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by gipp 10y ago
Nobody, in any significant numbers, has ever claimed or believed that there were direct manipulations of vote counts. This is a pure strawman. Saying the Russians "hacked the election" is just a sloppy shorthand for the, at this p
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by gipp 10y ago
It is far from 10-20x difference. And many or most of those nations have stronger worker protections than the US, calling into question the idea that labor law is really the main driving force there. It's probably more like propertyh
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by gipp 10y ago
I guess this guy is much more historically focused, but it seems odd to present the thesis he does and not even mention No Man's Sky as an obvious example of the kind of failure he's talking about.
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by gipp 10y ago
Pardon my relative ignorance on the subject, but couldn't we take an approach in which we attempt to let the brain figure out how to interpret/send signals? I.e. find a way to take advantage of the well-established extreme plast
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by gipp 10y ago
So, I am not a libertarian, but I do think the libertarian wing of this country does sometimes have good points and provide a valuable alternative perspective on some issues. BUT, you guys have really got to stop this godawful stupid "
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by gipp 10y ago
HN mods have a really strong propensity for editing titles they consider either misleading or clickbaity. I guess this is supposed to be the latter. IMO they can be... overeager about it.
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by gipp 10y ago
The polls were no better or worse than past years. Reporting on the polls is a different story.
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by gipp 10y ago
What need does Obama have to pander to anyone right now?
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by gipp 10y ago
Oh, absolutely. I'm not trying to make a blanket endorsement of, for example, "data-driven decision making" as a groupthink thing that everyone must do. That can, and does, lead a lot of unwary businesses down a lot of blin
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by gipp 10y ago
Counter-argument: The work described here as "bullshit" -- administration, bureaucracy, ever-finer metrics of people and products -- actually DO generate "real" value in increasing the speed at which information asymme
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by gipp 10y ago
The parent is certainly oversimplifying, but you're not looking very carefully if you can't see environmental effects there. The energy expenses alone -- of the computers of developers, other staff of the company, and players; of
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by gipp 10y ago
The bits about X11/Wayland made me a bit curious. The author claims we're "only just now" moving towards Wayland -- is there a big movement towards it lately that I've been missing?
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by gipp 10y ago
I think you may have misread the article; it seemed to me that blame was placed much more on political incentives to encourage outward, sparse suburban growth. The kind of growth which incurs enormously more infrastructure cost per capita.
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by gipp 10y ago
And even more importantly who will trust these "skills" taught by a probably artificial and minimal re-education program enough to hire them? This stuff has been and is tried all the time and doesn't typically work out. It ne
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by gipp 10y ago
Geology and hydrology are enormously different between those locations. Not saying you definitely can't do that, since I'm no expert either, but it's kinda silly to just say "dig deeper" like it's a no-brai
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by gipp 10y ago
We absolutely wouldn't end up in the same place, simply because the state space of possible organisms and environments is astronomically larger than the space of possible dice rolls (his metaphor isn't perfect and I'm alrea
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by gipp 10y ago
Certainly randomness is _involved_, but it is randomness governed by a decidedly non-random fitness function. Without fitness there is no evolution. The problem arises because when biologists, statisticians etc say "random process,&quo
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by gipp 10y ago
You don't understand how evolution works (not that the parent you're responding to stated it well). It is most certainly not "random chance". Frankly I'm surprised to see that kind of sentiment coming out of such a
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by gipp 10y ago
"Hypocrisy" is a tough concept to apply to whole nations, I'd say. I suspect most of the people upset about the Russian angle aren't exactly supporters of CIA election meddling either.
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by gipp 10y ago
That description really doesn't apply to this article at all. I'm not sure how "working on a small, local level is probably more effective for individuals" is a liberal opinion, and any judgments on _you_ from the author
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by gipp 10y ago
The argument was that middle class could afford a decent place in cities with lowered standards -- but you define middle class as "people who can afford a decent place in cities?" Surely you see the circularity here.
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by gipp 10y ago
$200k is the 94th percentile of income.
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by gipp 10y ago
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-departme... > The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US per
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by gipp 10y ago
Who's expanding what part of government here?
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by gipp 10y ago
Taking action in response to foreign aggression is "sabotaging the next guy" now?
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by gipp 10y ago
I said no such thing. Nor does the report.
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by gipp 10y ago
This stopped being about Hilary Clinton over a month ago. This is extremely important regardless of who is President.
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by gipp 10y ago
Yes. Many, many parts of the intelligence community produced reports contradicting any claims of WMD evidence, and were summarily ignored by a very not-bipartisan administration. There is basically total consensus among every intelligence a
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by gipp 10y ago
Fine. But (assuming you extend this attitude to "the mainstream media" as well) you've created for yourself an ontology of the world in which it is impossible to claim any knowledge of anything outside your direct field of vi
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by gipp 10y ago
State-sponsored actions intended to undermine the basis of our political institutions is a "distraction"? What qualifies as "news" by your standards?

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