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by leftyted 7y ago
Watson is a very good writer - and funny. I've heard a lot of unsavory things about him but I've also heard that his unique perspective led directly to the climate at CSHL which positioned the lab to be at the center of so many br
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by leftyted 7y ago
It remains to be seen whether the charges under the Espionage Act stick. They may not and I don't think they should. But it seems a bit breathless to declare these charges a "threat to journalism". Assange participated in
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think calling this "offensive" is a bit silly. Pushing everything into the box of "marginalized minority oppressed by uncaring majority" is getting old. In our society, waking up early-ish is advantageous. And not j
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by leftyted 7y ago
Different people said different things. What I thought, and still think, is that the idea that Assange would be executed is absurd. I also thought that the idea of Assange being whisked away to "black site" is absurd.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> If I had an extra sum of money the last thing on my mind would be games Bully for you.
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by leftyted 7y ago
> It can't all be automated yet, not some machine learning algorithm dreamt up be Facebook is any better of a prospect. Some of it is automated. Youtube removes/demonitizes stuff based on automated checks. I suspect other pla
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by leftyted 7y ago
It seems unlikely to me that there is no coordination between left wing media institutions. They say the same things at the same time using the same language. I don't read much right-wing media. I'm not saying there's a sha
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Do they have that narrative though? We already have affirmative action, which is the explicit inclusion of race/gender/class in admissions criteria. We are already a long ways from pure meritocracy. I think affirmative action
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by leftyted 7y ago
> The narratives aren’t superfluous, but they are at best aspirational. This a paraphrase of what I wrote. > Universities are not certainly not meritocracies, and the justice system certainly does not treat everyone equally. Neither i
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by leftyted 7y ago
I also went to a highly ranked school. It wasn't a perfect meritocracy but it was at least oriented towards merit. But my initial point remains: the idea of the meritocracy is necessary. I don't think universities can exist witho
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by leftyted 7y ago
I'd urge you to think more about this. You can imagine the same thing for murder trials: 10 million per victim or you go to jail. You can use the money to make the world better! I'm not so sure. These institutions have an embed
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by leftyted 7y ago
The OP is trying to say: "Google employees protesting the makeup of the AI Ethics council is disgraceful"
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by leftyted 7y ago
"Fascism" is used today to refer to "bad thing I don't like". It's a mistake to interpret diction literally. Yes, it would be lovely if people used the word "fascism" to refer to right-wing, ultra-na
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by leftyted 7y ago
Anonymity doesn't change the equation. No one on hackernews knows who I am but I still want the recognition of my peers (upvotes) which is why I'm posting here. The fact that everyone ultimately wants peer-approval means we need
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by leftyted 7y ago
> But, some people definitely do not care about "showing-off" when they put something up online. If you don't care about showing off then you won't publish anything. People who are actually altruistic won't tell
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by leftyted 7y ago
> The main goal of my blog was not to be interesting or show off That's what they all say. Humans are social creatures and the main motivator for anyone to do anything in public is to "show off" or "be interesting&quo
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by leftyted 7y ago
I read A Doll's House and Ghosts in high school. Ghosts ends with the main character's son, who has inherited syphilis from his father, insanely chanting "The sun, the sun, the sun, the sun." That ending is something th
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by leftyted 7y ago
You've convinced me that "I'm Against Podcasts" is a stupid statement. I think you're absolutely on-point for saying that, 10-20 years from now, we'll look back on podcasts that are widely acknowledged as class
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by leftyted 7y ago
Sure, The Velvet Underground's influence on pop music exceeded their popularity, but they were relatively successful, just not compared to The Beatles or to Dylan (who influenced Lou Reed and The Beatles). But who is The Velvet Undergr
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by leftyted 7y ago
Lou Reed made it pretty big though. I agree with the article. Especially this part: > Forget the lousy microphones and the dinky interstitial stock music — the thing that derails most podcasts is the blab. There are two kinds, more or l
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by leftyted 7y ago
This is an important point that is too often left unsaid. People today have an image of the Nazis organizing the deportation and murder of the Jews in a top-down fashion while everyone who wasn't German powerlessly looked on. But, ac
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by leftyted 8y ago
It's not misinformation. Colloquially when people in the US say "asian" they are only rarely referring to Indians or Pakistanis or Bangladeshis. They are almost always referring to Chinese or Japanese or Koreans. The cens
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by leftyted 8y ago
I think you're wrong. That quote assumes that when people think about "calling bullshit" in relation to the news that they would immediately think of Fox News or The National Enquirer. Is that wrong? Won't most Guardia
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by leftyted 8y ago
It's still interesting that Antarctic ice is growing (according to this study at least). I've certainly never heard that before. In fact I've heard lots about Antarctic ice melting. From the NASA press release: > “The go
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by leftyted 8y ago
HN has a good (partial) solution to the "twitter problem". Don't show "likes" to anyone but the person who made the comment.
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by leftyted 8y ago
> The rise of the warrior cop is bad enough, but what about a crack squad that has been chemically desensitized to killing in cold blood, taking orders from corrupt officials? I read Eichmann in Jerusalem recently. One of the main argum
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by leftyted 8y ago
> No-one has claimed that Assange provided Manning with any assistance compromising any computer systems. The US government has claimed exactly this in its indictment of Assange: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pre
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by leftyted 8y ago
I don't experience this kind of empathy very often. For example, I don't get upset when a plane crashes or there's a mass shooting. I can imagine myself in the position of the victims. I can imagine if someone I loved died
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by leftyted 8y ago
> Posting this here is likely karma suicide, but here we go; this is my perspective, and it's as valid as any other. Not all perspectives are equally valid. > Money is the ultimate drug, yet piling it up and walking over dead bod
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by leftyted 8y ago
Making video games is a dream job because lots of people want to make video games. Amazing that some people choose jobs for reasons other than high salary, job security, and low stress. Shocking that some people are actually motivated b

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