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by bllguo 7y ago
Yes, the vast majority of US citizens aren't getting brutalized by the police. Similarly, the vast majority of Chinese citizens are not being jailed or re-educated. You can't just compare the US population at large to the subset o
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by bllguo 7y ago
Okay? And the US is a place where I can get brutalized, shot, and killed by the police based on.. nothing. The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Chinese citizens are living lives thinking and worrying about the same kinds of t
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by bllguo 7y ago
as a counterpoint, plenty of R folks are pretty happy doing all of that in Rstudio
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by bllguo 7y ago
> time-consuming, micro-managed 4X games that feel more like work than fun pretty much covers Stellaris. It might have been salvageable if the world were interesting, but despite all the ways they let you customize your faction I never f
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by bllguo 7y ago
imo as someone who does ds & analytics and has deployed prod models: meets business-defined specs, is maintainable, requires little to no support. everything else falls underneath tbh i dont think this is something you learn in school,
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by bllguo 7y ago
your data is _not_ valuable per se. it only becomes valuable when aggregated.
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by bllguo 7y ago
I don't think it's worthwhile assuming this level of malice.. Ultimately we choose models that are the most performant. Interpretability is just a nice bonus. I can assure you that I am held accountable for my model performance re
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by bllguo 7y ago
huh? assuming that this preference is true, clearly the argument would be that Asians are harmed. most couples are intra-racial.
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by bllguo 7y ago
racism can be "better" now overall, yet also be present in forms that make the absence of black fathers more prevalent than in the 60s.
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by bllguo 7y ago
ok.. and if one weren't military personnel? The original comment seemed to be raising some kind of unspecified fear about this in general, not just for a small segment of the population who frankly should know better.
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by bllguo 7y ago
on the shiny note - check out streamlit. declarative python equivalent. it's pretty incredible how easy it is to use
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by bllguo 7y ago
this is not a very persuasive tack though. what approach hasn't collapsed upon itself over time?
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by bllguo 7y ago
facial recognition is a particularly weird example too. the data is skewed from the onset when your image sources are pretty much all han chinese. This has already been a problem in the west with most photos being of white people, but china
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by bllguo 7y ago
the electronics markets are overwhelming in size and quantity. imo either try to have an idea of what you're looking for, or be prepared to spend a few days to absorb it all. don't get me wrong, that's my idea of fun, but it
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by bllguo 7y ago
it's all preference in the end. I enjoy my mechs but I'm partial to shallow keys too. actually low-profile switches are becoming more of a thing - see the kailh chocs. still very niche though.
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by bllguo 7y ago
just as much a laugh to deify the original writers of the constitution. do you really think we havent learned anything since? and why are you talking about average programmers being involved in this hypothetical process? i have no doubt we
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by bllguo 7y ago
people are too prone to anthropomorphizing companies. capitalism in two words: incentive alignment. people should really never be expecting business decisions to be motivated by morals.
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by bllguo 7y ago
HK is largely cantonese but not all cantonese are from hong kong. let's use accurate language
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by bllguo 7y ago
China's decisions are easy to understand if you grok the underlying motives. HN should know better than most how things become more difficult at scale. Governance at China's scale is a different beast. Clearly the way the CCP is t
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by bllguo 7y ago
unfortunately it's woven into the fabric of the country. american culture simply has a fundamentally broken relationship with government
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by bllguo 7y ago
as always, it boils down to you being in the minority. This kind of thing has been a/b tested to death.
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by bllguo 7y ago
Of course it's possible to distinguish being against the CCP and being against China! But it's equally as naive and disingenuous to claim that none of the anti-China attitudes in the US are rooted in xenophobia. You can't ser
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by bllguo 7y ago
interesting, but what a terrifying job that would be. dealing with life-or-death scenarios all day long. and the liability questions would become even more complex
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by bllguo 7y ago
but who uses the desktop web interface? don't dropbox users use the desktop app?
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by bllguo 7y ago
I wouldn't use it that way myself, but at the same time the intended meaning is clear as day to me from the context. I'm surprised by the reactions. "Enemy" should give it away immediately.
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by bllguo 7y ago
You _absolutely_ should have an awareness of culture and history in order to offer meaningful criticism. Flip it around with gun control.. The rest of the world by-and-large does not agree with American gun policy. But how seriously are Ame
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by bllguo 7y ago
I don't see.. I genuinely believe that people should not be so eager to form opinions, that issues are always more complex than they seem, and that people should be mindful of the consequences. That's what the quote means to me at
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by bllguo 7y ago
what is the rationalization for why that quote is so terrible to you?
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by bllguo 7y ago
seems to me a16z has been taking quite a bit of reputational damage recently..
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by bllguo 7y ago
congrats! that's pretty impressive. i'm just skeptical this could be achieved at scale.. data _analyst_ is a different story

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