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You might want to check your facts if that’s what you believe. Or else I’ve got a bridge to sell you.

GM is one of the last American companies that still has a union. Hope they don’t use this as an excuse to throw that proud tradition away.

Hope they are built in the US by union labor.

“Between Facts and Norms” by Juergen Habermas. A voice of clarity for a time of confusion and rancor.

As a taxpayer, I support Tesla, am glad to have subsidized them, and I don’t care if they turn a profit.

Social constructionism is lunacy why?

You might like Minsky’s “The Emotion Machine.” Emotion is, as you say, essentially a higher order function of the nervous system—-some complex way of amplifying and dampening certain systems in order to adapt to circumstances. We understand emotion less clearly than we understand multilayer perceptrons/neural networks/basic learning and reasoning.

But even dogs seem to have emotions, don’t they? My dog gets excited if I offer him a treat, and sad if I don’t give it to him.

This topic seems to make you rather emotional.

Emotions come from the unconscious. Of course they can be difficult to detect. Nonetheless they can shape our thinking and behavior dramatically. Read Carl Jung, “The Undiscovered Self.”

Are you really so sure? It’s not an easy thing to maintain awareness of the workings of one’s emotions, especially for someone raised in a repressive, collectivist culture that doesn’t value the internal life of the individual, and especially if that individual is on the spectrum, in which case the emotions are “buried” even deeper.

Interesting that in one section, he casts doubt on the notion that mathematical models can accurately describe reality, and in another, he uses a heart rate monitor to conclude that he doesn’t have emotions.

Same for me... I sometimes sleep 12 hours a night, sometimes 0. Having worked remotely with flex time for the last 5 years, I have to say, it isn’t that hard to communicate with colleagues even without a set schedule. People are almost always awake at noon.

It’s true. We should all avoid alarms and sleep until we feel rested. Why don’t we do that?

I agree, it’s not force. I just don’t think “force” in the literal sense is required to make it a scary situation.

FB’s power is not a binary of either “can force” or “can’t force.” But they can offer an amount so high it’s hard to say no, and they can manipulate their users’ attention in ever more complex and subtle ways.

I don’t consider FB a pure evil, just a potential danger. Their moral hazard is comparable to that of a heroin dealer—-they are incentivized to get you using the product as much as possible, regardless of the possibility that more than a small amount could be harmful.

Hacker News is just as ideological as the NYT.

Facebook has sufficient accumulation of capital to make this impossible. Build something good enough to challenge them and you will get purchased.

Remember when these articles were about OOP?

I’m 35 and I hear from recruiters every day. If I’m about to fall off a cliff, I can’t see it from here. I’m not an exceptional dev by any means but my code works.

Growing up in Indiana, I thought my home was backward and boring, and wanted to see what the rest of the world had to offer. After spending 10 years in a variety of cities across the world, I was relieved to find that Indiana houses were still cheap enough that I could buy one and move back.