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by dlss 10y ago
> if giving up on gambling which you are not addicted to but find pleasurable saves a subset of the population that cannot control their own abuse of gambling, would you do it? This is a very interesting question, thanks for posting it
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by dlss 10y ago
> Just like Trump is (hopefully?) going to be a much more reasonable president than his campaign antics would lead you to believe Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean by reasonable here. I have to admit I'm rather worried that Trump
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by dlss 10y ago
The two best resources I'm aware of in this area are: * For designing psychology experiments: https://smile.amazon.com/Conducting-Research-Psychology-Meas... * For Bayesian modeling and inference: https://sm
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by dlss 10y ago
Cronyism in my understanding is essentially hiring friends who are unqualified for a given job. In this case, it looks to me like what's going on could better be described as not hiring otherwise qualified candidates who publicly denou
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by dlss 10y ago
> Why exactly am I meant to be comforted by the fact that the craven opportunists --- the lowest of the low of the Republican party [...] are getting the most important positions in the United States government for kowtowing to Trump? Tw
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by dlss 10y ago
I think his meaning was if you're looking to create new ML algorithms, rather than just apply the algorithms of others, you'll need C and C++. If you're just looking to apply the algorithms of others, or if you're 100%
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by dlss 10y ago
Ahh, okay. That sounds like evidence for the "randomly happen to see" hypothesis then.
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by dlss 10y ago
reading GP's comment history ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomaskafka ) I'm not seeing any comments other than this one with the text "shameless plug" (though I didn't look back very far).
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by dlss 10y ago
FWIW I come to HN for the comments, not really for the articles. I think maybe half of us use HN this way. This is to say that the platform approach has the advantage of allowing actually informed/skeptical/intelligent people to d
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by dlss 10y ago
Are there cheap NVMe cards? My only experience with NVMe is in the context of ~$250+ SSDs... which seems like an odd pairing with a $4 processor.
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by dlss 10y ago
I'm in love with my razer blade stealth. Same form factor, lower price, aluminum unibody, great screen, 7500U standard. Bezels are on the large size though.
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by dlss 10y ago
I think basically every thinking person comes to see democracy as deeply flawed in one way or another. The problem is I don't think anyone is aware of a better (non pie-in-the-sky) solution.
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by dlss 10y ago
If your CDN supports stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error, you should consider enabling them -- it will take the load on your servers from O(users * packages) to O(POPs * packages)
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by dlss 10y ago
> I suppose the article can be useful if you read it as, "What a YCombinator partner says they want to see from a pitch." Just don't confuse it for the real advise that will get you funded. This isn't it. I was taking
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by dlss 10y ago
> I've never had a company ask me "How would you sell this to someone else"? Have you? Do you actually state that question? Yes I absolutely ask that question, and have been asked this question. If you hang out around star
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by dlss 10y ago
> Would you take advice on how to fish, from a fish I think you were joking here, but holy crap yes I would take fishing advice from a fish (provided it was a human-level intelligent fish that spoke english... which if I'm following
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by dlss 10y ago
I did. The FAA power limit is a red herring. Perhaps an example will help: High res screens require more power to run, and more power to render for... which means you could also blame the FAA for Apple not using high res screens... except A
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by dlss 10y ago
If the FFA is to blame, how have windows laptops had 64gb of ram for over a year? http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/11/9129681/lenovo-skylake-xeo...
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by dlss 10y ago
Because in the windows market, surface isn't a laptop targeting video editors, game programmers, etc. It's a thin and light entry. Contrast with lenovo portable workstations which got 64gb over a year ago: http://www.th
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by dlss 10y ago
I think oh_sigh might have meant to say "the rate of extremely principled individuals seems higher in geeks vs non-geeks" -- which I think is true, even if the average rate of principledness is around the same for both groups. So
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by dlss 10y ago
> I disagree with those arguments or at least any extrapolation from those arguments towards broader gender inequity > you should see how unfair and, in fact, terrifying the domestic violence legal situation is for women Seems bad, th
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by dlss 10y ago
> You're still pushing a false equivalence. There are to a first approximation no non-hardcore MRAs. Feminism, on the other hand, is entirely mainstream. I think you're mistaking your experienced distribution for the true distr
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by dlss 10y ago
Yeah, in my limited experience, MRAs generally suck at distinguishing between feminism the ideology and feminism the concept, so they end up tripping over themselves trying to explain how they are for women's rights but also against fe
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by dlss 10y ago
> My point was mainly about your incorrect statement that feminist was to feminism what capitalist is to capitalism. They are not the same thing and thus any extrapolation about negative connotations is unlikely to be correct. Ahh, appar
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by dlss 10y ago
> Anyone who supports feminism, that is equal rights for women, are feminists, the noun. http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/07/social-justice-and-word... ... which is to say I feel like most people understa
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by dlss 10y ago
I'm really confused by your reply here. 1) I find it hard to believe you didn't understand what GP meant, even if he could have said it better. 2) sidestepping the issue of offending someone and instead arguing semantics isn'
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by dlss 10y ago
> that doesn't have any utility in describing the reality of the distribution of views on gender issues? The model was an attempt at describing what the mental states were, rather than the distribution of individuals over those stat
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by dlss 10y ago
Your above comment is dead, so I can't reply to it. Replying here: > The idea that MRA's and feminists are two ends of a single spectrum is one of those cognitive line-fitting traps we nerds fall into. While I'm all about
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by dlss 10y ago
I think you're talking at cross purposes. I sounds like your main problem is that you knew what to do, but forgot to do it. This is different from knowing what to do, but doing something else instead (an issue I am quite familiar w
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Dozens of suspicious court cases aim at getting web pages deindexed(washingtonpost.com)
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