apsophus

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   by apsophus 9y ago

   > Maintaining and conserving things is the job of conservatives, not entrepreneurs, and conservatives resist change. I'm mystified by this. Why does maintenance have to be a 'conservative' thing? Probably 70% of software e
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   by apsophus 9y ago

   Except that the whole point of Hobbes's sovereign is that there can be only one, because in his system divided sovereignty leads to anarchy. So any other entity that looks capable of sharing aspects of sovereignty with government is a
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   Academia can't keep ignoring the social consequences of algorithms(mobile.nytimes.com)

   1 points by apsophus 9y ago|0 comments
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   by apsophus 9y ago

   You'll be fine. Yes, it's true that if you happen to have expertise in ML or a related field then your career prospects right now are looking good. But not having ML absolutely doesn't mean that your career prospects are bad.
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   by apsophus 9y ago

   Many things, from the Liberal government's new taxes on landed wealth in the 1910s, to the advent of democratic socialism and universal healthcare after the Labour party's victory in the 1945 election, to the 'Long Boom'
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   by apsophus 9y ago

   What if the mass is distributed in a ring surrounding the gyro at a distance? How would you distinguish between spinning versus mass in that case? General Relativity may seem counterintuitive, but experimentally it really does seem to be th