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by nmrm2 11y ago
> But solving problems that nobody has solved before is the kind of job that's usually filled by senior developers > By the time you have 5-10 years of work experience, the things you learned during your working career probably p
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> but making an assumption that someone does not have skills based on their race, gender, sexual preference, or credentials is where he takes issue. This is answered entirely in my original post. Adequately testing for the presence of
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Of course. In another thread I called this the Einstein fallacy, and in pervades discussions of higher education in the US. It's far more likely that you'll know what you don't know (and how to learn it) if you invest two yea
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10% of all future income The general idea is interesting, but this is an insane amount of money for most college graduates, who would be far better off with even unsubsidised loans.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I call this the Einstein fallacy. It says that quality Q is of questionable relevance/utility/value because there exist people without quality Q that do X, even though the vast majority of people who do X have quality Q. But that
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Would as many people pay the substantial cost of college merely for the "life enrichment". "Life enrichment" isn't (just) an ends unto itself. Coming to terms with the magnitude of one's own ignorance is
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Such as enough exposure to both the real world and opportunities for extended reflection thereupon to appreciate the extreme unlikelihood of being able to distinguish between "mere enrichment" and "crucial background knowledg
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> If it so difficult to tell if someone has a university education or not without having to explicitly ask, then perhaps it isn't as essential as you seem to think? It is trivially easy to think up questions that any Computer Sc
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This is a view that rich people can afford to hold. Poor or middle class people cannot reasonably afford to pay four years of opportunity cost, plus tuition, for "general life enrichment." ...In countries that don't subsidi
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> Humans are pretty good at doing proofs A few problems with human-style proofs: * Cost of proof construction: Using computational tools allows us to offload large portions of the proof to decision procedures, automated proof strategie
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> That's not a good representation of the efficiency and quality the private sector produces. It's a good representation of the danger in the common quasi-religious belief that hasty privatization necessarily entails a marketpl
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If X happens to 1 in 100 people, then there's a very high chance (~1) that X happens to 1 of the 100 people, but a much smaller (~1/100) chance that it will happen to person #56, for example. The parent post is saying that "s
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by nmrm2 11y ago
There's a fantastic episode of Radio Lab which includes a story about the HeLa cell and discusses the fact that it's air-infectious, in case anyone wants to know more: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91713-famou
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by nmrm2 11y ago
There are a lot of risk reduction reasons and also a lot of ethical and moral reasons. These are all legitimate and worth considering, and hopefully another commenter or two can elaborate and point you to resources. But I want to take a mom
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted. $2T in well-placed handouts seems like a pretty effective way to win "hearts and minds". The test mentioned at the end of the article ("would just handing citizens of this c
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Price gouging of food/shelter/energy post-disaster is a fairly common phenomenon, and I don't think it really requires extensive discussion. See e.g. http://knowledgeproblem.com/2010/01/26/price
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by nmrm2 11y ago
But rapid price inflation for certain goods seems much more likely in the context of a natural disaster. Without a coordinated response, for a certain amount of time there will only be X tents reachable from the affected area, where # of pe
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Development and emergency response are very different problems. $100 or even $6000 isn't useful if there's no way to get to the things you need to buy, or if local scarcity pushes prices for bare necessities obscenely high. Vaccin
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by nmrm2 11y ago
PL is a very common abbreviation in the research community and has been for at least decades. Common usage in academia probably stems in part from the fact that conferences are often named by their initials, so the conference on "Pri
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by nmrm2 11y ago
It sounds like you missed the point. The point of the article was that a lot of PL research is focused on non pure SE problems/domains. That is, a large part of the argument was that only a very small amount of PL research is about des
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The quote should have stated "largest single source" rather the "single largest source". And note that the quote says "SOURCE of advertising revenue", not "viewership". It's not so hard to believ
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by nmrm2 11y ago
First, Even if testosterone plays a role in male incarceration rates, your conjecture that a 15% increase in average testosterone can explain the severe racial disparity in incarceration rates in unsubstantiated. Even if "X causes Y&qu
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Your theory is just damn racist. You make a huge jump from correlation to causation that isn't warranted from the data you present -- it's that (I stress, obnoxiously unsubstantiated) jump that's damn racist. Ex: "Melani
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It's not just blacks and hispanics. It's a lot of other hues as well. And that's before asking what "black" and "hispanic" even mean, which is highly contextual to culture. And anyways, "white" i
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Your example is a tad ironic. Why wasn't the original system implemented in the straightforward way? Unless there's a good reason, your example is a pretty effective demonstration of what Dijkstra is warning about.
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Wow. I'll go let the theorists know that their theorems and proofs don't count.
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These both strike me as extraordinarily unlikely outcomes.
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My point was that comparing warnings with Orwellian censorship is hyperbolic. The first question you ask is already covered well in other discussion threads. The second question I don't have an answer to. But that's the problem wi
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by nmrm2 11y ago
See my post in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9565576
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Safe from what? From unintentionally re-living a traumatic experience (a rape). PTSD is real and often effects rape victims. Warnings can help victims mentally prepare themselves before difficult discussions. E.g. some soldiers with PT

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