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by khawkins 7y ago
The message should be, whether intended or not, for Martha to send this comic to her boss and begin scheduling brainstorming meetings. With the vast plethora of introductory resources for ML today, there's no good excuse for both supe
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by khawkins 7y ago
If the soil has been depleted of nutrients like magnesium, I'd bet that practices which largely shun fertilizers are going to exacerbate any problem in this regard.
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by khawkins 7y ago
Ever since I realized they will inform users directly of who's looking at their profile my trust in the platform plummeted.
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by khawkins 7y ago
Pernicious attacks on landlords because of some perceived collusion amongst them is ugly. The landlords aren't any more to blame for the lack of supply than their tenants or the politicians. There's obviously money to be had in l
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by khawkins 7y ago
Honestly, I think the near constant exaltation of problems like the Riemann Hypothesis, P=NP, Fermat's last theorem, etc. is more damaging to the field than good. Many of these theorems have dubious application to anything practical w
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by khawkins 7y ago
That's an extremely weak analogy and fails to refute my point.
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by khawkins 7y ago
I think it's important to be aware of conflicts of interest like this, but that's not what's being discussed, and the solutions offered aren't attacking this type of problem.
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by khawkins 7y ago
I don't understand why there is so much push back against the nebulous threats like targeted advertising. Advertising is unquestionably here to stay and it's hard to believe that people would rather have irrelevant ads to relevant
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by khawkins 7y ago
Even in the late 90s/early 2000s they had a program set up in my district which gamified reading books. For the books in the program you could choose to take a quiz that would effectively test whether you read and comprehended the cont
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by khawkins 7y ago
>Something about the school procurement process that knocks all the nuance or subtlety out of the goals. The people authorizing the deals, administrators and school boards, aren't incentivized to improve outcomes, they're incen
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by khawkins 7y ago
An inheritance tax is a solution for wealth inequality in the same way that picking at a scab gets rid of the scab. Sure, it might be satisfying to get rid of, but it only causes the wound to bleed more, a new scab will form, and getting ri
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by khawkins 7y ago
The relatively high income of the most wealthy isn't the problem unless your primary motivation is spiteful envy of the wealthy. The real problems are that it's harder than it was in the past to maintain a middle class lifestyle.
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by khawkins 7y ago
Went into the data and took the top 1000 individuals with self cite percentages over 40%, then sorted by institution. Nearly every major institution had individuals in this group: Johns Hopkins (4), Cal Tech (4), Georgia Tech (2), MIT (5),
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by khawkins 7y ago
>The Internet cannot remain free if we allow governments to use their power to control narratives and suppress the truth. I wish more people applied this same line of reasoning towards the US-based social media companies themselves. If w
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by khawkins 7y ago
Most of this is obviously desirable, but the explicit message is "we commit to doing good", with the implicit message being "we can be trusted to do good". The mechanisms which guarantee these promises are wholly unaddr
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by khawkins 7y ago
Who's we? The west has been scaling back polluting processes year after year. The vast majority of plastic in the ocean comes from Asia and Africa, and the west is talking about eliminating plastic straws. The west is talking about e
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by khawkins 7y ago
How did your line of thinking go from "scientists find trace amounts of plastics in snow" to "the planet will soon be uninhabitable"? What makes this sort of apocalyptic thinking any more rational than a doomsday cult?
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by khawkins 7y ago
Here's an excellent video breaking down with extremely compelling data how the "trending" tab is very heavily manipulated in favor of mainstream media sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqBeXJ8Zx8 What
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by khawkins 7y ago
This reads not as a respectful remembrance of the history of the brutal practice of slavery, but an attempt to suggest slavery is a consequence of capitalism and is thus also evil. That since they are both fundamentally exploitative, today
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by khawkins 7y ago
Link to the original article, strangely absent from this piece: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09959-4.pdf They include politicians and business people in their analysis, and though they do acknowledge it a
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by khawkins 7y ago
The "highlights" section is very fishy to include in a scientific report. It's very easy to misinterpret trends when you cherry-pick extrema out of data affected by cyclical trends and stochastic processes with relatively hi
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by khawkins 7y ago
I think all of the above comments hint at this but don't state this explicitly: One of the general problems with growth is that it always and necessarily plateaus, and the growth stage has different dynamics compared to the plateau sta
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by khawkins 7y ago
>The most ideologically motivated or extreme posts and comments on Hacker News—an interview piece from Quillette titled “Understanding Victimhood Culture”; a link to a video of James Damore and Jordan Peterson in conversation; one user t
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by khawkins 7y ago
You should spend less time watching PETA videos and more time watching videos produced by experts in the field. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsEbvwMipJI
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by khawkins 7y ago
Playing whack-a-mole with extremist communities is only going to drive them together under a common threat and make them more desperate. The dedicated ones install a tor client and go further underground. The not-so-dedicated ones leave.
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by khawkins 7y ago
Clearly you understood what I was trying to say, you're just acting dumb to avoid directly engaging with it. These arguments can be directly used to argue for the suppression of Islamic religious speech. Using the same "guilt by
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by khawkins 7y ago
It's fascinating to compare it to the desperate fight for Net Neutrality. HN was hysterical when faced with a hypothetical threat, but when we see real examples of censorship the response is filled with apologist arguments and hand-wr
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by khawkins 7y ago
Your definition of "justice" is warped beyond recognition. Justice doesn't mean bad things don't happen, it means people who wrong others pay for their actions. Thousands of people every year are randomly murdered for n
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by khawkins 7y ago
How many people had to die on 9/11 to protect the free speech rights of Muslims? It is undeniable that those terrorist attacks have a direct connection to the ideas being spread by those Mosques. How many Muslims have "skin in
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by khawkins 7y ago
And yet, we let Islam continue to be preached in this nation. When will we recognize that extremist ideologies like these can not be allowed to fester? Freedom of speech needs its limits.

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