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by cirgue 8y ago
I feel like a huge number of people have completely forgotten about what they learned in high school history like the corrupt bargain, the guilded age, westward expansion or really any number of other absurd things that have happened in thi
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by cirgue 8y ago
What a bad headline. Google employees are protesting the really crappy way that the company handles claims of sexual harassment. To say this is about individualism is trivializing to the point of being irresponsible.
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by cirgue 8y ago
We hire the top 5% of applicants. This says a lot about our applicant pool. It says very little about our team. No one here is from a top program. Many don't even have CS degrees.
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by cirgue 8y ago
By that measure, all of human society is a cult.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Genocide is the systematic dismantling of an ethnic identity. It doesn’t definitionally include killing.
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by cirgue 8y ago
NBextensions and doing mostly data analysis in notebooks then building actual code in a text editor. I would do this even if notebooks had perfect intellisense support.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Re #1: There's a plugin in nbextensions that shows variable values a la spyder.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Just because profiling someone based on their skin color or gender is less bad for some groups than for others doesn’t in any way make it less wrong to do. I understand the argument for focusing more on profiling minorities, but profiling w
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by cirgue 8y ago
Sample of one, but I would be willing to pay roughly $20 per year for this service if it were updated a few times a month.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I wouldn’t characterize stack overflow as a delivery mechanism for ads in the same way that, say, YouTube is. Content creators on stack overflow aren’t there to make money by driving page views. (Rather, the mechanism driving page views is
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by cirgue 8y ago
I think the easiest heuristic is this: is the platform a delivery mechanism for advertising? If so, bad screen.
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by cirgue 8y ago
In the US, forging/stuffing to the point that it matters in any regional election, to say nothing of national elections, is sufficiently hard that it is literally easier to outspend your opponent in advertising in the race.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Clickbait about capitalism serves capitalism.
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by cirgue 8y ago
Feature request: an ad that asks me to rotate my device (bonus points if it does it for desktop users too).
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by cirgue 8y ago
> "You never meet an American who's not wealthy. They're all just temporarily cash strapped." Not that I disagree, but as a counterpoint: Nearly everyone I know who is financially successful (and didn't inherit a
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by cirgue 8y ago
They were right. Both video games and TV are pretty shit ways to spend time. I have never in my life thought “damn, I’m really glad I spent my Saturday playing halo instead of doing something else”. Video games and television are mental and
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by cirgue 8y ago
I think the point was more that if you wander into a discussion where you already agree with everything being said, your contribution is comparatively less valuable than if you're in a discussion where you disagree.
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by cirgue 8y ago
As has been noted elsewhere on HN, helicopter money isn’t actually that non-conventional: tax breaks/rebates are a pretty standard way to goose the economy, but you’re right in that anything past that is sort of terra incognita in the
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by cirgue 8y ago
Agreed. All ‘commons’-style games are inherently iterative to infinity from the point of view of most actors, and that has game-theoretic implications that aren’t really present in a lab, to say nothing of the fact that communication is a c
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by cirgue 8y ago
> Health care is a mess but blaming say, insurance companies in particular, is problematic. I think this attitude is the key problem: fuck blame. Seriously, who cares? There absolutely are concrete things we can do about healthcare and
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by cirgue 8y ago
No one wants to be sold to. Not a single person in the world. There's a reason used car salespeople are the universal object of derision: no one wants to interact with someone that wants something from them and is willing to obfuscate,
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by cirgue 8y ago
Also, 'no pain no gain' only really applies once you've blown out all the beginner cobwebs and have a solid base of athleticism. Until you're comfortable cranking out a 5-k without stopping and without feeling spent (or
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by cirgue 8y ago
The dismal science has earned the name many times over: no one wants to read a long-winded epistle on the relationship between bond yields and non-farm employment in Alabama between 1993 and 1998, and that's where a lot of the interest
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by cirgue 8y ago
NC has always been like this. It’s not just hipsterism.
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by cirgue 8y ago
> "Sometimes good words and good aspirations get tarnished with history, and need to be set aside" Every word, every ideal, and every good intention becomes tarnished by history. Humanity is not a perfect phenomenon: it is deep
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by cirgue 8y ago
Connecting the future outcome you want with your present experience. Running when it’s 40 and rainy sucks to start, but after your warmed up and for the rest of the day you will be glad to have done so. Starting definitely sucks, but if you
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by cirgue 8y ago
Friends close, enemies closer. The UN has a long history of trying to promote human rights through engagement because it is generally more successful than the alternatives. Trying to overlay interpersonal morality onto geopolitics leads to
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by cirgue 8y ago
Twitter is the collective thoughts of humanity when we're on our boring train commute, at home in our underwear at 2:00 am alone in our apartments, trying to waste time at work, in line at the supermarket, and in myriad other situation
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by cirgue 8y ago
a) Most people here probably don't actually know their IQ scores, and claiming that most of the people here are >120 iq is silly. No one has any way of knowing that. b) Most people here also probably know people who are every bit as
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by cirgue 8y ago
Only about half my office got one. Anyone know what that's about?

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