Houshalter

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by Houshalter 9y ago
Getting rid of algorithms means replacing them with humans. And humans are far worse. Humans are terribly biased. Racial bias isn't even anywhere near the strongest bias we have. Unattractive people get sentences twice as long as att
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by Houshalter 9y ago
https://i.imgur.com/cxLFux5.png
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by Houshalter 9y ago
North Korea has H-Bombs now? With accurate missiles?
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by Houshalter 9y ago
That's not really true. If you look at just the basic PCA of genetic data, several races emerge very clearly and distinctly. E.g. look at this image: https://i.imgur.com/J2Xl2FK.png I'm just guessing here, but I t
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by Houshalter 9y ago
This is not anarcho-capitalism. Libertarians are extremely protective about the right to bear arms for good reason. Mexico has very strict gun control and this is the result. Anarcho capitalism would look more like this: https://
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Search engines didn't exist until the very end of the 90s. The 00's is the golden age I compare too. And yes there are still some small websites. But they are a lot less common. Especially if you aren't searching for them i
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Google drank too much of their own koolaid. They were always seen as an "AI company", but they really weren't. As late as 2008, Google's head of AI said they used very little machine learning in search. And actually trie
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by Houshalter 9y ago
You really think the probability of such a disaster is 0.000001% per year? The cold war wasn't that long ago and came very close to the brink a number of times. If we were just lucky, and there is an expected rate of 1 nuclear war ever
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Roughly half of the population of Hiroshima survived.
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by Houshalter 9y ago
It's good to see people react. There are lots of stories of people dying in disasters because they didn't take it seriously. E.g. sirens blaring for a tornado alert, and people are just continue mowing their lawns. Or people conti
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by Houshalter 9y ago
What do you want to do about it? Go to war with North Korea?
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Have you ever looked at pictures of the aftermath of Hiroshima? People who weren't behind cover survived the immediate blast but got horrifying burns.
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by Houshalter 9y ago
>As soon as you value people based on their race ("your people" are worth more than others) you are in racist territory. Then 99.99% of humans who have ever lived are "racist". It's an meaningless mindkilling wor
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by Houshalter 9y ago
The source may be biased but does that make them wrong? They are just reporting data from German statistics. Which I would have referenced directly but unfortunately it's in German. I wasn't able to find any data or claims that co
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by Houshalter 9y ago
>In the end they dont care if the refugees are islamic or christian (there are actually a lot of christian people in the arabic speaking region) Yes they do. Even Trump has supported increasing Christian refugees. Although religion is fa
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Why on Earth is my comment hidden with +9 points? And the others flagged with +4 and +5? Was anything I said untrue or off topic? This is disgusting HN.
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by Houshalter 9y ago
>If it were poor and were being coercively restructured by some outside hegemonic power I don't think the outside power is relevant to the argument. The effect is the same whoever does it. To some conservative rural German, the gove
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by Houshalter 9y ago
>Comparing a weak country that has been overrun by a much stronger one What does this matter at all? How does the GDP of Germany change anything? If Germany was poor it would be different? >Germans do not find themselves in the same p
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by Houshalter 9y ago
>the technology company employed roughly 147 women and three men as pre-school teachers Three men isn't remotely statistically significant. They can't make any kind of statistical claim based on that. Second a gender ration of
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by Houshalter 9y ago
First of all muslims aren't really a "race". Debates about race are completely irrelevant, they are criticizing islamic culture and religion. No one would care about someone mocking christian beliefs of culture. Second you ar
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Seriously though, how do you oppose immigration without criticizing the people who are immigrating? The comment may have been hyperbolic, sure. But it's completely reasonable to be concerned about immigrants raising the crime rate. Or
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by Houshalter 9y ago
These people aren't "nazis" or "fascists". They have beliefs that would have been considered completely normal and moderate in 1940's US. The people that defeated the Nazis would be considered Nazis today. It&#
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by Houshalter 9y ago
A CPU from 2017 is going to run your programs a hell of a lot faster than one from 2003. Even if they technically have the same clock speed. Look at benchmarks for instance: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Evolution is all about local optimas. If you can't reach your goal with just a series of small improvements, it can't happen. The article claims an organism could just eat metal ores. Sure, but to do that you need to start with an
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Their competitors are also affected. Also a 30% decrease is also equivalent to setting Moore's law back 7 months. A 5% loss is only setting it back 1 month. I know that's a bit of a naive calculation. But the point is computing po
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by Houshalter 9y ago
Why on Earth does the legality matter? It's not like they'd ever admit they are gerrymandering. What data they use to optimize their gerrymander is irrelevant.
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What would be an easier way? A wall of lava lamps seems pretty easy to set up.
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It's very bad for your teeth.
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Which is a bad idea in general. I think HN uses some kind of vote ring detection scheme. And checks if the referrer to a link is from HN or another source before counting their votes.
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by Houshalter 9y ago
http://an-emission-impossible-world.blogspot.com/2013/12/anc... The romans were producing a huge amount of lead and other metals at levels not achieved again until the 18th century. The graph is pretty striking. A

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