From the looks of the dialogue, it was all of the above with the addition of lying about what they were up to when confronted. I would think all of this constitutes a serious violation of any real university's research ethics standards
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by xibalba 5y ago
Musk has been openly and repeatedly critical of how PayPal blew it. Tbf, I use PayPal pretty regularly and it works just fine for me.
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by xibalba 6y ago
For people interested in addressing anxiety/depression disorders via "the body", check out SGB (stellate ganglion block) and ketamine treatments.
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by xibalba 6y ago
> Why you gotta be all in his face for this? Huh? How am I "in his face"? This is Hacker News. We discuss posts. Sometimes people disagree. After having read the article, I am discussing a direct quote from it. Or do you think
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by xibalba 6y ago
> just because you don't see it as bullying - and bullies rarely see it that way - it doesn't mean it isn't bullying I disagree with this claim, which seems indicative of the current moment in (U.S.) culture. There has t
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by xibalba 6y ago
I've been pwned. Is it known when this breach occurred? I have seen a huge spike in spam calls over the last 3-4 months and now I'm wondering if it was bc of this breach.
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by xibalba 6y ago
Whenever I see articles like this, my gut reaction is to think of every damn foreign conflict the U.S. has been involved in post-WWII. Have we not learned our lessons yet? Is it really in our best interests to get involved in yet another fa
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by xibalba 6y ago
An large influx of non-professionals is often a signal of a late stage bubble.
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Having done some modeling myself, I am always stupefied and rankled when I read and hear the certitude with which people, mostly in the media, make claims about future climate scenarios. I am not at all surprised by Burgess' results. T
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Fellow Austinite here. To what events are you referring? I have no recollection of multiday power or water outages in the last 10 years.
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by xibalba 6y ago
I don't need to. A 5 year old can understand that you're not entitled to take other people's work without their permission.
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by xibalba 6y ago
So should you be able to take a free copy of a movie that people spent years and millions of dollars making? I think a little more nuance is warranted here.

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