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by karpierz 5y ago
Can you cite a source here?
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by karpierz 5y ago
What does it mean for a country to "strive to improve"? Do you expect a country to flourish when you siphon off the educated? People won't return until the country improves, and the country won't "strive to improve&
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by karpierz 5y ago
Slavery isn't particular to capitalism, but definitely is not in contrast to it or separate from it. Even if you relegate it to far-off countries and simply import goods from them without asking how the goods were made.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Communism as a concept doesn't allow for power imbalances. I don't think some idealized version of capitalism is particularly useful here.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Why are you contrasting slavery with capitalism when it was, and still is part of capitalism?
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by karpierz 5y ago
Women can get jobs.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Thanks for the grounding take; I'd appreciate hearing more about your experience if you wouldn't mind. Either here or offline if you'd rather not share publicly.
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by karpierz 5y ago
Tangentially related, do you have any advice for moving into indie game development from a regular software engineering job at a big tech company?
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by karpierz 5y ago
> Most of the time, they do so by hiding their money. They hide their money, in legal way. Specifically by misclassification. For example, you claim that a residence is your primary residence for tax purposes, but don't live in it.
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by karpierz 5y ago
It's mob rule. If the majority believes that the transaction should be reversed, it will be. There are no laws. There is no constitution. Worse yet, your vote is directly proportional to your wealth. Or you allow for Sybil attacks.
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by karpierz 5y ago
So the court can decide to transfer any assets at will, without the consent of anyone else on the blockchain?
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by karpierz 5y ago
Those are measuring crime within a city, not comparing cities. Though I think you're going to have a hard time separating 'walkability', and other features of old European cities.
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by karpierz 5y ago
You're applying your biases to the data. All the data says is that women think that the average man on OkCupid in 2009 is less attractive than the average man. Your conclusion: women don't rate mens' attractiveness accurately
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by karpierz 5y ago
We have ironed out the kinks, it's just that Peloton decided to remove some of the safety features (IE, a guard at the bottom to stop feet from getting stuck under) to make it look sleeker.
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by karpierz 5y ago
> the fundamental problem of women in this day and age have a totally distorted view of the range of "attractiveness" for men. Can you explain what you mean? Are you saying that the reason that modern dating is hard is because
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by karpierz 6y ago
> Uber does not let you choose your clients because they discovered discrimination occurred based on who the client was and where they were being picked up from. This assumes that the only solution for Uber is to stop drivers from select
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by karpierz 6y ago
How do you know whether the test data is distributed similarly to the training data without an underlying model of how the system works? Put differently, how do you know what matters for your tests? If you have a machine-learned model, you&
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by karpierz 6y ago
Explainability isn't needed when your training set encompasses your test set, in the conditions that are meaningful. You have a heuristic which says "stuff tends to fall down to Earth", which you learned by tossing things in
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by karpierz 6y ago
You could also argue that altruism isn't real, and doing altruistic acts is rewarding for the individual, but that seems a little reductionist.
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by karpierz 6y ago
People use Ponzi schemes, would you consider them useful?
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by karpierz 6y ago
Blockchain has neither a durability or availability SLA.
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by karpierz 6y ago
> arguably the most effective military in the world Militaries are political tools, and different countries have different goals. It'd be like saying a laptop is better than a data center.
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by karpierz 6y ago
Generally the benefit of vouching for someone is that they join the community, and you personally want them to join the community.
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by karpierz 6y ago
I should be clearer. I don't mean corporate taxes, I mean capital gains. Ghanaian engineers will produce intellectual capital for Twitter, whose value will be primarily sent back to the United States.
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by karpierz 6y ago
> Every country that managed to get out of poverty did it by moving up the value chain from subsistence farming to eg. textile manufacturing to eg. electronics. Yes, but they also built domestic industries which had its gains taxed and u
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by karpierz 6y ago
Artists want to be paid proportional to impact; how many people are interacting with the work. I'd love to move to a world where media is funded in advance (regardless of effort) and then released for free, but I don't think that
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by karpierz 6y ago
And for all of that privilege, she still has to navigate the disadvantage of being a female founder.
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by karpierz 6y ago
I don't think a survival guide is meant to elicit sympathy, it's just supposed to provide practical advice for people in similar circumstances. If someone wrote a personal guide on how to survive if you're bitten by a snake,
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by karpierz 6y ago
> While it’s possible that some homes in this category are indeed being kept off-market by an owner holding out for a larger payout down the line, given the breadth of this category it’s implausible that this category represents any mean
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by karpierz 6y ago
You can think of "acting on the world" as resolving questions about the world, like "what happens when I do X"? You could observe the results of others acting, but it means that the questions you're getting answers

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