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by xvedejas 8y ago
If there's anything I'm trying to imply, it's that there is a problem that needs to be addressed first: communication of ethics to a technical crowd can and should be done in a more professional and constructive way. Ideally
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Is it the programmers/engineers that make the "incorrect" value judgements? It seems to me that it's usually the managers who are responsible for ethical gaps, and engineers are caught up in the act. That's the exac
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I'm all for heterodoxy, but what about people who are just not ideological? Who do we pair them up with?
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I make no claim as to whether competent science ethicists exist. Clearly this anecdote is a good example of what professors of humanities should try to avoid if they aim to fix problems in STEM.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
It's kind of a sad, losing game to compare atrocities from different time periods, and then task ourselves with saying "this time period was worse than that time period". Unfortunately, it's the game we must play to dete
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I once attended a small scientific conference with a couple hundred attendees total. Over the two days of the conference there were many technical presentations to the full group, but two of the final presentations were non-technical. One p
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I'm still not following. Is it harder to mishandle food in a commercial kitchen? Why is the regulation against non-commercial kitchens, and not just against mishandling of food, if that's the issue?
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Statistics have to come before anecdotes. I'm not really disagreeing with you, but we live in an era with many more people and much more open dialogue. It's easier to find countless stories of minority abuse, regardless of the act
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I'm not sure why you even need to accept the premise. Why is using a non-commercial kitchen sleazy? Such a regulation doesn't make much sense to me for either small or large businesses.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
About a year ago I discovered that California has its own tartan pattern. Unfortunately I was unable to find any manufacturer which currently makes a flannel shirt in this pattern. It's a shame, the pattern is quite nice, but it's
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by xvedejas 8y ago
As someone who grew up in Collin county and now lives in SF, isn't zoning the reason there aren't more corner stores in either? I know Houston doesn't have a "proper" zoning system, but according to a developer frie
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Last I recall checking, out of the residents of San Francisco, only about 5% work for a tech company. And many or most of those people work in non-technical roles. I think a lot of the feeling of a "monoculture" is self-enforced;
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by xvedejas 8y ago
In Japan, zoning is handled federally; and the result is much more affordable cities. "Why Tokyo is the land of rising home construction but not prices" https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Article: Spacetime is an illusion! Time isn't real! Reality: The details of time diverge a bit from common understanding. The author has an emotional reaction to this. Who else dislikes this sort of pop-science writing? It seems to car
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Groceries are actually one of the things which have not been getting more expensive over time. The national calculated inflation rate is such that $100 in 1983 is equivalent in purchasing power to $253.02 in 2018. In the bay area, "foo
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by xvedejas 8y ago
There really is an awful lot of street parking in SF. In the neighborhoods I'd like to see some project to turn some of the on-street parking into lawns/gardens. I believe at one point, in the 60s or 70s, most homes (at least in m
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by xvedejas 8y ago
To address housing prices, UBI would ideally be paired with a Land Value Tax (LVT), to capture the producer surplus. More detailed discussion of the economics can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_
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by xvedejas 8y ago
If people are doing good things, I don't much care whether it's originated from a _good heart_ or not. I'm totally satisfied with the idea that someone is motivated to do good by outside factors and is willing to take such an
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Assuming you're referring to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the Wikipedia page answers your question: > In October 2016, the seed vault experienced an unusually large degree of water intrusion due to higher than average temperature
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by xvedejas 8y ago
I can't speak for all colleges, but most of the top colleges in the US do not need to charge tuition at all to make ends meet, regardless of the rising administrative costs. They mostly charge tuition because 1. most other sources of m
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by xvedejas 8y ago
It's really a minimum adaptation of society, for the benefit of everyone: fewer urine patches in their city. If it works, and everyone benefits, why should people care that one feminist thinks it's sexist?
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by xvedejas 8y ago
> But for contemporary use, say in a classroom, minimizing area distortion is often a higher priority than keeping bearing lines straight. You'll find that in contemporary use, especially when computer interfaces are involved, a ver
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Can anyone give me an idea of how valuable a person's personal information really is? I know companies are willing to spend a lot of money on this data, but I'm not yet convinced that that's rational. What are some examples o
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by xvedejas 8y ago
> “The deeper molecules were easier because their surface was plainer.” I can't tell, is this is a mistaken transcription and they meant "planar"?
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by xvedejas 8y ago
Maybe "row housing"? "Block housing" evokes images of soviet-era detached apartment buildings.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
More like strange how Apple can charge as much as they do because their brand is targeting the "luxury" market.
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by xvedejas 8y ago
There absolutely are suburbs. But relative to the US, Canada’s major cities have maintained bigger inner-urban middle classes.
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Canada is very different from the US in this regard, so it's important to consider both distinctly. Canada never had the same mass-exodus of the middle class from their cities, so the economic demographics are all very different from t
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This does not seem to be the case in private universities, where high graduation rate is a strongly desired statistic. Maybe one or two people total left my Chemical Engineering class over four years, and usually to switch to something like
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by xvedejas 8y ago
If I recall correctly, the only confirmed injury from the recent influx of scooter sharing was from someone tripping over a parked scooter. But the meeting I'm referring to happened about a year ago, and the fear was mostly geared towa

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