dkn775

For me I think that value arises in a nihilistic world when regardless of what individuals actually do, over time we move further into chaotic outcomes, or that things gradually get more harmonious (less conflict and negative externalities).

The latter comes from the realization that some things (ie actions based only on gaining money/power/fame, knowingly taking advantage of people, needlessly killing, laziness, cheating for gain, not helping the poor, not forgiving people).

This arises from nihilism because some believe that it can't be possible that nothing matters when these values are "beyond our earthly realm" in that it often requires seeing things on a more spiritual level, and thinking beyond immediate gratification.

It is then that one may see nihilistic people as those feeding their temptations as these are often the easiest things to do (running vs. sitting and getting fat).

So while one can think nothing matters, some may then see that indeed some actions "retard" not just ourselves but all, and others are a net benefit for society.

Though believing that such actions are actually a net benefit may be considered "faith" because I can't know for sure.

Just my thoughts.

Do you have any collection of your thinking online? I also noticed that beyond nihilism is where I began to think about these ideas. The problem for me is the thoughts are so hard to condense. One benefit of this stuff you're talking about (determinism right?) Is I have gotten immense peace in my day to day actions by clearly being able to distinguish things which are good and bad for me to do, and accepting that I will be fine or not based on what I am doing. I can also forgive people easier and see that they were "just trying"

I have thought similar thoughts for a while to what I think you're getting at. That certain behaviors are harmonious (a net benefit) for all, while others produce negative externalities and are therefore "sinful" for lack of a better term. In terms of religion this would be similar to a concept of man being fallen from the perfect harmony, where they do not always choose the net benefit option. Hence it takes some effort to not "give in to your demons" ie make decisions which are easier but move things away from that harmonious equilibrium

Google Pixel 2 XL: "for me it seems like Google voice typing is getting worse and worse it capitalizes random words in a sentence like this it specifically ignores the word okay"

Are there aftermarket glasses I can use with my 3D tv to improve the experience?

A lot of people wouldn’t know about the policy avenues that can be used to regulate these companies (of which FTC is not the only one), or how even advisory groups to the president could help.

I knew that google feed was advertising, any reading about google news and google feed that talks about this? I have a pixel, same findings.

You mean the screen to the left of the home screen? I have noticed a lot of low quality information and some advertising masquerading as articles.

Would you be willing to share some good resources for identifying rework traffic beyond IP? I have seen things in my little snitch logs I wonder about but no real recourse.

Agreed, as a general rule I shy away from predicting things I wouldn't claim expertise in otherwise. This is why consulting with subject matter experts is important. Things as innocuous as traffic crashes and speeding tickets are a huge world unbeknownst to the casual analyst (the field of "Traffic Records")

Even if it’s not go crazy in the traditional sense, I know for me I can’t smoke like in college, I get extremely anxious.

Same, that's what I have been using for GIS work, media production, and some light coding. Only thing I regret is not being able to play Xbox games at 21:9 (unless you know of a way).

Not to mention if the podcast got so full of advertisements and money grabs like that many people, including me, would stop listening. I’ve seen so many podcasts start out good then get more and more into advertising obligations, which often comes with things such as increasing the volume/interruption characteristics of said ads.

The best one is state or local government. You’ll be able to make a lot of change and get tons of experience with a low barrier to entry.

Anything related to public safety (including transportation) probably needs the most tech talent.

One thing that stuck out to me is how consistent the numbers became between each other under WFH. I am not familiar with the metric or scrum, but I wonder what the cause is?

Can you provide some examples of subreddits that encourage such anti-social/mentally ill behavior?

This website isn't perfect, but I created it after working on transportation data for a state government. It is focused on the Maryland area, but there are some national sources. This is a good page to find ideas for GIS-based analyses on traffic crashes, travel patterns, and transportation infrastructure. Any ideas welcome. It was my first GitHub page, so I know that it could be better on the dev side.

I sent you an email.

Before you expand to more counties, please address the critiques here. Also note that these data are not homogeneous across jurisdictions. I like what you’re doing, but you need to be very careful about this analysis, or else it will just come off as uninformed by the people who work in this space. State public safety data is not uniformly collected.

You want to ensure you have all these caveats mentioned so that when it gains traction, you won’t waste as much time dealing with people who will try to invalidate your findings.

I worked in this area for the state of MD at one of the foremost traffic records outfits in the US and have done this work previously, there are a few considerations you are leaving out which comes as a result of knowing these data.

You want to never look at things at the citation level, you should group it into stops. One driver can get many citations per stop, which confounds your findings..grouping can be done by making an ID of DL#+Date of stop. If time is included, put that on ONLY if it has the same time for all citation issued in the stop (like it is here in MD) - You could end here, or you could add an indication Y/N for whether a citation was issued. This way, you are looking at stops where at least 1 citation was issued, instead of 3 counts for a race off of one stop where three tickets were issued.

Also, the racial categories are based upon the DMV database, and what options they have permitted. The confounder here is racially ambiguous persons may be misclassified, while obviously black people etc will reliably be called such.

Additionally, you want to use something like the National Household Travel Survey to get an idea of the racial background of DRIVERS in the area you are examining. It is quite possible that an area has more drivers of a certain race. Note this still will not be perfect due to out of jurisdiction drivers.

Please contact me with any questions. Very interesting stuff, I just want to make sure you do it right.....if you hope to make any changes at the govt level, these considerations will be widely known in the traffic records sector.