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by mquander 16y ago
No, that doesn't really make any sense, but having people register long-range aircraft makes sense to me.
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by mquander 16y ago
That is truly a godawful AP article. Here's the prior discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1956981
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by mquander 16y ago
Yeah, I agree! All I took away from the analogy was "you had in mind one thing that you wanted to do, accidentally did the other thing, and suffered for it."
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by mquander 16y ago
Yes, I'm talking about superrationality and decision theories that accommodate it, like evidential decision theory (you should make decisions that serve as evidence for the outcome you desire; e.g. you should cooperate, because doing so is
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by mquander 16y ago
FWIW, I think you might be misreading the audience of the post. The majority of readers at LW subscribe to not-directly-causal decision theories under which they would cooperate with another rational agent in the one-shot PD; it may distra
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by mquander 16y ago
I know you don't really think that's the website for his bar.
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by mquander 16y ago
I'll take your word for it with TeX; I use LaTeX and I know other people who have, but I don't know what professional authors or publishers use for typesetting. However, I think your specific example doesn't reflect the argument I imagined
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by mquander 16y ago
I would rather hire someone who has made more apps than someone who has excellent knowledge of algorithms but has made no apps. Would you? This is rather a false dichotomy, isn't it? Who can obtain "excellent" knowledge of algorithms wit
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by mquander 16y ago
I disagree. "Terrorism" implies that a group is full of bad evil meanies who want to hurt America. I believe that is exactly what the honorable Rep. King wants to say about Wikileaks.
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by mquander 16y ago
I guess you're either asking one of two questions, both which seem strange: 1) Do you receive magic fairy dust during college that makes you more productive and removes bugs from your code? No, I don't think so. 2) Will someone who knows t
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by mquander 16y ago
I agree with you about this post. But the only thing to do is flag it and move on. Complaining in the post is rarely going to lead to anything productive at all, so you may as well not do it. Keep the thread clean for people who do want
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by mquander 16y ago
OK, I think we mostly agree.
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by mquander 16y ago
Sure. But one of the excuses for repetition and redundancy in link content is "we can have a discussion about it," and I only think that's a good excuse if it's a good discussion that we haven't had ten times in the past year already.
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by mquander 16y ago
I wouldn't want it here with the reason being "so we can have an argument about the merits of net neutrality." I would hope that there would be something concrete, interesting, or new about the arguments presented in the essay, or that som
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by mquander 16y ago
Your point of view doesn't baffle me, because you said this: "Why shouldn't we be willing to debate and explore a subject in depth?" Good question! I would be happy to debate and explore political ideas in depth. (That's why I hang around
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by mquander 16y ago
You make it sound like it's $99 up front, but it's just $10 a month, or something reasonable like that.
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by mquander 16y ago
On the one hand, he spends an entire multiple-page blog article mentioning reasons why he thinks the general quality of the site is poor, none of which have any direct connection to the TSA. On the other hand, he mentions the TSA by name tw
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by mquander 16y ago
When you use it, it moves posts down, which is exactly the opposite of upvoting! The nuance is lost on me. I don't see why we would be provided with something that acts exactly like a downvote would act, and then expected to use it differ
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by mquander 16y ago
It's clear he supports the TSA to "stop planes from getting blown up." Since the majority of HN doesn't agree with that sentiment (at least that's how he paints it), he's sort of being a baby about it and quitting because he can't handle
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by mquander 16y ago
I still don't understand why guys like this will complain about quality and then say that they don't flag anything! Upvotes move posts up. Flags move posts down, and if you get a ton of them, it even makes the post disappear. That's all t
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by mquander 16y ago
Yep, so it is! Edited my post.
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by mquander 16y ago
I have a couple of drinks worth of experience with a number of entertaining variants, which have no official name that I'm aware of: (EDIT: The first is "progressive chess" and there are a few different rule sets for handling checks: http
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by mquander 16y ago
God forbid they actually open-source their own drivers, and save the community a shitload of work, if this is so magically inspiring for them.
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by mquander 16y ago
I suggest a replacement headline: 400 students cheated by school, pay tuition in order to sit in on 600-person classes and memorize hundreds of individual facts by rote, obtain increasingly worthless degrees. (In all seriousness, this is ch
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by mquander 16y ago
I don't think that's accurate. If you look at large, mainstream liberal community blogs like Daily Kos, there's frequent and harsh criticism of Obama on those issues.
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by mquander 16y ago
The people that are answering that survey are likely as not people who vote, which is all that counts when it comes to "debating" public policy. There is no procedural rule in Congress that says "And finally, qualified experts shall vote o
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by mquander 16y ago
Same to you, buddy. At least the grandparent contributed a joke.
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by mquander 16y ago
You mean, so uncomfortable that you set your wallpaper to a funny picture? You're right, clearly anyone that uncomfortable couldn't possibly be doing their job well. It's pretty tasteless, but give me a break. Some guy is "drunk with
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by mquander 16y ago
Hello again, same post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907211 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907123 Here's a post on the new LAUNCH conference: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907333
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by mquander 16y ago
This just got killed. Let's hope it will get killed even faster this time. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1907123

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