ohnomrbill

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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I would not be concerned about them having my workplace's information if they did not have my personal information. I'm fine with them having personal information, or workplace information, but not both. The only thing missing f
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Yes, because I use Duck Duck Go for browsing and my personal emails are generally not very revealing. Google certainly has a good deal of my personal information, but I purposefully keep it limited. For that reason, I'm okay with hav
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Nope, the concern of the parent post was that they would link my work and personal profiles behind the scenes. I don't want to see work-related content pop up, but it's a secondary concern. I don't want Facebook to know wha
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I try very hard to separate my work life and personal life. This would make me do one of two things: - Stop using facebook for personal purposes and treat it like a more featureful LinkedIn - Quit my job and find another which doesn't
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
On the other hand, I've just been at a place where "invented here syndrome" masked crappy developers to the detriment of the business. One tester spent 3 days tracking down a simple python dependency bug - but in the meantim
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Anyone can cook. Will people pay me a living wage to cook? Will that wage cover lost income from being on government programs? Does cooking (given the relative difficulty of becoming wealthy doing so) provide an income ceiling higher tha
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Thank you for the link. I suspect we agree more than we disagree. It's good to be reminded that we can only falsify theories, not prove them. It's also good to check assumptions from time to time - your example of slavery is ve
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
It's a form of culture jamming to disrupt the cognitive processes by which we accept things as "truth" or "reality". Can you express this a bit more clearly? "Culture jamming" is not a broadly understood
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Depends on how you look at the game. The point of the game for users is to catch pokemon. The point of the game for Niantic is to have users wander around, so they can make money via sponsored locations. A winning strategy must accommodat
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
There is a big difference between pain you can reasonably expect to go away and pain you cannot reasonably expect to go away. Suicidal ideation is due to the latter, not the former.
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I'm happy to admit it, and wish others were. But it seems there's a lot of convincing to do first.
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
2) I have some issues with (though I agree with the general direction). I would still describe science, art, etc. as a job (or at least any successful system will have to). There is a big difference between saying, "let's give pe
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
(Disclaimer: I will vote for some candidate this election, but I would write in a name before voting for Trump.) I see this conflation in almost all the election news I hear - people assume that Trump supporters are against any immigration.
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
The important thing (which no fork can really change) is that the assumed likelihood of contracts having bugs went way, way up as a result of finding one critical bug so quickly in a large contract. You may not be able to steal a massive p
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Agreed on the consensus; the nice thing about making decisions with a currency is that people can vote with their money. But I can buy other state-backed currencies today, some of which I trust to represent my interests. They have the ben
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Yep - I don't see the draw for new investors now. We know they will rollback contracts that are financially damaging enough, except with ETH there is no legal recourse in the case of disputed transactions. From the outside looking in
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
But it's a critically important minority - it's well researched that CEOs, bankers, and other highly successful types in business have sociopathic traits. (I attach no moral judgment to that - just stating it.) Full, diagnosable
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
"given that empathy is wired into our cerebrum" is not a universally true statement. What about sociopaths?
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
"I believe it is part of our human nature to care for other humans." That only works for some people. Where do sociopaths fit into your worldview?
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
"I was horrified to see how a society so prosper can be so dehumanized." In fairness, where should their morals come from? I'm not religious myself, but it seems that for all their faults religions provide a shared morality.
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I would fire them too, with these reasons: 1. The interns saw a dress code violation and escalated immediately, without informing the out-of-line employee. From the original blog post [0]: "I felt the dress code was overly strict but I
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
"Keeping everyone in shape to handle crises they're likely to never actually see is, arguably, an enormous waste of money." This point, while true, depends heavily on the consequences of the crisis. If the cost of failure is
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Why are their targets other AI fighter pilots? That's a very, very big assumption. Can we safely assume that the AI pilot won't target buildings/ships/etc.? Even if we assume a well-behaved AI, why should we assume th
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I imagine that a lot of leave voters hoped that this will make them richer in the short term (though reality seems to be sinking in). I think the more compelling argument is one that is certainly felt, but harder to put into words - the Br
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
But it is wrong. And Theil got revenge by backing a lawsuit which stood on its own merit - which also isn't illegal.
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I don't feel that celebrity dating life is ok to publish, actually. It's very seedy and not in the public interest in the average case. Celebrites are fairly open about their disgust for the constant filming of their private lif
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what do the acronyms "sdn" and "n/w" stand for?
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
"mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing... No. Scarcity caused by NIMBY land use policy is driving up housing costs. The fix is aggressive upzoning. Source: Help friends who work on affordable housing
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
That's exactly my point. With people, assume they can change for the better; with companies, judge them primarily by their bad actions.
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by ohnomrbill 10y ago
I like your approach sometimes. When dealing with people, I find it best to take positive changes in behavior at face value. I'm sure people could hang their past behavior over their head and treat them as though nothing has changed,

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