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> That’s why the Carnegies and Mellons built libraries, museums, and the very literally named Carnegie-Mellon university, back then. Now it seems like the first thing billionaires today do is isola…

MediaWiki doesn't have full WYSIWYG. The Visual Editor is nice, but doesn't support templates.

The issue is "people who view themselves as good with computers" self-select into jobs in the technology industry. This means we don't have any ambassadors for technological process imp…

> Couldn't we have planted forests, from which we take the grown trees and put them back down under the earth, in some old mining facilities or dig some tunnels that lead deep down and put tha…

So, the customer did a chargeback with their bank, won, and you want Stripe to eat the loss? If I pay for something with a credit card and win a dispute with my bank, should Visa do its own investigat…

Your objection assumes that there is an inherent value to accurate predictions, independent of being able to use those predictions to make decisions.

> This is why we have problems with our current predictions markets, e.g. the stock market (insider trading, etc.) A unit of stock represents a legal claim on a company's assets even in the ab…

The "random people" are exposed to countersuits/liability in the event of a loss. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/judges-litigation-fundi... > Connolly ult…

> I don't want to speculate but here's wild speculation.

Good UX is a moat. Otherwise we'd be in the year of the Linux desktop.

ChatGPT is an amazing name. Extremely percussive.

Being socially expected to raise kids is a form of discrimination.

This has existed for 100s of years, historically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities …

The gender pay gap disappears when you control for hours worked, job seniority, and experience. So, why do women work less hours than men and have less experience? That's still an issue even if i…

Depends on major. I'm in engineering so it's more work than a full time job for whatever reason.

I didn't even know this until now. I looked at her resume and I can't grasp how she's been doing an undergraduate degree from 2019-2023, meaning that writing an entire GPU driver is the…

It's a similar situation because the laws aren't enforceable against the pop-up stores in the same way you can't sue an anonymous subreddit moderator from being discriminatory. > Lik…

> But as per your comments, it does sound like you're making the claim that this activity is running afoul of nondiscrimination laws. I edited my original comment because others have pointed o…

The issue is that individual subreddit moderators each control hundreds of subreddits with millions of users. If 10% of the top subreddits ban anyone that participates in /r/Judaism or /…

You're correct (as you pointed out elsewhere), so I edited my original comment.

You are right, thank you for the citation. edit: there's another comment chain you might be interested in about whether the federal civil rights act is applicable.

My point is that platforms should have more of a responsibility when they currently have none. > But you're fundamentally misunderstanding the law's purpose: to protect platforms from lia…

I agreed with you. If Reddit wanted to ban certain types of posts, they're entitled to under the First Amendment. They're not entitled to discriminate against certain races, ethnicities, or …

It's on a state-by-state basis.[1] In California in particular, courts have ruled online businesses that are public accommodations cannot discriminate:[2] > The California Supreme Court held t…

I don't like Section 230 because "actual knowledge" no longer matters, as tech companies willfully blind themselves to the activities on their platforms. ~~As an example, there are subr…

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of constantly changing our methods of assessment. A 90 day target is questionable, but regularly changing the metrics are a good way to keep people …

I'm riffing on password rotation requirements and the meta-nature of trying to make Goodhart's law a target. I could've been a bit more obviously sarcastic.

I can confirm this. We've standardized Goodhart's law creating a 90-day rotation requirement for KPIs. We found that managers would reuse the same performance indicators with minor variation…