brighteyes

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by brighteyes 8y ago
This is important information, but it's also easy to misinterpret, which I've seen a lot of on twitter. That alcohol has different impacts in different cultures certainly supports it not having a single "natural" affect
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by brighteyes 8y ago
The homeowners have much of the blame, you're right, but tech has made things worse by rapid job growth that contributed to rising rent costs.
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by brighteyes 8y ago
The headline probably wasn't chosen by the author, and is pretty bad. The minor headline is actually quite good: > Although there is merit in recognizing how we resemble our primate relatives, sometimes we need to understand what se
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by brighteyes 8y ago
It depends how you define "runtime", though. If you use Rust strings, you may get a large amount of code included to handle them. Also, if you use malloc, that adds a significant amount of code. It's true that languages like
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by brighteyes 8y ago
Sure, if they are equal on all objective measurements, your theory may be valid. But Asian-American students etc. have far better objective measurements than other groups, on average. So if you just break ties, as you suggest, you're n
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by brighteyes 8y ago
Colleges do have a significant amount of international students, but the high number is actually in part because they pay more for tuition - it's a good revenue source for colleges. The percentage rises and falls over time for related
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by brighteyes 8y ago
> there has to be some form of normalization for students whose parents/culture/childhood environment didn't value education. Why? Colleges are literally places of education. It doesn't seem odd that children who focu
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by brighteyes 8y ago
It's not really an edge case, though. Asian-American students should (based on merit alone) make up almost half of top colleges. I realize you probably didn't mean "edge case" as in "a small effect", but the ef
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by brighteyes 8y ago
Not sure what GP was referring to, but those issues are related. If Asian-Americans were 40% of Harvard (as they should be based on merit), instead of 17% (as they are now) then that would mean fewer spaces for everyone else. In particular,
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by brighteyes 8y ago
It wouldn't be 90%. It would be 40%, most likely, because that's what happens in California universities that don't have racial quotas. Even if it would somehow go up to 90%, and people viewed that negatively, why does that m
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by brighteyes 8y ago
>> There’s also been a shift due to online and apps that give women an unlimited choice of men while giving the majority of men nearly no choice > How can that be? Why would it be empowering for one gender but not the other? What w
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by brighteyes 8y ago
> there aren't many complaints that other compilers using LLVM are slow. Practically every VM that tried to use LLVM as a JIT gave up as it was too slow. WebKit eventually abandoned their LLVM backend and wrote their own, B3. JITs a
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by brighteyes 8y ago
On the one hand, I agree that most ISIS and other suicide bombers are also mentally ill. A sane, happy person does not just go blow up or shoot a bunch of people. Still, there are differences. The particular terrorist here was described by
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by brighteyes 8y ago
> Technology is the one career that has an optimistic future, isn’t beholden by regulation and credential inflation, and actually attempts to create some sort of meritocracy One the one hand, tech might have less regulation than others -
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by brighteyes 9y ago
Being jailed or otherwise detained for any amount of time, sure. But otherwise, working through the legal process wouldn't be something a regular employer knows about. You would have more errands to run than usual perhaps, that's
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by brighteyes 9y ago
Shift workers lives can be hard, but you're exaggerating that first part. Yes, the person would need to work around court proceedings, but those are known well in advance. The much bigger risk for getting fired as a shift worker is une
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by brighteyes 9y ago
> I suggest that by remaining in his position he took very few consequences, and that in almost any other walk of life a person with less privilege would automatically lose their job after being convicted of sexual assault. Is this actua
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by brighteyes 9y ago
Maybe GP misspoke with "wrong", but a valid point was raised there, maybe not in the clearest way: If you are trying to write a super-fast raytracer or game or some such, you will get the best results by writing SIMD manually. Oth
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by brighteyes 9y ago
> I wonder who exactly the opponents of sex-legalization are trying to "protect". Trafficking victims? They will be vastly better served by a well regulated workplace. The sex workers themselves? I think this article debunks th
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by brighteyes 9y ago
I didn't see that comment as excusing anything. I think we all agree Google should do as much as possible to improve results. But at the same time, if Google gets it right 99 times out of 100, the 100th is what will get an article like
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by brighteyes 9y ago
rayiner wasn't just bringing up Google vs other companies, though. rayiner was saying that there is a "coupled system" and Google just reflects external racism, and then Google's search results amplify racism. The articl
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by brighteyes 9y ago
It depends on your search history, actually. I tried "black girls", "white girls", "asian girls" - and also "asian boys" etc. - in various accounts, some of which were used when browsing porn (i.e., h
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by brighteyes 9y ago
You raise an interesting point, but the comment was about the article itself and the thesis in the article.
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by brighteyes 9y ago
Most studies in this area show correlations, things like corporate boards with more women on them do better. Yes, there are obvious limitations to such studies. Overall, we can probably safely say that 1. Too little diversity can be bad. Fo
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by brighteyes 9y ago
> What exactly is the intention behind this bill? Do they hope the demand for prostitution will drop, and thus trafficker revenues and incentives? That seems ridiculous, as demand for prostitution existed throughout human history and acr
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by brighteyes 9y ago
> I don't remember exactly which study it was, but there's evidence that in some cultures (IIRC China?) girls do better than boys at math. Nothing special about China there: girls do better than boys at math pretty much everywh
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by brighteyes 9y ago
> That makes me suspect that there's some other factor at play. That gender preferences explain much of the STEM gender gap is worth reporting on, as the article does, because it's not well known. That doesn't mean there a
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by brighteyes 9y ago
That makes it worse: if he's had a fascinating career (and sees it that way), but says that 99% of CS work is "just writing form fields" as he puts it then he's looking down on everyone else. I hope we can have more resp
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by brighteyes 9y ago
Yacob was a remarkable thinker, to be sure, but there is no reason to connect him to the Enlightenment: He didn't influence it, nor was he influenced by it, as far as we can tell. The only reason the article seems to connect Yacob to t
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by brighteyes 9y ago
Those two are different on very relevant aspects, though. Practically no one supports sexual assault. We abhor it, that's why the legal punishment for rape is so severe, why many lynchings of black men were about rape accusations, etc.

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