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by ffn 5y ago
Yeah, the phrase "cause harm" carries a lot of affect (e.g. urgency, impatience, panic, outrage, etc.). If we were to have a graph of common word usage and association, the words "cause harm" would be strongly linked wit
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by ffn 6y ago
> Maybe the reactions to this story are even more significant than the story itself. That's the problem though - by focusing undue politicized attention onto an ultimately irrelevant piece of terminology opinion, we've detracte
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by ffn 7y ago
Well the strategy was first to get the Chinese people addicted to wealth before moving on to discuss the issues of human rights (imaging trying to sanction a poor communist country - e.g. north korea - it will have no effect because the cit
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by ffn 7y ago
I'm all for openness and transparency, but wouldn't an increase in US refusal to play with China just lead to more censorship and oppression by the communist Chinese government? Consider the following: 1. The Chinese communist gov
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by ffn 8y ago
What if the problem with open-source not making money isn't the open-source part, but the money part? Our current economic system focuses on money as a medium of "equivalent exchange", as in there's no free lunch and a d
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by ffn 8y ago
Free speech v. public safety is a touchy subject that pits the moral pillars of liberty/oppression against care/harm. However, before we lose ourselves to moral outrage for one side or the other, consider that, with Judea Pearl&#x
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by ffn 8y ago
The Book of Why DOES have a section on climate change toward the end - he actually uses climate change to illustrate the idea of counterfactuals and even provides an example about how to calculate how much man-made carbon emissions X can
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by ffn 8y ago
The real problem here is that there the asymmetry in machine learning capabilities between big companies and everyday consumers. I think what we all will need in the nearby future is personalized AIs (that we all individually can "buil
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by ffn 8y ago
It's an user-experience problem: for an audiobook, Book of Why is quite dense in formula that are hard to visualize when spoke as words. For example, consider what happens if we try to describe a causal diagram in words "A points
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Broad band industry sues California over state net neutrality law(arstechnica.com)
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by ffn 9y ago
Yes, the article even has a section where they straight up say "Einstein was right". The title of the article "Colliding neutron stars falsify some theories of gravity" is accurate, but the theories of gravity that it fa
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by ffn 9y ago
Hmmm... storyboarding in software design, this is definitely a new idea for me. Going to try it out in my hobby projects and see where it takes me.
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by ffn 9y ago
Honestly, the best route IMO is to actually maintain an open-source portfolio of work. This obviously isn't feasible or possible for everybody, but if you can contribute to OSS, doing so is easily the best way continuously test your me
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by ffn 10y ago
The article actually does actually mention something along the lines of "Lovecraft's literary legacy is threatened in the 50s by his rumored homosexuality and today by his latent racist attitudes". But yes, you're absolu
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by ffn 10y ago
Honestly, having experimented extensively with VR, I highly doubt its best applications will be in gaming. At its core, gaming draws people for at least one of the following reasons: 1. engaging story-line 2. flow-inducing gameplay 3. socia
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by ffn 10y ago
Honestly, though, Tomster v. electrons-circling-nucleus branding aside, both ember and react are currently experiencing a lot of community-driven convergence in core philosophy. For example, ember-redux exists to take the functional central
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by ffn 10y ago
> Joining LinkedIn Great, I'm glad Ember is gaining more traction in enterprise... but what does this mean for things like Fastboot, Ember 3.0, glimmer 2.0, ember-cli 3.0, and the whole cast of in-room-elephants such as ember-redux,
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by ffn 10y ago
Thanks for all the work you and the good folks at Dockyard put into Elixir Phoenix and Ember.js, my entire stack nowadays is run with Ember in the front and Phoenix in the back, so I very much appreciate all the great addons, packages, talk
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by ffn 10y ago
Or it could be that tons of girls get sold into taking up the tech field at a young and impressionable age by presidential speeches, books telling them to "lean in", and articles like this that hint there is some conspiracy of men
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by ffn 10y ago
Honestly I don't have an opinion on the creepiness / necessity of riot doing this... but anyone else notice how common the dichotomy between "forced politeness" and "free toxicity" occurs in naturally occurring
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by ffn 10y ago
He doesn't even have to hang out with peers, one simple search across some popular job site nowadays (e.g. glassdoor) will immediately land you with a decent salary amount for your desired position. We've already entered the brave
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by ffn 10y ago
> evaluate the candidate But candidate evaluation is not an objective business, one company's perfect candidate might be complete trash at another firm. A company's interview process then is necessarily a reflection that compan
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by ffn 11y ago
Actually, if you look at their numbers (or the summary numbers provided by the top-voted comment), the statement "women on github are more competent than men" seems to be a result of selection bias rather than "one sex is bet
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by ffn 11y ago
Same here, my best projects are the ones that were banged out over at most a week or so (then possibly supported with minor fixes over time). Still though, every shitty cancerous hell project before that plays its part in training your mind
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by ffn 11y ago
Because creating a self-driving car is an extremely creativity-intensive exercise that demands "smartness"... but smartness doesn't add linearly (or, I could posit even monotonically). If 1 smart guy can produce 1 self-drivin
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by ffn 11y ago
Well according to that Vox article about that liberal prof who got censored (and links therein) linked by the parent comment, the following things: 1. works of Edward Said 2. works of Mark Twain 3. works of Upton Sinclar 4. works of Maureen
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by ffn 11y ago
If by small business you mean get-rich-quick schemes to con greedy / desperate investors, then tremendous damage has been done. If by small business, you mean a small group of individuals (or just one person) who have an idea and sever
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by ffn 11y ago
Agreed, and this goes waaaaaay beyond just mere online review journalism too. Even textbooks for game engines are now cluttered to the brim with self-important lessons on "objective morality" and even "serving social justice&
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by ffn 11y ago
In my opinion, the "news" / "blog" agencies have already innovated on this by just blending content with advertising with notoriously click-baity articles like "top 12 ways your cat wants you dead" where e
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by ffn 11y ago
Okay, say you're a US citizen building some digi service like JS Bin, and VATMOSS starts fling threats at you, for how long can you go about ignoring them? I mean 3.5k GBP and however many weekdays it took isn't exactly affordable

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