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It's not a meritocracy if you actively push certain types of people away. Merit implies selection based on ability, if you're disqualifying swathes of people with toxicity towards them, it's not a real meritocracy at all. It's a shitty cult.

Wanting to create a less toxic environment that welcomes people and getting rid of people that are hostile to that would be taking steps towards a true meritocracy.
~700M people live in extreme poverty today (<$2 a day) while there is more than $12 trillion in 401k and IRAs.

Homes are a luxury.
Oil is used for so much more than gasoline. Plastics are made from oil as well.
This is true, our typical user works within a tech transfer office or OVPR so much of our content is tailored to their needs. However, our approach of uploading research material and receiving lists of relevant companies is also effective at helping PhDs discover industry opportunities!
It's not that we can do it for abitary compressive encodings, it's that we can do it for some.

A machine trained only on non-compressive encodings, cannot take a compressed representation and produce facts about it. A human /can/.

(NB. via the fact that intelligence isn't just 'generalized interpolaton' but a contenful process of reasoning, skill, curiosity etc. that comes to bare on generating descriptions in a novel mode).
Oh, I thought your "tax cuts not paying for themselves" is a figure of speech. And that's a literal quote. What is it supposed to mean? Like if you steal less from the people, you get less if that's your only source?
You need more than $20 million to be happy? Only having $20 million per person means you need to live in an "old flat?" Such weird logic: I need billions when others have no food.
Honestly so much time is spent on taxes. In terms of avoiding, discussing and modifying. Will there ever be a simple and easy solution?
> maximize profits while carefully falling in with the most powerful

That's not really consistent with the evidence though. Elite media in this circumstance seems to be treating lambda relatively calmly. It's outfits like the NY Post ("Deadly Lambda variant could be neutralizing vaccines"), Daily Beast ("Tokyo Deliberately Left Deadly New COVID Variant Out of Press Briefings"), etc...
Can you provide an example of an article that you feel has a clear political slant?
I wonder how many have e.g. $1bn in cash, rather than in the form of owning shares they have no interest in selling in businesses that other people reckon they could squeeze that much out of? It isn’t zero, but the same reasoning that put a previous boss of mine on a rich list would (falsely!) turn me into a millionaire if I turned myself into a privately traded corporation.

The other question is: why $20 million? Looking at the rates on teleport.org, software developers in Nairobi look at the average Silicon Valley software engineer’s pay the same way the latter looks at someone who can earn $1-2 million per year, and I can’t think of any reason why the USA might care to limit its own salaries while other countries catch up.
The Biden administration has openly admitted that they are working with Facebook to fight “disinformation”.

https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the...
Plagiarism is wrong. It also isn't the same thing as publishing false or misleading information about the topic of the article plagiarized. In other words, the articles plagiarized don't become false or misleading because of the plagiarism.
Well, Instagram built the algorithm and keeps it in place, so I think they still deserve the blame.
Every country would look pretty terrible if we judged them by the bottom of their barrel
Policies like this will cause the rich, who have extreme mobility, to leave your country. Maybe to some people this sounds nice, but generally it will lead to worse companies and less innovation.
Apple has the software to “steal files off a phone” through iCloud Backup. Whether they do this for governments is a policy matter.
Lol. First they create a wealth gap with inflation and then all private property should be sold overseas to feed the poor. Sounds like a good plan.
> AP English is available only to a narrow group of people.

Most regular English classes have a very similar curriculum and almost certainly any English teacher on the high school level will say part of their learning objectives for their students is to improve critical thinking skills.

> It seems straightforward to research it.

How would you? Seems very difficult to me.
So, I'm awaiting an offer for a remote position. However, the documents they produce are generic and include that you may need to travel. It is a huge firm that does consulting also, however, it states I will be working in a internal team on a product.

I'm not sure it really matters. As I can always walk if they require me to come in to the office, but the company has been mostly remote for years and the team is all over the country.
In the future our descendents will play galactic boules, testing who can place the celestial body in the closest orbit to the black hole
Text in labels and other controls is not selectable (unfortunately), in this regard egui behaves as a native app, so mostly just editable texts are selectable. This feels a bit unnatural on the web, but one must consider that egui uses a custom WebGL renderes, so the content is not backed by standard DOM.
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a sadly similar story. They're downright extreme nowadays.
I think one point here is that people in India aren’t shying away from politics and religion. Robust conversations about fundamental questions are the norm. (Spoken as an non-Desi with a bit of travel and work experience in south India).
> We’ve got one vaccine that’s been blacklisted due to high prevalence of blood clots.

The risk of getting a blood clot from the J&J vaccine is 400,000:1. This is less likely than dying of COVID in any age category. 0.00025%.

