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by nilkn 8y ago
I think the line of reasoning is more that these social media companies could end up just doing the dirty work of banning/censoring the content themselves, and politicians for whom the site’s bias is advantageous would then flock there
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by nilkn 8y ago
It seems he was specifically referring to wearables in this context: > More useful for our founder readers may be Andreessen’s predictions around tech and, because he’s asked about them specifically, his predictions when it comes to wear
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by nilkn 8y ago
Wouldn't it be more normal to post a "pay or quit" notice? The significance of this is the landlord is legally obligated to drop eviction proceedings if you pay within 3 days. I don't think jumping straight to an uncondi
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by nilkn 8y ago
It’s possible, but where’s the evidence of that? It sort of seems like you’re trying to suggest my experience doesn’t “count” because it could have been even worse. Is the above really what most people picture when they hear “white privileg
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by nilkn 8y ago
I don’t really follow. You just have to go to your bank to get a cashier’s check. I couldn’t even do that when I first got the notice, which is why I had to pay another day late. I was lucky in that I didn’t work the next day, so I was able
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by nilkn 8y ago
How much of this is just selection bias? I’m a white male who probably pattern matches the same way. A few months ago I was traveling and as a completely innocent mistake forgot to pay rent by a day. I was not given the benefit of the doubt
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by nilkn 8y ago
As it turns out there are actually definitions for these things, but it can differ not just by country but also by state within the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town#United_States CA does not legally acknowledge a
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by nilkn 8y ago
Using intermediate grades to figure out which students to focus on is perfectly fine, and in fact I'm not sure it has much to do with what's being discussed. We're talking about a teacher being asked by a parent to create ext
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by nilkn 8y ago
I was tempted to agree when I read this, but then I thought that this creates an unfair advantage for parents who can afford to pay for extra time from the teacher.
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by nilkn 8y ago
It’s more work, and that’s exactly the problem. A teacher deserves to go home and enjoy their family and life outside of work. The only way to make this possible is to have students and parents understand that after a certain point the grad
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by nilkn 8y ago
The Slack versions are probably for the manager more than the individual engineers on the team. If you can't even give your manager a quick update on what you're working on, I think there's a problem. And there's no reas
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by nilkn 8y ago
We have the candidate sit at a workstation and write a functioning program to solve a relatively realistic but self-contained problem using the language of their choice. It usually involves extracting and working with some data from a few b
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by nilkn 8y ago
To offer an alternative viewpoint: I have a degree in pure mathematics from a highly ranked institution. I published research as an undergraduate. I went to multiple REUs. I participated in the Putnam and similar competitions. I read CLRS i
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by nilkn 8y ago
The other way of looking at this is that twice in a row Carlsen has been unable to defend the title in classical controls and has relied on rapid time controls to win. In both cases, it's unclear if Carlsen could have retained the titl
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by nilkn 8y ago
If you haven't heard of Langlands but have heard of Andrew Wiles and his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, you may be interested to learn that the two are somewhat closely related. Wiles actually proved a part of the modularity theo
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by nilkn 8y ago
Bethesda is possibly the only AAA developer with this problem. What do you think all the other game developers in the world are doing? How exactly did RDR2 ever get made? How did BF V ever get made? How did AC: Odyssey ever get made? How di
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by nilkn 8y ago
I don't think the points about the engine are very compelling. Just because something has a number of somewhat independent pieces doesn't mean it's also not a monolithic whole at the same time. That's why it's still
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by nilkn 8y ago
Almost all of Bethesda's software problems originate from their insistence on sticking with their old creation engine. The engine has been falling to pieces since Skyrim. I gave up trying to get Fallout 4 to run acceptably on high-end
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by nilkn 8y ago
I don't see how you really addressed the concerns. You say that the paper is "trying to argue a bit about why neural networks generalize well," but in fact I don't see anything in this paper about generalization or test
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by nilkn 8y ago
I disagree. The idea behind sites like gab is that sites like Twitter are increasingly functioning like public spaces, but they exercise great ideological control over what one is allowed to say within those spaces. The folks behind gab and
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by nilkn 8y ago
As was clear from my first post, and as I stated explicitly in my second, and as I now state explicitly again, I was only commenting on your affluenza comparison. I found the comparison to be meaningless and invalid for the reasons I stated
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by nilkn 8y ago
I'm only commenting on your affluenza comparison specifically. Here's an example of why I think the comparison is meaningless. Grand theft can be charged as a misdemeanor with up to a two year jail sentence. But Brock Turner was s
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by nilkn 8y ago
The affluenza comparison feels like a "whataboutism" to me. Virtually nobody holds that case up as an example of the system working in a healthy and desirable way.
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by nilkn 8y ago
For what it’s worth, I use 3D Touch pretty much every day. The number one usage for me is moving the cursor around while editing text. I actually did it while writing this post; I decided I wanted to add a comma after “worth” at the beginni
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by nilkn 8y ago
So if they just decided not to admit a certain race of students entirely, that’d be okay because they’re a private institution?
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by nilkn 8y ago
For what it's worth, something like 75% of the US is phenotypically white (including white Americans with Hispanic or Latin heritage), so perhaps that one metric is tracking more favorably than you're giving it credit for.
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by nilkn 8y ago
I call every once in a while. People I don't feel comfortable calling I probably shouldn't be stalking on Facebook anyway. And having even a 30 minute phone conversation every six months with an old friend will do amazing wonders
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by nilkn 8y ago
I don’t think so. Apple has a vast budget. Even just bundling a controller would’ve made a significant difference with no funding of games. I also don’t think they would’ve needed to fund entirely new games, just support a few indie ports t
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by nilkn 8y ago
It's definitely the lack of a bundled controller. The Siri remote is completely unsuitable for the great majority of games. While third-party controllers exist, it's not a viable proposition for a studio to make a controller-requi
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by nilkn 8y ago
I'm not necessarily arguing in favor of a team being spontaneously switched to Haskell (any big move like that seems ill-advised in general), but I do find this overall line of reasoning a little unconvincing. You're suggesting th

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