kisil_reboot

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by kisil_reboot 5y ago
I came here to say just this. The pivot at "rather than fixing tech companies, we can fix the internet" makes absolutely no sense.
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by kisil_reboot 9y ago
At least in downtown San Francisco, many shared rides cost $4 total.
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by kisil_reboot 9y ago
Counterpoint since I only see anti-FB replies below: I absolutely love seeing OAuth login. I don't have to create yet another password, or worry about whether your site has reasonable password security. Even when I choose to create a l
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by kisil_reboot 9y ago
I've seen a lot of teams keep a shared scripts/aliases file, and import it to everyone's .bashrc or equivalent. Very useful.
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by kisil_reboot 10y ago
[With the acknowledgement that this is a tangent from the article]: I don't have hard data on hand, but in my experience, the kind of innumeracy you point to is shockingly widespread. Many people I've talked to do not know the dif
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by kisil_reboot 10y ago
Fortunately, you don't really have to solve that problem. It would be sufficient to assess claims of actual fact about the actual world. I think the first step in writing the classifier would be to write something like float IsSt
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by kisil_reboot 10y ago
In general, I favor freedom of determination; if your randomly selected person wants to spend their BI on drugs or alcohol, fine. But the persistently homeless are not at all a representative sample population. There are a number of interse
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by kisil_reboot 11y ago
There's a wide range of moral gray area there. Imagine, e.g., a US contractor who builds converters that make dumb bombs into smart bombs. The US is going to bomb people anyway; better that they hit fewer non-targets along the way.
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by kisil_reboot 12y ago
> If I attend a conference I have the right to stay anonymous. Sadly, legally you have no such right. You are in a public space, and anyone can take your picture freely and do pretty much what they want with it. Our society doesn't
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by kisil_reboot 12y ago
This is baseless FUD; any serious objections he might have are only hinted at: "things I can't talk about". If everyone switched to Chrome, at worst Chrome would get complacent, as IE did, and at best, it would continue to be
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by kisil_reboot 12y ago
I agree that the uniform distribution is fishy. I could object to the binomial assumption too; it seems kind of question-begging. My point was just that the thesis "your vote doesn't matter" is not at all self-evident.
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by kisil_reboot 12y ago
> Your vote doesn't matter - the probability of it altering the outcome are infinitesimally small. That's nice sounding cynicism, but it's not obvious that the math actually comes out that way. Consider: http://
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by kisil_reboot 13y ago
"Priced out" is not strictly accurate - San Francisco is still more expensive than the peninsula. But it's only slightly more expensive, so the cost factor doesn't provide much incentive to skip the city. If I'm goi
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by kisil_reboot 13y ago
Yes, it's important to be articulate. But the author is talking about speaking a different vernacular. I imagine one can be articulate in Black English* without being fluent in White English. "Talk[ing] like white folks" mean
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by kisil_reboot 13y ago
> Google and Facebook want to give everyone access to the Internet because they need more raw materials. More data. The first sentence seems basically true, but the second, and the general gist of the article, is off-base. Both companies