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by zby 7y ago
"defending adults having sex with children" - this again - if I accuse you of having sex with children - then everyone who defends you is a creep? We don't know if Minsky had sex with Guiffre - from her deposition we only kno
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by zby 7y ago
I think the root of all of this is we use the same mental circuits when condemning sexual and hygienic misconduct. Someone called him creepy for publicly eating something from his foot - then in other circumstances the 'creepy' l
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by zby 7y ago
I think the root of the this was misinterpretations of 'creep' - publicly eating something from your foot might be called creepy - but there is no law against it and it is not against women in any way.
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by zby 7y ago
In common language you might call a software house a tech company - but in the context of business it is good to have a term that would distinguish companies that are good candidates for facebook or google like growth. The "What is a t
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It means different business strategy. Tech companies can have massive revenues without having many employees. They write software, this is the initial big fixed cost, then making a copy of the software or servicing another customer in a Saa
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by zby 7y ago
https://stratechery.com/2019/what-is-a-tech-company/ - should really be read first
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by zby 7y ago
Good faith is important - but how about the communist agents from the past? They did believe in their cause after all. And I think the Chinese also believe that their system is better than the western democracy.
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Paradigm Shifts(linkedin.com)
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by zby 7y ago
OK - the whole flamewar shows that indeed the mailing list was probably not a good way of defending Minsky. It was not effective and it generated a lot of chaos. But then the question is what would be the appropriate way?
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by zby 7y ago
I am not a native English speaker - should I use 'nobody is allowed to defend' instead? He was punished for defending his friend and the parent post justifies that: "RMS was defending his friend who, at the age of 74, is accu
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by zby 7y ago
Come on - if I accuse you of being 74 and having sex with a a 17 year old girl on a billionaire's private island - then nobody can defend you? Minsky is dead and he cannot defend himself, the girl said she was directed to have sex with
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by zby 7y ago
To be precise Stallman argues that lack of mens rea at least should mean that it was not 'assault'. In another place he also argues that it is not evident that Guiffre had sex with Minsky - she says she was directed to, but she do
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by zby 7y ago
He does not really say Minsky was innocent - he insists that what Minsky did should not be called 'assault' because this term is misleading. [Update] In another place he does argue that it is not evident that Minsky eventually did
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The article omits the problem number one here: it is the most surprising results that get the most attention and among the most surprising many would be false. Extraordinary claims get extraordinary attention and this is not cancelled out b
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Entertainment Is Eating Politics(gen.medium.com)
1 points by zby 7y ago|0 comments
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Porsche is German too.
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Decentralization is good when there is no need for coordination. We sometimes like to collaborate - but we don't like the constant requirement of mandatory coordination. Unfortunately technology connects us more and more and that means
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Externality Lenses(interfluidity.com)
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I concur - "The Book of Why" lays out this thesis really well ( http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/WHY/ ).
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That is what I was writing about - autoimmune disorder causing the symptoms not the borrelia bacteria. But it is also possible that the bacteria caused the autoimmune disorder first.
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The primary social function of giving advice is a domination game ( http://www.overcomingbias.com/2015/03/advice-shows-status.ht... , http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/01/advice-isnt-about
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by zby 7y ago
If diet helped - than maybe it was some kind of food allergy that was causing the symptoms not the lyme? Maybe you had lyme some time in the past - and this is why the tests were positive - but the symptoms were because of some food allergy
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by zby 7y ago
There are already four natural olivine beaches on Earth - we can study them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papakolea_Beach
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Update: If trials by manufacturers are biased - then how about some framework that would push trials made by competition. There are two things: One is bad science, and we have a lot of it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by zby 7y ago
So the article identifies a software bug and a software/config bug as the root cause. That sounds a bit shallow for such a high visibility case - I was expecting something like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_W
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by zby 7y ago
The number one point is to recognize the situation as a conflict of interests - everyone wants an immediate answer to his burning question, but nobody wants to be interrupted to answer somebody else questions. For the team as a whole there
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by zby 7y ago
And nobody mentioned prediction markets yet?
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I agree that they do unlock some economic potential - but still they are just user interfaces. They don't own any of the physical facilities and they don't do any sophisticated computations - all they do is matching offers and tha
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My ambivalent take: Lot's of the big tech is just user interfaces (Uber, Airbnb, even Netflix). There is some utility in better interfaces - but overall their market power comes from squeezing the suppliers (see https://stra
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by zby 7y ago
There are two kind of authors at Medium. There are those who try to earn money directly from their writing and those who just want to write and maybe monetize in other ways, maybe not monetize at all just make their writing a gift to the hu

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