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It's the flip flopping of liberal investment in government and public services, followed by conservative slashing of those services, followed by a condemnation of government's abil…

When you get on a plane do you think they fuel it to run out exactly at the moment the plane stops at its final destination, and not a drop more? Don't you think that they reserve …

It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be convincing. That takes a lot less data and is much more tolerant to simplifications. Just look at the claims that were thrown aroun…

Hear me out here: what if the realization that the conscious effort was in the way of optimization was part of the optimization all along??

This is some of the most disingenuous crap I've read in a while. Flip it on its head: "If c-suite really only cares about $ spent on labor, they would accept the productivity outco…

Do you see ads to play solitaire on a regular basis but "control yourself" to not play it? I also don't see ads for magazines like I see ads for cars, food, gambling, etc. The maga…

Mustard would be way better

Allow me to spell it out: if IBM could guarantee themselves a maintenance or growth of market share in the short-term while simultaneously clamping down on licenses that are anythi…

It's more like saying that Germans like shitty meat because the best selling kind was the cheap, low-quality sausages at the corner store. Your attestation is the cherry on top.

Stop complaining and bring back apprenticeships. A university's objective is to create more professors and researchers, not industry workers.

It appears the honesty experts were more skillful than the dishonesty expert.

In a way, students trust the aggregate of "authority checking" that the school and the professors go through in order to develop the curriculum. The school acts as the jeweller fri…

You shouldn't trust any old certificate more than it looking shiny. But if a third party that you recognise and trust happens to recognise the jewelry or the jeweler themselves, an…

You go to a jewelry store to buy gold. The salesperson tells you that the piece you want is 18karat gold, and charges you accordingly. How can you confirm the legitimacy of the 18k…

It's only in recent history that it became free to play. What you pay for now is a "verified" badge, so you can play with others who have bought the verified token, reducing the am…

Try to imagine yourself as a worker with little to no asset ownership. One day you decide voluntarily to cut yourself off from your job. You no longer are able to pay rent/mortgage…

UI trends are likely similar to fashion in that they are cyclical. I'm sure the old-school skeuomorphism will be back soon, hand in hand with the maximalist interior design trends …

Because not-for-profit at least guarantees that the primary incentive is..not profit. Especially not profit over the well-being of the consumer. Now, does that mean that the primar…

That's great. Now interviews will be even more easily gameable, and companies that use AI to judge culture fit will be easy to spot as ones to avoid (they don't care about culture …

They mean that the software relies on the user understanding its, or the industry-it-serves's, jargon, to be used effectively.

Unfortunately this is an extremely naive take. 2015: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...

The system is a little more nuanced than that because there is a "private review" portion of reviewing where you send a final message to the host specifically about the things they…

Checks and balances are a perpetual game of cat and mouse. While yes, they do raise the barrier of entry, it doesn't account for nepotism or favouritism, which would be the equival…

Capitalist philosophy is about maximizing profit and minimizing expenditures. One is led to believe that the end result is a flourishing competitive environment but, in reality, th…

They are advocating for self-worth to be intrinsic to oneself. The reason for this is the acknowledgement of at least 2 things: that every human is a victim of their starting circu…