Helianthus

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by Helianthus 13y ago
It's good to know that we do have some legislators on (essentially) our side, even if their hands are, presently, tied.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>The fact that this isn't precisely what Homunculiheaded said is also why I posted Ah. I misread the following... >>This is actually what I expected to read: as agreement ("This is actually what I expected to read."
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>I was establishing that there are plenty of people who don't really realize there are other distributions. Something I never contested. From Glyptodon: >>"This is std dev. This is how you compute it. Make sure you put it
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by Helianthus 13y ago
"A general science education needs far firmer statistical grounding" doesn't equate to "The standard deviation should be retired."
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Having the reputation of 'provocative' can become about being provocative more than being on point.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>"The realization that the normal distribution is not the only way to model data". Realization by who? If you understand the normal distribution you had damn well better know that there are other probability distributions. &gt
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>Reality always provides some bound But... it doesn't. You ever hear about the hypothetical possibility of your atoms lining up and falling through the floor? It's hypothetical in the sense that it's really ridiculously u
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Not both; either of those would have been more interesting and less prone to hypocrisy. Perhaps I am less critical of Paul as much as I am the crude politics of it all--thus critical of Paul by extension. (Before you think I am directly cal
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Who's the bigger unaccomplished arbiter, the arbiter, or the arbiter arbitrating unaccomplished arbiters? :D
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Because by engaging the toxic, he's cementing his role in the toxic. Dude actually wrote : 'by pointing out the degree to which women run things at YC it's closer to saying "I'm not racist! I'm black."&#x
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I didn't intend to particularly provide a definition for cynicism so much as deflect the idea I was writing out of hatred. >This piece, seen as a consequentialist act, would be a gambit played to calm a possible negative tide in fem
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I dunno, I thought I was being direct. The tech sector has sexism problems, and YC, as part of that sector, is not going to be immune to them. This piece does nothing but puff up YC in an effort to distance YC from the tech sector's s
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Not hate, cynicism. Talk's cheap and tends to benefit the speaker. The rhetorical arc of the piece is public self-exoneration. I don't think you can reasonably argue otherwise. PG isn't required to give a deposition of hi
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I suppose I was looking for double jeopardy. The nature of this kind of discussion is always going to be hyperbolic and emotionally charged, which is why gender discussions here get nuked. That's what I find so amusing about PG'
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by Helianthus 13y ago
In other words, this is a posture piece: it's about your reputation, and only about the issue at hand insomuch as it is important to give that issue its due. I mean that ('posture piece') as neutrally, perhaps, as it is possi
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by Helianthus 13y ago
That's just kinda how people/movements work.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I don't think Asimov necessarily meant 'elite' to equal 'upper echelon,' and I think we do a disservice in thinking of Wall Street bankers, at least, as in the 'upper echelon' of our society--they're
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I dunno, I thought it worked pretty well. Prim posturing, however, I find bland.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Cheers.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Oh, the downvotes make me feel good. HN hates its cynic culture, and at the same time, this guy gets a stupid immediate benefit of the doubt for his feelings. He asked for real criticism, guys. His post is really high on imagination and l
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by Helianthus 13y ago
There is a reason there are so many languages extant. They each serve a purpose. What exactly do you think you're on to? Insight has built all of the things that you're hoping to replace. So what are you bringing to the tab
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Calm down. >(I am surely not the first person to have this insight, but it's WAY ahead of being mainstream). Great. Maybe you can actually bring it into the mainstream. With code. Imagination is fun, but you're not doing more
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>he's smart enough to recognize the threat that this poses to traditional banks and banking. ... for Christ's sake. Give it a rest, he's not a mustache-twiddling dastardly capitalist and the banking system is not trying t
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by Helianthus 13y ago
I'm firmly convinced Bitcoin is a lunacy of greed, and they're firmly convinced that they are rich. What's to debate? The discussion has reached a place of little common ground--a sign, perhaps, that maybe soon the universe
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Damn, but I wish I'd written this myself. The obnoxious thing--to me--about this play money trend isn't that people are giving it serious attention and thought, it's the shiny ideals in the eyes of the greedy. It provokes a r
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>Angular's Disqus comments were a perfect example of the hate and entitlement in open source that makes people quit contributing. This is a perfect example of the entitlement people feel to be free from others' ire or criticism
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by Helianthus 13y ago
This isn't the context of people using Angular the hammer, it's in the context of people trying to learn Angular, the forklift, and all of the forklift users saying "It's not our fault you can't figure it out!"
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by Helianthus 13y ago
>encouraging psuedo-scientific beliefs about psychiatry (which is, make no mistake about it, more of an 'art' than a science, but so was the beginning of many now-scientific fields) This back-pedaling is where you begin to lose
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by Helianthus 13y ago
That doesn't really change the point, it just wraps it with a layer of abstraction.
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by Helianthus 13y ago
Not bad. It's still missing something, but it's close.

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