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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Seems like this supports the idea we should be taking a hard look at WHO, because your take would imply extreme incompetence, not just being complicit in a cover up
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> One way to imagine the phrase is to think about people with cloistered views in politics, religion, social views, etc. These people could get "offended" by being exposed to more cosmopolitan views but ultimately evolve to be
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
What a patronizing take. No wonder they want to leave, if they’re governed by people with your attitude.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
What is the point of identifying offensive tweets? People who want to post the tweet will do it anyway.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> The only "good" social network site (and really the only good forum in general) is one where real names are banned. Not just this but any identity markers like gender or age. This is the only way to get people to face uncomfo
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> So I generally give like zero weight to conspiracy theories. Why? Assigning a prior probability of zero to anything is a recipe for disaster, it means you can never change your belief. Looks like you had enough of an open mind to hear
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Or search “Bitcoin SV”, what does celebrity gossip have to do with this
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Isn’t this true for ANY measure of “intelligence” or “hard work” or anything else? This bias is going to appear everywhere, should universities not be allowed to filter students at all? What would you suggest, concretely?
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Well one of them insisted he was told this was the reason for a change in suppliers so maybe it goes all the way to the top haha
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
How did this expand from “SAT vocab section is biased” to “the entire standardized testing system is biased”?? How can a math test be biased? Please keep it concrete, related to these actual tests, and not reach for hypotheticals
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Ive heard the “there’s chips in the tetanus shots they give in prison” conspiracy theories from more than one person working closely with prison staff, I wonder if this is a curious case of conspiracy theory “subculture”
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Your question is confusing, it might be that you are using “feature” in an ML sense and the quote refers to human describable distinctions we know about? But I still don’t know how to parse your question. The model can predict male vs femal
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
We should invent the name for the aspects that are not bullshit, then. Some of the things they do are objectively helping some people in some cases. Gatekeeping medicine is important, but it can also become just that, gatekeeping
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I suppose you would have the government approve every individual action you take to ensure it isn’t against the interest of “the people”. I’m just glad there’s still enough voters who don’t think like you, to be honest. That concerns me a l
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> Ironically, right now by being more business friendly more people want to move to places like Arizona or Texas for jobs. This isn’t “ironically”, this is literally the primary argument in favor of this policy angle.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Free donuts, now free lottery tickets. Aren’t we past the point of diminishing returns where treating people like stupid fat cattle isn’t going to move the needle any further?
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
It’s as easy to imagine as it is to imagine a VC getting this kind of deal. The first employees are the ones who literally build the company and usually take far greater personal risk
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
I’ve scored deals that can’t be diluted for X years after liquidity event, so employees should be able to as well. Don’t put people down with “you must not know what you’re talking about”.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> and competent Seems like begging the question.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> I mean it in the sense that the 50%ile capable person is really all things considered, not that different from the 95%ile capable person. You must be living on a different planet from me. I can kind of see how someone might be tempted
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
> Most people are roughly the same in terms of physical and mental capability This is a story we stop telling kids around the end of high school. We tell this story because, as a child, being told you’re dumb can stunt intellectual growt
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Bitcoin could handle 100k+ tps with some more serious optimizations (but keeping the same protocol / data structures) it’s simply tragic what small blockers have done with Bitcoin instead. UTXO is massively parallel! The double spend c
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Asking “who fact checks the fact checkers” is not post-truth bullshit.
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Can they get in trouble for this? Pretty sure this violates generally accepted accounting principles, no?
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Like with most things, the best is probably some middle path, and society will overshoot one way and then the other. Whether we are currently “overshot” or not is up to the reader to decide :)
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
One side will have issue with a particular detail (eg, it shouldn’t be run by Google) and the other side will attack this as being anti 2fa
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by oogabooga123 5y ago
Seems like this hypothesis shows it is indeed demonstrating “quantum” effects because the math falls out of the quantization of momentum transfer. Of course “quantum” is now widely understood to mean “the weird phenomena like the double sli