haberman

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by haberman 8y ago
> the holders of odious beliefs are generally not “playing the same game” as those who oppose them Maybe a few years ago I would have found this argument convincing. But here is the current state of the Internet (from the article): >
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by haberman 8y ago
The problem, as described in this article, is that some people have good faith beliefs, respectfully expressed, that are nevertheless so repugnant to others that you will be tarred for not censoring them.
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by haberman 8y ago
I'm surprised this would need to be verified experimentally. Why couldn't a density gradient like this be derived from fundamental laws?
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by haberman 8y ago
> Some of us are able to learn from failures and regrets through trial and error, the consequences and being more aware we could be hurting others. Is it possible that the making of this video is one of those instances where a person cou
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by haberman 8y ago
I would completely agree with you except that this person has made a point of being a zero-tolerance firebrand instead of extending charity and a presumption of good faith. I think it is fair to highlight the hypocrisy of that. I think we
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by haberman 8y ago
If a potential investor asks you basic questions about your ambitions and you interpret it as "offensive" and "an attack on Silicon Valley", and you end up at William Shockley, I think that says more about you than them.
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by haberman 8y ago
I think I drew that conclusion because you mentioned marginalization four times. I think political orientation leads to lots of blind spots. If it is important that businesses have representation of their user-base, I think diversity of po
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by haberman 8y ago
I agree that we all have blind spots and that diversity in decision-makers can help correct these. If this principle was applied consistently across any dimension where such blind spots are likely to exist, I would be on board. However wh
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by haberman 8y ago
> I suppose people living in their economically-alright bubbles will never be able to look objectively at how awful things are in so many places in the world. You just prefer the cozy illusion that it's all getting better. These two
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by haberman 8y ago
This is a story of competing narratives. Pinker says the world is improving by most measures, and this is a credit to our global system (though of course there is always room for improvement). Many people, including Jason Hickel, strongly o
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by haberman 8y ago
Yes, more than anything I'm amused by the fact that when you do the Linus-approved thing in 2007 it leaves you in this terrible situation in 2019, and when the other kernel experts rub their heads together their solution is to abandon
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by haberman 8y ago
> Both Chinner and Ts'o, along with others, said that the proper solution is for PostgreSQL to move to direct I/O (DIO) instead. Wait, is "direct I/O" the same as O_DIRECT? The same O_DIRECT that Linus skewered i
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by haberman 8y ago
The article's main argument is: "We are not obligated to love technology. [...] If we allow ["technology"] to stand as an umbrella term for everything from modern dentistry to the apparatus of ubiquitous surveillance, th
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by haberman 8y ago
> What if we had a law mandating social graph companies open themselves up for interoperation once they reach some critical threshold of size? To me that sounds like legally-mandated proliferation of sensitive user data. The Cambridge A
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by haberman 8y ago
I get that, but there's also precedent for cutting ancient things loose. Both C and C++ have finally decided to specify that signed integers are two's complement: https://twitter.com/jfbastien/status/989
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by haberman 8y ago
But the preprocessor is part of the C++ standard, no? I'm really not seeing why it's ok for the preprocessor to refer to files but not the language. Also, going to this level of trouble to support systems that don't have fil
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by haberman 8y ago
I don't get it. What about modules inherently forces them to be imported via this newfangled module namespace (eg. import std.iostream) instead of being imported by their source filenames (eg. import "iostream.h")? If I&#x27
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by haberman 8y ago
On x86-64, the page tables control memory access permissions (rwx). The layout and semantics of these page tables are defined by the ISA and work the same on any processor. You wouldn't need to lay out your binary differently on Inte
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by haberman 8y ago
It's surprising to me that the RISC-V ISA specification is loose enough that a core could be considered RISC-V-compliant and yet also need a linker script to accommodate its peculiarities.
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by haberman 8y ago
In the US, cars comprise 90% of land-based passenger miles traveled. [1] In Europe, it's 80-90% in most countries. [2] So if we in the US are "over-reliant" on cars, Europe is not far behind. Considering that cars are the p
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by haberman 8y ago
What did you try to contribute? Last year I added an article about a musical ensemble. I followed the processes and it seemed to be fairly straightforward to get approved. (The ensemble had a bunch of articles written about them in the NY
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by haberman 8y ago
What do you mean? The tunnel opens next month: https://www.wsdot.wa.gov/tolling/sr-99-tunnel-tolling
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by haberman 8y ago
> If Seattle can survive for a couple of weeks without a major chunk of its freeway system, that’s a powerful indication that more modest steps to alter road capacity don’t really mean the end of the world. That leaves out the fact that
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by haberman 8y ago
I believe the best ways to buck this weakness are: 1. Invest more energy into trying to falsify your favored beliefs than into confirming them. 2. Embrace humility, since we're always wrong sometimes. Humility to me means: you can have
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by haberman 8y ago
I think I expected the book to better live up to its billing. Here is an excerpt from the in-sleeve summary: "Beginning with simple scenarios, like whether it was rain or a lawn sprinkler that got a sidewalk wet, the authors show how
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by haberman 8y ago
Maybe I should put some more effort into the book. But statements such as this make me extremely wary: > but note that the validity of the inference is conditional on the model being correctly specified This strikes me as begging the qu
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by haberman 8y ago
RCT's indeed seem like a good way of establishing causality. But RCT's are well-established, so what is "The New Science of Cause And Effect" (as claimed by Pearl and MacKenzie) bringing to the table? Intuitively I migh
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by haberman 8y ago
The part you removed with ellipses undermines this point: "These patterns are called "testable implications" because they can be used for testing the model. These are statements like "There is no path connecting D and L,
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by haberman 8y ago
As a non-statistician with a lot of interest in statistics, I found the Book of Why frustrating. Modeling causation seems like an undeniably important step towards understanding the world better. But the biggest question I had was: how ca
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by haberman 8y ago
Even just mapping between the mnemonics is non-trivial. You want to think that it's just a matter of removing size suffixes from AT&T, but it's sadly not that simple. "movslq" in AT&T maps not to "movsl&qu

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