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by cirgue 9y ago
> being noisy accomplishes a little And a bunch of people being noisy accomplishes a surprising amount, if you can be noisy in the right channels.
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by cirgue 9y ago
You misunderstood my question: What should the ultra-wealthy, who exist in the here and now and will not be evaporating overnight, do if they feel like helping other people?
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Charity is problematic too, though. It's subject to the whims of the wealthy, and worse it's damaging to the dignity of recipients - it denies them agency in their own well-being. What would you have the ultra-wealthy do? Giv
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by cirgue 9y ago
UBI is an enormous boon to anyone who's business is directly sensitive to consumer's disposable/discretionary income. Bezos is the textbook definition of such an actor.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Claiming that you believe the earth is flat is definitly not the weirdest lie that's ever been told in pursuit of funding.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Yes. You don't know what kind of discussions are going on behind the scenes. It could be that they say "I am for this" in public, but in private they are one policy concession away from voting no. Also, it takes like 5 minute
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by cirgue 9y ago
Except we're not bingeing on knowledge, we're binging on text. Knowledge requires construction and interaction.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> No treatment -- drug, government policy, 'planning' -- can benefit all people. This is the fundamental problem that any just political systems seeks to solve. No policy will ever benefit everyone, much less benefit them equa
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by cirgue 9y ago
Pay-per-impression is a hell of a drug.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I've been manipulated into liking broadband because it provides the internet faster than dialup. You weren't manipulated. Manipulating you into buying broadband would entail creating the artificial perception that broadband i
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by cirgue 9y ago
Social media is to socialization what candy is to food: It's enjoyable and healthy in moderation, but it is amazingly bad for anyone, especially kids, in large quantities. It also doesn't fulfill any fundamental human need that c
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by cirgue 9y ago
> a society where tolerating an insult broadcasts that you can be taken advantage of, with no repercussions. Do you not think this is part of the constellation of social ills of honor killings?
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I have seen numerous people with engineering background getting into political science, history, even opera singing! I hardly ever met someone who studied humanities becoming an engineer. Hi, now you have. I did a double major in polit
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by cirgue 9y ago
I mean, it seems like there are definitely some racist assholes working at Tesla just like everywhere else. The difference between those people 'getting it' and 'not getting it' is the set of norms, customs, and values o
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by cirgue 9y ago
High stress, ultra-competitive workplace culture brings out the worst in people. This is not exactly a secret.
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by cirgue 9y ago
I had completely forgotten about this. It makes me sad to read, because it seems like the culture of the tech industry has gone whole-hog on "sterile happytalk that insults the intelligence of markets". Machine learning on the blo
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by cirgue 9y ago
Remember that everyone feels a little awkward meeting new people, and the first aim of small talk, before any other consideration, is to make the other person feel at ease. It's about them, not about you. You also have to have the cour
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by cirgue 9y ago
Aum Shinrikyo actually had a bio-weapons program that failed, seemingly due to a lack of technical expertise: http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/revisiting-aum-shinriky...
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by cirgue 9y ago
If programming is wizardry, things written in Excel are definitely necromancy: the end result is shambling, hideous, and unnatural, but for certain things it gets the job done.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> And yet we really don’t seem to care much. Most people do not have any concrete notion about what management engines are. People weren't that skeeved out by Alexa, and that was a pretty easy-to-understand system. There's no w
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by cirgue 9y ago
This feels so dirty, but these kinds of tricks work. Your stakeholders get to participate in the titillating fiction that they are on the bleeding edge of technology, and you get to deploy a scalable, explainable, and (hopefully) high-perfo
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by cirgue 9y ago
> dead-simple algorithms The most successful models I've ever built have been logistic regression models. If you can rephrase your problem in a way that's amenable to run-of-the-mill statistical techniques, you can frequently a
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by cirgue 9y ago
I work on a machine learning team that has gone through the exact same process. As others have noted, the biggest change for us was cultural. If you send me a message I would be happy to chat about it.
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by cirgue 9y ago
>What I do know is that I have been born into a time where I have the most access to knowledge of any human civilization ever. You have more access to text, not necessarily knowledge. Knowledge requires active construction through applic
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by cirgue 9y ago
I think there is something to the notion that we have for the time exhausted the low-hanging fruit produced by smartphone market penetration. There are still plenty of good and potentially extremely lucrative startup ideas, but the untapped
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by cirgue 9y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no".
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I think being an asshole hurts you more than is helps you as you get richer. As a product of private school: my experience is yes and no. There are certainly some behaviors that hurt your success, and there are plenty of extremely succ
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Pretending to be neutral is a huge issue, because it means as a person you can't see your own biases. There is a difference between making an effort to remain as unbiased as possible and pretending to not be biased or partisan. Th
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by cirgue 9y ago
> In the media world, AOL was just starting to become as feared as Microsoft was broadly when they purchased Time Warner. That completely shook the media landscape. This, and their 'walled garden' vision of consumer internet wa
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by cirgue 9y ago
Captains of industry become robber barons. The same thing happened with Microsoft, AOL, and Oracle.

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