jomamaxx

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by jomamaxx 10y ago
99% of misery is caused by humans. Most people who commit suicide are not objectively in situations of extreme difficulty. Many wealthy, successful people commit prison. Surely, negative conditions are correlated with suicide, but it's
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The man was not committing suicide, he was murdered.
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"society thinks it's okay to deny you healthcare and starve you to death" This makes no sense. Society does not 'deny' you almost anything. That someone cannot or choses not to buy something is not 'denial&#x27
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The world is as Just as we make it. Cynicism is a cancer. We damn those who gave up on trying after having been given the greatest gift that can be received. The point is life - more, better, higher, more beautiful, more intelligent, more c
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"All across Europe and North America (especially the US), people regularly turn to magic spells (praying). " This is a false equivalence - clearly you do not understand what religion is. There is no North American who would not ac
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As for the Coates Article - I agree with a lot of the sentiment. And thanks for the link by the way. Listen - I AGREE - that perhaps there should be 'reparations' - I'm not really against that. I AGREE that historical injusti
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I hear you. But I think that the default assumption by so many is: 'Racism exists, ergo, racism is the primary driver of poverty, inequality' etc.. I strongly object to this assertion. Of course racism exists, and it's a prob
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"Wealthy black people have trouble getting rooms on Airbnb. Wealthy black people get stopped by the police at a disproportionate rate. " This is unfortunate and should be addressed but neither of those things will cause massive di
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African-Americans see this disparity and it enrages them (as it should), and that creates movements (political or not). Poor whites see their condition and their (incorrect) recourse is to fight against this vague notion of "political
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" Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and the other tech luminaries in their generation would have gone to segregated " I'll bet you $100 that Bill Gates' private school was 'de facto' segregated
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"thus the eradication policy." There was no 'eradication policy'.
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"Similarly in term of age, I would not rent to couples with young children because it's too risky." This is definitely discrimination, even though I don't object to it.
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"That changes the minute you are offering up a bed in your home in exchange for money" No. I'd argue it changes when you have a flat that is rented out on a near full time basis to others, i.e. 'a business'.
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"I'll put a sharper point on it: People must be governed" Then maybe the government should tell you who you can have sex with an who not to? It thought you people wanted the government out of your bedroom? Telling people who
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"I'd stay away from these issues on HN unless we really have something valuable and new to add." Enough with this rubbish - your comment is that of the totalitarian. Homes are not businesses, and people have a right to decide
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"I do not understand why interviews are not conducted in this manner. " It truly is crazy.
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"I've been interested to know why grammar checking and corrections can't be more accurate." It's because there is no such a thing as 'grammar' :) There is no such a thing as 'language' :) Ok, I m
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This is the very root of how modern spellcheckers work, but they add more layers, using language modelling.
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I've done this before. Sadly - the problem is way harder. First - you get much better results by using language models, n-grams etc. to predict the likely hood of words given previous words. That can be hard. The really hard part c
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by jomamaxx 10y ago
Yes, using language models is how it's done. Theoretically, it's not that hard, in practice, it's really hard. There is an online language modelling course from Stanford that you should check out if you want to take a stab.
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City people are actually more selfish, depressed and obsessed with money. It's not a stereotype, it's true. There's a lot of data on urban/rural happiness and it all points in the same direction. As for the other attribu
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I agree - except that 'communities of choice' are far more fleeting than otherwise. In 'communities of choice' - nobody cares about old people, for example. 'Communities of choice' work when you're young O
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Anyone of any ethnicity could have showed up, it would have made no difference. Small town people have less exposure to other cultures, and might have some prejudices, but the prejudices are not hateful, they're more rooted in lack of
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">your comment might be a kind of bigotry The irony is so deep." I was making generalizations about people that I think is true. But I wasn't calling people names, or making them seem as though they are 'out of touch
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No, I mean most American cities. Berlin is not like Munich or Frankfurt - and does not fit the template of most other German cities. It's quite a bit bigger and spread out. That said - it's more like Frankfurt than it is LA. Also
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FYI I should say 'large cities' - especially North American ones. Please like Munich, Frankfurt feel pretty 'small town' relatively speaking. People tend to stay put a lot longer (like forever, even hundreds of years ove
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Maybe he's a caricature, but he's 100% right. I grew up going to school in the burbs, all summer in a small home-town - and have lived in several major cities. 'City people' are definitely more about the money. Small tow
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It's crazy that devs would ever think sales is easy. Sales is usually a lot harder than development. It's why they get paid so much. Unless you're selling something easy, and have deep contacts etc.. It's a rough, rough
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I didn't it read it as curmudgeon. I think people these days are just not emotionally honest, people have to be 'positive' all the time.
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