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by gohrt 11y ago
It's absurd for Chinese government to call itself Communist whilst its leaders have such immense personal wealth publicly visible.
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by gohrt 11y ago
US Congresspeople aren't nearly as wealthy; not billionaires: http://www.rollcall.com/50richest/the-50-richest-members-of-...
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by gohrt 11y ago
But, in aggregate, women, more so than men, understand that raising children is a significant and valuable career choice.
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by gohrt 11y ago
And yet, statistically, very few people have self-actualization urges beyond using them as a means to attract a mate and reproducing.
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by gohrt 11y ago
There are more desirable women (#1 young, #2 pretty) than men (#1 wealthy, #2 pretty)
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by gohrt 11y ago
> if someone is behaving irrationally, 99% of the time its because they are subconciously insecure about something. I'd generalize that to "they are reacting rationally to factors that are invisible to you"
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by gohrt 11y ago
What determines whether the app is online? What happens when the user is using the phone but FB is in the background? Does FB get some kind of update when the user is active on device? Or do OP's friend live in the FB app all day long?
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by gohrt 11y ago
That advice doesn't apply at all when you are going through a recruiter who is or plays dumb: "I just need you to fill in this form so we can proceed. [I don't care if if makes you mistrust me and management, and you come in
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by gohrt 11y ago
why does the hella.cheap site have an SSL cert with an unknown authority?
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by gohrt 11y ago
If you were an outsider in need of a job, you'd appreciate the recruiter spam.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Would the situation have turned out differently if users gave LinkedIn money in recognition of the referrals LinkedIn facilitated? People like to hate linkedIn for being exploitative, while happily advancing their careers/businesses wi
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by gohrt 11y ago
In gmail, everyone you've ever emailed is in automatically added your address book. LinkedIn provides an easy (maybe too easy) way to upload your address book to LinkedIn.
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by gohrt 11y ago
That is an invite to your network. The difference is that you were not aware of how interested in LinkedIn the contact was, and you were not aware you were ALSO inviting her to join LinkedIn
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by gohrt 11y ago
It's BusinessInsider, an SEO-clickbait operation. It's the HuffPo meets the Sun of Uber.
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by gohrt 11y ago
0 of those people are now at GitHub.
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by gohrt 11y ago
you could also choose to buy functionally designed clothing that doesn't need to be folded.
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by gohrt 11y ago
If oil is close to perfectly competitive, how does OPEC control prices by adjusting supply?
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by gohrt 11y ago
That incentivizes making babies for profit. Also, that is a tax, as much as Social Security is a tax+redistribution program. It is sort of a reverse paygo, though, committing a spending program for all new tax dollars.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The word "meritocracy" was originally invented as satirical word to describing "signalling by people who pretended they weren't signalling"
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by gohrt 11y ago
That's a very awkwardly written story, but "know what league you are in" is solid advice. It's Moneyball in another domain.
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by gohrt 11y ago
It just means that employers are now hiring for competency in job function, and not just plucking the upper class elite to get access to their rolodex. IOW, it's not that schools are getting worse at teaching, it's that they are g
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by gohrt 11y ago
Seems you took the wrong lesson, rejecting solutions instead of trying to understand them.
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by gohrt 11y ago
It wasn't a public good, it was a Microsoft marketing campaign to push people onto the Silverlight platform. MS never made the Feynman Lectures free for all to read.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Deep nets have layers too. We need to assign names to the nodes of the layers. That's the challenge of interpretability in neural nets.
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by gohrt 11y ago
A general AI will likely be LESS able to explain why a move is good, for exactly reason mentioned above (post-rationalization of a massive statistical computation)
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by gohrt 11y ago
> They call it 'Kuscheljustiz' ('cuddle justice') That's funny! The 1996 immigration reform commission was the "Hug Commission", and "hug" in English means "cuddle"
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by gohrt 11y ago
No, it wouldn't, when people are stealing out of desperation, and chopping off someone's hand destroys their ability to generate a livelihood through honest labor, pushing them into more theft.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Those countries didn't have their own government propping up the drug trade in order to generate illicit funding for illegal wars and to criminalize and imprison poor black people. USA did. > these countries that sentence drug traff
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by gohrt 11y ago
Disable cloudtobutt on HN
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by gohrt 11y ago
Salt. In SSL/TLS, the data is transmitted using a one-time pad of some kind, so that intercepting a transmitted token gives you nothing that you can use to authenticate in a future connection (but you might be able to hijack the connec

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