Tycho

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by Tycho 10y ago
Paul Ryan's comment completely ignores the context. The job of a judge is to make unbiased decisions. A judge engaged in ethnoactivism may conceivably be biased against a defendant whose political platform runs against those interests.
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by Tycho 10y ago
would the customer notice any difference if bank were 5% more efficient?
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by Tycho 10y ago
Yes, that his ties to his Mexican heritage would suggest that he would be biased specifically against Donald Trump due to Trump's position on Mexican immigration. This is not a particularly strong argument but it's hardly racist.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Trump said the judge had a conflict of interest.
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by Tycho 10y ago
That thread has been flagged, despite being clearly a reputable source and in scope for 'hacker news'. There seems to be a cabal of down-voters to take politically undesirable stories off the HN homepage. For instance, a while ago
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by Tycho 10y ago
big difference between a fable and an anecdote
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by Tycho 10y ago
I just don't find him that funny.
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by Tycho 10y ago
In this case there is much more to the story than sports entertainment. Ali was a man who stood up to a government that had conscripted him into a dubious war in a faraway land. He did so on principle, publicly, at great personal/profe
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by Tycho 10y ago
One of the best qualities people can have is to see the good in something/someone. The bad is of no value, so forget it, but celebrate the good. People here are celebrating the things they admired about a public figure. Likewise you ca
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by Tycho 10y ago
I worry that the small studies and surveys tell us nothing about the real dangers - from interaction and scale effects in a complex system.
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by Tycho 10y ago
But we're not talking about 'most' people. We're talking about all people. What about the people who think to themselves, I don't want to work, I want to live off welfare. Now there will be more of those people (esp
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by Tycho 10y ago
Doesn't seem like the same thing to me. Negative income tax means you still need to find someone who will employ you, and also you don't get any benefit if you are above the threshold so it's not universal.
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by Tycho 10y ago
But it might create even bigger disincentives that have a much more universal effect, which could be disasterous.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I'm surprised UBI is getting all the attention and negative income tax is not receiving equal consideration.
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by Tycho 10y ago
That's how the term is most broadly used by people who follow financial markets. Central bankers are currently obsessed with inflation as they see it as an indicator of economic vitality (ie. people have such a thirst for creating&#x2F
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by Tycho 10y ago
Where can I read more about this Eastern European hacking scene? A few months ago I listened to a talk by the CEO of Palantir who mentioned that in the Paypal days they unsuccessfully hired PhDs in a battle against the scammers, saying &quo
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by Tycho 10y ago
I think creepyness has to relate to some perceived threat. Example: in horror films, children can be super creepy, because there is a hint of supernatural threat. But in real life? Never, because they pose no threat. Too focussed on somethi
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by Tycho 10y ago
1 standard deviation difference in group distributions of intelligence already seems to result in vast disparities in power, control of resources, etc. I shudder to think how a greatly magnified version of that will turn out.
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by Tycho 10y ago
I kind of feel relieved that I'll probably be dead before this kind of thing irrevocably destroys the relative equality of the human race.
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by Tycho 10y ago
The evidence is not compelling: https://twitter.com/WLTSchirano/status/728917519457787904 Why are there hardly any cases in Colombia?
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by Tycho 10y ago
No worries, I took it as such.
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by Tycho 10y ago
Eventually employers are going to stop valuing college degrees and paying wages that justify the student debt. A new model of education/certification and hiring will arise. Especially if tech becomes the dominant sector (in terms of wo
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by Tycho 10y ago
Thanks. will read Seems to still be doubt though ... https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/728035459574710272
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by Tycho 10y ago
is this link actually confirmed yet? from what I heard, other nations which Zika has spread to have not seen an increase in the rate of microcephaly.
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by Tycho 10y ago
When survival = nice job that's exactly what I'm talking about. Someone has to do the menial jobs. Overpriced education ensures that it won't be the people in the middle class. Loans explain why it is possible for tuition fee
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by Tycho 10y ago
You know this could give the FOSS movement a new lease of life. Realistically only nerds care about whether they can install/configure exactly what they want on their computer hardware, but when it comes to safety things like this many
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by Tycho 10y ago
I think this is the actual problem, or at least the cause. So I predict that tuition costs will continue to inflate and the highschool system will continue with its deficiencies because most people don't realize the true nature of th
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by Tycho 10y ago
I agree with you. There's no inherent reason why education should be getting more and more expensive. With all the technology we have and the large pool of highly educated potential teachers[1] it should actually be getting cheaper or
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by Tycho 10y ago
This has got nothing to do with 'survival.' Nobody is going to starve because they didn't get a university degree. We're talking about relative status within a class system. More specifically menial jobs vs. nice jobs. N
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by Tycho 10y ago
There is a company that called CloudFactory that offers a distributed task platform for data science. Data wrangling manpower on-demand.

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