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by maest 6y ago
Reminds me a bit of P vs NP. It's easy to verify, hard to generate.
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by maest 6y ago
Your point about the fractal structure of tribalism reminded me of this joke: I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: "Stop. Don't do it." "Why sho
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by maest 6y ago
There's a small category of words, at least in British English, that act as a fairly effective shibboleth when it comes to identify non-native speakers. Usually names for places, but not only: Glouchester, Worcester, Worcestershire, le
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by maest 6y ago
If you're interested in your own, personal, risk, then you can keep applying factors relevant to your situation and get a more refined estimate. I don't see that as an issue with the measure. Moreover, average micromort increase i
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by maest 6y ago
A lot of people on HN also defend anti-unionistic behaviour. It may sound unrelated but they're both the result of the American zeitgeist's blind commitment to free markets and unfettered capitalism. To be fair, it's worked w
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by maest 6y ago
So just because the publicity benefits Hey, the point about Apple's unequal treatment of devs on their platform is invalidated? Also, I'm not sure how Hey orchestrated this - do they have someone on the inside who they had reject
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by maest 6y ago
I was actually referring to the cases where something is deemed right _because_ it is a constitutional right.
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by maest 6y ago
Some other examples I've seen in current discourse (mostly in the US context): * Calling someone Antifa * Calling someone a "Karen" * "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes" * Something being a constitutional right.
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18 points by maest 6y ago|10 comments
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by maest 6y ago
The most common way the free market fails to do the "right" thing is by ignoring externalities. By optimising for user engagement, media is ignoring the effect it has over society at large. This is actually an argument for governm
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by maest 6y ago
What are the chances this is a bluff?
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by maest 6y ago
> empowered by paid professionals and criminals like ANTIFA Can you back that up with any evidence? > Let a court and jury judge based on a complete set of evidence, rather than the edited video clips being collected. That's what
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by maest 6y ago
> Counterintuitively, more arms results in more peace. That's controversial at best. Arguably, part of the reason the police is so aggressive and distrustful when interacting with regular people is the higher gun density in the coun
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by maest 6y ago
What constitutes as "black"?
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by maest 6y ago
Is that a problem with the platform or is that a problem with people?
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by maest 6y ago
Do you have any indication that the attacks were performed by script kiddies or that the targeted websites were even susceptible to such attacks?
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by maest 6y ago
They're great if you're part of the union, though.
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by maest 6y ago
> I think everyone agrees they don't like violent policing That is not completely true. For example, the narrative on thedonald.win wrt recent rioting is that most protesters are looters and that looters deserve being shot. They see
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by maest 6y ago
Something I've noticed in a lot of police encounter videos: there is no attempt at de-escalating the situation. The shooting of Daniel Shaver is a prime example of that: a benign situation made deadly by high strung officers shouting a
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by maest 6y ago
This is a great way for Google to make all the margin of mattress sellers.
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by maest 6y ago
There is no proof GH added value here. Allow me to share a related story: In some places in Eastern Europe, for a while, you could see these people stand in front of empty, free parking spots in the street. As soon as they would see a car a
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by maest 6y ago
Sounds very convenient to use.
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by maest 6y ago
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute
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by maest 6y ago
You may have misread me. I'm not justfying their actions - I'm just saying it's not clear they were targeting solely the reporter. It's possible that the plan was to take everyone in custody, one-by-one. You have to star
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by maest 6y ago
It looked like they were hauling people off one-by-one, which could reasonably be standard procedure for riot situations. Isolate individuals from the group and handle them separately - that sort of thing. Moreover, they started with the re
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by maest 6y ago
Convenient for who?
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by maest 6y ago
That would suggest combining 2 models: one to decide what the macro text structure should be and a different one (GPT) to decide how to fill in all the text flesh.
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by maest 6y ago
Maybe that can be implemented via an API. So I can have some code that can dynamically call this API-as-a-marketplace and decide what's the bests shipping API to use, then it would rewrite itself to use that API. Say goodbye to vendor
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by maest 6y ago
I have yet to find venv or pip lacking in anything I do - I think the onus is on external tools to prove their worth.
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by maest 6y ago
What makes a betting person good or bad? It's hard to score and compare process and intention. The most natural way of determinig the quality of the betting person is by their results. It's not a very informative way of looking at

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