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by zzalpha 9y ago
So they report the factors they weigh, then self-report the factors they think contributed to success? That feels like fertile ground for confirmation bias.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
She was not denied the rental because the host is a racist. Ignoring the veracity if your claims for a moment, let's consider: Rather than taking the host's comments at face value regarding the reason they cancelled the reserva
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by zzalpha 9y ago
If you're curious about actual data, and not just a bunch of unsupported claims, Pew has a nice little paper they published back in 2014 on this topic: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/09/24/record-sha
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You're objecting to one example of an implementation when you should be focused on the idea. You can clearly define it in such a way as to not rule out multi-party representation as needed. Many other countries have cracked this nut
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by zzalpha 9y ago
And you're assuming a reasonable standard of proof is applied. I'm not willing to make that assumption. This case is yet another example of why.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yes, people are outraged at that too, but they also blur that with the more dubious claim that "she did nothing wrong". Let's just admit it: if she were white, it wouldn't have turned out this way She arranged the sale
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by zzalpha 9y ago
We trust experts like police and surgeons to do certain dangerous tasks because their expertise offsets much of the risk; however, they're still more likely to make a mistake since they have to roll the dice more frequently. And ther
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No. Police are necessarily involved in more risky encounters than laypeople. They have manyfold the opportunities to make a mistake than laypeople. That's illogical. There are myriad professions where trust is delegated to the person
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I would assume that off-duty cops (rightly) have more authority when it comes to these types of situations. And yet, when they make a mistake, they aren't held to a higher standard, despite we, as citizens, granting that authority to
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Last year I trolled the 2015 Washington Post police shooting dataset In case this wasn't a simple typo, just FYI: It's "trawled".
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by zzalpha 9y ago
She wasn't doing anything illegal, sure, but it was a bit reckless Only in a world where random folks from the neighbourhood might come out and point a gun at you instead of simply asking a few logical questions and looking at proffe
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I agree, it sounds like once he realized his actions were blowing up in his face his behavior got ugly. That is certainly an indication of immaturity. It's astounding to me that you view threatening to destroy someone's career a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
My point was that many people, if put in a position of power such as Caldbeck was, might very well have found themselves misconstruing the level of enthusiasm that founders had for hanging out with him and potentially for his apparently ag
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by zzalpha 9y ago
You're arguing a technicality regarding one pithy sentence in my comment. Caldbeck sexually harassed women. Period. He confessed to it. He's now being sued for it. This is not, in any way, shape, or form, anything remotely rese
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Caldbeck is already part of a rather exclusive sub-population: executives working at VCs. Based on my observations of the behaviours of people in C-suite positions, I don't think I'd be so willing to use general population statist
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Yes it is possible Caldbeck is a cunning predator who knew exactly what he could get away with and used his clout as a VC to grope and harass many women, but it's far more likely that he is not. I'm curious, why is that "fa
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by zzalpha 9y ago
The "witch hunt" is real and fueled by the internet, misinformation, playing on emotions, and outrage. It's not a witch hunt if it actually happened. It's just news. Is it perhaps the case that the media are now dogge
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by zzalpha 9y ago
What I find most surprising about this email is the juvenile tone. "Moronic", "whiners", accusing investors of "reneging" and "grandstanding". I'm not surprised to see a C-level that's self
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Your last parenthetical is clearly correct. I misunderstood Peren's argument and have updated my comment accordingly.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Edit: I replied too soon and misunderstood the core of Peren's argument. His claim is that by withdrawing support if a customer redistributes the grsecurity patch (which absolutely is licensed under the GPLv2), that amounts to adding
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Not sure why the downvoting. This may come across as cynical but it's also realistic. Climate change reminds me a lot of dieting. People say they want to do something about it, but in reality they don't truly want it because the
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That's an oddly defensive response to a claim no one made.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Having just finished a play-through of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, this immediately makes me think of Eliza Kassan... it really is odd how many ideas in that game don't seem especially far-fetched these days.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
That doesn't change my point. If new evidence comes to light that now says a treatment is ineffective, and doctors are still applying that treatment, that isn't medicine either . At best it's, again, placebo. At worst it&#x
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by zzalpha 9y ago
"Wellness" is for those who've given up on conventional medicine. You mean, given up on medicine. All this other stuff? It's not medicine. It's snake oil. Chicanery. Placebo wrapped up in meaningless ritual to
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by zzalpha 9y ago
No doubt, though I would argue those are the exception rather than the rule... which is why it should be an ignorable warning, preferably requiring a code annotation to turn it off. But it absolutely be something a modern IDE should flag a
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Again, that creates implicit behaviours that can be extremely surprising. You can deal with multiple Closeables by enhancing syntax. But tying deallocation to disposal creates action at a distance that I'm really not a fan of, personal
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by zzalpha 9y ago
C# has a using block that makes resource deallocation explicit syntax, which I far prefer to implicit destructor behaviour. That said, we need IDEs that sound the klaxons if a Closeable is not placed in a using statement.
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by zzalpha 9y ago
Not being the OP, I can't speak for them, but it's worth noting that most people who are very wealthy but still work sure ain't participating in the same rat race you and I are... ... well, assuming you, like me, aren't
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by zzalpha 9y ago
I am sophomore in college and it would appear that friends in high school who skipped out on college and are working now are economically and socially farther ahead in life than most of my classmates in college. You're a sophomore.

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