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by newen 6y ago
Are we forgetting Guaido’s coup attempt last year? He had full support of the US government. He went to the US Congress this year and was praised and lauded. This is after years of US sanctions on Venezuela.
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by newen 6y ago
It’s a question of resource allocation too. To advance science, you want to give more resources and control to people who can potentially make the best discoveries and breakthroughs. How do you find these people? Currently, it seems to be t
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by newen 6y ago
Well, if they have, they would probably have bombed their civilizations into extinction already.
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by newen 6y ago
You can be Indian and still be wrong about aspects of your country. In GPs case, he was generalizing too much about Indian universities.
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by newen 6y ago
Probably something like, “oh, we have to go to this no name university next“, “what do we have?”, “well, we can bring these pizzas...”, “yeah okay, let’s put them in the car and get this over with quick”.
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by newen 6y ago
What's with this moralizing? If you can get away with working only one day a week, there's nothing wrong with doing exactly that. Is this like some Protestant work ethic thing?
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by newen 6y ago
Unemployment insurance is $600 a week now, I think, even if you’re working partial hours in some states.
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by newen 6y ago
Security by obscurity is a problem because a site can get destroyed if one person discovers the flaw. He cares mainly if a not insignificant number of his patient discover him.
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by newen 6y ago
Unless becoming a rockstar is equivalent only to becoming an Ivy League professor, passing a PhD program really isn’t that hard for most PhD programs even in the best schools. To pass a PhD program, you just need to come in every day and do
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by newen 6y ago
Typical use on PCA/SVD on image, what you do is treat each image as a vector, create a matrix out of a collection of images, and then do PCA/SVD on the matrix to analyze the distribution of the images, normalize, get the eigen-ima
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by newen 6y ago
Yeah, I think educating the population is the right approach. Of course, mistakes like the food pyramid is very hard to overcome since at the time you did have scientists advocating for the food pyramid, you have lobbyists influencing the g
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by newen 6y ago
How is whataboutism even fallacious. You can be logically consistent and still do whataboutism. It's more like a distraction to an argument being made. There nothing that inherently makes it fallacious.
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by newen 6y ago
Granted, but saying worse players prefer closed positions is just false. Take the French defense, for example. Advance variation of the French is much harder for beginners compared to the exchange variation. And you can say the same for man
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by newen 6y ago
Yes, I disapprove of them too. I prefer the anti-whatever campaigns. The "got milk?" one worked pretty well! It's so easy for rich people to look down their noses at the vices of poor people and tax the hell out of them. I fi
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by newen 6y ago
Is it so strange to think that not everyone buys into the anti-China propaganda that's relatively recently popped up in US media? It's only in the last few years that you see every other person on the internet go on a frenzy about
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by newen 6y ago
So let's tax the poor Americans so they get even poorer.
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by newen 6y ago
This is just false. Tons and tons of closed positions played by grandmasters.
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by newen 6y ago
But when people colloquially say that wealth people are hoarding cash, they mean what the comment you're replying to is saying and not the keeping cash under the mattress thing. More commonly, people say hoarding wealth.
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by newen 6y ago
The Chinese room argument shows lots of people were thinking about it being a possibility but to have it happen so soon is something else.
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by newen 6y ago
We're going to need to issue some Verrit cards for this link.
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by newen 6y ago
Great advice. My undergrad thesis had nothing to do with my master’s thesis, which had nothing to do with my PhD thesis, and now my current job is straying farther and farther away from my grad school work. But the skills I learned by doing
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by newen 6y ago
Chess takes a lot of motivation because you need to practice for hours a day for years, even when you’re young.
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by newen 6y ago
I only know one person who is in Mensa but he fits that description perfectly lol. He probably grew out of it now but for a while his thing was he got into Mensa.
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by newen 6y ago
You recognize mistakes by memorizing patterns. There is no level in chess where you don’t memorize patterns. Maybe in the lower levels the patterns are simple enough that you don’t consider them patterns, but forks, skewers, etc. are still
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by newen 6y ago
> facts have a remain bias ... Or, FT could actually acknowledge that the remain folks have legitimate arguments.
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by newen 6y ago
Hacker News has a very specific techno-libertarian Silicon Valley type outlook and you get downvoted pretty quickly when you express other types of views, especially in politics and controversial topics.
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by newen 6y ago
I actually switched fully to vaping when quarantine started because I figure time for a little bit of change and I can just order it online (I'm sure I can order cigarettes online but all the sites seemed kind of sketchy). I was going
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by newen 6y ago
Yeah, in certain circles the hard part is figuring out the solution is the assignment problem. Then you’re supposed to just know that the most commonly used algorithm for it is the Hungarian algorithm, maybe its complexity and that’s it, be
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by newen 6y ago
The attendance taking and biometric attendance sounds completely made up. I’ve lots of international students as friends and no one has made any passing mention of this and I’ve never seen this ever.
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by newen 6y ago
Don't know if they're still up but I remember there were a bunch of yikyak clones around the time it stopped being popular. Just weren't enough people in any of them, so I stopped them. Network effects and all.

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