Tycho

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by Tycho 9y ago
So I guess you must have lots of examples of things he has said where he was dead wrong because he was out of his depth...
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by Tycho 9y ago
I don't think 'rants and raves' is an accurate characterization. His declared modus operandi is to treat the spread of BS as an act of harm to the public which should be met with hostility when the offender is someone with a
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by Tycho 9y ago
Taleb's approach is to put BS-vendors on full blast, especially if he sees them prominently spreading bad ideas and acting in bad faith. It's a service to all of us. The intellectual sphere is crowded enough already without the pu
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by Tycho 9y ago
Happier in an orderly country where gun ownership is high, like Switzerland. I'm not saying it's the only thing you need.
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by Tycho 9y ago
I'm supportive of widespread gun ownership (or the right to acquire guns) so that the public can not be easily pushed around by some tyrant and his brownshirts/paramilitary/secret-police/goons. Goons not so useful if the
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by Tycho 9y ago
A few years ago the government banned civilian ownership of guns. Then, a few months ago they announced the arming of a half-million strong militia. Now they are rounding up political opposition at gunpoint. Yes, I do think it is easier to
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by Tycho 9y ago
The strongest argument against gun control you will ever find.
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by Tycho 9y ago
And the reason they don't have a partner is...
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by Tycho 9y ago
I suspect Huffington is behind a lot of this.
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by Tycho 9y ago
I suspect Uber has a Hudsucker Proxy situation going on.
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by Tycho 9y ago
How come the author, HN user yummyfajitas, has not posted for over a month? Was he banned?
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by Tycho 10y ago
> That our ancestors didn't keel over immediately after consuming these "same" foods does not mean they are anymore "safe to consume" than GMO foods. I think this is the wrongest statement I've ever read on
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by Tycho 10y ago
What did you learn about yourself and the world?
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by Tycho 10y ago
If it turns out not to have been an Assad attack then all those in the US government/military who pushed for escalation should walk the plank.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Well I guess we just have different standards of what makes something proven. To me there is hierarchy 1. Mathematical or logical proof 2. Proof by controlled, reproducible experiment 3. Proof by predictions bourne out reliably by observati
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by Tycho 10y ago
Why should I accept any hypothesis that hasn't be proven either by controlled experiment or logical/mathematical deduction? The only appropriate stance in such situations is "I currently think this hypothesis is likely/u
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by Tycho 10y ago
If there is not a good answer to that question, then I would reject the hypothesis outright. If there is a good answer, then I would accept it as a working hypothesis, unless any other screaming contradictions come up. I would also find it
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by Tycho 10y ago
The problem with "climate science" is that so many things about it set off my internal BS detector. But on specifics, it would be good to get a clear answer to the question - how come CO2 concentration was much higher in several p
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by Tycho 10y ago
Does anyone know good poetry accounts to follow on Twitter? I follow quite a few accounts that just post quotations or snippets from famous writings. I think this would work well for poetry.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Isn't the genre science fiction?
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by Tycho 10y ago
I cited the fiduciary duty which is a widely recognized standard for the practice of running a company. What standard are you alluding to, exactly, when you say the CEO is "entirely responsible" for everything that happens within
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by Tycho 10y ago
CEO has 100% responsibility that his/her company fulfils its fiduciary duty to investors. They do not have this more nebulous "duty to society" responsibility that puts them on the hook for every single instance of bad behavi
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by Tycho 10y ago
>He is completely, 100% responsible for the culture of his company. The term "culture" is not compatible with the idea of assigning 100% responsibility to one person. In fact it's practically the antithesis. > No one wh
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by Tycho 10y ago
I'm getting the sense that there's some kind of orchestrated effort to take down Uber. The whole "Kalanick must step down" talking point is ridiculous. There was an HR problem he wasn't personally connected to, so n
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by Tycho 10y ago
It's not what the author left out (eg. proof, evidence) that makes me suspicious, it's what they put in . To wit: - in the 3rd paragraph, it includes the gender wage gap topic. Usually companies keep employee salaries hidden from
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by Tycho 10y ago
Someone called Godfrey Elfwick claimed to have written the Guardian article as a spoof, although on closer investigation it seems there's no solid proof. That said, it reads like perfect satire, I can't believe it's genuine.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Here is one example https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/28/alt-ri... I could tell it was fake because it hit on so many tropes of the left. Here's a more directly comparable example (
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by Tycho 10y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this was fake. It seemed to hit on too many talking points and buzzwords. It has a "too good to be true" feel to it.
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by Tycho 10y ago
It's a sign that the election hysteria is finally fading that we are back in the thrall of these corporate kiss-and-tell scandals and intrigues. Thank god.
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by Tycho 10y ago
The next evolutionary phase of the Cathedral could be a Zuckerberg presidency. It may be his reward for "solving" (in the future) the problem of extra-Cathedral news consumption. But it's early days.

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