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by greenail 5y ago
My understanding is that in "queer theory" gender is 100% socially constructed. This essentially means "women" are socially constructed. It is hard to have feminism if you don't have "women". This seems
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by greenail 5y ago
Thank god for being able to edit the source. My email address are quite long, I create new email address for every online account I have. Oddly some email fields don't allow paste which is super frustrating. I can imagine the justif
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by greenail 5y ago
It isn't clear to me what you are saying. Are you saying we are doomed because he's a conservative or because you have no faith we retain the ability love?
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Ask HN: Should Linkein be collecting demographic data?
1 points by greenail 5y ago|0 comments
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by greenail 5y ago
Qualitatively what effect does living longer have on your happiness? I would guess that there is an emotional impact to surviving after all your friends have died. I'd also guess that the quality of your family life has a big impact.
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by greenail 5y ago
Can you provide a source to support that claim that doesn't rely solely on racial disparity demographics that is based on a modern and recent gifted/talented (in the last 10 years)? I'm honestly interested. My local school
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by greenail 5y ago
Not just IQ: "A study from the University of Minnesota, recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), found that conscientiousness — a family of personality traits that combines being disciplined, focuse
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by greenail 5y ago
but the IQ test still isn't racially biased. You are just pointing out that there are multiple influences on IQ and multiple mitigations to mitigate the environmental factors.
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by greenail 5y ago
I think most people on this thread have jumped to apply this generally when I think it is intended to be focused on schizophrenia. I also think the research shows that bias intervention training doesn't really take over the long run a
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by greenail 5y ago
maybe a better title is "how to ask questions so I can be smug later". I've done this for sure but I've never advertised it later.
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by greenail 5y ago
You can also buy a branded tee shirt if you are poor as a up-status signal.
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Ask HN: Is owning Bitcoin a form of luxury
2 points by greenail 5y ago|3 comments
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Strategies and Motives for Resistance to Persuasion(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by greenail 5y ago|1 comments
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by greenail 5y ago
I was googling around to try to find some info on how to combat a persuader's resistance to defining terms and I thought this was interesting.
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by greenail 5y ago
but the question is: how easily can you detect profit taking? here's an interesting analysis: https://insights.glassnode.com/follow-the-smart-money/
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by greenail 5y ago
Assuming the 5 phases of a bubble would hold true, I wonder if the ability to scan the blockchain would allow you to analyze it and signal the profit-taking phase. There already seems to be multiple panics regarding bitcoin. Are these man
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by greenail 5y ago
There are plenty of good points regarding issues like defaults that you set getting changed and the fact that you are using a device that has to be aware of you speech to function. I agree that we should be aware that we are giving up some
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by greenail 5y ago
Wait till it gets ransomwared and then you'll see something... I sure hope they have a plan B.
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by greenail 5y ago
"Foucault’s ideas gave rise in the 1970s and ’80s to philosophical postmodernism, a movement characterized by broad epistemological skepticism and ethical subjectivism, a general suspicion of reason, and an acute sensitivity to the rol
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by greenail 5y ago
The bigger problem is this postmodern view creates a bit of a circular problem. Someone needs to decide what the moral values are. Oppressor's are evil (both consciously and unconsciously) and do not have an accurate view of the worl
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by greenail 5y ago
Solzhenitsyn had a few things to say about relinquishing individual responsibility in favor of group think. Abandoning the individual for a bleak world of oppression power dynamics and the postmodern notion that there is no objective truth
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by greenail 5y ago
These reaction wheels have such a high failure rate. Is it a fundamental Tribology problem? edit I see they think it was a software issue but I still wonder about reaction wheel failure rates.
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by greenail 5y ago
Charlie Bell would describe Amazon's Obidos as a "big ball of mud". I had thought he came up with that description. It is a good way to describe the problem.
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by greenail 5y ago
Because people are social "who knows you" is also important and impacts your learning. Finding the right people who are open to you asking 4 levels of questions is critical. This often requires you offer them something back. Ho
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by greenail 5y ago
Personally I'd much prefer to apply to a job promoting a "fair hiring" vs "equitable". >We finished our last hiring a few months ago. I'm proud of the way we handled the process, and I think it resulted in t
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by greenail 5y ago
I wonder if there are any predictors of who will do better when things destabilize, for example does vertical integration provide a strong advantage? If so what is the tipping point, how much vertical integration is needed?
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by greenail 5y ago
> Model training is done with mixed precision on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD-based Selene supercomputer powered by 560 DGX A100 servers networked with HDR InfiniBand in a full fat tree configuration. Each DGX A100 has eight NVIDIA A100 80GB
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by greenail 5y ago
"meet new people" is missing from the list. I wonder how diverse a 20-something's circle is these days vs 20 years ago. I used to talk to as many different people as I could: motor cycle mechanics, Johns Hopkins post docs,
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by greenail 5y ago
I find that the older I get the more I appreciate math. I did find it boring when I was younger. I'm not sure if it is for folks like mathologer and 3brown1blue. I tend to think visually and they do a wonderful job in that area. I d
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by greenail 5y ago
The title should be "why mathematics papers are boring, how to spice them up with narrative", that is what the article is about.

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