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by hpoe 6y ago
I wish I had a history class like that in high school. I took AP American History and there was a lot of attempt to discuss alternative viewpoints that was constantly shut down as "not being on the test."
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by hpoe 6y ago
I remember watching the Tesla going into space and the rockets landing on the platform. I remember thinking "Wow this man has restarted the space race for my generation." It was a hopeful and wonderful feeling, I figured with the
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by hpoe 6y ago
It seems to me like we have two different people arguing about 2 (maybe 3) completely different things when it comes to this Gebru situation. 1 - Google fired Gebru for trying to push a paper that presented google in a negative light. Doing
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by hpoe 6y ago
Counterpoint to that, all the tools I use most often and am most delighted by are published under a GPL or other FOSS license (Bash, Linux, Emacs, Firefox, Inkscape, etc) whereas the ones I am most constantly frustrated by, angry at, and fi
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by hpoe 6y ago
You're right I mean the teamsters union is such an upstanding example of the positive effects of unions.
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I've always been confused by this argument of just start taxing the money that goes to shareholders because the business will reinvest it and create jobs and what not. What keeps the company from reinvesting in the form of company l
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by hpoe 6y ago
I'll just throw out there that one reason I think coding interviews have some sort of value is because there are very few metrics to distinguish good engineers vs bad engineers when it comes to software engineering apart from working w
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by hpoe 6y ago
This is one thing that terrifies me about moving away from my Dr. if I were to move across the country and suddenly couldn't get my medicine I know I would quickly become a wreck for a week or so well I dealt with all of the comedowns.
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by hpoe 6y ago
I can't comment on the OPs experience but I was on adderall for a few years of my childhood until my parents took me off of it because I was too angry and violent as they said. I got back on it a few years back after realizing that nor
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by hpoe 6y ago
May I direct you to watch Daryl Davis's ted talk or really anything he speaks about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORp3q1Oaezw For context he is a black man that has gotten over a hundred leaders of the KKK, includi
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by hpoe 6y ago
I've thought about that filter through which we view the world a lot recently, and I think you may have identified part of where the conflict comes from. People viewing the world through fundamentally different filters. The problem is
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by hpoe 6y ago
To quote from Dean's email "Timnit responded with an email requiring that a number of conditions be met in order for her to continue working at Google, including revealing the identities of every person who Megan and I had spoken
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by hpoe 6y ago
I think one in important point is that she submitted the paper the day before the deadline when 2 weeks is usually required for review. It was approved then, but after the review process worked out she was asked to retract her paper.
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I don't know enough to make a well informed opinion; however it seems part of the aggreivement on her part is that she was not given the names of those who peer reviewed her paper. If internally she has a history of bringing race or
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by hpoe 6y ago
So something I only recently found out myself is that there is actual no real requirements in order to register an animal as an "emotional support animal", I found that out after my sister registered her dog as an emotional suppor
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by hpoe 6y ago
My point is that if we are interested in helping people in geniuly terrible working conditions there are plenty of people who have it far worse than those at Amazon and those should be the focus of these efforts and outrage rather than peop
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by hpoe 6y ago
Can I just point out that I think the "horrible working conditions" things is a little played up. You want to know terrible working conditions dancing with a sign for 5 hours a day in the sun when it's 90+. I did that for 3 y
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by hpoe 6y ago
So I've been wondering about these positions like those mentioned in the article, people whose sole job is to prevent bias, fight discrimination and what not. Whether they be ML researchers or corporate diversity officer. What happens
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by hpoe 6y ago
I agree it is amazing how well you can manage things when you can "reconcile" any worker complaints, very quickly. When those who are known to oppose or object to your plans are "reassigned" to a post in the Gobi. And wh
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by hpoe 6y ago
What I find much more intersting about this is that this is the centeral thesis of Scott Adam's "The Dilbert Principle" that was published 2 decades ago. I'll also put out there that it was probably one of the most infor
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by hpoe 6y ago
Can I have regulatory capture for 500 Alex? This is has been my experience often when the government tries to push legislation that deals with complicated topics. It turns out that they don't really know the field so they turn to some
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by hpoe 6y ago
To me this seems to highlight the worry about "fake news" and "credible sources". To me it seems less like the quality of journalism and reporting has gone down hill and more like because we have so many new independent
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by hpoe 6y ago
A SKU is a Stock Keeping Unit it is used as an identifier about different types of products. Say I have gizmos and boobabs, the gizmo will have skue like G-123 and the Boobabs will have SKU B-384
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by hpoe 6y ago
I use it to help me as a cloud engineer. For an example of some of the things I use it for. I have cards that are for - Emacs Commands - Emacs Key Strokes - Greek letters, words and sounds - The wikipedia List of non-standard dates - Physic
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by hpoe 6y ago
I'm interested.
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by hpoe 6y ago
I'd argue the equities are trading so high is preciesly because of the action the government is taking. By lowering interest rates and offering low interest loans in an attempt to prevent deflation the fed has pushed a ton of money int
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by hpoe 6y ago
So the author's central thesis essentially seems to boil down to that leaked emails were able to be cryptographically verified, because of DKIM and so we should prevent that so people can't use email to blackmail politicians? Ulti
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by hpoe 6y ago
An interesting article. I'll offer my counterpoint is the fungiblity of a LaTeX document. It is at the end of the day an opens source text based standard. That means I can easily put it in git, I can easily modify it in my favorite tex
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by hpoe 6y ago
Nice way to revise history to make the Holomdor just a result of lack of computational power not a genocidal atrocity. Next up Mao's 5 year plan only killed millions of people because of an error in a spreadsheet. Other than that it wa
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by hpoe 6y ago
Unfortunately with the rise of the Fat Activist movement, many nutritionists now pander to clients by advocating eating practices that are unhealthy and dangerous.

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