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by dvt 4y ago
You do realize there's a difference between the state killing as a punishment and an individual killing for sport , right? These are two different categories. To wit, it's obvious I was referring to the latter. There's act
902.
by dvt 4y ago
> Life in prison isn't a response? It is. Some people argue that it's actually a more harsh punishment than death, though. A lot of rich literature here. > calling confessions "incontrovertible" You're missing
903.
by dvt 4y ago
Nope, because the default, prima facia, position is that killing people is bad and causes pain and requires some kind of response. That's why arguing against the death penalty is actually quite hard. Especially when faced with incontro
904.
by dvt 4y ago
> Yeah it would definitely be less acute, still there every day, but less acute. Like most trauma. I hope you realize you are co-opting someone's pain for your own political or ethical brownie points. A lot of people are completely
905.
by dvt 4y ago
Short-sighted decision? Revue was basically DOA and Twitter did zero customer development since its acquisition. Shutting down Revue is probably the best decision he's made so far.
906.
by dvt 4y ago
> problems to solve like "find the maximum" and "find the relationship between these two variables" I think these are actually pretty abstract, so it's hard exactly to grasp what a derivative is until maybe Cal
907.
by dvt 4y ago
I totally understand your position, and I completely agree that integration is way more complex, often doesn't work, and very quickly gets you in the Gamma function danger zone, but I still think it should be taught first (maybe just l
908.
by dvt 4y ago
> That's literally everyone's job in investing. You think a pension fund or an ETF serves a different purpose? Yeah, if you completely ignore risk profiles. VCs have extremely high risk appetites and comparing them to pension f
909.
by dvt 4y ago
Starting out with integration makes so much more sense, and it's way more graspable from a geometric standpoint (what's the area under this line?) as opposed to the weirdness (and relative abstraction) of the derivative.
910.
by dvt 4y ago
> Now, founders will rationally devalue investments from a16z No, they won't. Non-profits were gladly taking donations from Pablo Escobar , and you're telling me startups are going to say "no" to early funding rounds
911.
by dvt 4y ago
Until Ripple v. SEC is settled, this is hypothetical.
912.
by dvt 4y ago
> Old school startup models lock up too much capital. I've gotten in debates here on HN before about this, but a VC's job is literally to multiply capital. Crypto has been extremely good for business (and, more key, for the n
913.
by dvt 4y ago
> The Y axis is the mean score of the team, but that score is not independent from the opposing team. The paper is garbage, but this is not true. All Y-axes are how they define "team performance" -- in the case of the FIFA stud
914.
by dvt 4y ago
> So I think the amount of resources and the level of inequality matter - not just inequality in general. Yep, I think I agree with this, although I've often seen stuff like "Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos/Mark Zuckerberg shoul
915.
by dvt 4y ago
> Because it's self evident. It's not self-evident, as there are plenty of counter-arguments, including the Chinese Empire, the Egyptian Empire, the British Empire, the Caste System in India (going strong for over 3 millennia
916.
by dvt 4y ago
Weird comment, as HN is not just a "tech news" site.
917.
by dvt 4y ago
Counterargument: if you had any pride at all, you would quit working for a glorified ad agency.
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by dvt 4y ago
> That begs the question, why do I want to be the most successful person in my field? I'm not sure how this begs any question. Some baristas work at coffee shops to make ends meet; others want to be the best at what they do and comp
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by dvt 4y ago
> It lets me be a bit more objective in a field that's prone to a lot of subjectivity and - like almost any field - pride and ego Unpopular opinion: pride and ego actually drive personal ambition, technological achievements, and hum
920.
by dvt 4y ago
I disagree on a number of levels, but especially because big tech valuations were propped up by QE over the past 10 years, Tesla being the poster child there. But Amazon, Google, etc. have all been impacted by macro elements. So that “TC” p
921.
by dvt 4y ago
I mean you’re a gen X-er, it makes sense that you have zero idea what people that graduated college in 2008 went through. For context, people that had degrees in comp sci were working as Best Buy’s Geek Squad. On the bright side, you timed
922.
by dvt 4y ago
Yep, a 9-5 has no risk, but no upside. In my humble opinion, a startup provides the best "balance" between risk and upside for those of us that come from lower or lower-middle class. I think your 7-year example is a bit contrived,
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by dvt 4y ago
That's even more of a no-brainer, as an average 9-5 has practically zero upside, so your net worth is likely to stay flat (if not even go down). We like to pretend that the /r/wallstreetbets or crypto people are crazy, but mo
924.
by dvt 4y ago
High failure rate ≠ high risk. Everything with a high upside will have a high failure rate, but working 10 hours on your own startup a week is definitely lower risk than gambling with options (which is what /r/wallstreetbets is do
925.
by dvt 4y ago
> Since you asked for it, my advise is to live well under your means, save aggressively, set goals, and never stop learning. If you want to challenge yourself, look into a concept called "early retirement." Good luck. Ah yes, g
926.
by dvt 4y ago
What a weirdly snarky comment (it's like your third one in this thread, maybe you need to take a breather). I wasn't comparing them, though there's an obvious stochastic argument to be made; I was just commenting on the forme
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by dvt 4y ago
> mainly that such a fundamentally simple technique is paying off with such crazy dividends I will concede that I am amazed by this. Even more generally, I'm even more amazed by Markov chains: an even simpler technique that can ge
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by dvt 4y ago
> this is not a linguist or a grade schooler, but a general purpose computer program This is sleight of hand. The training data almost certainly includes thousands of grade schoolers and linguists. Your argument seems to be that this is
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by dvt 4y ago
I know everyone's (as usual) "amazed" by this, but here are a few stark observations: (1) a linguist could do this (come up with a toy language, conjugations, and sentence structure, probably the Python code too) in like 30 m
930.
by dvt 4y ago
> I did a cog sci degree and I saw Searle as a troll I have a philosophy degree and smart people still very much take him seriously. If not him, take a look at Nagel or Chalmers. I think that his idea† that conscious experience is non-co

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