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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
You've contradicted yourself there. If Amazon's stock price is doing well, this is evidence that they are creating value for shareholders.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
In comparison, the police force has one goal: to serve and protect. Therefore their actions are always ethical and human-friendly.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
agreed, I would characterize the procedure as a medical treatment of a disease, so put that way I agree with your point 4.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I don't think you have addressed all the concerns in the article. You say >4. This law will allow some kids to have a normal metabolism and a normal life. Nothing more. Nothing less. But the objection of Dr. Morrow is that the proce
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Not so much begging the question, but making an assertion that I don't have space to prove. How could I prove that modern physics is correct to someone who had perused a physics textbook and concluded it wasn't worth serious cons
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
You cannot criticize economics without at least some understanding of it. The only point that was coherent enough for me to reply to was: >What exactly is rational about a system which centuries of history have proven is unable to funct
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
The rich White/Jewish liberals who write these articles, and enforce these laws, could never stomach 1/10'th of the integration they force on poor and middle class Whites.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I chose to study economics (in graduate school) because I wanted to make the world better, and I discovered that the non-economists I studied from as an undergrad (in "development studies") were less convincing than the economists
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think that economics leads to a different view on greed and selfishness, that the author should try to understand rather than talk down to us and force us out of our bad thinking patterns with re-education. According to economics, all peo
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
It sounds like a great idea. Even though the article is entirely correct in that Kaggle competitions are only a small part of machine learning, they are still a good way to learn some aspects. Even the data-cleaning that the author claims
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
That argument is not logical. Military spending may or may not be justified, but if the whole world cut all military spending, it's not like space travel would get dibs on that money. Space travel has to justify its existence on its on
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
fine arts majors talking about user interface design would be a better comparison. The programming language used to create a program does not directly affect the user. The skill of an artist does does directly affect the viewer of art.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
It is the article that has an excessive focus on the 2nd amendment. This is the final paragraph: If you’re a parent, you should be absolutely terrified that a 9-year-old’s constitutional right to fire an Uzi trumps your right to decide at
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I really liked this article. The author gave real substantive answers to almost all the questions. I would have liked to have more detail on his critique of the "guess and check" approach to science. My own opinion is that there
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Can someone outline who the people arguing against Jeremy Ashkenas are? It would make a big difference if they were ordinary users, vs maintainers of other important libraries of pieces of software. While everyone deserves their say, this i
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I don't think a story like this belongs on HN. Another story on this topic might generate interesting discussion and debate, but this one is written in an inflammatory manner and does not demonstrate deep thinking or clear analysis. T
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I agree that we should always at least read the linked article (and sometimes the original paper) before bringing out "correlation does not equal causation". However, you are overstating the case for the author's having dealt
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
This is my summary based on skimming the article: The authors find that social network usage has a negative correlation with happiness. To control for unhappy people turning to social networks (reverse causality), the use instrumental varia
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Regarding 2., I'm going to assume they have at least some unit tests. It's not clear that even 100% coverage would have picked up this bug, since it doesn't automatically appear as a result of taking a particular code path. I
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
But you are still equating "people are all fat because they can't control themselves" with "fat people as gluttonous sloths with no self control". I'm not saying that a desire to look down on and judge other pe
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
good for you
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
While I wish the best for all children, I feel like this kind of discourse has a negative effect on the very intelligent. By downplaying the significance of intelligence, it trivializes the gifts of the truly intelligent, and places an exc
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>Personally, I find Guyenet's reward hypothesis to be nothing more than a rebranding of typical fat-shaming ("just control what you eat, fatso; and why don't you exercise some more?") So a particular claim about the s
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
These are just boilerplate disclaimers. >The correlation is moderate, so our findings are interesting A fair comment >but it does not mean that parents should worry if their child draws badly. Just an irrelevant disclaimer. >Drawin
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
From the point of view of classical economics, AI increases the productiveness of capital, and certain specialized kinds of labor (e.g. creating and improving AI). While this increases the total output of society, it also increases inequali
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
How would you characterize they way people cooperate to do the various things that are done in the name of Anonymous? If they tend to be the same people involved and they tend to coordinate their actions the same way each time, then it is f
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
When I studied physics as an undergrad, I was made to take a course in experimental particle physics (in Germany they call this "Phenomenology", not in English to my knowledge). I complained that I wanted to study the fundamental
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I believe in climate change because I trust the experts who have done analyses of global temperature (and to a lesser extent, climate models). Individual events like this could be cherry picked, so I don't know if they are good evidenc
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Causation is not a fundamental notion for me. We happen to live in a world where sometimes things can be ascribed specific causes, but that is due to the nature of the physical universe, not an abstract truth. Causality in our best theories
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
You always need to make some assumption about the causal process before you can infer causality from evidence. For example, take a randomized trial, where half of patients are given a drug, and half a placebo. If we define Y to be the outc

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