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by blast 5y ago
SPJ was the driving force behind the feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/podcast/advancing-e... , so I don't think that is true.
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Turning the tables on chess cheating?(rjlipton.wpcomstaging.com)
34 points by blast 5y ago|25 comments
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by blast 5y ago
That's not the argument. Nobody's pretending that propositional logic can decide this. It's a question of how to weight empirical evidence. Some people think it's relevant that a new coronavirus emerged next door to a la
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by blast 5y ago
Question to wyager or anyone else about that second point: what are some examples of political changes that people think were caused by protests, but in reality were already in development before the protest started? Also, who are the best-
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by blast 5y ago
> It's not okay to just say that only the old, fat, and vulnerable are at risk of dying so why should everyone else have to take all these precautions? The lack of empathy is staggering. You're not representing the article fa
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by blast 5y ago
> I'm still surprised that he was hired by Apple (one of the world's most secretive companies), after disclosing so many secrets of a former employer. That's a good point that hadn't occurred to me before. It would
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by blast 5y ago
Sometimes people say that kind of thing out of shame, for example if they feel humiliated and are trying to make the humiliation stop by agreeing with the person shaming them. Such statements should not be taken as factual confessions. I do
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by blast 5y ago
Your story doesn't sound that different from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27400221 , tbh, other than the driving 100 miles and the Trumpian bits, which aren't relevant to the ethical question. It seems to m
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by blast 5y ago
I'm surprised at how dismissive the comments are. We need many angles of defense against these criminals. Dismissing this because companies should do better security is like dismissing doctors because people should get more exercise. T
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by blast 5y ago
In case anyone else is confused like I was, "WEIRD" here stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic.
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by blast 5y ago
Yeah that Uber thing struck me as false too. It was obviously a ride-hailing app and provided a superior service to what existed before. The self-driving thing came up later and was always a sideshow. I suppose it helped them raise money bu
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by blast 5y ago
I recently watched this video of Maciej making the same points on CNBC. Not bad for TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igOmWeHMunw
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by blast 5y ago
Maybe it means higher risk-reward than average?
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by blast 5y ago
We're in a weird space that previous models don't map very well to. For example, the legal system doesn't map because virtually none of the things people are doing on social media are illegal, and probably shouldn't be.
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by blast 5y ago
I bet this is a side effect of the internet and especially social media. Rapid spread of ideas/memes creates large zones of homogeneity, sort of like the fill-colour operation in paint programs. Suddenly we have "tribes", but
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by blast 5y ago
Wait, Seymour Cray never dug a tunnel under his house? Damn.
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by blast 5y ago
That's not exactly accurate, because his book was obviously modeled on the 'gonzo' journalism of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, and that sort of writer from the 70s. Those writers mixed fiction and fictional devices into t
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by blast 5y ago
There could be many reasons for silence, such as not wanting to be bullied into saying something, no matter how true it is. In some situations, that might be the nobler option and could take a lot of courage.
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by blast 5y ago
It predates Monty Python: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Yorkshiremen_sketch . But Python did it best.
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by blast 6y ago
The article explains why having a rational explanation is not enough. You may not agree but it's not as if the point is unaddressed.
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by blast 6y ago
Considering that the topic is "men clamming up" I don't think that's a fair criticism. The author has a right to choose what her topic is.
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by blast 6y ago
> If you say things that are not sexist nobody will accuse you of sexism The article is all about how that is, unfortunately, false.
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by blast 6y ago
Did you think the article was deriding men for not being candid? It didn't seem that way to me. In fact it seemed like she had the opposite intention.
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by blast 6y ago
You're not entirely wrong, but you're more wrong than right. For example, yes, a good paying SV job involves spending a lot on rent, but nowhere near "most of it"...very much the opposite. Yes there are issues, but it&#x
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by blast 6y ago
People have been saying that since at least the 80s.
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by blast 6y ago
Portland isn't that different from California.
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by blast 6y ago
Free speech and censorship are issues that go far beyond just the First Amendment. This has always been the case, and recent efforts to narrow the scope of the term are actually part of the battle to reduce free speech (and increase censors
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Shortformer: Better Language Modeling using Shorter Inputs [pdf](ofir.io)
64 points by blast 6y ago|6 comments
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by blast 6y ago
I love Wilde but that sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credo_quia_absurdum .
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by blast 6y ago
What can he do in two months? If the military industrial complex can hold on for 20 years they can surely manage another few weeks. It would be interesting to understand the intricacies of why Trump was unable to do anything about this befo

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