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by moultano 10y ago
Isn't self-interest enough of an explanation? Mass-immigration is unlikely to be a short term benefit to the host country, particularly to low skill workers in that country. Why should they oppose their own self interest? (I'm per
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by moultano 10y ago
I don't think "foreigners have a different culture that I don't like" is a racist statement. For a US citizen it's certainly a hypocritical statement, but the case isn't as clear to me for Europe.
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by moultano 10y ago
A acquaintance of mine lived there 10 years ago because he and his roommates could rent a whole floor of an old factory for $1000 a month. Thousands and thousands of square feet. He was robbed at gunpoint on his front porch 4 times in a yea
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by moultano 10y ago
Man, it would be so amazing if we could somehow attribute ancient stories of dwarfs, trolls, giants, to humans meeting other hominid species that we coexisted with.
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by moultano 10y ago
"23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health" https://youtu.be/aUaInS6HIGo
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by moultano 10y ago
I've never met a women who didn't have any side effects from birth control. They just lived with them because it was better than the alternative.
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by moultano 10y ago
Only 1 sample.
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A Map of Europe, Reconstructed Entirely from the Genomes of Europeans(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by moultano 10y ago|2 comments
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by moultano 10y ago
There's nothing capitalist about zoning. What you are seeing is central planning in action.
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by moultano 10y ago
A great discussion of this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/07/22/freedom-on-the-centrali...
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Freedom on the Centralized Web(slatestarcodex.com)
1 points by moultano 10y ago|0 comments
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by moultano 10y ago
It's important to distinguish between rights and values. Yes, they have a right to restrict speech on their platform. If they value free speech, they shouldn't. The legal guarantee of free speech is just one expression of a mo
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by moultano 10y ago
I don't think I've given any indication of who I disagree with.
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by moultano 10y ago
I trust the courts mostly (especially in well trod areas of law), so I assume that if they find for one party and reward large damages that the suit was legitimate. Before the ruling, or if the ruling was reversed, I don't know whether
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by moultano 10y ago
My understanding is that this judgement alone is sufficient to cause Gawker's financial problems, and that there aren't others that are material. Correct me if I'm wrong on the facts here. >Further, even in the cases where
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by moultano 10y ago
Yes. My point is to make a distinction between using the high cost of the legal system for leverage and relying on the court system to actually dispense justice. Often people are bullied into a settlement because legal cases cost money, and
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by moultano 10y ago
I started reading "Quantum Computing since Democritus" recently, the book that inspired this, and it is fantastic. Highly recommended if you like an entertaining walkthrough of some pretty heavy theory.
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by moultano 10y ago
It's not the legal fees that are doing them in, it's the damages awarded by the judge.
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by moultano 10y ago
LSTM
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by moultano 10y ago
I think you replied to the wrong comment?
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by moultano 10y ago
>Mortgage paymenets are almost entirely interest in the early years. So in many cases there's little difference. People generally don't buy houses in order to rent them. Usually houses are rented out when the owner is moving an
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by moultano 10y ago
>Unless subsidized or losing money, the rent is more than a mortgage payment would be. That is demonstrably false. Renting is more than a mortgage interest payment would be. Unless you feel like you have some special knowledge about th
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by moultano 10y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy_distribution
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by moultano 10y ago
There are much better motivations for log-odds and the logistic function than just ensuring the predicted values are bounded probabilities. If you want to do bayesian updating of your model upon seeing new data, and you want to express this
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by moultano 10y ago
Just like hermit crabs when a slightly bigger shell is available. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1dnocPQXDQ#t=1m33s
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by moultano 10y ago
>Traditional collaborative filtering using matrix factorization will "discover" the features you listed, or other non-intuitive features, from patterns in the data. I don't think that has turned out to be the case. Most pe
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by moultano 10y ago
Replication.
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by moultano 10y ago
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatism/
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by moultano 11y ago
In that case, the pragmatists would say that the distinction isn't meaningful, that free will is a concept with no meaning, and end the debate there.
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by moultano 11y ago
If we can't, then that says something doesn't it?

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