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by maest 6y ago
I don't appreciate the snide remark. This is a politically charged topic so any strong political affilications are notable. I would've also mentioned it if he had run for lib-dems or green or any other party.
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by maest 6y ago
I disagree. Or rather, I don't think this is about doing science. In many aspects of our lives we rely on the advice of experts. Personally, as I am not a trained biologist, I am unable to reliably decide if the arguments here are rig
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by maest 6y ago
I think the issues you've enumerated are actually different types of corruption (or not corruption at all) A country preferring copper internet because they have large stocks of copper (which makes the project cheaper) is arguably the
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by maest 6y ago
I believe you are underestimating the negative drag low level corruption has on the economy. It means setting up businesses or conducting any commercial activity is slow and fraught with hidden costs and risks. Information isn't usuall
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by maest 6y ago
This is a really big claim, so some background checking: The paper was published in the Quarterly Review of Biophysics[0] (this accepted version is materially different from the original link posted here). Only thing I could find about Birg
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by maest 6y ago
The username is pleasingly appropriate for the comment.
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by maest 6y ago
Arguably that's a contributor to the increase in wealth gap, which is what the GGGP post was originally about.
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by maest 6y ago
Idle speculation isn't very helpful.
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by maest 6y ago
Who is Naval? Their website doesn't have an "about me" page.
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by maest 6y ago
One of those is order of magnitude worse than the other. ...I really hope Musk is keeping his account secure.
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by maest 6y ago
The relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by maest 6y ago
Having hacked cars running on public roads - how do you think that will impact road safety? I'm all for people to control the hardware they buy, as long as they don't increase the risk of crashing into my car or running me over wh
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by maest 6y ago
For an example where betting on tech (tech startups, at least, which is considered a hot sector) hasn't played out, cnsider the Vision Fund.
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by maest 6y ago
Slightly off-topic: I would be interested in keeping up the latest cutting-edge science developements, but I expect a Nature subscription is too heavy-duty for that. Not necessarily because of the price, but I don't think I would end u
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Ask HN: What's Your Vim Setup?
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by maest 6y ago
For contrast, take this Hofstadter quote: > This, then, is the trillion-dollar question: Will the approach undergirding AI today—an approach that borrows little from the mind, that’s grounded instead in big data and big engineering—get u
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by maest 6y ago
A lot more has changed in the financial markets than just the way perofrmance is measured and which alphas are known. Some examples (not in chronological order, mostly US equities focused): electronic market makers, electronic order executi
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by maest 6y ago
Firefox on Android with ublock works just fine.
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by maest 6y ago
Please let me know if I understand correctly: You can't criticise anything that is purportedly done in the name of fighting racism?
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by maest 6y ago
> Did you really delete your account because they want to measure whether people are being discriminated against (with an opt out available)? Man, this comment and some similar sibling comments betray this mentality where racism is the u
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by maest 6y ago
You might be interested in learning more about the current Singaporean housing system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dBaEo4QplQ
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by maest 6y ago
Are you referencing some obscure in-joke? I know Tina Fey name drops Glover in 30Rock (where Glover worked as a writer for a while). She references him as "that black kid on Community". If you're honestly asking, no, he wasn&
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by maest 6y ago
"Advanced DnD" is probably one of the best episodes out there, shame they pulled it. Also, to echo some other comments here, Community gets plenty of its humour from racism towards black people. * Pierce thinks Shirley is Troy&#x2
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by maest 6y ago
This reasoning would be true only if YC was the only investor in town. In truth, the options actually are a superset of: * Do not raise * Join YC at a very low valuation and justify it with the nebulous value of the "YC network" *
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by maest 6y ago
I suspect people here can comprehend the idea without requiring a tortured programming-related metaphore.
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by maest 6y ago
It sounds to me that: 1. The NYPD isn't trying to replace their police workforce. They've simply stopped policing. 2. The current social ajd political environment would cause a hike in crime-rate regardless of police action, and i
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by maest 6y ago
I found it particularly jarring the this pushy behaviour is present on Windows10 Pro as well, which is supposed to be a "for business" edition of Windows.
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by maest 6y ago
I'm not at all familiar with arithmetic encoding (or adaptive version tehreof), but, after reading some guides, it seems to me that the novel thing here is using GPT2 to somehow generate a character probability distribution? The theory
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by maest 6y ago
To be fair, all systems can be (and are) criticised.
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by maest 6y ago
You're probably aware, but just in case: old.reddit.com gives the old (js-free) interface.

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