The risk of dying in a car accident in America is 0.01% every year. So you're 40X more likely to die in a car accident this year alone than get a serious blood clot from the J&J vaccine.

The risk of being injured in a car accident in America is 1.15% every year. So you're 6000X more likely to be injured in a car accident this year than get a serious blood clot from the J&J vaccine.

Nothing in life is risk-free. This is pretty close though.
With highly contagious diseases, herd immunity is kind of a meaningless concept. Eventually close to 100% of people get infected.
Of those, I found the NeXTSTEP one to be the most interesting. Because the software was the most interesting part of NeXT and you can experience it and see where a lot of current tech came from. InterfaceBuilder at the time was mind-blowing. You can see where XCode autolayout comes from and why many classes are named NS*.

I also prefer the NeXTSTEP filebrowser to be the most convenient to use, especially the long operations that don't open windows to say "hey, I'm still doing this over here." Even the menu shortcut labeling was simple, 'p' means menu-p, and 'P' means menu-shift-P, and '^p'/'^P' for ctrl-p/ctrl-shift-p.
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> I'm curious about this. Why not?

I also have friends that are on restrictive diets or who don't drink and I invite them out with me regularly. The reality though, is that many people take personal choices and turn them into a religion that they then feel the need to proselytize. I simply don't spend time with people like that, but I can imagine those are the sorts of people grandparent has in mind when they wrote that comment.
It's abstract until it isn't. Is the offer to invest 25$ million abstract?
Where are you seeing that he copied from press releases? The article says "material plagiarized from news outlets such as the Guardian and the LA Times." That is very different from press releases.
This may be unpopular, but the hard thing in this discussion is to differentiate between consumption and investment. It does not help much to take wealth in terms of equity paper money away from people who know how to invest it efficiently and distribute it. On the other hand, there are minimum basic needs for consumption of food, health services, shelter, education etc. I agree that the system to finance those services is broken. But then fix the system and don't only focus on punishing people when they build economically viable organisations that even help to support the economy in such a crisis.
I don't think it's silliness; I actually find it quite concerning.

In recent times, there has been lots of evidence about how the government and social media companies have been colluding together to "prevent the spread of misinformation" [0]. They have been very transparent about this, and discuss it openly [1].

However, it must not be up to the government to determine what is or is not misinformation - this transposes to government censorship in the worst case, and prevents a healthy marketplace of ideas in the best case.

In the case of the "Hunter Biden Laptop" story (which was misrepresented often), it wasn't Facebook deciding on its own to censor it - it was at the behest of the government.

You don't know what you don't know. What knowledge are you missing because it could never be shown, because it wasn't shown to you? In the last few years, I've seriously worried about this.
I've had to diversify my media intake as an attempt to mitigate this, even when the reporting itself was of worse quality in non-standard media channels. (In many cases, I found it to be of higher quality, which was surprising).

I would recommend the same to you, because, especially in this case, you won't know what you're missing unless you look for it.

[0]https://reclaimthenet.org/fb-cdc-misinfo-collusion/

[1]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/15/psaki_wer...!
They announced CSAM scanning but would you trust there is no scanning if they said they reversed their decision and eventually gave you E2E? Considering how big the firmware size is and that all images are processed by their APIs and they control both SW and HW they could hide such scanning in the firmware or even hardware if they wanted or were forced to. They could add a new separate microcontroller similar to Secure Enclave which would (in addition to "AI-enhancing" the picture) compute and compare CSAM hash. On a positive match, the main CPU would decrypt and run a hidden reporting code which would report the image over TLS-secured channel with Secure Enclave-backed certificate pinning to prevent any MITM. No one would notice because it would be decrypted only after a positive match and no one could see the image being sent out on a positive match because of TLS. It is not just Apple, though. We currently don't have enough control over our devices, especially smart phones. There are some vendor binary blobs on Android too. Now or in the future, these proprietary, very capable devices are ideal for many types of spying. Stallman warned about this many years ago.
Because they're a sham fact checking website and they don't want a paper trail.
What did follow? Where is the evidence that we were promised to eventually be shown?

If you make big claims and then don't back them up, it's hard for me to see it as "censorship" vs "hype avoidance."
The down voting really shows a dislove of the truth.
> And when ‘manually’ checking, they aren’t actually looking at potential CSAM, they are checking the ‘visual derivative’ (whatever that means exactly), basically a manual check if the hashes match.

The visual derivative is enough to tell the difference between a collection of CSAM and say documents, or pictures of protests.

It can’t be abused without Apple’s involvement.
Its more than half way through 2021 and Sweden has recorded its second-lowest annual deaths in the past 5 years:

https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subje...

The 1st lowest? 2019, the year before the pandemic.

