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by evilturnip 8y ago
>In other words, if Mike and Drew have the same SAT scores and apply to the same colleges, but Mike gets into Harvard and Drew doesn’t, they can still expect to earn the same income throughout their careers. I've read that SATs are
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by evilturnip 8y ago
Neil Degrasse Tyson, Laurence Krauss and Michael Shermer have all been accused of sexual misconduct. What’s up with the New Atheists?
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JavaScript in 2018 – The State of Developer Ecosystem by JetBrains(jetbrains.com)
3 points by evilturnip 8y ago|0 comments
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by evilturnip 8y ago
I'll also put my tinfoil hat on, since I've had a long fascination with anamolous phenomenon. I still think the jury's out on what exactly is going on, but one thing that's consistent worldwide is that balls of light ar
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by evilturnip 8y ago
I don't know much about AI, but I wonder what AI people think of this theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_cognition The idea being that if we want to replicate strong AI, it needs to be embodied, becaus
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by evilturnip 8y ago
She did, she founded Technical Illusions with a fellow Valve employee when they were fired from Valve. It was a AR bid. They raised millions of dollars but eventually shut down.
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Ask HN: What was your worst screw-up at work?
6 points by evilturnip 8y ago|6 comments
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by evilturnip 8y ago
Depends on your connection to their datacenter. They have a West Coast and an East Coast. I live near NYC so I connect to their NJ datacenter. With my fiber optic, I get about 4-6ms.
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by evilturnip 8y ago
I'd use Shadow for game streaming. Cheaper, unlimited stream time for a fixed monthly fee and the service is actually faster. https://shadow.tech/usen/
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by evilturnip 8y ago
The main reason I use DuckDuckGo is when I want to search for more controversial topics that Google decides to filter how they want. When I search on DuckDuckGo I know I'm not having that filter imposed on me.
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by evilturnip 8y ago
If by 'harmful' speech you mean conspiracies, I would argue they've always been around. It's not a new problem. People have always filled the gaps in their knowledge with unjustified beliefs. However, your answer would
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by evilturnip 8y ago
There are thousands of conspiracies floating around. Should we consider them all harmful and ban them? Who decides when a conspiracy becomes harmful? Should we ban flat-earthers from posting their views? After all, if everyone believed i
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by evilturnip 8y ago
The problem is that then you have to decide what's 'anti-democratic'. You won't find 50 opinions that differ from your own. On top of that, it can then be used as justification to censor almost anything you don't
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by evilturnip 8y ago
I'm actually glad to see the conclusion. Everybody wants to censor what they don't like. There are people who believe free speech is not the ultimate value, but rather to protect people from 'harm'. In this case &#x27
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by evilturnip 8y ago
Does anyone know exactly why? I conjecture to say it's broadly the result of capitalism. I really feel like it's a shame that word is almost toxic in intellectual circles.
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by evilturnip 8y ago
Well, then don't work with brilliant assholes and start your own company where the culture is different. This is not meant to be snide. Be a creator if you believe so strongly in your principles. Lead by example. If enough people
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by evilturnip 8y ago
Central decision makers generally cannot predict the outcomes of the decisions they make because the system is so complex. It's been proven time and time again that the distributed decisions of millions of individual actors ala a non-
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by evilturnip 8y ago
OK, I think I understand what you're saying. I still think it's telling that an entire people that come from a country where the system functions much more poorly and suffer from a relative lack of privilege can look on in bemusem
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by evilturnip 8y ago
The very reason they are taboo or sensitive words are the reason we use them to express extremity. We are violating the fragility of the term as a means of expression. It's somewhat like what extreme art or film can do, but on a much
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by evilturnip 8y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you; even having grown up in the US. I've come to realize the unimaginable hardships of people in other parts of the world. Only in a hyper-privileged country like the US can people find insignificant &#x2
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Education, Status Anxiety, The New York Times and The #WarOnNerds(honeybadgerbrigade.com)
1 points by evilturnip 8y ago|0 comments
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by evilturnip 8y ago
I should clarify, I was responding to your statement that "people are generally good". I'm not so sure of that. People are good and bad in ways I highlighted above (e.g. look at Milgram Experiments and Stanford Prison Exper
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by evilturnip 8y ago
Disagree. There are bad people and good people. People often move between those categories depending on incentives, the particulars of the situation, societal pressure and their own inclinations. You SHOULD have a look around, but with th
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by evilturnip 8y ago
No just remove barriers to entry so everyone has an equal opportunity. Positive discrimination not needed.
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by evilturnip 8y ago
To be perfectly honest, it depends on the game. There are very few twitch games now where 2 frames would make a difference in competitive outcome. E.g. games like overwatch, paladins, smite aren't really twitch games so that delay do
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by evilturnip 8y ago
There's a few of other similar services: Parsec/Paperspace and Shadow Latency with a good connection is usually sub 20ms roundtrip. I use Parsec/Paperspace to game until Shadow gets unveiled on my region soon. I play Paladin
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by evilturnip 9y ago
I feel like the methodology has a lot of flaws that makes the error bars so large as to make the actual numbers in this study useless: 1. Small sample size 2. Inactive profiles 3. These apps actually adjust the profiles you see based on you
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by evilturnip 9y ago
What is the consequence of assuming the opposite? E.g. IQ has very little effect. You can use that assumption as cover for garbage social policy that doesn't recognize individual differences in intelligence and attempts to equalize o
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by evilturnip 9y ago
Can't we agree that there are people on extreme ends of the mental capabilities spectrum? That is, people who are mentally challenged couldn't reasonably hold down a programming job, and people who are geniuses discover new theor
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Paying Professors: Inside Google’s Academic Influence Campaign(wsj.com)
48 points by evilturnip 9y ago|11 comments

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