lsiebert

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by lsiebert 5y ago
Those of us who work in tech operate with a lot of privileges compared to many many other workers. All of these options technically exist, but make a lot of assumptions that aren't true for my non techie friends who are looking for wor
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by lsiebert 5y ago
It's good to see this is still around, I was using it in the early 2010s while working in a county health department.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I really appreciate Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblance concepts, that things we group together may not be in fact grouped by a shared trait, but instead my consist of a bunch of different sets of overlapping traits, such that no
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by lsiebert 5y ago
One of the ways racial hierarchies persist in the US in the culture are taught they are normal, natural, deserved when they are instead being perpetuated by culture and institutions and those who benefit from them. The effects of discrimina
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yeah, my understanding was that apple cracking down was merely the excuse Verizon, which owned tumblr at the time, used to justify banning porn, but it was about ad revenue. Twitter certainly has plenty of porn.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yes, sorry for the lack of clarity. Users shouldn't blame the machine when they control every aspect of it and how it's used. It's on you as a user to understand your tools and data.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
the AI is just a product of it's inputs, how it's used, and whether it violates discrimination laws, are totally up to the users.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
With a warrant, probably? That's not why the postal service is federal though. Establishing a postal system is a power given to congress in the U.S. Constitution. "To establish Post Offices and post Roads;" Actually having a
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I think I'd rather some people be vaccinated without their consent with a safe vaccine than have some people be infected without their consent with a deadly illness. We know mask mandates, vaccines, and other medical interventions save
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by lsiebert 5y ago
It's about secure messaging
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by lsiebert 5y ago
With no written privacy policy or TOS, I'd be reluctant to use this.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
So if someone created a document consisting of just these search terms (and nothing else) in the search order, that's always going to be the highest ranked item, right, despite a lack of any added information, right? Forgive me if this
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Wheat and corn and a number of other plants are wind pollinated, so we won't lose everything. And we'll probably keep some plants that need bees alive in conservatories through manual pollination. Still scary, in that a single dis
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by lsiebert 5y ago
The loss of pollinators is scary. blueberries, cherries, every brassica (broccoli, cabbage etc), carrots, squash, melons, and many more are insect polliated. A few other plants can also self pollinate, but with reduced yields.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
A large number of homeless in San Francisco were previous SF residents. When folks live paycheck to paycheck almost anything can lead to them becoming homeless. That said, there are more then enough homes for everyone, in the form of vacant
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Also studies of universal pre K suggests it more than pays for itself. https://nieer.org/2019/01/31/research-shows-high-quality-pre...
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Wonderful. One of the things I'm most concerned about is how credit card payment processors and banks basically define what you can easily buy online. Something can be perfectly legal, but if there's no way to pay for it, it won&#
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yes, tech companies always fire people for the publicly stated reasons.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Don't worry, they thought of that. https://archive.thinkprogress.org/after-alabama-enforces-vot...
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by lsiebert 5y ago
As bad as that is, some folks never got a birth certificate https://sclegal.org/living-without-a-birth-certificate/
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Yeah individual voter fraud, per all the vote security experts, basically isn't a thing, IE the rare instances never change election outcomes. Voting ID laws are at best security theater for non existent threats. At worst it's a
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I'm not sure I'd call it a loophole, it's still illegal to hurt people or damage property, but certainly there is evidence to suggest bugaloo boys and white nationalists are doing exactly that, by infiltrating peaceful protes
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by lsiebert 5y ago
all 50 states prohibit private militia groups. https://www.npr.org/2020/08/30/907720068/are-citizen-militia... "...But one thing is consistent - all 50 states have some provision in their state law,
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I mean there is and has been wide diversity in thought within the hacker community, so there's certainly people who view things only through asthetics. But I don't think that erases the presence of explicitly moral/ethical th
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Just a note, most but not all bumblebees are eusocial or social, but a majority of bee species aren't. That makes finding nests way more difficult, for those species.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Hackers have long been interested in politics/culture/public policy. There has always been a strong anti-authoritarian ethos to hacker culture, one where personal privacy and bodily autonomy and the right to encryption were intrin
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by lsiebert 5y ago
If facebook merely showed the most recent posts in a timeline instead of letting an algorithm pick them, that might be a better argument.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
Facebook isn't a public discourse, more of an algorithmically curated news feed. How it curates it's news feed is a business practice, and unethical business practices should be curtailed by regulation.
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I suspect there may be some bias in your data gathering, because that's not what's reflected in the statistical surveys I've seen. "Americans are concerned about how much data is being collected about them, and many feel
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by lsiebert 5y ago
I've read Ibram X. Kendi's How to be an Anti-Racist and Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility and while I didn't agree with everything they said, a lot of it was thoughtful, made me think, and ultimately made sense. I do have

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