Suggesting a lot of mortality displacement from 2019 and 2021 into 2020.
I think for general health/longevity its preferable to be out of shape but slim rather than heavier but fit.
Your argument is similar to one person saying “stop showing me pictures of that,” and the response being “we can’t be held responsible for showing you this over and over, we can’t help ourselves, you have to forgive us, but it’s your fault I keep showing you this. Our spies say it affects you, so that makes it your fault”
This industry provides absolutely necessary resources and millions of jobs.

I think spills and scandals are bad but every industry has them, including electricity generation by nuclear power or other means. PGE's wildfire causing lines are also destroying the environment.

We have a huge dependency on oil. One day in the distant future we may wean ourselves off of it. But it's not at all a possibility today or in the next 5 years or in the next 10 years.
So you need a $20 million house to feel like you live in a "nice house"?
Can you explain to me why your logic is less "weird" than the one you are replying to?
The arbiters of truth get their legitimacy by never being wrong. Nobody is never wrong but you can give that illusion by removing any instances of you being wrong from history.
Releasing studies to the world is the process, the more eyes on it the faster you find issues.

I think many people overestimate the thoroughness of reviewers and underestimate the thoroughness of the world at large.
Maybe we should work on elevating just plain literacy while we're at it.
Maybe because speculation passed off as fact is not wanted here?
Just pointing it out in case people are unaware, but anyone involved in illicit trade with Pakistan is, as a side effect, funding terrorist groups like Taliban.
I read some research recently that showed that when you exercise you tend to be less active through the rest of the day. You balance it out without thinking about it.

I've seen that myself, a long bike ride will often be followed by an evening on the sofa.
What community is welcoming and allows someone like that to be active in 2021? That's shocking and disgusting.
Police lethal force is still covered whenever it happens in my local paper.

The protest coverage faded out over time; anecdotally, so have the protests I've seen while driving around town.
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So that their stated facts are not held to a consistent expectation.
I'd hazard the problem is alienation, as a result from destroying traditional community activities and replacing them with impersonal, monetized digital alternatives.

You don't have a yearning to be part of a tribe, unless you feel like you're missing one.

cue histrionics

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z6U1p0hehtg
Honestly I can almost imagine a way to arrive at this conclusion without it being shifty (although no idea what the case actually is here).

If you're going to debunk an article about something like a lack of vaccine safety and need to retract a couple of sentences later, but the overall conclusion is the same, then the conspiracists will be right on you with a diff of the changes from the archive trying to piece together what it all means and who paid you off.
https://www.KissTodo.com for a clickable link (doesn't work in OP)
Hey everybody, SPLC just added eplanit to their extremists lists. We shouldn't listen to him.
It made me think of a contraption I saw once. It was exactly the opposite of a washing machine, for covering big cloth tubes with some tar-like goop.

Someone took a bush hog, turned it upside down, welded a steel drum to it with some drain holes and a collar that slipped up or down to block them. Hooked up to a tractor it spun the drum around; they used the higher PTO speed and lifted the collar for the drain cycle.

I'm sure rednecks have been making washing machines on similar principles since steam engines.
Not really for people living alone.

People who want to keep a low water/energy footprint might like buying those.
Who needs to pay more taxes?

Those people who aren't paying their fair share. Especially those who are using their wealth / power to get out of paying taxes.
Ah wonderful. The next hot new variant is here for the media and health “experts” to fearmonger over.

When are people gonna realize that until they tune out all the doomsday prognosticators, this will never end? The people that tell us to be afraid are never going to tell us it is safe. Ever.

Covid and all its spooky variants are here forever. Get your vaccine and be done. Life is way, way too short to cower away in fear forever.
I didn't compare them. I took the argument I understood was being made, pulled it out of the specific context, and put it in an imagined context that I thought pointed to a flaw in the argument.
I agree. If you've ever had a conversation with someone that lives in the suburbs in a single-family home on a quarter acre on a cul-de-sac about the environmental impact of their choices, you might as well be debating about eating their children.

Getting folks to change their behavior will take top-down significant restructuring of the economy.
Previously about Snopes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516283
They don't need access to the codebase to influence Facebook to censor information. You could just ask the social media companies to "block misinformation". There are sources in this thread showing the government admitting to doing that.
That would incent people to spend on consumption when their wealth approached the cap, while not actually paying any of the tax. Thus more of the world's productive capabilities would be redirected towards rich people consuming luxuries that they otherwise wouldn't have bothered with.
I have no problem with billionaires personally. I do have a problem with people being billionaires if the "value" they've created is negative (obviously this is my opinion).

Consider two billionaries:

- One creates a cold nuclear fusion device the size of a 10" x 10" x 10" cube. You can plug anything to this device and it will power it, indefinitely.

