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>has retweeted someone's description of his article as "The Talented Mr Ripley, but with digital nomads"

Everyone who watched that movie felt a pang of longing to live that way; it's still selling the experience to the reader

Using Sam Harris as an example is way too charitable to the average person.

Most people are not first-principles thinkers about politics. They are self-interested. Where that motivation is considered unsavory, they will deny it, even to the point of deluding themselves. Race is a prime example, because, like all forms of identity, everyone is biased in favor of their own ingroup, but admitting this bias is far more stigmatized than admitting other forms of ingroup bias.

If you take nearly everyone in the United States at their word, then racism has been effectively wiped out. And yet the indirect evidence of it is everywhere. Which means people aren't being honest with others--and possibly even not with themselves--about being biased in favor of people who look, speak, and act like they do.

This gets even worse when we start talking about politicians, who are trained to routinely lie, to the point where the media starts to safely, and correctly, assume that what they say is motivated entirely by self-interest and completely detached from the truth if it deviates in any way from what would advance their self-interest.

Notably, politicians who buck this trend--Justin Amash, Bernie Sanders, Thomas Massie--aren't generally stigmatized by the mainstream media as self-interested troglodytes. Their views are criticized, surely, but few question that they genuinely hold those views from first-principles reasoning, because they've demonstrated that they're principled people.

This suggests that the media is actually pretty good at distinguishing troglodytes from the truly principled, and while that may rub off on people like Ben Affleck the wrong way, directing your hatred at "the media" is misplacing it.

Also, the guy who wrote this article wrote a conspiracy screen about Obama's "plot to overturn the 2016 election" literally two days before. So him calling out others for impugning their political enemies' motives as coming from bad faith is pretty rich.

Its backstory is famously that it was developed by some guy as a side project, and that guy's tacky username is in the title.

I mean, what did you expect?

Please.

Don't.

Scrolljack.

>I fully expect the short-length, autodidact or mediocre students to be entering a saturated market within the next five years.

That cuts against every labor demand projection.

Frankly, even mediocre programming jobs are a great option for most people. The lower mode is still much more than most entry-level jobs pay.

As we have seen in recent elections, replacing politicians with non-politicians has been a disaster for the country. Why is a scientist running better than a science-aware politician running?

It doesn't with IE10 though. And there's no way to fall back to flex or another column system.

Which means, if you need to support IE10, you need a whole parallel set of styles. There's no graceful degradation when it comes to overall site layout, unless you're willing to serve the single-column mobile version to older browsers.

It's a real thing but it can't physically reach some of the places the victims were said to be affected and it's not known to cause many of the specific symptoms suffered by the victims.

It'd be one thing if the use of torture was increasing over time across our society, or all societies.

But using "torture was recently brought back" as a data point to rebut an overall statistical decline makes no sense. It's like saying "Apple's stock price fell today, therefore people are wrong to say the economy is improving".

Based on casual observation of what other customers are ordering from my frequent visits to Chipotle, it seems like queso has been a complete failure. I don't understand why they thought cheese would be something people would pay extra for.

A) Cheese is not usually expensive, like avocado, and so not usually considered worth paying extra for

2) Cheese is known not to be healthy, and part of the appeal of Chipotle is the illusion that you're eating healthy food

3) A different kind of cheese is already available for free, so that substitute good is bound to drive down demand for queso

I did notice that they recently cut corn tortillas and one (or two?) of the meat options, so they at least seem to be cognizant of the benefits of reducing decision fatigue by concentrating on their best-selling options

Interesting. So salting your plates skirts reflectivity and plate obstruction laws because a) the plate is still visually unobstructed, and b) the laws apply specifically to the reflective coating rather than infrared visibility more broadly?

I just really can't imagine, given the progression we see in AI image recognition on a daily basis these days, that medical fields like dermatology or radiology that revolve around scrutinizing things visually will continue to exist in anything but a dramatically shrunk supervisory form 20-30 years from now.

My mom is a radiologist nearing retirement and from the time we were old enough to seriously consider career paths she would tell us "Do not become a radiologist". As she tells it, the reason is outsourcing. Radiology is probably the single easiest medical field to outsource, and more and more of her office's work has been contracted out to doctors in India over time.

She doesn't consider AI as much of a threat... but I don't think she fully understands the leaps and bounds by which software is getting better at detecting patterns in images. As a software developer, I know that my field is still in its infancy. I wonder what it's like to look back on your profession, knowing your generation is the last of its kind.

