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2 Things About That Google Memo…(medium.com)
44 points by m52go 9y ago|9 comments
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by m52go 9y ago
It's hard for me to follow your argument. > By “bar”, I mean that most hiring practices are crap. Agreed. > People pretend that it’s skills-based, but it’s skills-based with a bias toward people like yourself. Presumably, you mea
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by m52go 9y ago
Yeah that's another problem. People immediately assume the worst as soon as you say something even the least bit supportive of 'the other side'. Trump tries to get rid of unnecessary regulations "Guys, I think Trump mi
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by m52go 9y ago
> I do not falsely equate attempts to deny people fair civil rights (as the modern GOP does routinely, in terms of race, gender, gender identity, and so many other ways) as “opinion” so much as institutionalized violence The issue is tha
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by m52go 9y ago
Relevant: Stossel's Racist Bake Sale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDVnzQD_FVU&t=88s
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by m52go 9y ago
I really wanted to love this machine but couldn't find one that wasn't a lemon. Went through 3 of them. A well-specced model with 4k screen, 16GB memory, and 512GB SSD. First had a bad screen, second had sticky keys, and third had
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by m52go 9y ago
"but but there is NO job humans can do that a robot cannot do" this is the gist of the reactions i got to a comment i made on an article on a similar topic here a few days ago. this article better articulated what i was trying to
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by m52go 9y ago
I think the issue there is determining who is worth training. But yeah in general I agree with you.
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by m52go 9y ago
And I predict the posters on that wall will be replaced for every generation. The simple logical flaw with the notion that robots will render human beings useless: okay, then who makes the robots better? Who designs them? Who helps them? Wh
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by m52go 9y ago
I already up-voted you, but thank you again for articulating so well what I couldn't elsewhere in this thread.
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by m52go 9y ago
I used the farming example because it's the most accessible one, but labor shifts happen all the time. This is far from a sample size of 1. Don't take my comments as a proclamation that "NOTHING SHALL CHANGE, AS THERE IS NO N
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by m52go 9y ago
Because human capital is a market of jobs, and the analogy attempts to compare that entire market to 1 job/industry within that market (horses). When horses became obsolete, the car industry rose, and tens of thousands of people were
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by m52go 9y ago
Still, the concept of robots killing jobs forever is exaggerated. AI is incredible and only going to become even more incredible. But the creativity of the human spirit will always reign supreme. A robot cannot start a new venture to fill a
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by m52go 9y ago
That's a terrible analogy. You're using 1 job as a parallel for all of human capital.
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by m52go 9y ago
Yeah, if you're talking about underemployment, that's a huge issue, but I think that's more market-driven than skills-driven. People are generally over-qualified than under-qualified. Too many people are taking on obscene lev
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by m52go 9y ago
I don't like Facebook, and I don't particularly like Zuckerberg, but I highly respect the guy. He's clearly a very smart person. But I think the leader of a country needs to live life a bit more before leading a country. If h
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by m52go 9y ago
I don't understand how people so smart can be fooled by the idea that automation will permanently take jobs away from the economy. Jobs will shift, but thinking we need cash handouts for people to live on (because all the jobs will jus
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by m52go 9y ago
In general, politicians don't hurt themselves or their friends. Trump won't be the first or last politician to operate like that.
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by m52go 9y ago
Advocating 'fairness' is easy but living it is different. How many white people should give up opportunities because of this injustice? Not all of them, surely, but just certain ones...which ones? Who decides? What's the crit
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by m52go 9y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I think there's a fine line between what I'll call white privilege and white preference. White privilege is a complex system of societal advantage. There's nothing Sam (in this case) did to deserv
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by m52go 9y ago
This point would have merit if there was any reason to think Y Combinator systematically gives white men preference over others to run its organization. There's no evidence I've seen to suggest that. While women and minorities sho
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by m52go 9y ago
What does being white have to do with this?
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by m52go 9y ago
You're free to criticize their economics, but their bias for everyday news tends to be more objective than that most others.
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by m52go 9y ago
Correct. Mises and Reason are libertarian, not republican.
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by m52go 9y ago
Eh. Tough question. You don't want to make the mistake of using sources with an opposite mindset to the prevailing media. Prevailing media has a strong democratic bias. Opposing media has a strong republican bias (breitbart, oann, etc)
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by m52go 9y ago
I'm going to plug my project 100 Million Books here, because it seems to align with some of the ideals in the article/book. Some specific ideas that align (these are all direct quotes from the article): * The Accumulibrary is both
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by m52go 9y ago
Hey thanks, I tried searching but couldn't put the right words together. This is helpful.
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Ask HN: Ubuntu desktop virtualizion service?
2 points by m52go 9y ago|3 comments
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by m52go 9y ago
What's a good use-case for this?
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by m52go 9y ago
How is the Priv? Is it correct to think of it as a hardened version of Android? Been looking for something more secure than vanilla Android.

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