- Another gets little boys and girls addicted to some sort of super candy, irresistible for those under 13.

Surely one of these people is more valuable
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I take it these weren't press releases. They were articles published by other journalists under a byline. When you issue a press release, you have particular information you want other journalists to pick up and spread. Attribution doesn't matter to you. If you are a journalist, you want to be credited. This is your bread and butter. Whoever is plagiarizing you is stealing your work.
Does it though? It seems to me that if the rich fled, the vacuum would probably be filled by smarter, more ambitious people who were being suppressed by incumbent wealth.
They weren't needed at the time, though. Why maintain them popped up in any one location when the biggest spikes have been moving around?
Big Tech aside, many companies do not have the staff or money to hire and manage certain jobs like cleaning, facilities, and physical security. You can’t just hire people and expect they are autonomous. Someone has to be managing and monitoring them.

On Big Tech’s scale the overhead would be huge. I have no doubts the other reason is giving them full benefits.
It might be time to rename IT as MIT, stands for Mis-information technology, which is what it is, as of now..
The MOT, may it always be right. But my MOT right, or wrong.
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I will be moving to nixos.
They trained you to divide the world into two neat and convenient boxes where one box is represented by the NYT and the other box is represented by Alex Jones and flat earthers.
Spot the Apple employee in the comments who wasn't the one who leaked the internal NCMEC memo..
The checkbox does not say it prevents to run it on the M1 but states about the availability on the store, it's called "Make this app available", I can also help you by providing actual screenshots if you want if you don't believe me.
The national unity that FDR brought forth was no accident. FDR created the Office of Censorship and spent billions of dollars on pro-US propaganda, the likes of which Bush/Obama/Trump never wanted to repeat.

FDR was damn near a dictator, a popular one but a near dictator nonetheless. With one executive order, FDR made gold illegal while the USA was still on the gold standard. FDR almost succeeded in stacking the Supreme Courts (and even then, his 12+ years of tenure allowed him to make the courts almost entirely his choice). FDR grew so powerful that we literally got an Amendment to the Constitution to make sure 4-terms as President can never happen again.

Today, there's so many libertarians who just go up in arms about the idea of making Cryptocoins illegal.
And what about AP and Reuters?
> I'm not an expert in how CSAM works,

You don’t have to be. It’s easy to find docs on this exact technology with Google.

> but if it only as a block list against certain images it will be very ineffective.

It is not.

> The way I would expect it to work,

You are basically completely wrong. Read up on it and then we can discuss it.
I so feel the last point, and I'd like to add, that not having [as of now] any pattern matching really hurts when working with all sorts of sum types. Coming from Rust, something like `tl::expected` and `Result` feel like night and day.
You're treating that theoretical average or median, even if no one speaks that way, as the standard accent against which all others are compared.

That's one way in which people sometimes choose a "right" or "zero" accent. Another is by social standing ("the queen's English" was literally that).

Either way, that's declaring one accent the right way of speaking, and describing people who speak differently as having a "heavy" accent instead of simply a different way of speaking.

Perhaps a specific example would make this clear. There are many dialects and accents of German in Germany. Which one would you declare the standard, and who would you describe as having a "heavy" accent?

My point is that making such a judgement is wrong to begin with, and one should simply describe a particular accent by its features or regional distribution, not as "heavy".

(And to respond, briefly, to the comment below: when learning a foreign language you choose to learn a particular dialect and accent. That doesn't make other accents "heavy", they just aren't the accent you've learned.)
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Media orgs will have a commercial deal with AP or Reuters that lets them more or less cut and paste whatever they want.

Here the guy got lazy and started copying filler from media without any agreement

I don’t see how it puts into question any fact checking though - the guy was just taking shortcuts to build articles, by plagiarising reliable journalists
Jesus Christ, so sad to see. I can't help but imagine what a wonderful place Afghanistan could have been had the Soviet backed 1978 coup been a failure. https://allthatsinteresting.com/1960s-afghanistan
We must change our lifestyles -- but does that solve this problem?

We have better tools for dealing with spills. Yes we should shrink the industry that causes spills by removing demand. But that larger, slower, systemic change is compatible with also having more responsible responses to the near-term and acute problem.

An American gun-shot wound victim still needs acute care, even if all agree that also systemically we need to get rid of guns.

And in fact, placing responsibility on the companies involved to dedicate real resources to cleaning up the mess they've made makes the business less profitable and helps the system move towards more responsible behavior. Paying to clean up is of a piece with paying for emissions, in that both recognize some portion of the externalities that are otherwise inflicted on the community.
You seem to be implying that governments should be more attentive in taxing externalities.