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by gohrt 10y ago
The article's authors don't even seem to know what sarcasm is. Their example “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” is not sarcastic so much as colorful analogy. The researcher's word2vec approach is really a sea
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by gohrt 10y ago
"getting a job is made harder" isn't a problem, when the the people are getting better at getting a job. "increase in productivity will be insufficient to cover the increase of wages" is only true if the company isn
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by gohrt 10y ago
The missing step here is that the EITC should be funded by tax on companies that have low wage employees alongside extremely highly-paid employees/managers, and profit-taking owners
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by gohrt 10y ago
The racism is ugly and fitting for its time, but this is actually a case where it comes from a legitimate concern, not just competitive hatred -- If immigrants work for lower wages, society overall suffers . Someone else being willing to w
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by gohrt 10y ago
> At some point, people are going to have to stop judging a company that breaks even or has stable profits as a failure. These are called utility companies or dividend companies and no one judges them a failure, outside of the SV bubble.
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by gohrt 10y ago
How is 50-60 relevant? Shift employees at many companies beg for ~40 hours but can't get them. Walmart gives employees ~30hr weeks, to avoid providing health insurance. It's not about the overhead of juggling extra shifts, it&#x2
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by gohrt 10y ago
> What is the opposite function of malloc() in C? Google uses C++. Do they use malloc/free?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Admins/Mods, can we ban titles that use clickbaity "This"?
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by gohrt 10y ago
> My theory is that this version of Math is designed by people who hate Math (English teachers). You might think that, but you'd be wrong. "Precision" is explicitly one the 8 principles of Common Core Math. https:/&#
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by gohrt 10y ago
Filtering to only include long comments is simply way to drop a lot of cheaf and keep a lot of wheat, and have more internal context to help with analysis.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The top comments are witty. Like everything, 90% of Reddit is crap.
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's pretty well established that modern AI's main contribution is (a) massively larger datasets, (b) algorithms and technology to handle those massively larger datasets, (c) boring but important parameter tuning. The core learnin
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by gohrt 10y ago
T9 on phones goes all the way back to ~2000
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by gohrt 10y ago
It is "Grammatically accurate" as the writer and reader thing it is. English has no official grammar. Singular "they" has been a singular pronoun for centuries.
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by gohrt 10y ago
They'll claim to be exempt: > In general, the more an internship program is structured around a classroom or academic experience as opposed to the employer’s actual operations, the more likely the internship will be viewed as an ext
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's a childish dreaming that imagines we can must our home to find somewhere better. Powerful visionaries dream of making our home better.
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by gohrt 10y ago
What's wrong with light-hearted easy reading for adults?
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's bubble gum pop, the sort of thing that is immensely popular across all media, but not the best, and easy to sneer at. Quite different from "awful", which would be something like Eragon.
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's a "magazine", not a research journal. It's expoisitory recreational math for students.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The proof is simpler if you don't bother to simplify the total: The inductive step in the OP theorem is: ((1 + ... + n-1) +n)² - (1 + ... + n-1)² = n² + 2n(1 + ... + n-1) = n² + 2n(n-1)n/2 = n²(1) + n²(n-1)
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by gohrt 10y ago
It's a leading question, not begging the question. Begging the question would be "sex is fun because of X, and X always happens because sex is fun"
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by gohrt 10y ago
Talk to your government, or organize a boycott threat. Your house is also visible in Street View, for precisely the same reason: It transmits electromagnetic waves that are visible from public roads.
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by gohrt 10y ago
you may have been downvoted for making an unsubstantiated claim that most people don't know when their CPU is running at 100%
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by gohrt 10y ago
Don't know about your teeth, but that sugar is pushing for diabetes. Drinking juice straight (not diluted with water) at 100+ kCal/cup rate, in quantity, is a bad idea
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by gohrt 10y ago
4 simplistic patterns, and one group of creative thoughtful people. I wonder how well "Unclassifiables" are represented among the most accomplished and powerful people in society.
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by gohrt 10y ago
> Abnegation, Amity, Candor, Dauntless, and Erudite. She tried so hard for ABCDE, but couldn't find the word "Benevolence" ?
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by gohrt 10y ago
Because the law enforcement devices emit such a tiny rate of dose that it is impossible to harm someone while using it. "A person would have to be screened more than a thousand times in one year in order to exceed the annual radiation
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by gohrt 10y ago
Replied to wrong post? EDIT: Oops, I skipped to the quiz and missed the intro about Jigsaw.
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by gohrt 10y ago
The quiz explicitly bans comments that target a nation "Saudi Arabia", but allow comments that target an entire sex "women".
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by gohrt 10y ago
They're correct about "Professional Engineer" in Canada, not everywhere else. It varies by jurisdiction and wording. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en... If tech companies were

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