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by a_puppy 5y ago
I'm a guy who has, for my entire life, struggled to form romantic relationships. For a long time, I also struggled to form friendships. So I've spent quite a bit of time thinking about this, and here are my thoughts: The term &quo
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by a_puppy 5y ago
Hi. I'm a guy who has, for my entire life, had difficulty forming romantic relationships. For most of my life, I also had a lot of trouble forming close friendships. So this is a topic that is very personal for me, and please listen ca
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by a_puppy 6y ago
Reuters focuses on a few shocking cases, like Judge Les Hayes's treatment of Marquita Johnson -- which was truly awful! But it's important to keep this in perspective. Reuters' investigation found 5,206 cases where people wer
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by a_puppy 6y ago
Obviously, it's more important to help minorities than to avoid antagonizing people. But avoiding antagonizing people is still important, even if it's not _as_ important. So my point is that we should avoid _unnecessarily_ antagon
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by a_puppy 6y ago
You completely misunderstood me. I'm not saying "now's the wrong time to act". If the action is good (like firing white supremacists) then we should act now and keep acting until the problem is fixed. But firing innocent
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by a_puppy 6y ago
Racial inequality is a huge problem in the United States. If a few innocent people get fired, that's tiny compared to the injustice that Black people have suffered over the past centuries. So if fighting racial inequality means a few i
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by a_puppy 6y ago
> we have a police and prison system designed with illegal marijuana; that could shrink to 1/8th of it's size with relatively few changes in laws (drug law repeal, mandatory minimums, crime act) Really? Only about 18% of curren
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by a_puppy 7y ago
Whether a company is "rent seeking" vs. "value creating" has nothing to do with whether it's a pre-existing security or a startup. If investors put $1B into a company that manufactures commodity widgets, and the com
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by a_puppy 9y ago
The article is correct that machine learning doesn't remove bias. If the training data is biased, the output will be biased in the same way. But machine learning doesn't add bias, either. If the training data are unbiased, the out
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by a_puppy 9y ago
Whether IQ tests measure intelligence depends on how you define "intelligence". IQ tests measure ability to solve visual and/or verbal puzzles, and it's reasonable to call that a type of intelligence. I'm not saying
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by a_puppy 9y ago
On the one hand, the behavior she describes is unambiguously sexual harassment, and no well-meaning person would behave like "S" did by accident. On the other hand, I still remember Donglegate, so this trend towards more men being
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by a_puppy 9y ago
Thanks! I wasn't sure; I should have looked it up instead of guessing.
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by a_puppy 9y ago
You're thinking of a men vs. women power dynamic. But that's not a realistic power dynamic, because neither men nor women act as a block. (For example, 44% of female voters in the 2016 election voted for Trump!) The actual power d
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by a_puppy 9y ago
In most of the recent threads about investors hitting on founders, the HN discussion has focused on the fact that investors have power over founders. However, parts of this blog post seems to imply that hitting on someone in a professional
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by a_puppy 9y ago
I agree that dank memes in particular aren't particularly important, but I'm worried that the same attitudes and policies that lead to dank memes being banned are also leading to serious political speech being banned. Do you agree
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by a_puppy 9y ago
I agree that dank memes in particular are not worth fighting for. However, I think the same policies and attitudes that get dank memes banned are also suppressing serious political speech. And the suppression of political speech on college
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by a_puppy 9y ago
I disagree with your claim that there has never been a widespread norm. On university campuses in particular, there was a long-standing norm of tolerating radical and controversial opinions. If a large group of private universities all reta
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by a_puppy 9y ago
I'm arguing that it's insufficient to point out that Harvard is a private institution, because the exact same argument could be used to justify discrimination. You have to show how free speech and discrimination are different. I a
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by a_puppy 9y ago
If I understand correctly, you're pointing out that Harvard has a legal right to suppress its students' freedom of speech. I agree; I'm not arguing that Harvard has broken the law. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't
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by a_puppy 9y ago
And right now the entire university education industry is colluding to suppress certain types of speech; an incident like this could happen at most universities, not just Harvard. So why doesn't freedom of speech also deserve specific
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by a_puppy 9y ago
You stated the exception without justification. You need to give an actual argument for why discrimination should be an exception but free speech shouldn't. Free speech has historically been considered an extremely important right. In
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by a_puppy 9y ago
"People worried about womens' rights in the early 20th century should have realized that Harvard was a private university. If I held a party at my house and didn't want to invite you because you were a woman, you'd get
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by a_puppy 10y ago
I'm the author of the linked comment. I originally focused on state prisons because the article was about events in a state prison, so P(person did something bad|person is currently in state prison) was the relevant statistic. But let&
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by a_puppy 10y ago
In this context we're talking about P(person did something bad|person is currently in state prison), so the relevant statistics are the ones I cited. Your statistics would be relevant if we were talking about P(person did something bad
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by a_puppy 10y ago
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics [0], 52% of convicted felons in state prisons are there for a violent crime; 18% for property crimes; 18% for drug crimes; and 9% for public order crimes [1]. Violent crimes obviously harm someo
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by a_puppy 10y ago
I tend to think that monopolies are bad, whether corporations or unions. Local 14 is trying to be a monopoly. One of the best arguments I've heard for unions [0] is that a negotiation between workers and companies is usually very lopsi
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by a_puppy 10y ago
It sounds like there's a problem with the incentive structure for the company. Ideally, the threat of a lawsuit should incentivize the company to address the problem; but the HR department acted as though addressing the problem would
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by a_puppy 10y ago
This is mostly unrelated to the main topic of the article, but this paragraph caught my eye: > For example, Padavic et al. [20] found that the "work-family" narrative in business is an example of a social defense: people will s
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by a_puppy 10y ago
I think this is the function from the LastPass source code that's calculating the password strength: var p = function(b, f) { var a = 0; if ("" === f && "" === b) return 0;
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by a_puppy 10y ago
I've never cheated or taken non-caffeine stimulants. I haven't seen anyone around me cheat. As a TA grading other students' work, I caught three students cheating out of ~40 whose work I graded. I did see another student taki

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