gotoeleven

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   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   Im just curious, what actual policies / actions has this administration taken that you most disagree with?
2. 512.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   It's getting to the point on HN where the informative posts are greyed out and you have to find them before they get killed completely. Sad!
3. 513.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   How long until programming javascript becomes the new making license plates?
4. 514.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   And the worst part is that Palantir's software often misgenders and deadnames the trans migrants of color and they end up in the wrong holding cell.
5. 515.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   I would be interested in the results of asking HN readers this question: What is worse, whiteboard interview questions or Donald Trump?
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   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   No thanks, I'd rather the plain words of a governing document be interpreted more like a living organism that evolves with the times. That way I can get exactly what I want right now without having to convince anyone else beyond 5 old
7. 517.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   >If you want the Democratic coverage, you'll go to CNN or the NY Times... * MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, Wash Post, LA Times, PBS, NPR, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Spotify..
8. 518.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   If California had the weather of South Dakota no one would live there. California is the state version of being born on third base and thinking you hit a triple.
9. 519.▲
   by gotoeleven 6y ago

   California has proven itself again and again to be really good at centrally planning the economic activities of individuals so I think this will work out pretty well in the end.
10. 520.▲
    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Ahh the classic HN logician that spots someone mentioning slippery slopes and reflexively calls it a logical fallacy. The history of taxes in the US (and especially California--remember the "temporary" 13.3% highest marginal rate?
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    That dastardly agenda of equality before the law
12. 522.▲
    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    The great thing about dressing one or two steps above a hobo is that if anyone cares you know they're an asshole.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Success comes from merit, luck, and corruption in some proportion. In successful countries merit is a larger portion than in unsuccessful countries. When people say the entire concept of merit is %PEJORATIVE BUZZWORD% so we should stop st
14. 524.▲
    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Rejecting meritocracy entirely as an ideal to even strive for is pure poison. How could a society possibly function if it doesn't elevate competence above incompetence and expertise above charlatanism? I think we're going to fin
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    It truly is the golden era of officious busybodies.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    There's further discussion of these ideas here: https://ram.rachum.com/median/
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Being actually supportive of free speech requires some level of tolerance for things that you disagree with. It can't possibly work if people with unpopular opinions are are cancelled (i.e. blacklisted, fired, castigated, sanctioned).
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    I hope so. The world is going to be a much nastier place if this new anti-free-speech in the name of manners and harm prevention stuff takes hold. Free speech is the greatest equalizing force between the powerful and the non-powerful that
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    How is the existence of a model amplifying any bias? The example the author gives is that conditioning a linear model on some "biased" variable gives a more accurate model that predicts large differences between these groups. Bu
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    "Models are not just descriptions of data, which is why overfitting is not considered success." The degree to which a model is overfit is a measure of how accurate the model is, but that doesn't make it any more or less than
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    This article is very dumb. Models are descriptions of data--they describe how things are to some level of accuracy, not how things ought to be according to some or other concept of cosmic justice. From the article: "Notice how the gri
22. 532.▲
    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Thats a great trick just label anything you don't want debated a "right."
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Why is everyone making surprised pickachu face about white nationalism as our culture encourages black nationalism and every other kind of racial tribalism? The problem isn't the color, the problem is the nationalism.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    I dont think people would have flocked to these platforms if they'd known that they'd be banned for politically incorrect speech down the road.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Those are cases where the supreme court has found restrictions on speech to be justifiable, in case you thought it was just a grab bag of random stuff.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    I agree. The use of 'they' to refer to a group of people is very problematic.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    In practice this usually turns into affirmative action for ideas, where marginal scholarship is promoted for no reason other than the color of the author. Is it too much to simply ask that ideas stand on their own and be judged on their ow
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    The best feature of safari is "Remove from dock"
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    I think they just want to have their cake and eat it too, so to speak, like everyone else. For some people free speech is like riding the train: when you reach your stop, you get off.
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    by gotoeleven 6y ago

    Sadly it goes like this: 1) I see a word and it hurts my feelings 2) anything that hurts my feelings does me harm 3) we must prevent harm wherever possible 4) therefore you cannot say that word Any question of how much harm is actually done