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by ewjordan 9y ago
I'm American, sorry :/
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Adults have trouble with all this stuff because mostly they don't learn it at all, even with a liberal arts education or any of the other things you mention. The entire rationalism movement is essentially founded based on the fact that
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I can wire a hundred thousand bucks for $25 through my bank and it clears in an hour or so, quicker if I call them. And the recipient can immediately withdraw that as cash. This doesn't seem like a killer application of the tech, am I
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by ewjordan 9y ago
A sidenote on one thing brought up in the article, it's worth noting that the implicit association test (IAT) is of highly dubious utility, despite common use. While it measures something (as does any test), there are very serious qu
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by ewjordan 9y ago
If someone is an activist that has committed criminal acts in the name of their cause, a company should know that when hiring them. That is a very strong signal that they will be a shitty employee.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
> the ideal scenario is for police minimize death (of criminals and police officers) at all costs Do you really believe this in all situations? I don't. In a standoff between 5 cops and 15 criminals I'd rather see the cops kill
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by ewjordan 9y ago
It's not a distraction at all, it is in fact cutting to the bone of the argument - the article is using that statistic to push the point of view that things are worse than we've all accepted, and TeMPOraL is pointing out that in a
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by ewjordan 9y ago
No architecture scales infinitely, you merely shift at each step what the next bottleneck will be. Even with small scale sites you'll see this: first, you need to move from everything on one server to a load balancer plus app servers t
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I'll take 10 stoned drivers over 1 drunk one any day of the week. Stoned drivers may be slow as hell and really annoying, but drunk ones speed and kill people all the time.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Being hesitant to uncritically embrace iffy research that supports our politics can be really hard. In myself I even notice a tendency when looking at research on controversial subjects to put more weight on articles that I "like"
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Mainly that in physics, these sums crop up naturally , using normal summations over real numbers, often sums of energies over different modes. For instance, if you look at an idealized quantum violin string, each mode of vibration has a m
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by ewjordan 9y ago
It's a rigorous result if you define it as an analytic continuation of the Riemann zeta function defined in the normal way. It doesn't take much to prove, but the way it's used in physics it's not always immediately clea
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Question: who buys these stolen cars, and would having a tracker on one solve the problem? From experience I know that when it comes to computers, at least in San Francisco, even if you know the exact address where 20+ stolen computers are
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Because with very few (important but specific) exceptions, reductionism works, and the explanations for physical behaviors are present locally. The only reasons I've ever heard to look outside the brain to figure out how it functions t
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I see millions of hack attempts coming from Russia and China every day even on sites that see a tenth of that traffic, and have to deflect them constantly. Who do you work for?
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Ah, fair enough - I was just wondering because I've known Uber drivers that do exactly this, and have given me advice on where to find cheaper rental cars.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
$0.50 of vehicle costs per mile does not compute. If you're spending $30 a day on gas and driving 250 miles, you can just rent a car for the week at a daily rate of $30 or less, and come out with $60/day in costs rather than his s
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by ewjordan 9y ago
At some level most traits relevant to success are at least somewhat genetically influenced (intelligence, however measured, is estimated to be over 50% heritable). I'm sure willpower and perseverance are similar, and in that sense bein
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by ewjordan 9y ago
> games that are no longer fun, but are now environments deliberately set up to trap users in their own Skinner Boxes, pulling levers and pushing buttons to open loot boxes that slowly drain out their bank accounts Gamers will hate me fo
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Do you really think China and/or Russia would ever get in line with something like that, given that they're responsible for (or at least turning a blind eye to, in the cases where it's not government-sanctioned) almost all of
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The alternative facts: maybe the great team they had did maximize their chance of success, it was just one of those 90% of "startups" that don't hit the market.
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I try to avoid it when I can because one female colleague commented on it (not sure if it was related to my uses or someone else's because prior to this I never noticed it, but she brought it to HR). As a guy I feel like it's a &q
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by ewjordan 9y ago
It's always a matter of degree, though. If someone grabs a boob, then one time is way too many and they need to go. If they say "Hey guys,..." and someone expresses discomfort with the genderedness of the phrase, a few warnin
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by ewjordan 9y ago
You wouldn't lean to assuming the modafinil was the odd factor there before the coffee?
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"Makes people on the team uncomfortable by being argumentative", "is condescending during code reviews", "strongly supports team members via mentorship", and "defuses technical disagreements effectively an
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by ewjordan 9y ago
The corollary to this: most correct work is not worth publishing. And most people bitter over their work not being accepted were not rejected because their work was incorrect, but because it was not notable. So at the end of the day, it&#x2
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by ewjordan 9y ago
I'll accept that this may break site guidelines, and should be dinged. I don't feel too bad about posting it, though. I'm a left-center person calling out pretty standard far right nastiness that is definitely de rigeur for t
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by ewjordan 9y ago
Trump won because American democracy is twisted to overvalue rural voters, who have really fucked up and detestable values. Hillary won the actual popular vote, which you already know, if the pathetic approval ratings lately haven't ma
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I absolutely do not want facial features and eye movement to completely replace finger movement for input. I can neither control my eyes nor face at anywhere near the rate that I can control my fingers. If VR wants to replace my desktop env
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As a step in that direction, you can take some inspiration from what the brain does: as you learn things better and better, the knowledge essentially gets pulled down to neuronal layers that are closer to sensory input. This leaves the high

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