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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
My “view from 10,000 feet” (admittedly hot) take is that anything that creates more interdependency between potentially-hostile nuclear powers is a very good thing.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Clearly, what we need is a special interest group devoted to fighting special interest groups. All jokes (?) aside, can anyone comment on how the situation has evolved—or failed to evolve—over the last quarter century?
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
After the training is done, does the algorithm use a dictionary file to generate haikus, or is it allowed to use entire lines from the dataset? If the former, I’m impressed. If the latter, I’m just annoyed that this is being presented as so
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Ask HN: Resources for getting started with bare-metal coding?
179 points by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago|68 comments
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I know you’re being sarcastic, but I’ve integrated this idea into my bullshit detector. When I’m dealing with someone who purports to be an expert in a field I know little about, I will try to steer the conversation towards things that I kn
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
I’m right of center, but these state senators are being big babies. Worse, they’re fomenting serious political unrest. Go back to work, take your lumps, and strike back according to the laws of the limited war that is democracy. It’s still
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
If he applauded the actions in the video, that’s one thing, because that’s very close to inciting violence. But what if someone forwarded the video with a comment such as, “We need to broadcast the full horror of what occurred, so that peop
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
This is such a hairy problem. On the one hand, the simplistic libertarian argument—“Private companies don’t have to host content they don’t like, period!”—fails to convince because of the special legal status enjoyed by online platforms due
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
This is a triumph of emotion over good law.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Of course it has.
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Based on my observations thus far, I have come to believe quite firmly that the progressive—a more accurate term than “liberal”—has a strong tendency toward censorship (and a flexible relationship to the truth in general). That being said,
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by DATACOMMANDER 7y ago
Did anyone ever truly believe that streaming would put an end to piracy? Pure wishful thinking. You can’t send data to someone but make it impossible for them to save it. It just doesn’t work that way.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
Of course we can’t, but every Tom, Dick and Harry who can follow a few online tutorials thinks he’s competent to be—take your pick—a software engineer, a data analyst, a machine learning expert, the next Mark Zuckerberg, or almost anything
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
Interesting that this is being downvoted, since it’s spot-on.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
But the “stupid first order” proposition is correct. If our policy was to brutally torture people for even the most minor infractions, and we enforced it very well, no one would ever commit a crime unless they were extremely confident that
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
He can’t—or, rather, he can’t provide any scientific sources to support his false claim—but a 10-second search on google for some combination of the words “female”, “male”, “infants”, “study”, “preferences”, “toys”, etc will yield an enti
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
I don’t know. I don’t think so, but if they did, they’d probably leave them visible to me, a la shadowbannimg.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
>It's not about the facts (on that front the manifesto has been fully debunked) Indeed, it truly isn’t about the facts for you. >These views are something that society wholeheartedly rejects today, and if you don’t realise that t
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
What—other than not wearing a wedding ring—makes a woman “single-looking”?
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
I’ll keep my comments substantive. That being said, anyone who reads my comment history will conclude that if you were to ban me, it would be your loss, not mine. So do what you will.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
So, I’d heard of the manifesto, but I’d never read it. I just read it, and it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Given that some of the smartest left-leaning individuals in the world—Google employees—apparently read and rejected what is clea
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
They used that argument in court, and a judge disagreed. From TFA: Uber has tried to maneuver around legal walls using this thin argument of technological exceptionalism to protect its management practices. However, Judge Edward M. Chen see
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
This may be the most elaborate rationalization of selling out I’ve ever read.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
The problem with the radical left is that they don’t appreciate the fragility of civilization, and they don’t understand just how horrific things can get if we get carried away with some utopian program and accidentally cause the whole thin
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
What I find most disturbing about stories like this is that these companies appear to believe that they have the right to challenge local laws in court. We need to extend sovereign immunity to local governments, at least to the extent that
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
Yes, and probably a much smaller pittance than that earned through ad revenue from the average brief visit, which means that this idea cannot succeed if it’s framed as an alternative to ads, unless a massive number of people are willing to
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
I wish the article had gone into more depth about what this Blockbuster does differently. It makes sense that they stock older movies that are hard to find on streaming services, but I bet that’s not the only thing that differentiates them.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
For the record, I personally think that it’s absurd to spend $30,000 on a diamond ring, but I didn’t downvote your comment.
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
Wait a second. You’re not holding social and biological explanations of observed sex differences to the same standard. You say that coercive social forces are realities that “definitely” drive observed sex differences, but you’re not willin
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by DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
You’re probably being downvoted because you chose to spend the price of a decent new car on a shiny rock.

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