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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The logic of your well-thought out and ponderous argument is utterly overwhelming. Actually it's a pretty straightforward consequence of the HN guidelines, which clearly do not forbid all political discussion; just "politics for
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It only looks that way from an extreme-left perspective. Which only appears to be "extreme left" if you're coming from a, well... (nevermind) perspective. The point is, yeah, everyone has a perspective (and yes, biases). W
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It's not that kind of an "investment". It's more less obviously a charitable donation.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Why has this been posted here? Because it relates to the public doings of YC, which are always on-topic (overriding the "no politics per se" rule).
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Groundbreaking system allows locked-in syndrome patients to communicate(theguardian.com)
4 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
If he had "defied" (i.e. not endorsed) him during the campaign season, we might not be in the mess we're in now.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Not a dumb question at all. Questions like these are the very heart of physics, actually.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
This seems fine for a single job but if you have dozens to manage it would become unwieldy. Just like with good old... cron jobs. One wonders what's really new under the sun, here. We even have to put "use strict" up at th
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It's not a "trial balloon" for a coup. It is form of a coup, albeit of a softer, slower-moving sort. For as long as people agree to go along with it, that is.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
San Francisco isn't Silicon Valley. But it's definitely part of it, now. It got annexed a long time ago.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Nice collection. But from the look of these photos, you'd think the person slapping the title on top was at most... about 21 or so. "1940s? 60s? 90s? It all looks the same." BTW, if you're wondering why the Sally Rand
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
None the less, why is pay down immediately bad? Because, you know, people start to suffer, can't afford to make rent or mortgage payments, take their kids out to the movies, etc. Stuff like that. Which I know may seem kind abstract,
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Stealing an almost immeasurably small amount of money from a hedge fund and giving it to a home owner is not exactly "robbing widows and orphans" territory." The amount of money involved was hardly insignificant. Per WP: &
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Mark Zuckerberg drops lawsuits to force hundreds of Hawaiians to sell him land(theguardian.com)
4 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
And what would be a better measure? I don't know, right off. May well be there isn't any such "measure", for the higher end. Especially none as highly contention as that provided by so-called IQ tests (which in any c
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LSD study reveals why acid trips last so long(theguardian.com)
4 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Except that "brilliance" != high IQ.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Apparently in internal Palantir communications he talks about how their software helps the good hobbits resist the evil orcs and stuff. It's amazing how easy nerds are to distract from the true implications of the work they do.
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First human-pig 'chimera' created in milestone study(theguardian.com)
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Girls believe brilliance is a male trait, research into gender stereotypes shows(theguardian.com)
26 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|29 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Hmm, I thought it was implied by the language in the second paragraph, but having read it again I'm not so sure. So yeah, the lack of having (thus far) given notice would complicate things a bit. Either way, on balance, I hope he won&
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Same story as always: You did the right thing -- you gave these people proper notice, and agreed to postpone your exit until the release date on your current project (i.e. already making a significant concession to your current employer,
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
It's not an official government position that millions of illegal immigrants voted, it's Trump's personal opinion. Much like it was Obama's opinion that Trump would never be President. Do you see a difference between s
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
A significant finding, to be sure. But like the paper itself says: Here we demonstrate classification of skin lesions using a single CNN, trained end-to-end from images directly, using only pixels and disease labels as inputs. What they
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I looked at the election results and saw a sea of red from coast to coast, with Hilary doing well in high population areas but losing majority everywhere else. But you understand the part about the "sea of red" mostly reflecting
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
This is a different memo than the one describing the revival of "black sites" discussed recently; the Huffington Post seems to be the first to have picked it up. Brief snippet of their discussion: UPDATE 1/25/17: HuffP
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Executive Order – Protecting the Nation Against Attacks by Foreign Nationals(scribd.com)
2 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|1 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The departments weren't told to withdraw from social media permanently. They were just told to hold off for a few days until suitable Inner Party operatives could be installed.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
But they aren't supposed to be unflinching propaganda machines in the style of Stalin, Goebbels, or the Kim Il Sung either. And yet, based on the blatant counterfactuals the President's lieutenants have offered in regard to crowd
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
There is at least one study that support the President's beliefs on millions of people voting illegally. ... There is a Harvard rebuttal to that study... This rebuttal, you mean? "This paper documents how low-level measurement e

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