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by lhnz 10y ago
The evidence is often correct. It's the assignment of weight to each claim, lack of charity when reading, and therefore output of the truth-o-meter which is biased. This isn't just rhetoric; it can be evaluated rationally. Worth s
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by lhnz 10y ago
It's not but it is often very misleading. I don't think the fake news is actually what won the election anyway. If anything it was Wikileaks' extreme authenticity that won the election, and I'm struggling to understand h
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by lhnz 10y ago
I wonder if this will be as sketchy as politifact? I hope it won't be, but I reckon it might be. (What I mean is: extremely uncharitable readings of things that they don't like, but overly charitable readings of anything that they
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by lhnz 10y ago
I think what he's saying is that true, lasting happiness comes from "unselfish sacrifice and compromise" to one another, instead of from from finding a "match somewhere that is maximally mutually compatible". That i
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by lhnz 10y ago
Whenever I have taken the small amount of cryptography knowledge I already have and tried to use it in a project, I've often been shutdown with "the system already does that" when it doesn't, or "this will be too co
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by lhnz 10y ago
It would be nice if this algorithm could be created in a more localised form, so that you could take a photo and apply the effect with different intensities as if you were using a brush. Merely because sometimes it gets things wrong, and I
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by lhnz 10y ago
function thisIsBad ({ someKey: renamedSomeKey, someOtherKey: renamedSomeOtherKey = 'otherDefaultValue', meta: { innerMetaKey = 'someInnerMetaKeyValue', otherInnerMetaKey, ...remainingMeta } } = { s
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by lhnz 10y ago
I am not blaming the victim. A sender of an email should not bear responsibility for an underlying email system's poor information security (expect in specific cases in which they are highly-technical and are transferring highly co
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by lhnz 10y ago
You can't just blame the attacker, it's poor information security practice which enabled the leaks.
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by lhnz 10y ago
> We should all feel a duty to try to understand the roughly > half of the country that thinks we are severely misguided. > I don’t understand how 43% of the country supports Trump. > But I’d like to find out, because
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by lhnz 10y ago
It's not dirty to merely express yourself, but it still might have unintended consequences. If you lose, and they turn out just to be a TV personality that is ineffectual politically it will hurt your credibility. And, if you win, mayb
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by lhnz 10y ago
Trump also has high education, non-luddite supporters or at the very least supporters that could be brought over to considering investing in a future America that makes itself 'Great' through government spending on infrastructure
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by lhnz 10y ago
Of course. But on the other hand Clinton also doesn't have a squeaky past. When it comes down to it, you either (1) just let people vote for the candidate they prefer, or you (2) fight dirty by: censoring them, massaging negative narra
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by lhnz 10y ago
I think it's much more likely that rather than "opposing democracy" he is attempting to connect a pro-technology viewpoint to an anti-globalisation one, and wishes to position himself politically so that he can eventually lev
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by lhnz 10y ago
There is literally a photo of Putin in the top-right header of that page. Insanely conspiratorial and reminiscent of the cold war.
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by lhnz 10y ago
How can you distance yourself from Thiel if he has shown no interest in being connected to you? It's never going to be this easy to delegitimise someone when they are widely known as being more credible than yourself. If YC was to pull
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by lhnz 10y ago
Is a bank suddenly dropping a company as a customer something which happens often? It seems quite unusual to me.
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by lhnz 10y ago
Does this connect to the other report about Julian Assange's internet [0] being cut by state powers? It is honestly really difficult to believe that this is a coincidence. And, although obviously this opinion is completely circumstanti
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by lhnz 10y ago
Whether or not we see the value in selfie-sticks, we surely must find at least a little value in people that design solutions at least being able to recoup the costs of development? It's quite likely, that there are solutions that exis
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by lhnz 10y ago
No, what I mean is that if you rate the cool kids as better than the normal candidates, then it suggests that the cool kids do not think your test is an appropriate measure of ability. If that is the case, either the cool kids are wrong and
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by lhnz 10y ago
> If an elite candidate balks [something personally negative about them] It could also be that your interview process is bad and you should change it. Perhaps the elite candidate is a canary in a coal mine, and fixing your interview woul
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by lhnz 10y ago
> Just for example, there’s someone > I’ve worked with, let’s call him > Joe, who’s saved two different projects > by doing the grunt work necessary to > keep the project from totally imploding. > The projec
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by lhnz 10y ago
Nice snark. But, the point isn't to trust a Twitter account, the point is to read the actual scientific literature that they linked to... As others have pointed out already [0] IAT hasn't faired well in the replication crisis. Of
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by lhnz 10y ago
Implicit bias tests could end up becoming another big embarrassment for psychology. Worth reading this tweet storm [0] for the little amount of conflicting [1] literature that is available. I wouldn't treat a Vox article as evidence th
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by lhnz 10y ago
Yes - it is a possible attack vector but that doesn't necessarily mean it shouldn't be attempted.
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by lhnz 10y ago
I wrote a reply to you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12655745 You can't do what I'm suggesting already. You're thinking of sending data to backend APIs which is completely different from sending
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by lhnz 10y ago
For example, say I ran a command to show disk space usage. Perhaps I would like to pipe the output into a d3 visualisation and see it directly within the terminal without context switching. Why shouldn't I be allowed to do this? Have y
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by lhnz 10y ago
Is customising the shell prompt with a PS1 variable good though? The result often lacks clarity. I don't think the shell should be handling styling. I also think the shell became less useful when modern application development began to
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by lhnz 10y ago
Educate me then. Is Hyper unable to encroach onto the product feature space of the shell due to a particularly rigid terminology? Are the reasons for the current separation of concerns still optimal?
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by lhnz 10y ago
I don't think there needs to be a discussion and central planning over whether there 'needs to be UX innovation'. It however does make it easier which increases the chances of useful innovation occurring naturally. * * *

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