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> As developers, we are often one of the last lines of defense against potentially dangerous and unethical practices. > We’re approaching a time where software will drive the vehic…

Paywalled. What were the tweets?

One angle to look at this from is that if Slack or GitHub goes down, there's a good chance your competitors are being held up too. It's like an armistice on (your corner of) capita…

> this assumes that right-wing ideology is a pathogen that is uniformly harmful to the body politic (which it may not be) In the context of the discussion I was treating "bad-faith…

Ah that makes sense

But steroids only decrease the inflammation, they don't combat the original problem. If the inflammation is there because of a real pathogen, steroids are dangerous. Antibiotics de…

I've used this analogy in my head between bodily inflammation and social unrest for a long time. It's been very useful. And it explains some contradicting viewpoints that different…

> we had a huge ordeal converting our 32-bit space weather model to 64-bit because the change in precision changed our results, so we couldn't publish (in good conscious) without m…

> "Cancel culture" [is an important tool] to defend against these bad faith exploitive uses of public communication I would say it's more like a social cytokine storm. If distrust …

The key is to decouple your inner self from how you present to the world. Your inner mental model of the world can acknowledge all apparent truths, even if some of them might upset…

Pensions, social security, etc. The point is that the "active economy" will shrink beneath what was expected for those systems to function for the number of elderly they will end u…

There's a short-term problem of society becoming "top-heavy", where there might not be enough young to pay for the continued care of the old. But in the long run this seems like a …

I haven't used Go but I'm curious, how do core data structures like hash maps work without generics? Does everyone just roll their own for their particular use-case?

But that's just it- if you read the article, "all of the marbles" are "not the same color". Oversimplifying things into a broader conclusion is often not an improvement.

I feel so powerless against this terrifying trend. All I can do is try to insulate myself from misinformation and inflammatory content - which is hard enough - but I have close rel…

As soon as you frame it that way, a certain portion of people stop listening. Even if it's the truth, it can be beneficial to downplay even the obvious conclusions and just stick t…

That isn't what I'm talking about here. It's most obvious on passthrough: there's simply almost no sound being picked up by the ambient mics.

It's a catchy and (now) descriptive way to name a scandal. I agree that you're being a little pedantic.

I've had the same issue. And another, more important one: the noise-cancelling/passthrough features have gradually ceased to work entirely. I replaced one bud when this started hap…

Can we replace the editorialized title with the original? > How Rice Farming Shaped Culture in Southern China

The OP gave a clear example of how awareness of this bias could help real people: > In a meta analysis of the role of attractiveness in criminal sentencing, it was found that unatt…

I think "a lot of people" is an over-statement, I don't think an intrinsically broken moral judgement made by a minority of people should be allowed to delegitimize the real issue,…