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New comment by equality_1138 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

equality_1138 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:30:37 +0000

I can rephrase it then to they owned themselves in this case by being so damn gullible, thus further entrenched power given to the insurance industry.

New comment by equality_1138 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

equality_1138 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:40:15 +0000

The "libs" who lobbied for so-called universal healthcare? They further empowered these corporations and now they want to get rid of them. The libs owned themselves on this topic, obviously.

New comment by equality_1138 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

equality_1138 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:21:43 +0000

Ever done any work for a US health insurance company? You won't find many conservatives. You will find many "free lunch" advocates who spend half their day lobbying to protect their job and their industry. They are playing politics with your healthcare costs. How is that for nuance?

New comment by equality_1138 in "Impending Collapse: Our System Is on the Cusp of Failure"

equality_1138 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:33:51 +0000

Could be the other way around. Failed leadership in the ruling class is promoting culture war and strife as a scapegoat. Quite easy to see the rise of race hate correlated with bank bailouts and occupy movement. Immigration won't fix the inequality problem, but could definitely fuel "partisanship"

New comment by equality_1138 in "California tried to save the nation from tax filing, then Intuit stepped in"

equality_1138 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 17:06:07 +0000

I'm not mad at congress, I'm mad at the fools who keep voting for them.

New comment by equality_1138 in "Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]"

equality_1138 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 00:40:52 +0000

I think when certain very talented creators get "demonetized" and they have a bad experience with customer service trying to understand why, and maybe suspect the criteria changed without they're knowing, it's relatively understandable to over-react and say their hard work was censored, even if knowing it doesn't meet the legal standard. I wouldn't let it bother you so much.

New comment by equality_1138 in "Amazon’s New ‘Factory Towns’ Will Lift the Working Class"

equality_1138 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:00:48 +0000

Fascinating. So do you think government is essentially doing a great job at protecting freedom and maintaining decentralized power structures? Or are they too busy building company towns?

New comment by equality_1138 in "Let’s talk about founder compensation"

equality_1138 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 19:19:12 +0000

Are you suggesting that our universities are teaching short-term thinking cowardice and greed? Or is it just certain programs? For a while I thought it was "STEM" programs that alluded most to easy-money themes in academia, with business schools teaching more of the long view and social responsibility of financing then managing a business.

New comment by equality_1138 in "Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts"

equality_1138 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 18:14:22 +0000

> you might find the clients or the brigading groups that were talked about above to be either in the right or in the wrong

This is implied in the fact that no details were given, so I just find it incredibly strange that anyone would consider it an "astute comment". I suppose you must be referencing others in the thread who think they (or Facebook) can simply request a few details and efficiently judge correctly right or wrong.

New comment by equality_1138 in "Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts"

equality_1138 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 06:11:09 +0000

Sorry, just asking questions in a manner I thought was appropriate following your response with the words 'disastrous' and 'emphatic'. Honestly it's unclear how or whether you think this brigading issue should be handled. I see that you think Facebook's actions here should be "opposed as strongly as possible" but excluding use of our legal system(?)

New comment by equality_1138 in "Goodhart's Law"

equality_1138 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 03:39:12 +0000

Reminded me also of the Taguchi loss function. To paraphrase, quality is optimized when you manage the variation of a measurement in relation to its target value, instead of emphasizing the acceptable limits. It was seen as an improvement over the "goalpost" approach. And while you can say it really applies in manufacturing context, I think it should be considered more broadly for goal-oriented measurement and engineering in general.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taguchi_loss_function

New comment by equality_1138 in "Goodhart's Law"

equality_1138 — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 03:13:36 +0000

Fredrick Taylor was the one who developed so-called management science and obsessive measurement, paving the way for Deming to popularize a more balanced or holistic approach, ie. akin to actual science.

New comment by equality_1138 in "The Crime of Curiosity"

equality_1138 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 06:09:10 +0000

The article mentions about selling kits, so it's pretty obvious that his videos would be at least partially motivated by commercial aspirations. Yes? I called the comment silly as it seemed to be saying "I not only disapprove of this entrepreneur's target market, he is also employing deceptive marketing tactics"

New comment by equality_1138 in "Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts"

equality_1138 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 04:46:11 +0000

Try to understand that the economy is structured on a system of laws that facilitate the provision of jobs and goods/services by companies, while minimizing harm and maximizing fairness. Are you anti-regulation in general, or saying something more like Facebook is a special case that for some strange reason should keep hiding from legal scrutiny?

New comment by equality_1138 in "Facebook to target harmful coordination by real accounts"

equality_1138 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 04:26:38 +0000

Are you singing praises of mob mentality and wanting to protect US democracy at the same time?

New comment by equality_1138 in "The Crime of Curiosity"

equality_1138 — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:12:56 +0000

Exactly. I read this as a much broader critique of the scientific community. As YouTube is seen as a mass media company, it's not hard to accept their content decisions. He didn't fight it. I also believe any company that markets themselves as tech industry should not be this cagey about their relationship to science. It's an ethical question not a legal one. Jumping to the legal aspect seems like a big misunderstanding of the piece.

Also funny to question whether the guy is acting on financial incentives to promote his ideas. Of course he does.

New comment by equality_1138 in "Twitter to label 'good' bot accounts"

equality_1138 — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:08:45 +0000

Twitter makes its money as a marketing engine. Who can say what marketing is deemed intentionally deceptive? I'm not a Twitter user either but it seems to me an obvious question.

New comment by equality_1138 in "A Compass for the Politics of Collapse"

equality_1138 — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:05:21 +0000

Actually it is a logical fallacy to interpret one's rejection of a proposed solution to be a rejection of the problem. I'm not arguing any specific case for it, but it does seem to be quite common and problematic in civil discourse.

And the "another problem" is to misunderstand the way that money influences PR statements from powerful entities (politicians or otherwise). This part isn't illogical but just ignorant/mis-educated about wealth and power.

New comment by equality_1138 in "A Compass for the Politics of Collapse"

equality_1138 — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:03:32 +0000

Another problem is when so many people take a politician's words at face value. It simply doesn't work like that.

New comment by equality_1138 in "A Compass for the Politics of Collapse"

equality_1138 — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 19:36:57 +0000

It could be that when someone doesn't trust your solution, you call them out for not believing in the problem. Logical fallacy.