mtgp1000

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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I think what you're saying about reduced barriers to entry has lowered the standard of all popular media. It used to be expensive to publish anything - especially the further back in time you go. So classics for example typically repre
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If you mean tabula rasa then yes, that's obviously nonsense.
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Anger is not proof of anything, and that's something this entire movement does not understand. There is fundamentally no evidence to support the notion that equality of opportunity leads to equality of outcome. That goes for the justic
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That's a little racist, don't you think?
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>What do they want Google to do? I don't know about "them" but I want Google to stop tracking me and building a secret profile of intimate and politically sensitive information on my person. Full God damn stop. I take as m
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>I'd rather have imperfect progress than no progress Progress for the sake of progress is not progress. The fact that there is a problem doesn't mean that someone has to do something when there's nothing productive to be
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>When we are aware that behaviors and symbols are hurtful to other humans, and we genuinely believe that other people should be able to live without fear, then we should change both. Some of us believe that the answer to a world which is
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
The fact that there is propaganda on ZH doesn't mean there isn't also factual information on there. That's the scrutiny I'm talking about. You and Google both are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
At this point I'd rather read ZH with scrutiny than watch anything on cable news, or anything "reputable" online. At least ZH doesn't lie to you. The facts are presented, the narrative is painted, but in a manner that is
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I don't see how the Dutch story is relevant, if it's the one I looked up, and it sounds therefore like there is at best circumstantial evidence. Even motive isn't very reliable because all kinds of people are out to do things
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I saw a screenshot of a CNN article which said that that the CIA frequently used tactics to make hacks appear as though they were from Russia. Which is something I always suspected was relatively easy to do...change some logs, some timestam
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
The article is about merit aid. It's the usual privilege stuff. If we stop rewarding exceptional students who "don't need aid" we're going to see fewer exceptional students, and that's bad for society. Gifted k
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> don't think it's blowing it out of proportion to have a zero-tolerance policy toward police murdering the people they're arresting Who is arguing this? Anywhere? Why are people being treated as though they're trying
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
This. I watch in disbelief as people totally disregard statistics in leu of mass hysteria. There are some 370MM interactions with police every year in the US and the overwhelming majority of them happen without incident. Moreover something
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>The Regents argued that the tests discriminated w/o evidence That's the entire diversity/inclusion in a nutshell. None of this has been scientifically verified and the basic premise is in contradiction with what we know a
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>This is a serious matter, and that fact that you can't bring yourself to empathize with people being brutalized reflects very poorly on your ethical code 1/3 of my people were subject to genocide infamously by oven, more recen
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
The only value colleges can hold comes from the rigor that ensures scarcity of degrees. Lowering the bar in a naive attempt to bring college to everyone only devalued the degree, and now we are seeing the slow decay of even our most prestig
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>This makes sense: Harvard has a huge issue with discrimination against Asian Americans, who are not represented according to their ACT/SAT score distribution. If Harvard could waive away these scores, they can continue their admiss
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
You're right, and it goes much deeper. These corporations effectively own enough of our data to trivially deanonymize and target people. An organization of people who believe they are morally justified in they cause are liable to abuse
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You're right - they affect the livelihoods of far more people.
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Are you thinking about the consequences of your breathing? Because every breath grants you the oxygen that your body needs to metabolize the food you eat into useful energy for you to fight the power. So even breathing is political! Again,
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
>All corporations are political This is a meaningless statement that people use to justify railroading their personal politics into everything. By making my services available to everyone equally I am emphatically not making a politica
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
Mathematical modeling that is 3-6 orders of magnitude faster, we are already talking deployment. Same for ML powered solutions to data management - I don't want to say enough to identify anything. My team has been working on a rudiment
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by mtgp1000 6y ago
I'm not sure how anyone who's watched the exponential growth of a brand new domain can pick a point today to and say that things aren't as good as we expected. What may have happened was that some eager CEOs have overpromised
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I disagree, hiking rough terrain is an excellent time for me to think, personally. I find the stimulation is additive. Sort of like bouncing a leg or twirling a pen.
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> saying she was too busy with courtly life to follow his instructions That's because his instructions were totally extreme even by today's standards. This says nothing about averages and ultimately as a noble she simply did no
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People back then had miles to walk and no phones to stare at or tvs to watch. There was plenty of time to think. It's easy to think of ideas that others have had (interpolate). Much harder to synthesize new ideas (extrapolate), or at l