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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> He's a hack In the same sense of "hack" used in "Hacker News", sure, perhaps. A pattern that's repeated itself multiple times in the history of science is mathematicians and theoretical physicists showing
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Race realism is less of an extremist view than you seem to think it is (in that it's not an extremist view). Whether one infers extremist views from that position is another matter entirely. There are multiple ways of operationalizing
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Yes, the state of the art is to use social agitation to delegitimize an inconvenient argument altogether. It's as true in the academy as in politics — indeed the former is an extension of the latter.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The SPLC has zero credibility, it's a grift. This is the group that labeled Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali hateful extremists. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/28/morris-de...
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
It's outlandishly tendentious. This is a moral panic. People are uninformed, and the media is being used keep people perpetually afraid of an imaginary fascist threat. Here's The Economist in 2005 on Ashkenazi intelligence, for ex
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
For his sake, I hope you're right. But there have been one or two notable personnel changes at the NYT since that piece on the rationalists, and we're in the midst of a moral panic / cancellation frenzy.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Alexander is probably next up for cancellation. The scuttlebutt is that [the empty shell of] the NY Times has a hit piece on him in the works.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
the other side: https://twitter.com/gradempunion/status/1270829003130261504 laughable stuff. not just sad but seriously and broadly concerning that this kind of uninformed knee-jerk response gets taken seriously
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Decent starting point: https://infoproc.blogspot.com/2020/06/twitter-attacks-and-de...
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> when an article starts out with a blatant lie, there's not much point in reading past that. That's interesting, elaborate on that some more.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
It's quite beside the point what anyone claims. The claim you're objecting to is about the lockdown policy, not claims about the lockdown policy. More specifically: its substance and impact, not the rhetoric or stated intentions a
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Jay Z, Kanye, Drake. Is that supposed to be substantive?
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
The social incentives involved aren't constrained by the good intentions of this article's author or anyone else. There are some places where renaming master/slave would, if anything, be a syntactic enhancement. But the incen
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Indeed. I'm glad people are fixing racism (read: assuaging their white guilt) by renaming things instead of agitating for health care reform (or, closer at hand: for interview process reform). Why it's almost as if this is all a d
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
This is more sensible than people in this thread seem to think. The company emitted a signal about how they reach decisions — you can debate the strength of it but it makes sense to update one's priors accordingly. Hey, path dependence
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Developing inside a container isn't worth the friction to me. I know my environment well, and I'm invested in continuing to maintain that knowledge.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
I deleted my profile with these people over a year ago, yet I got this email too. Hmm...
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
I think the word you're reaching for is "populace"
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
this is quite off the mark. the author sets the bar too low for himself by criticizing the most easily (and to be fair legitimately) dismissed criticisms of the Imperial College model. here's a better laid-out critique that the OP does
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
It's a pretty lazy assumption to assume that assumption. Why not set the bar higher for oneself?
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> The "moral failing" of society is the inability to provide for those who are hungry, under-housed, sick, not sex work. Is that not exactly what the OP said? You cannot in one breath be performatively outraged at someone'
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers Tim Bray says the company has become 'toxic' and the firings are 'designed to create a climate of fear.' https://www.vice.com/e
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
I'm honestly surprised it was a woman behind Head First books because the aesthetic of the series (in particular, the covers featuring a cute white or asian girl looking up toward the reader supplicating pose) seemed (and seem) like a
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying. > So people can intuitively check some version in between and do bisect that way, exploiting their knowledge to cut some steps If you have a hypothesis you hold with enough weight to validate, bisecting in general
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> Learning git bisect starts being worth it Worth what ? The time invested to learn it? It takes 15 minutes to learn, conservatively. More charitably, if you mean the time and energy required to modify one's habits: they're go
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> seems most CI systems actually test the merged code The thrust of your point is right, though. CI tests the merged squash-commit after it's already on master, so you can still get into states where you have a failing build on mast
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
> GitHub and GitLab (and bitbucket) all support the ability to enforce this as a policy on a repo. Relatively recent feature additions, it should be noted > Of course not, because that would be silly. No, actually — see the preceding.
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Higher level tooling doesn't prioritize this. That's an excellent point. It's deep in the DNA of GitHub, unfortunately. I'm always reminded of this contrast: > Look, I don’t give two shits about my Git commits. [..
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
100%. Apparently relatively few have experienced the power of `git bisect run`. More than once I've had to explain that no, this isn't just some idiosyncratic aesthetic preference, there's a reason your version control toolin
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by bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Agreed. Branches should be short-lived, anyway. If you need a long-lived pointer to a commit, use a tag. I love the "naming branches for modern git workflows" in the subtitle... You wouldn't want to be the odd developer out

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