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by Tycho 6y ago
The important thing about 'conspiracy theories'® is that you have charlatans trying to profit off them by misleading people. What I mean is that if they come across information that hurts their narrative, they won't share it,
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by Tycho 6y ago
I suspect the recent spike in car prices is due to the pandemic. Over ten years the cost seems pretty much flat (even as cars have become more advanced). Also, cities that are booming will outpace the rest of the country for rent (and there
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Generalized Low Rank Models (GLRM)(docs.h2o.ai)
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by Tycho 6y ago
I suppose I'd like to know more about the struggles people have, without the sensationalism and manipulation one usually gets from the the media. For instance, the matter of foodbanks (in the UK). On one hand, they are a great example
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by Tycho 6y ago
I think it’s an innovation by the diversity guild complex - the end game is to simply receive “equity” in the wealth that other peoples’ enterprises have created. Not a minimum living standard, not an opportunity, not a hand out, not a safe
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by Tycho 6y ago
Wouldn't there be an element of cherry picking to this whole variant story? Like, don't viruses mutate constantly, we just don't analyze them in a disciplined manner most of the time, so if you start doing that you're bo
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by Tycho 6y ago
The Night Manager dramatisation from a few years ago is also great.
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by Tycho 6y ago
I remember Rallisport Challenge 2 was a fantastic game. Then I got the original DiRT, which had incredible graphics, but the car physics felt off. The cars seemed to rotate from a centre point when you turned. Like if you were square agains
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by Tycho 6y ago
When you aren't price sensitive, you apply that sort of thinking to most things, if it's a one-off purchase. I do at least. I recently bought a car. I spent about a year deliberating over it, picking the right market segment, pick
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by Tycho 6y ago
It’s a strange reaction though. “I’m resigning.” “OK, that’s your prerogative, bye.” “Wait! I didn’t mean NOW! How can you fire me like this?!” Then make a big deal about being fired on social media. Seems to me that someone who genuinely w
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by Tycho 6y ago
The original post was updated with more information. Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan a
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by Tycho 6y ago
In a way it’s a good self-regulating mechanism for modern capitalism. Dominant companies slowly become paralysed by activist employees, letting nimbler competitors outflank them in the market.
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by Tycho 6y ago
It's the ultimatum part that makes the difference.
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by Tycho 6y ago
Title here is misleading (probably deliberate). The email that got this person “fired” was one that allegedly contained an ultimatum and a threat to resign. The employer then called her bluff and accepted her resignation with immediate effe
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by Tycho 6y ago
It would be good to see a breakdown of the environmental benefits brought by modern tech. For instance: - switch to streaming/downloading from physical media eliminates manufacturing and transport - switch to online retail lowers trans
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by Tycho 6y ago
Conventional-minded people don't like to think of themselves as conventional-minded. And in any case, it genuinely feels to them as if they make up their own minds about everything. It's just a coincidence that their beliefs are
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by Tycho 6y ago
It’s strange to me that so many intellectuals talk about this position as if it’s something difficult to defend. Or the territory of religious fanatics. Personal feelings aside, most of the pro-choice arguments seem like weak equivocation
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by Tycho 6y ago
I remember back in March a lot of people (within the field) saying AI folk should stand back and let the medical/virology community deal with Covid. This sort of thing puts paid to that attitude, IMO.
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by Tycho 6y ago
If it wasn’t for Twitter, I too might think that Hunter Biden was just getting a cushy job similar to, say, Bush’s daughter getting a job at the Smithsonian Design Museum. It might not occur to me that of all the jobs he could have landed,
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by Tycho 6y ago
I don’t want to get into an argument with you, I was just curious if that was your actual opinion. Similar to how you asked if I was joking and I answered you.
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by Tycho 6y ago
It may have been a ridiculous decision, but as a means of stopping the information from propagating, it was wholly ineffectual. There’s always enough people that want to get to the truth of the matter, rather than the version of events that
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by Tycho 6y ago
One side has prominent interlocutors who routinely call the other side racists, Nazis, and harbingers of fascism in the United States, demanding their “de-platforming”. The other side sees this as hysterical nonsense spouted by sanctimoniou
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by Tycho 6y ago
I’m not joking. Is it your opinion that there were no attempts, from within the agencies, to undermine the president (or his campaign) and that there is nothing corrupt about what the Biden family has been up to?
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by Tycho 6y ago
Twitter can only make meagre attempts to censor. They can stop something from “trending” or whatever. But if you want to hear from independent journalists and researchers and analysts, Twitter lets you do that, and short of shutting down th
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by Tycho 6y ago
“own the libs” is satire, it’s not literally the political platform
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by Tycho 6y ago
If it wasn’t for Twitter I would have literally no clue about the machinations of the intelligence agencies to undermine the president or the corrupt activities of the Biden family. Unfortunately the mainstream media outlets choose not to r
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by Tycho 6y ago
According to the article, this phenomenon is most obviously manifested in the humorous expression “own the libs”, and not, say, by shrieking scaremongering about fascism and comparing the other side to the Nazis.
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by Tycho 6y ago
The web interface of Reddit seems mind-bendingly bad. Seems like you can't just view an entire thread, you have to look at it in a newsfeed type stream of other threads/stories, and when you want to drill down to a particular bran
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by Tycho 6y ago
What is some good intuition around matrix inverses?
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by Tycho 6y ago
I don’t agree with your perspective about relevance. Details are an important part of journalism. You might not find some detail salient along some particular line of argument, but I still want to know.

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