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by karpierz 4y ago
That's punting the problem of explaining down the line. All the PV tells you is the computer is making this move because it thinks that 20 moves down the line, you'll end up in some desirable position. It doesn't abstract or
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by karpierz 4y ago
> All existentialists need to give ol' Darwin a read. The only truth is survival. You're saying that all existentialists should just be nihilists. All nihilists need to give the ol' The Myth of Sisyphus a read. Actually re
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think parent poster's point is that security is a continuous, not binary, value. Things aren't secure/not secure. They simply have a cost for breaking them. The goal of effective security is to make that cost larger than th
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by karpierz 4y ago
How did Slashdot's voting system work?
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> In your hypothetical, institutions would quickly realize that a bunch of non-college graduates were just as smart as college graduates. Which would cause those institutions to move away from income as a means of deciding who gets in; m
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by karpierz 4y ago
Let's steelman that a bit. If you structured society such that only the top 0.5% of households by income could send their kids to college, you'd find that a lot of your successful entrepreneurs, judges, scientists, etc. went to co
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by karpierz 4y ago
I think this is conflating two phenomenon. The parent poster was asking: Do companies push for the creation regulatory bodies to stifle competition? Whereas regulatory capture is the process by which companies shape existing regulatory bodi
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by karpierz 4y ago
This scene really highlights the difference between the Clueless (Joffrey) and the Sociopath (Tywin): https://youtu.be/BM6kMHH-G64
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by karpierz 4y ago
You don't need to be afraid of Sociopaths as written. Especially not if you're just starting out. Rather, think of them as massive waves on the ocean. They don't care whether you ride them to shore or are shattered beneath th
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by karpierz 4y ago
He brings up lichess briefly: > 69. Upon announcing the Merger, it was reported that “With this, there is no other realistic chess competitor in sight (apart from the open-source and free Lichess platform), raising questions about monopo
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by karpierz 4y ago
He insinuates that by merging Chess.com and PlayMagnus, Chess is basically all owned by the same entity.
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by karpierz 4y ago
Your comment was flagged because you're arguing against a strawman of liberal ideology. If someone holds your views, then you don't need to convince them. If someone doesn't hold your views, then you haven't given them a
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by karpierz 4y ago
It does suck. It's also the nature of business, speculative investment. Sometimes you invest capital in something and don't see returns. If you want the employee to own the capital costs, then they better see capital returns as we
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by karpierz 4y ago
> I think it is feasible for a dating site to figure that out, given enough data. I've worked on the developer-side of this; I assure you, it's not. It's hard enough to predict if people will exchange messages with any rea
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by karpierz 4y ago
This model ignores a key incentive: dating apps that don't successfully match won't be used. So at best, the developer is incentivized to have the user find someone to date in the short term and have the relationship fail in a man
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by karpierz 4y ago
Largely agree on your post, but one nit: > If the US couldn't find buyers to finance its spending, it would default on its debt. Why would the US have to default on its debt, when the debt is denominated in a currency that the US ca
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by karpierz 4y ago
Poker would also break if you could just use algorithms to tell you how much to bet and when to fold. I suppose any strategic, turn-based game breaks down as soon as you have a world class engine for it.
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by karpierz 4y ago
> Using a computer engine is part of learning and preparing in chess (AFAICT). What other sport has a similar issue where an extremely useful and essential and highly available tool in the sport is considered cheating based entirely on u
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by karpierz 4y ago
> it is estimated that 90% of new world natives died of smallpox and viral herpes immediately following contact with europeans Can you give an academic citation for this? I can't find anything that would support these numbers, they&
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by karpierz 4y ago
> Small pox wiped out double digit percentages of the indigenous population and devastated their society. This is the kind of cherry picking I was talking about. It'd be like saying "disease killed a large portion of Jews durin
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by karpierz 4y ago
The only book I've read on this list, Guns, Germs, and Steel, is heavily discredited amongst historians because it bases its conclusions on cherrypicked, exaggerated, or outright wrong facts, and also relies on some specious reasoning
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by karpierz 4y ago
The cream generally rises, sure. But at what rate? And how long will they stay in the game without recognition before giving up? And do those numbers differ based on your color or where you're from?
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by karpierz 4y ago
Here's the issue: you've come to a conclusion, and then you're using that conclusion as an assumption to dismiss evidence against it. For example: you say that it seems unlikely that Franklin considered Irish people inferior,
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by karpierz 4y ago
Benjamin Franklin[0]: > Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionally very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so
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by karpierz 4y ago
> Imagine being able to blacklist domains from your results. That would basically solve the problem, because the first time you encounter spammy garbage you'd simply nuke it forever. Can this extension solve your problem? https:&#x
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by karpierz 4y ago
Isn't that what a class-action lawsuit is for?
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by karpierz 4y ago
Where did you get that from the article? It's not saying "women are different than men", it's saying "journalists treat female managers less professionally than male ones".
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by karpierz 4y ago
> At some point we should outsource our armies and perhaps even governments. Funnily enough, this was how war functioned in Europe between 1500-1750s. Armies were too expensive to maintain, so states hired mercenaries. The problem was th
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by karpierz 4y ago
Fun fact: due to the small labor market for terrorists and education spurring political interests, terrorists are disproportionally well-educated men from upper class families. Essentially, they're very intense lobbyists. Citation: ht

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