The guides on places like /r/DarkNetMarkets do actually recommend shipping to your own address, under your own name.

The color scheme here is really poor. It took me too long to realize that bright orange was not a step down from bright red, but in fact dark red, pink, and dark orange were between them. So the brighter red indicates more violence, but the the darker orange indicates more violence? Just use a single color gradient and spare us all the headache.

>why is ether course virtually identical?

Because many people that hold it bought it together with BTC as speculation and decided to sell simultaneously

>I tend to overplay them because I feel like doing otherwise would be gloating.

A lot of life events are the same way.

When someone asks how work's going, I don't want to be honest and talk about how goddamn happy I am seeing that fat number land in my Mint sidebar every two weeks since that promotion. So I say "It's hard work!" instead.

>I'm actually surprised if it's legal for a bank to refuse to provide cash withdrawals

There are online-only banks now like Simple and Ally; they obviously can't provide cash. If they can deny cash why can't other banks?

Right but this part...

>giving owner Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. an advantage in the race among technology giants to capture the next generation of internet users

...seems suspect. Most western Chrome users started off with Netscape, Internet Explorer, Safari, etc., and then switched when they got better machines and got tech-savvier and realized it was a better browser.

So just because a browser reaches a user first does not, I think, mean it has "capture"d that "generation".

>Sure, you get some binge subscribers who exploit the system, but they're not enough to bring down the entire enterprise.

Especially for movie theaters, where the marginal cost of additional filmgoers isn't as high.

If I watch a second Netflix movie, Netflix has to spend 2x as much on bandwidth to serve it to me.

If I theater hop, the theater doesn't really have to spend anything more. The only cost to the theater is the opportunity cost of me not paying to see a movie I otherwise would have paid to see.

In other words, as long as the MoviePass subscription cost is higher than the opportunity cost of losing the average moviegoer's ticket revenue, then everyone wins. In fact, the theater probably really, REALLY wins because the more often I'm at the theater, the more often I have a chance to buy concessions.

Pretty annoying, though, that they hijack users' familiarity with the red dot to deliver the useless notification that "You are not logged in on this device".

That's actually pretty clever since it draws the viewer's attention and also associates good feelings (humor) with the brand. So it's a parody of product placement that also happens to be an extremely effective form of product placement. Smart.

>or for something unrelated but mentioning 'Hey Siri, tell me about [product being sold]'.

What? Seriously? Commercials try to hijack your devices? Isn't this fairly clear-cut unauthorized access of a computer system, and therefore criminal?

I feel like this may have been the last upswing this big. A lot of regular folks are going to get burned, and they're not going to forget. The societal consensus 6 months from now will be that Bitcoin Was A Scam, and that'll depress speculative potential.

Which is a good thing, insofar as Bitcoin may actually have a future as a currency. But a bad thing for HODLers.

What battles has linguistic prescriptivism ever won?

The median monthly household income in the U.S. is $4710.

The difference is two orders of magnitude.

You should also never under any circumstances use Photoshop as a verb.

Those horses have left the barn.

I don't get how one can be a self-proclaimed "HODLer" and also preach about how cryptocurrency is the future of money. Assets you can reasonably call "currency" and assets you speculatively buy and hold seem like fundamentally incompatible categories. BTC or something like it may indeed be the future of currency, but that certainly won't happen until the current speculative mania reaches some kind of equilibrium.

>Today the FCC does not impose rate regulation, for example, but maybe tomorrow's FCC will. Of course, now it is becoming clear that the rules will change whenever the presidency changes parties, so if anything it would seem that there is far more regulatory uncertainty with Pai's approach.

This is also why the health insurance industry was overwhelmingly opposed to the Republican healthcare plan, why the financial industry was opposed to certain Republican regulation rollbacks, etc. All the infrastructure they'd built to refocus their business around the regulations might now be useless, but probably not, because there's a decent chance the Democrats might recapture the Senate and/or Presidency in 4-8 years.

Uncertainty is expensive and exhausting. Businesses are desperate for a compromise that lasts. Drastic and potentially ephemeral GOP regulation-slashing really serves no one except their own donor class -- not even big business, let alone small business and the middle class.

What's the point of applauding legislative initiatives like this that are obviously doomed to failure?

It's a waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere. The only point of this is to make Maloney more marketable in the next election.