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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
It boils down to this for me: > in the early days [of rocketry], everyone was a hobbyist The more your company resembles "the early days of rocketry" the more it might make sense to select for hobbyist energy, and substantive s
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
You're doing what midwits on here typically do — namely, manipulating words directly instead of translating words into a model (operationalizing terms), manipulating the model, and translating back to communicate. The logocentrism of t
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
DataCamp did nothing wrong.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> the assertion that "almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983" is patently false Excessively dismissive. It's not so patently false when you recall that applications on personal computers
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
If, as many have expressed, the political ground has shifted* beneath people's feet over time, such that yesterday's "progressive" is today's "centrist" or "neoliberal" (if not "cryptofasci
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
At face value this is undeniably true, but: 1. it's less so the farther `you` gets from the average HN reader 2. it smacks of (politically) motivated reasoning. The point of posting anything on here is to open discussion on it, not to
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
As a vendor of thought leadership, it's 100% in my interest to treat as exogenous the likelihood that my framework / best practice / etc will be implemented as I intend it to under ideal circumstances. As a consumer of though
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Indeed. Distributional effects are opportunistically elided. The substance of the piece is not much better than the headline in terms of addressing this.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Allyship for POC doesn't imply bias against white people. Sure, in theory. In practice, bias against whites exists, some of it catalyzed by woke ideology. (By woke logic) White-presenting people are really the only ones with stand
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
This was a very effective way to demonstrate the venality and homogeneity of techie PMCs. Unfortunately, donating that money to BLM is itself a manifestation of that venality and homogeneity. If only we could devise a way to get money from
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
It's relatively new. If it's any consolation, it probably won't last.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Answering for myself / at the level of the individual: yes. I don't want to work with white colleagues who are biased against non-white people. I have been in this situation at a very small startup. I wasn't the only person t
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
This is useful to see, thanks for sharing. It mirrors my own experience. I came into this profession with a lot of energy, enthusiasm, and an open heart. Then I had a couple of experiences that triggered "The Great Noticing" in me
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> isn't remotely as bad as it used to be, so it's not accurate to characterize it as a "descent". What a "so". There's simultaneously so much confidence and so much innumeracy packed into it. It's
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police. A minor but significant adjustment: Average black parents wor
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Think how much investment you have to make on a child's health care and education to make them into a highly skilled workforce. Let me fix that for you: Think how much investment you miss out on — investment in a child's educ
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
I see you, I hear you. Your perspective is valid.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
No mention of reducing population growth. There never seem to be anymore. The trajectory we're on is either toward ecological catastrophe or, if we manage to avoid that, a bimodal distribution of quality of life between an affluent few
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Agreed. "Change is good, actually" is vacuous.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Private schools are a bane to society. Perhaps. In the US, there's the small matter of the 14th Amendment.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Two observations: The first: > Please remember that I said "race realism" and not race realism. Here is what you said: >> Race realism is, by definition an extremist view. The second: > And understand that I'm not
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The political spectrum is a lot wider than most people realize in a US context. Generally when people use "left" and "right" without qualification they're describing shades of difference between what's essentia
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Soon, I hope. The less competition the better.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> that race and race science can be used to justify racism You are incorrect. If 'race realism' has taken on that meaning in some discursive communities, understand that there are other understandings of the term. Race realism
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> There is a difference between an academic dispassionately studying the subject and a man trying to harm other people by saying stuff like this There is indeed such a difference. Some clarifications: (1) That's not Hsu. (2) That&#x
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Get comfortable or get left behind. Yes. I understand the fear and loathing some people feel, but I've been watching this research area for the past decade or so — it might move around, but it's not being shut down.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
>> the fact that race is a social and cultural construction rather than some genetic reality > That is an absurd claim. Indeed. Idpol/woke ideology posits one outlandish race-realist conception of race to use as a strawman in
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The main thrust of "The Myth of American Meritocracy" is to extensively document the evidence for Asian quotas being in effect at elite schools. These are no different from the Jewish quotas put in place to keep out Jews in the la
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
I can't tell if it's ignorance or cynicism at work here. Let me fix your summaries: > In which he downplays racial bias in police shootings In which a guest on Hsu's podcast, psychologist Joe Cesario, presents in detail hi
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> why is eugenics a bad word It's not. It's purely media manipulation over the past few years that has some people conditioned to reflexively associate "eugenic" with creeping Nazism. Consider this, from 2005: https:

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