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NotSuspicious commented on How Dating Sites Automate Racism news.harvard.edu/gazette/... · Posted by u/wannacboatmovie

Ajay-p · 2 years ago

In some places, rejecting that person because they are trans could be considered a hate crime. Just because someone will not date me because I am Southeast Asian, or I won't date them because they are not the gender I prefer, does not make anyone racist or transphobic. It's a personal preference.

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

If the way someone is rejecting a trans person is considered a hate crime, maybe that someone is the problem? If someone were to beat you up or misgender you just because you're Southeast Asian that would kind of also be a problem.

NotSuspicious commented on It's time to break free from Corporate Agile bits.danielrothmann.com/c... · Posted by u/pcloadletter_

nradov · 2 years ago

It's nice to have your labor in high enough demand that you can pick and choose which types of companies to work for. Most developers worldwide don't have that luxury.

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

Exactly. It's so interesting seeing the unstated assumptions software engineers let slip out. It really reveals the bubble they live in.

NotSuspicious commented on Semiconductor Fabrication 101 engineering.purdue.edu/on... · Posted by u/hugolundin

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

PurdueX has had some really interesting courses. I wouldn't recommend paying for them though since you can't deduct them like normal tuition expenses.

NotSuspicious commented on Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world freep.com/story/news/loca... · Posted by u/rmason

csomar · 2 years ago

These people already exists somewhere else (ie: any town, mid-west). Remote work will move health care and police workers to these places again (or keep them there) because the remote workers will create demands for these professions.

Many of the jobs done in hubs can be done anywhere else; they are the "remotest" jobs out there. Tech, Finance, Media, Research, etc... Many of these jobs can be done remotely and that will benefit everybody.

Of course, except for the big hubs landowners who are essentially exerting a tax on the high-income individuals.

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

Why can't these remotest jobs just be done anywhere in the world? Why restrict it to people who are citizens/residents of the US?

NotSuspicious commented on Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why npr.org/sections/health-s... · Posted by u/thunderbong

jdietrich · 2 years ago

>I can't help but think "finally" and "told ya so" regarding this news.

I don't want to dismiss your personal experiences, but I think that's the wrong conclusion to draw.

Common mental illnesses - particularly depression and anxiety - have incredibly high placebo response rates. Everything looks like a promising treatment for depression in an uncontrolled trial. You can pick practically any intervention - including literal sugar pills - and get ~40% remission rates in an open-label pilot study. Many thousands of potential treatments supported by plausible theories, anecdotal accounts, case reports and small uncontrolled trials have fallen flat as soon as they were tested rigorously. The base rate suggests that the chance of a keto diet (or any other intervention with this level of evidence) being an effective treatment for depression is on the order of 0.1%.

If keto works for you then you should stick with it. The problem is that it's overwhelmingly likely to be no more effective for other people than a low-fat diet or a low-GI diet or sugar pills or faith healing. Articles like this one do a huge disservice to patients, because they completely neglect the base rate and perpetuate a cycle of hype and disappointment that can ultimately lead to distrust and despair.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7945737/

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

Except OP has noticed that when they go out of ketosis everything gets worse again. They've effectively run numerous trials on themselves.

NotSuspicious commented on Prediction markets have an elections problem asteriskmag.com/issues/05... · Posted by u/throwup238

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

> But instead, the majority of the bettors against Biden bet on the astonishing outcome of “Trump wins by 280+ electoral votes.” That, it should be clear, was impossible — it would require results to be overturned not just in states with tight races but also in Democratic bellwethers like California.

That was not impossible at all once you take into account Trump's VP certification plan, which many people understood very early on. A longshot, yes, but certainly not impossible.

If anything, the prediction markets priced in an insurrection better than any pundit I recall watching. To flip it around and call prediction markets "irrational" in this situation is misguided and ignorant of political history.

NotSuspicious commented on Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought techdirt.com/2024/01/19/u... · Posted by u/rntn

dathinab · 2 years ago

> intellectually

intellectually piracy is still not stealing

it's causing hypothetical financial damages

I say hypothetical because they are actually only there if you would have bought the game/sub/etc. if you couldn't have pirated the game. But in many case that's not the case (and in many others it is). Most commonly the actual damages are much smaller then whatever companies get away with claiming they are. And there had been studies showing that for some games piracy actually increased their sells long term. Through definitely not all games.

Anyway causing financial damages != stealing, mainly on a per-case basis financial damages from actual stealing tend to hugely outweighs the ones from piracy.

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

> intellectually piracy is still not stealing

Piracy is a clear and self-evident moral good irrespective of how close or not it is to stealing. Justifying piracy based on wordplay opens you up to attack by people and organizations that like to destroy what is good through manipulative wordplay.

NotSuspicious commented on Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs tampabay.com/opinion/2024... · Posted by u/DamnInteresting

ghostpepper · 2 years ago

I would go back from software to EE in a heartbeat if the compensation was even remotely comparable

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

This is a huge source of emotional pain for me to be completely honest.

NotSuspicious commented on A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning arstechnica.com/cars/2024... · Posted by u/nickthegreek

digital-cygnet · 2 years ago

How do you feel about your impact on others on the roads? Driving such a vehicle through populated areas means you're putting pedestrians and cyclists at significantly higher risk due to lessened visibility and hood height[1], blocking other drivers' views, and exposing people nearby to toxic diesel fumes [2]. The majority of the problems with driving a large vehicle in a city are not borne by the owner thereof.

To be clear, my point isn't to try to make you feel bad about your choice, but to demonstrate why it's bad on a societal level to have this profusion of large vehicles. Societal problems need societal solutions.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tall-trucks-suvs-are-45-dea...

[2] https://www.epa.gov/dera/learn-about-impacts-diesel-exhaust-...

NotSuspicious · 2 years ago

Are you vegan?