bradjohnson

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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Commons did a great episode on the Irvings' dynasty a few years back: https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/dynasties-2-the-irvings/
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
No. That is an entirely incorrect interpretation of the study.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
No. This changes nothing about climate models.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
> supposed CO2 problem No. This study has changed precisely nothing about how we measure CO2 in the atmosphere. Or climate change in general.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
No. Climate scientists did not base all of their current models on a 1980 study about how much CO2 trees can technically absorb.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
The messaging of this article is causing people in this very comment section to conclude that climate change is progressing slower (or even not progressing at all) based on a revision of a plant CO2 uptake study that was done in the 1980s.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Yes, this specific messaging feels motivated by the bottom lines of energy producers. The information doesn't actually change what we've measured regarding progress of climate change, but it's vague enough that plenty of peop
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
What are the "aesthetics of gambling"? Do all games involving dice rolls resemble that aesthetic? If gambling aesthetics change to resemble popular game aesthetics, does that expand the list of games you'll ban?
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Random Card is rated E.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
I really believe that you are approaching this in good faith, so I will do the same. I don't have time to really dig into this deeply with you so these brief justifications of my stance will have to suffice. I don't understand som
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
You can't just say random garbage and use it to justify a wack conclusion, dude.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
I suspect you might even be overestimating.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
The politics of the situation might make a perceived lack of technological solution a convenient scapegoat, that is true. However, from the HN comments section, suggesting a technological solution to a human rights abuse problem doesn'
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
I love hacker news.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
> Hate to break it to you Do you? > not the same sort of risky move I don't see it as materially different. I also don't consider this to be an example of either of them being genius visionaries. I actually think it's a
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Eh, Zuck did the same with Instagram/Facebook: “If we don't create the thing that kills Facebook, someone else will.”
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
You missed the mark here. He was talking about the Russian state propaganda site that the GP was trying to find on google: "PolitNavigator".
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
> What is the source of this claim? Me, I guess. I've released MacOS apps for free and never felt any expectation to provide indefinite support. They do what they are supposed to do and people still use them. > why I'm worki
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
>no way I'm doing get payed once support forever or give away for free support forever Why do you keep saying that "support forever" is the default here? Nobody would expect that except if you were releasing under a subscr
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
I truly don't understand your desire to remove Linux file permissions. I also don't get why you think it's difficult to do so. There are plenty of ways for you to enable yourself to hose your machine without having to enter a
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
That might add another step but I think it is unlikely to help reduce the number of victims. If someone is willing to bring up the run prompt and paste whatever they have in the clipboard they are also likely to be social engineered into cl
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
"Bad" is relative. Someone may believe that something is industry standard and not worth talking about e.g. crunch time in games. Also, plenty of people internalize the bad bits of their jobs and won't think to discuss them u
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Asking for feedback at the end of the loop is great. A bunch of mega corporations are specifically instructed to give you absolutely nothing, but it's always worth asking.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
> "what sucks about this job?" [...] I frequently get high-signal responses from it That's fair, it is your experience, but I think it's about whether you're on the same wavelength about what level of corporate s
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
I like the middle two questions a lot, and I try to ask them as well. I think the other two are flawed, though: > What are the bad things about this job? Too vague. Most interviewers won't be ready to shit talk their employer with t
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Ok sounds good
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
Ok, I was just providing a link for you. If you wanted to discuss whether cheating is good in this specific scenario, you should have put that as your comment to the parent.
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
It's extremely easy to find yourself, but here: https://qz.com/96793/chinese-students-and-their-parents-figh...
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
It's also something that somebody with little to no previous knowledge of machine learning could whip up with OpenCV in a weekend. Maybe they could hire an undergrad to do it as a student project instead of giving Amazon unfettered acc
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by bradjohnson 2y ago
>It was established that, whilst analytics could not confidently detect a theft, but they could detect a person with a bike Really groundbreaking stuff. I'm so happy public funds are being used to pump surveillance data to a mega-co

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