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by ctrlp 5y ago
A dog is smarter than a 7-month old. Maybe dogs could drive cars after all.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
It doesn't seem counter-intuitive to me that understanding improves with time. Quite the opposite. It's odd that you think that. Why wouldn't our understanding deepen with time to reflect, more information, and with the unfol
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by ctrlp 5y ago
That is an out-dated depiction of Marxism.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Identity politics is a Marxist revolutionary movement. As Lenin pointed out, in the Revolution, morality is subsumed in politics and Revolutionary violence is not actual violence, or rather, it is not immoral. The is no mercy to be shown to
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by ctrlp 5y ago
If you love Gibson's prose I'm not sure what to recommend. Maybe you'd enjoy James Joyce, or Kerouac or Burroughs maybe. If you love fiction generally there are all the great novels to read.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
SF is a tough genre to swallow. If that's the question I can't offer you much without qualification. Gibson is a particularly egregious desecrator of English but only one. The genre gravitates to pulp. These are fantasy novels not
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by ctrlp 5y ago
You're missing the emotional maturity of a 13-year-old. It's craptacular dreck written by a hack with a febrile imagination.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Can someone be a literary genius and suck at writing? I guess so. Prescient? Inventive? Sure. But good lord his prose is turgid. A while back, I tried to read his 'best' books and all I could reason about their popularity is that
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by ctrlp 5y ago
`gron` is super useful for sed/awk manipulation of json data rather than writing a complicated `jq` script. Both are great, though.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
"Totalitalgorithms" (Totalgorithms?) captures the spirit of these algorithms. They seem like bugs but they're actually undirected, organic features of a total technocratic political system that is rapidly coming to dominate l
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Seems like a good candidate for a transpiler.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
This will become much more common. The accelerated adoption of surveillance tech in the past 20 years is terrifying. We are trending towards total surveillance, ML decision-making, centrally-controlled digital currency, domestic passports,
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by ctrlp 5y ago
NYT has become closer to state-run media in the past 5 years than I ever thought possible. But that more likely reflects my own naivete and lack of imagination about what the NYT is and represents rather than a major shift in its content (e
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by ctrlp 5y ago
My point is that in 2021 merely mentioning the name of Ivermectin is enough to set the political censors in motion. Try to post this same piece on Twitter or Facebook. I'm curious if they'd leave it up. A few weeks ago I'm ce
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by ctrlp 5y ago
The 2017 Nature article disagrees about its not being an antiviral. Who to believe? "Today, ivermectin is continuing to surprise and excite scientists, offering more and more promise to help improve global public health by treating a d
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Is someone testing for HN censors? This wouldn't make it far on Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Recently saw a pack of crows attack and kill one of a mockingbird pair. The mate tried to save it but was unsuccessful. The crow flew off with it in its beak and the rest of the crows joined it and tore the mockingbird to pieces. I see now
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by ctrlp 5y ago
There was a rumor that YT, FB, and Twitter have a deal with the Gov't regulators to leave them unregulated if they give a back channel of control to state censors. There were some leaked documents about internal government "partne
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by ctrlp 5y ago
It would be great to hear some inside baseball from some peers working on Youtube content moderation. Not just tech and policy, but whether there is any internal dissent about policy and who decides. Surely there are some on HN?
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Partisanship and old loyalties make it very hard for people to see the Democratic Party has changed dramatically in the past few decades. Dems used to be the party of the working class, now it's the party of the global elite. Used to b
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Could dissatisfaction with EU membership and the a pro-EU French media class play a part? Asking for a friend.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
You check all the boxes of having been very effectively propagandized by pseudo-State media. Don't give in. Think for yourself. It's not too late. There's the road to Damascus. Take it. Good luck.
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by ctrlp 5y ago
I keep seeing allsides.com recommended here but I don't get why people find it valuable. First, it locates things like NPR and BBC news services in the "Center" (whatever that is). I had radical leftist professors that would
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by ctrlp 5y ago
It's naive to assume that the US would enter into a hot war with China, or that war is the only way countries oppose one another. The most obvious way to 'punish' an uncooperative CCP would be through trade sanctions. If the
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Fauci emails reveal that Kristian Anderson originally raised concerns that it was a lab leak based on analysis of the virus before he was brought to heel by Peter Daszak. His later water-carrying for his GoF comrades was, I hope, the low po
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Even if it were true that "the public" would not accept an acquittal at trial (although they sure were quick to accept acquittal without a trial), what does that have to do with scientific investigation? If there were reasonable c
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by ctrlp 5y ago
That's not why people think the virus was made in a lab. The reason people think it was man-made have to do with strangely well-adapted protein sequences found on the virus with no known natural ancestors. Virus evolution requires host
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by ctrlp 5y ago
The lab leak was a valid hypothesis since early 2020 and credible scientists had been warning about the possibility of a leak, specifically from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, well before that. By April, there were long arguments with evi
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Time to update the old quote? 'Show me your AI and conceal your data structures, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your data structures and I won't need your AI.'
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by ctrlp 5y ago
Would you be ok with businesses refusing to serve accused/convicted criminals? How about illegal immigrants? If the standard is law-breaking does it meet the definition of non-discriminatory?

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