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by lukev 11y ago
Maybe they should have called it something other than "autopilot", then.
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by lukev 11y ago
One other thing which both this and PG's original theory get wrong: Their basic premise is wrong, if bias continues to exist after the selection event in question. For example, if YC had (hypothetically) a real bias against black or wo
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by lukev 11y ago
You keep re-framing this in terms of "a workplace confrontation," yet your only engagement with this situation, at all , is an eyewitness account claiming it was problematic. Negating and ignoring the subjective experience of wom
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by lukev 11y ago
This argument is insidious, because it's extremely difficult to document a pattern, particularly when folk come out of the woodwork to undermine each and every individual anecdote claiming sexism (as in this and every other thread like
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by lukev 11y ago
If there is a systemic problem, then yes, loud, fervent and frequent verbal raging from all quarters is an appropriate response. "Keep your head down" has never been a constructive strategy for minority groups targeted by discri
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by lukev 11y ago
I'm saying that to deliberately undermine and dismiss the experiences of women in our field, in a public forum, is sexist . This is true regardless of whether you find their rhetoric agreeable or not.
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by lukev 11y ago
So, this is subtle, because everything you say is good advice and can't really be argued against. Calm down, don't overreact, give the benefit of the doubt, be constructive, etc, etc. These are basic, undeniable principles of good
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by lukev 11y ago
The author also gives her analysis of the situation, to which you give no credence at all. In other words, when a woman writes an entire post about an experience: "I perceive sexism at my workplace", your immediate reaction is &qu
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by lukev 11y ago
What problem is this pointing out? Sexism , obviously. And your response is another, classic example of the same problem; you're willing to give the guy in the story the benefit of the doubt while summarily dismissing the woman&#x27
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by lukev 11y ago
Not that I disagree, but of all the problems in our society, those suffered by our poor celebrities are somehow the least of my concerns.
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My data was hacked. Are credit monitoring services at all worthwhile?
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by lukev 11y ago
Yes. They're also very isolated from eachother (compared to processes in most other languages) and, notably, do not share the same object heap. Hence my question.
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by lukev 11y ago
I've been learning Elixir and liking it very much. One question I have, though, coming from Clojure, is how to quantify the cost of sending large data structures between processes. I'm so used to shared-memory concurrency that it
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by lukev 11y ago
I actually don't think that's true. Sure, our curriculum doesn't cover each of these mechanics. But they do cover the basic properties of levers, pendulums, pulleys, gears, cams, chains/belts, levers, etc. Every single o
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by lukev 11y ago
So I have a VPN I use already on my iPhone for sensitive things. Seems like I should use it all the time. Is it possible to make a VPN connection mandatory on a consumer iPhone? It's really a pain having to reconnect manually after I h
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by lukev 11y ago
The hard SF novel Blindsight , by Peter Watts, is an excellent and extremely interesting exploration of this idea and its ramifications.
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by lukev 11y ago
One thing the article doesn't mention is how this changes the final time to have all people processed. Wouldn't this result in (for example) flights leaving later, if people were in competition to arrive last?
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by lukev 11y ago
Except that as long as you use a unique password, and don't give any details that you don't mind falling into the wrong hands, there is absolutely no risk . Unlike, for example, actual mines.
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by lukev 11y ago
As someone who uses Tmux for this purpose every day, pair programming with a content aware pair programming editor is a very different experience. Typing at once in different parts of the code would be a huge boon to pair programming (tha
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by lukev 11y ago
I wonder why "drones" have recently gained so much mindshare. It is true that autonomous drones are a new thing. But 90% of the reporting I see on "drones" is about small radio-controlled aircraft, which have been arou
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by lukev 11y ago
Sounds like I'm in a minority, but as a broad-shouldered guy I would happily make the tradeoff of having someones face in my line of site for an extra four inches of shoulder room. Half the time I get off a flight, I have a backache fr
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by lukev 11y ago
How sad is it that the "protest" they come up with is to deactivate their accounts for a day ?. Facebook is terrible. Ditch it entirely. Or do like I do and leave up a bare bones page with a bit of contact information for old f
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by lukev 11y ago
Assuming you aren't actually pushing them in far enough to press against your eardrums, you're fine. The physical feeling you get is just pressure on your outer ear canal - it might be uncomfortable (though it shouldn't be, t
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by lukev 11y ago
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.fr/2009/07/why-carl... Relevant obnoxious quote, in a sea of drivel: In all these relationships, the structure of obligation is the same. The subject, serf, or slave is
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by lukev 11y ago
It is germane to point out that it isn't simply "political" writing or blogging. Moldbug has several essays that are explicitly racist, and though he would no doubt dispute the relationship, the vocabulary and arguments he us
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by lukev 11y ago
Oh, certainly. But western philosophy prior to the enlightenment (and for a bit after) was dominated by scholastic or otherwise theologically-based thought.
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by lukev 11y ago
Hah, hope you're being sarcastic. Consciousness/thought existing prior to matter is the foundation of most ancient philosophy. In fact, it's only become increasingly fashionable in the last couple centuries to posit matter as
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by lukev 11y ago
You said the phrase "risk a conviction" a couple times, in favor of plea bargains. That is precisely the problem. If I am wrongfully charged with a crime, and my best option is a plea bargain, then it is effectively irrelevant
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by lukev 11y ago
This is why a lot of commercial databases have a "you may not publish benchmarks" clause in the license. It seems unfair and restrictive, but benchmarking is hard , and even where users get everything else right every data load i
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by lukev 12y ago
Well, in some sense the exact opposite is true... If he weren't ambitious, then watching TV wouldn't be a waste of time. It would just be something he enjoys doing. The fact that he has some ambition is what causes him to feel gui

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