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It could be a sustainability thing: If you butcher an animal, you have X lbs of meat now. Maybe you don’t need all of that immediately just to survive. If you only need Y This conv…

Traffic regularly goes above the speed limit without mass arrests — or any arrests at all.

It’s not a false dichotomy — it’s pointing out a differing standard in conduct based on race, which is racism. It’s also pointing out that the fundamental choice in what’s acceptab…

A repentant CEO is gone, but unrepentant gangsters are still celebrities. Social justice!

For a $1B endowment, Mr Musk could fund 20 seed rounds a year — personally. Mr Musk won’t put 2.5% of his money where his mouth is. If he genuinely thought there was a problem to f…

Where do you intend to shop that treats their warehouse staff better?

The CDC says we’re slightly under expected deaths in the US, including COVID cases. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

Okay — but is the AI overconfident in choices more or less often than a human?

I’m genuinely unsure what point you’re trying to make. Can you explain what a made up quote has in common with repeating a quote from the CEO of a famously data driven company on p…

“The thing I have noticed is that when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There is something wrong with the way that you are measuring it.” — Jef…

Who would you suggest online shopping from instead — perhaps that treats their employees better?

Not just because manager quality can’t be guaranteed, but because when you have 10,000+ employees, the odds that some are fired and subsequently make a false discrimination claim a…

Your comment comes across as partisan, rather than factual. As an example, major news networks blatantly lied about the Covington kid because it fit their ideology. Major news netw…

In fact, that’s the argument for capitalism: All of these systems suck, so let’s favor people who can lead voluntary large tribes over the politically connected, such as the politb…

I only really know about the company-sci touching parts, but — Mathematics didn’t have a strong notion of proof until the late 1800s/early 1900s. Contradictory “proofs” in calculus…

Someone can reasonably be called an artist if, having listened to thousands of hours of music and training to replicate it, can create a new piece using a request from a patron — “…

That would be fine, if it offered once. VS Code pops up three notification windows every time I open a .py despite me having closed them literally hundreds of times now. Apparently…

Amazon isn’t taking over the global economy. For instance, in retail, Walmart does substantially more business — via brick and mortar stores — and is rapidly growing online.

This is what keeps me going to physical stores for certain goods: they’re liable for counterfeits.

What if you send back modified terms? “@Disney #MayThe4th This tweet enters into Disney’s offered contract, except that Disney agrees to pay $100,000 for the license to optionally …

Why is anyone surprised? Quarantine is harmful, and only useful if we’re preventing something worse. That’s probably the case, broadly — but the policies in other countries raise q…