Kalium

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by Kalium 2y ago
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/ Here you go! Insert credit card here.
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by Kalium 2y ago
At one point Mozilla was literally selling a VPN subscription. That point is now - you can go buy one today. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-vpn-and-ho... You can even donate money today: https:
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by Kalium 2y ago
I suspect you will find that in many cases, people whose brains have been hijacked by chemical dependency may experience some difficulty in behaving as a stakeholder in society . It will often not stack up favorably against feeding that de
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by Kalium 2y ago
People espousing this theory usually point to rat park. Unfortunately, rat park is in no sense good or useful science. It's more useful as a litmus test for how sincerely someone tests their beliefs.
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by Kalium 2y ago
Individual capacity enables community resilience. If you have resources that can be shared, they can be shared with your neighbors. Otherwise, we're either asking local government to invest in resilience or reinventing local government
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by Kalium 2y ago
That works to the extent that a polity is willing and able to seize, care for, and sell off parcels. At scale, this is not guaranteed to be as easy as it sounds. Case in point: Detroit.
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by Kalium 2y ago
I agree. There's no moral or ethical difference in any way. Unfortunately for us, the law routinely does see a substantial difference and treats them as such. Due to that, the SCOTUS sees them as different and judges that a law on one
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by Kalium 2y ago
This article readily conflates niceness and kindness. It would be very easy to read this and take away the understanding that critical feedback that leaves a person feeling in any way negative is not kindness.
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by Kalium 2y ago
There's a great deal of nuance to how kindness is defined. It's very easy for one set of actions to be either very kind or very unkind, depending on definitions. Listening, being respectful, and being empathetic may drive one pers
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by Kalium 2y ago
We're building this because the ability to make narrow, specific predictions can be narrowly and specifically useful. This works if you have a good understanding of both the tools and the domain you're looking to make predictions
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by Kalium 2y ago
San Francisco is an instructive example. Prior to Uber, calling a taxi in SF gave you a 50% chance of one showing up in some functionally unknowable amount of time. 50% is not an exaggeration, it was sometimes below that, and you would have
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by Kalium 2y ago
I think you will find that for the vast, vast majority of scientific papers there is significant negative expected value to even attempting to have layperson reviewers. Bear in mind that we're talking about papers written by experts in
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by Kalium 2y ago
Search systems aren't real people or real businesses either. Never mind details like how you define and enforce "real" in a decentralized way across N legal systems with wildly varying ideas of what it means to be a "leg
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by Kalium 2y ago
Ask an email administrator how well decentralization works at scale. It should be concerning that email has re-centralized to deal with all the problems that come from federation and decentralization.
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by Kalium 2y ago
> I wonder if it could work for public education. Perhaps even in lieu of teachers unions. In a very real sense, public schools are already customer-owned cooperatives governed by a set of trustees elected by the customer-owners. That sa
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by Kalium 2y ago
If you look at sibling comments, you'll find a whole discussion where users talk about the major significance to many people of a different numerical estimate. With that in mind, I think that for many people the issue is indeed greater
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by Kalium 2y ago
OK. Let's assume that the rest of the C-suite combines to give that number a solid 5x multiplier. How accurate that is is left as an exercise to the reader, but be aware that the CEO is almost always the highest-paid member of a C-suit
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by Kalium 2y ago
It's my understanding that the significance of that age can and does vary wildly. In some specialties, age makes errors more likely: https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/radiologist-age-and-diagnostic-...
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by Kalium 2y ago
There was no cost-benefit analysis on offer, you are correct. This is not the same as there being none, though. Weed-out courses are a classic example implemented at the institutional level - they exist to find as early as possible who is l
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by Kalium 2y ago
The author prefers to believe that it was poor instruction. The implication is that because they were willing to show up for a 7:30am lecture, they were capable of making it. On the one hand, the author is on to something. Most people learn
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by Kalium 2y ago
After a brief bit of research, Google also works extensively with US and UK governments. I would expect there's also quite a list of other rich-world governments that Google sells cloud services to. Israel's only really special he
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by Kalium 2y ago
I think a discourse that runs: > Assertion one > Assertion two, claiming assertion one requires asserter two to be a liar is one that can benefit from being grounded a bit. On a personal level, I do not believe that the magnitude of a
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by Kalium 2y ago
I'm not implying anything of the sort. My point is that an unsupported assertion should not be treated as a well-supported truth. All we know right now is what a single person believes. I am not questioning what Ibraheem believes. I&#x
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by Kalium 2y ago
Every contract with a national government buying whole data centers for cloud services is a major one with big numbers attached. This is not a small amount of money and the backlash to date has yet to be impactful. If you want to be a major
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by Kalium 2y ago
"Lie", "incorrect", and "incomplete information" are very different things. Ibraheem clearly believes this to be true, but that is not the same as it being so.
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by Kalium 2y ago
Please bear in mind that in this particular context, we're talking about Los Angeles . There are few farmers, ranchers, and loggers in rural LA.
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by Kalium 2y ago
Decades of policy designed to promote detached single family houses, discourage density, and make it easy to object to construction have combined with tax policy favoring stasis to create a political environment incredibly hostile to housin
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by Kalium 2y ago
The fine is not the punishment. The bans are the punishment. They gut the business model, likely shutting down the business entirely in short order. Making people whole is what civil lawsuits are for. Which, if I understand correctly, will
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by Kalium 2y ago
The article fails the marshmallow test - it needs to convince people that there is a traditional, long-form article that will be a rewarding read from the start. Only then is the test relevant to humans. Otherwise, all that's really
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by Kalium 2y ago
Those are not law enforcement bodies. This is on purpose. We do not want them to be law enforcement bodies.

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