Re:Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do...
by popup21 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @07:51AM
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What does this have to do with tech hacking?
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Re:Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do...
by adamch on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:16AM
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At a general level, you may work with users, and it's important to not have fallacious thinking about users, e.g. "if I can dispel belief X their behaviour will change to Y". Instead, Talib would bet their behaviour will still be like others in the X-believing community. When tech is currently doing a lot of soul-searching about the social effects of e.g. Facebook it's useful to have a theory to explain why predictions of user behaviour were wrong.
At a more specific level, I think this is very useful for thinking about programming language communities and how they affect behaviour.
Re:Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do...
by kace91 on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:14AM
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every time this question comes up, the same answer is given. From the first paragraph of the guideline:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Re:Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do...
by mellosouls on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:14AM
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Some of us have varied interests.