bhupy

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by bhupy 2mo ago
I don't think you fully understand who you are arguing against. I also think Olise's yellow card was unjustified. I think it should be overturned also. Even without overturning it, at least he still gets to play, so that's go
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by bhupy 2mo ago
It's not just a random player, it's a player whose red card was contested even by the commentators as it was playing out. You should just watch the replay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuaS3jUAark . "Does h
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by bhupy 2mo ago
Yeesh, this conversation has run its course.
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by bhupy 2mo ago
> I don’t see much controversy. It is a clear red. You're entitled to believe it was a red, but it is objectively controversial. It's not just about what you believe, but what about others might believe. If there are enough peo
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by bhupy 2mo ago
No, those are not at all contradictory, it is entirely consistent. Two things can be true at the same time: 1. There is no appeals process that USA (or any team) can initiate 2. There is a mechanism that FIFA can initiate to suspend a match
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by bhupy 2mo ago
Correct. Hence: “which in practice will be arbitrary.” It’s on FIFA to correct for that governance failure by making it less arbitrary via a more universal appeals process. In any case, the rules were followed to the correct decision. It’s
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by bhupy 2mo ago
You're right, it's a failure of governance that FIFA doesn't have a proper appeals process for everyone to use. It is unfortunate that the only rules-based mechanism to suspend the match ban had to come from FIFA, which in pr
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by bhupy 2mo ago
> With respect, only an American would think that the competition ceases to be interesting just because the US loses With respect to you, I'm a lifelong football fan. And read more carefully, the argument I am making is not that the
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by bhupy 2mo ago
> The goal is ultimately entertainment This is something I see so many people forgetting. The net result of this decision is simply that the USA gets to play with their full squad and you have an actually interesting competition. The rea
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by bhupy 7mo ago
This comment is a hilarious example of: https://x.com/AustingrahamZ1/status/1029385497213366279?lang...
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by bhupy 2y ago
This has been a dream project of mine too, so happy to see that it exists. One thing that I've also wanted was to be able to reason about the total timeline using the Holocene calendar[1] instead of the standard BC/BCE AD/CE
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by bhupy 3y ago
Censorship != moderation: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moderation-is-different-fro...
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by bhupy 3y ago
Git operations are 503'ing for me.
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by bhupy 3y ago
To be clear, there is certainly a spectrum/degree for bias. The best kind of news/journalism informs readers based on factually accurate and unbiased data — and perhaps uses noteworthy current events and human interest anecdotes t
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by bhupy 3y ago
The biggest problem with news is that it's fundamentally an exercise in elevating anecdotes over data. Every time the news reports on an incident or a happening, it's a deep dive into one single data point — and how that deep dive
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Ugh, Capitalism(infinitescroll.us)
19 points by bhupy 3y ago|14 comments
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by bhupy 3y ago
Yes, that's absolutely correct. I'm a strong proponent of the right to freedom of speech (and I'm pro-choice), but we have to be clear about the fact that these are derived from axioms , which are by definition maxims derive
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by bhupy 3y ago
Right, the UCR is usually pegged at the 75th percentile price for that ZIP code — though that can vary from payer to payer, some can even go up to 90th percentile — it's usually determined by actuaries. It's basically a guidance t
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by bhupy 3y ago
I work in this industry and can provide some insight. Every payer has the concept of "UCR Rates" or "Usual, Customary, and Reasonable Rates" for every procedure code, for every ZIP code. For example, the median cost of a
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Stripe, a longtime partner of Lyft, signs a big deal with Uber(techcrunch.com)
12 points by bhupy 3y ago|3 comments
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by bhupy 3y ago
Additionally, I've found that they're a bit less risqué than Western productions and that creates broad appeal. Crash Landing on You was a heartwarming (and cheesy) story told in a very "PG" way. It not only appealed to
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by bhupy 3y ago
Ex-Square chiming in (I fondly remember Project Franklin), he was also arguably the inventor of modern dependency injection as we know it! https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=330
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by bhupy 4y ago
I saw an interesting tweet to this effect: https://twitter.com/waspmexicano/status/1633934987664957442 I would be very curious to see if there's data on whether replacing prison with caning (for certain crime
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by bhupy 4y ago
I like your examples a lot, because they illustrate the challenges well. “there is no racial inequality in the American criminal justice system” is not particularly offensive to me; even if I may disagree, I’m still interested in commentary
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by bhupy 4y ago
Correct, and with blocklists / opt-in moderation, whatever system that is would do a similarly great job. With email, you can manually block wherever anything falls through the cracks, and that's effectively what your parent comme
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by bhupy 4y ago
You already do this today with email for anything that isn't already swept away by your spam filter, i.e. by clicking "Mark as Spam". Over time, you end up having to do that less because the filter learns your preferences. Yo
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by bhupy 4y ago
> but I don't want to be a moderator. I prefer social networks like, say, Hacker News where moderation is handled for me. I don't think we're disagreeing on that. Per my comment: "I would ideally like this to be as au
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by bhupy 4y ago
The GP comment’s proposal is not incompatible with what you (and typical users) want. Moderation is very different from censorship. I want strong moderation and “banning” for myself . I would ideally like this to be as automatic as possibl
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by bhupy 4y ago
Matt Levine has a pretty funny observation that stems from this with his now famous one-liner, "Everything is Securities Fraud". https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-06-26/everyt...
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by bhupy 4y ago
100%. James B Donovan[1] was (in)famously admonished for defending a Soviet spy (as dramatized in the Spielberg film Bridge of Spies ), but that's what set us apart from the rest of the world. If the relative amorality of upholding Th

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