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by newen 6y ago
Lol, I’m a machine learning person and I was agreeing with it until more than halfway into it.
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by newen 6y ago
Women forced by their dress codes to wear revealing clothing.
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by newen 6y ago
Venezuela was done in by severe sanctions imposed on the country by USA. Any other excuse is just the typical propaganda you see in American news media.
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by newen 6y ago
Tons of those guys in facebook and in real life.
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by newen 6y ago
I guess that's why they call this site Hacker News and not Computer Science News.
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by newen 6y ago
I think it's more demographics shift in reddit and other social media users than percolation of behavior. As in the video game and sports people started using reddit more instead of the old programmer dominated crowd in reddit.
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by newen 6y ago
Gotos can be so useful in situations like this. I do not like the trend in new languages of not allowing goto and instead make the programmer do gymnastics to implement relatively straightforward logic.
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by newen 6y ago
Too true. Corollary of "if you're using something that's free, you're the product" is "if you're using something you paid for, you're still the product". Either way, companies are incentivized to
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by newen 6y ago
One reason OS X became popular in the programmer crowd was because of its BSD kernel. Now that Apple is moving towards locking its BSD access down and generally locking down OS X, I think Microsoft sees Windows having a Linux kernel as an o
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by newen 6y ago
Men get called cucks and betas and incels instead. It’s the same thing, just the male version of sexual attacks since men and women are different.
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by newen 6y ago
It was pretty common by mid 2000s when Xbox Live came out. And it was pretty common IRL in early 2000s too. I’ve seen plenty of n-word dropping and casual racism IRL as a kid in the early 2000s.
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by newen 6y ago
Some people want to use their own types and number formats, so it can potentially be very useful.
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by newen 6y ago
Just try implementing merge sort to see how recursion results in simpler code. Cannot imagine how a stack data structure and a while loop is simpler than two recursive calls. I don’t know, maybe this is just a new programmer meme. The numbe
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by newen 6y ago
US does plenty of such tactics. See, for example, recent leaks that came out about a massive propaganda campaign to support opposition groups in Syria. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/09/23/syria-leaks-uk-contrac
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by newen 6y ago
https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support...
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by newen 6y ago
https://theintercept.com/2014/10/02/feigned-american-support...
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by newen 6y ago
No. Marijuana can definitely cause distracted driving and lead to accidents. What’s with the internet and talking about marijuana like it’s super safe and glossing over its downsides?
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by newen 6y ago
Events and convention rules are absolutely different from rules for employees working inside a company.
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by newen 6y ago
The real explanation is decades of widely prevalent anti-union propaganda. People hear something enough times and they tend to believe it. Walmart workers don't have unions either, for the same reasons, but I'm sure people here ar
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by newen 6y ago
> Tesla is a software company that happens to make cars Probably the scariest statement in this thread, given what we know about the reliability of software.
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by newen 6y ago
I'm just saying that there is a difference between a PR fluff piece that lies about the content and a PR fluff piece that tells the truth and makes research accessible or interesting to the lay public.
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by newen 6y ago
This forum has mostly Americans. There is a recent meme in American politics that says that someone arguing that both sides are the same is a bad thing. Because they're actually arguing in favor of one of the sides in some hidden manne
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by newen 6y ago
No one except people doing work on Cloze questions will be interested in this with that title. Badly written PR puff piece is bad but no one will read that abstract unless they are in that field.
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by newen 6y ago
You have a good point but I think it’s a matter of degrees than a yes/no situation. There are also other things a researcher is incentivized to do to get past reviewers such as emphasizing only the good points of your algorithm, deemph
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by newen 6y ago
You won’t be hired and you won’t work for a company in the first place if it wasn’t a win-win agreement between the employer and employee. What working for lower wages than you’re worth contributes to is a win-lose situation between employe
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by newen 6y ago
It sounds like repeating "state-of-the-art", "novel", never before seen, revolutionary new research that will change the entire world, you wouldn't believe how my method beats other baseline methods by huge margin
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by newen 6y ago
It just means that they didn’t find useful network structures with the specific network analysis methods they used and the specific networks that they constructed using the data . It leaves room for tons of other network analysis and da
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by newen 6y ago
It’s at least somewhat possible, through open political means, to control what the government does with that information by having the government add regulations and controls on the data. To control what google does with that information,
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by newen 6y ago
Apple’s argument for privacy is that they don’t give away their user’s data to outside parties. Friend who used to work at Apple told me they store lots of user data and do the typical intrusive data analysis on the data. They just don’t gi
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by newen 6y ago
Marxism, at least, centers on the idea that the worker should be compensated fairly for the labor/value that he or she produces. It’s in the first chapter of Capital, after all. Communism I think is about how the workers can bring abou

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