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by hhmc 4y ago
I think it's pretty easy to construct adversarial examples to your (1) that are dealt with cleanly by real pagerank. e.g. if A is a Huge Important website, and A -> B -> C, then locally looking at {B, C} will underweight C signif
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by hhmc 4y ago
One might imagine prototyping new functionality in a existing, complex, codebase..
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by hhmc 4y ago
You seem to be missing the whole point being made — they are unused because of (temporary) changes during prototyping .
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by hhmc 4y ago
Unless you make survey taking a society wide, randomly sampled, civic duty -- like jury duty -- you're always going to be vulnerable to some biases.
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by hhmc 4y ago
It also creates a vicious cycle where people who do care about article quality are more likely to disengage with the site -- and these are most likely the people who write the highest value comments. I don't think a culture of 'on
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by hhmc 4y ago
Someone has already explained why your example is wrong, but for a general proof, for dist X, let u = mean, m = median | u - m | = |E(X - m)| <= E(|X - m|) <= E(|X - u|) <= E(sqrt((X - u)^2))
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by hhmc 4y ago
Also, the median can only be 1stddev away from the mean in any distribution, so this can further winnow the search.
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by hhmc 4y ago
I'd make the claim (without any real data), that the NHS has _such_ institutional power in the UK that it goes a long way to transcend any SEO shortfall it may have.
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by hhmc 4y ago
This is a good point — the LIBOR scandal springs to mind when thinking of the inexplicably brazen things written down whilst committing white collar crime!
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by hhmc 4y ago
Presumably determining if a loss leader exists to destroy competitors is tricky though? Like, MS aren’t going to come out and say “we want to bury gitlab”, even if that was the intended goal. there’s always going to be some vague brand buil
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by hhmc 4y ago
Which is probably the only reason the measures are allowed to work (relatively) painlessly
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by hhmc 4y ago
> entering personal details, creating an account, entering address, going through seat selection, insurance, car rental, etc. Not to mention a CAPTCHA is filled out during checkout anyway Perhaps the state of the art in competitor price
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by hhmc 4y ago
You linked to neutral explanations of how privilege might be defined -- which look like useful resources -- so thanks for that. They don't indicate any instances of silencing. I don't think we can have any further useful dialogue,
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by hhmc 4y ago
It's funny, there's a sort of penumbral attack on the term being used here. Everyone seems to be railing against the shadow of bad use invocation of 'privilege', but there's no actual instances of that happening dir
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by hhmc 4y ago
OK, I think we operate in very different epistemic and empathetic architectures -- so lets agree to disagree.
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by hhmc 4y ago
I didn't make those admittances. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging privilege around race and gender. I think that 'privilege' is _sometimes_ used in accusatory bad faith, but I don't think this is the majorit
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by hhmc 4y ago
[1] and [2] look fine and considered. I'm not watching a youtube video.
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by hhmc 4y ago
I don't actually believe that _is_ the vast majority of cases of people using the word. In my experience it's ususally deployed pretty fairly (i.e. people in this discussion acknowleding their overwhelming financial privilege). Pe
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by hhmc 4y ago
Reread what I said, try engaging more of your brain this time.
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by hhmc 4y ago
So you want the world to be the way it is?
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by hhmc 4y ago
So you actually _wanted_ images that perpetuate the biases of the world?
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by hhmc 4y ago
Was anyone actually having fun -- in any meaningful sense of the word -- or were they just indulging compulsion. I think for a lot of (even very predatory) games, there's a blend between the two, but here's it seems to be nakedly
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by hhmc 4y ago
Yes, HN does seem to skew heavily towards a sort of performative rejection of simple pleasures. Personally I don't think it's zero sum, enjoying your meals won't make your immaterial pursuits less worthy, for example.
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by hhmc 4y ago
Clearly not, that's such an uncharitable read of what I'm saying that it doesn't feel worth responding to.
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by hhmc 4y ago
> Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. > "Albert Einstein reportedly bought several variations of the same grey suit so that he w
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by hhmc 4y ago
If that's sufficient, then I don't really understand what the point being made is.
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by hhmc 4y ago
> Perhaps seeking out others who actually advocate for the position This isn't practical mid-argument though, is it?
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by hhmc 4y ago
I agree that it's pretty meaningless if you can just pivot at the appropriate time. Public benefit corporation feels like the best compromise.
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by hhmc 4y ago
Returns on what?
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by hhmc 4y ago
It doesn't seem like there's any real guarantee that the 'generated text detectors' will outpace the 'generated text generators'

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