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by bllguo 5y ago
the blame-the-foreigners narrative has always sounded too convenient to be entirely true. People used to love saying this in California, when there clearly are so many other problems with housing like Prop 13 and zoning. Is there any data f
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by bllguo 5y ago
what a false dichotomy. 1. why does the US get to make this choice for others, and 2. the actual outcomes are nothing like this, name the countries the US destabilized that are now bastions of human rights. the track record is horrendous an
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by bllguo 5y ago
I just love how much more terse and fast it is, someone else linked a benchmark below. There's definitely a learning curve though. If you already think pandas is slow I think you'll be surprised how much more strongly you feel aft
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by bllguo 5y ago
maybe we are casualties of the vague definition of "data science," but in my experience numpy is too low-level for most of what I consider DS, and pandas/matplotlib are _much_ more central than sklearn or pytorch. Even if you
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by bllguo 5y ago
Blatantly holding themselves above any law, who does that remind me of.. We have done and continue to do more than our fair share of lying, cheating, and stealing. We metaphorically stacked the deck. You say "global conflict" - I&
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by bllguo 5y ago
Their way is _working_. No, Taiwan and South Korea and Hong Kong are not proof that democratic methods work. Calling Hong Kong under Britain democratic is wildly disingenuous. Taiwan and South Korea are only _very_ recently democratic. Argu
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by bllguo 5y ago
they want to dominate the world? shall we compare war involvement or record of foreign influence? this is literally a response to an American act of aggression to cut China off of access to chips. but we're the peaceful good guys?
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by bllguo 5y ago
well if this is the case then I will concede. I assumed getting a note is relatively trivial but I certainly appreciate my good fortune in life to not have to work menial jobs
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by bllguo 5y ago
i object to those methods but not the concept of appropriate thresholds did i miss your memo? work can be both essential and menial, they are orthogonal dimensions to me. if a task does not require specialized skills i will call it menial.
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by bllguo 5y ago
to be clear it said "bowel issues" in the headline. having to urinate 6 times is not something i imagine anyone would care about. it's certainly not what i had in mind.. the other thing is that again, this has to do with the
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by bllguo 5y ago
to me 6 times during working hours is frequent by any measure, but that's hardly the important thing here. there has to be a line somewhere. is 8 frequent? 10? there is some threshold X, what we care about most is the response to cross
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by bllguo 5y ago
i think the move is to respond to their facts with facts of your own, rather than implying that your position is obviously correct
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by bllguo 5y ago
yes, heaven forbid a country does what they want rather than what America wants. call me deluded and I'll just say the same to you.
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by bllguo 5y ago
absolutely maddening. The US has a network of military bases and armies spread across the world, interjects itself into the affairs of countries worldwide, is by far the greatest warmonger since WW2, are literally on the heels of a colossal
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by bllguo 5y ago
I remember reading that viewpoint in this essay: https://cyclingtips.com/2018/11/commentary-why-i-stopped-wea... there are some sources and studies linked. i.e. countries with the highest rate of helmet use also h
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by bllguo 5y ago
The US has had by far the most aggressive foreign policy in the last several decades. There's simply no contest. No matter what you think of China's track record, it is clearly focused on domestic control and internal security. A
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by bllguo 5y ago
are you being serious with that second link?
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by bllguo 5y ago
> Why should I care about them? We should obviously care about improving education, for the good of society as a whole, for innovation, for pushing the economy forward, etc. It's dumbfounding that this would even be asked, I'm
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by bllguo 5y ago
I suppose I wasn't clear, but I am referring to media coverage. What's weird is how people continue to view East Asia as some exotic strange place. We're all human and we should be promoting more cultural understanding. I&#x2
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by bllguo 5y ago
Japanese convenience stores have been a mined-out topic for _years_. Where is the coverage of the rest of Asia? Taiwanese convenience stores are actually more impressive imo, with a dizzying array of additional services. In China, the conve
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by bllguo 5y ago
"Avoid" being the operative word! Unfortunately we've chosen to slap on the suburbia band-aid that just introduces more negative externalities. Dense cities in Europe and East Asia are much safer _and_ score better on educati
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by bllguo 5y ago
Agreed. If we truly wanted them we would be willing to give up car ownership, single family homes, and suburban sprawl. I doubt that will ever happen in this hyper-individualistic culture. Hopefully it is uncontroversial by now to say that
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by bllguo 5y ago
so the conflicts the US instigated were inevitable, and the US might as well have gotten involved for its own benefit? I hope this is not what you're saying but it sure sounds like it is.
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by bllguo 5y ago
do point out how any of those countries have "interfered" externally compared to the American track record. We maintain an unprecedented network of military bases throughout the world. We destabilized South America, the Middle Eas
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by bllguo 5y ago
nobody disputes if it was (broadly) by design, it's whether the design is outdated and needs modernization. by the way, i actually really disdain founding fathers veneration, but two-party deadlock was infamously _not_ intentional. nei
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by bllguo 5y ago
Sure is easy to give ourselves a good grade when we're also the judges. Shall we discuss track records of interference in external affairs? How many foreign regimes have we toppled in comparison? Always disappointing to see such vitrio
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by bllguo 5y ago
the "international community" is dominated by an affluent western minority that had no qualms about pillaging the rest of the world for centuries with no regards for human rights. _This_ is the Chinese - no, the foreign - perspect
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by bllguo 5y ago
the methods are clearly not as explicit and the US tolerates more diversity of thought on a lot of topics, but it absolutely exerts control over ideas it deems important. it's pretty hard to come out of our education system thinking po
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by bllguo 5y ago
the fact that a conman with ties to organized crime and indebted to foreign governments could ever assume the highest political office in this country is a complete disgrace. he was _voted_ in! it scares me to think about what a more deviou
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by bllguo 5y ago
from a US perspective it is clearly a natsec concern, but Taiwan understands pretty much their whole value as an entity to the US is TSMC. As long as they depend on the US, they have to walk a fine line of giving enough away so that the US

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