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by bbctol 10y ago
So you have a problem with saying "we should hire more women," but you don't have a problem with women being given jobs because they are women? I am literally just confused. Do you think women are being given jobs that should
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by bbctol 10y ago
So you're saying we live in a culture that arbitrarily benefits white men, and thus it would be unjust to not arbitrarily benefit them.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I don't think favoritism is responsible for all of men's achievements or actions? I don't see how that's even relevant? You were suggesting in the top comment that women are being given jobs because they are women (rathe
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'd say classical statistics lets you deduce, based on some knowledge that something is the case, the probability of an event. It doesn't let you induce the probability of something being the case (that's why we have all this
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's unfortunate if you don't have a white man's name...
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by bbctol 10y ago
So it's not "Wimmin' are takin' our jerbs!" it's "Women are taking our jobs." Seriously, I don't see the distinction being made here.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Well, it's less of a conundrum in the case of the die because it's easier to estimate the priors. That's the power and difficulty of using Bayesian reasoning; you need some estimate of how likely something is to be true befor
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm confused as to why you think Hacker News would have a front page article on garbage workers. There are large gender gaps in waste management, as there are in programming, and there are initiatives to reduce those gaps, including ac
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by bbctol 10y ago
I'm confused... do you think that people of different genders and skin colors are less likely to share your passion? If not, then what's the point of this post?
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by bbctol 10y ago
I try to be skeptical about these sorts of explanations, but that might just be to stave off paranoia. What will be the amphetamines/leaded glass/DDT of today? Will future generations look back and say "of course the early 21
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by bbctol 10y ago
Perhaps we do! How do you know that your autonomic nervous system isn't consciously regulating your breathing, digestion, and heartrate, blissfully unaware of the less important unconscious processes that acquire food and move about. (
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by bbctol 10y ago
Tristan Harris is a fascinating guy and I largely agree with the concerns he lays out... but I really wish this article had answered the question posed. A Hippocratic oath for product designers simply won't work; the only reason it wor
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by bbctol 10y ago
Well... I'd say by definition, only science fiction can present any view of the future, optimistic or not. There are tons of great movies and books about the present and past that are uplifting and optimistic, and certainly plenty of i
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by bbctol 10y ago
The Baroque Cycle seems like it was a ton of fun to write, much less so to read.
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by bbctol 10y ago
For full access to the twitter archive, they are, though a lot of data can be gleaned from what's publicly posted.
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by bbctol 10y ago
A lot of philosophers really are quite funny; David Hume could be particularly sarcastic, especially when discussing religion.
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by bbctol 10y ago
To be fair, since the referendum didn't pass, Santos' legacy is also pretty up in the air
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's... everyone has heard the phrase "correlation does not imply causation." Of course I understood what you meant. Please do not condescend this much (again, I can't tell if your explanation of why this can be over
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by bbctol 10y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if this is some even deeper level of condescension.
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by bbctol 10y ago
What was the substance? You said you were throwing a wrench into the cogs of a brain that only mindlessly repeated things. OP wasn't mindlessly repeating, but bringing up a valid point, albeit not going into as much detail as I'd
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by bbctol 10y ago
Whereas your comment was substantial, respectful, and made you look great.
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by bbctol 10y ago
This may either calm or further motivate people concerned about the issues with replicability in science, the current "reproduction crisis" in biology and psychology. Scientific progress today is certainly messy, slow, filled with
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by bbctol 10y ago
How so?
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by bbctol 10y ago
I am sure that kids of today will have similar nostalgia for the memes of their youth.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, I had thought this was just a fun way to organize a set of CS learning materials, but this guy seems to both 1) be very certain this will work, which is no guarantee even if the learning program is perfect, as there's obviously m
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by bbctol 10y ago
Surely there are enough negatives surfacing about Holmes and Theranos in general that... while firing the CEO may admit that they had been a bad judge of character, not firing her indicates that they still are .
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yes, it is. Does that mean it can't be bad?
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by bbctol 10y ago
And it's become a remarkably good way for those people you want to know to reach out to individuals. I know a couple up-and-coming rappers who got some buzz and found their idols casually reaching out to chat on twitter.
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by bbctol 10y ago
The paper seems to essentially say the peak will remain near 115, and the average will never exceed. Obviously, some people will live longer than 115 years, but we'll never expect to regular see our oldest exceed that.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Sure, but philosophical musings on the nature of free will aside, there's a practical worry about the amount of power a private company has over your actions. I'd rather be ordering burgers because they taste good than because a c

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