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by praxulus 8y ago
Heroin is roughly comparable to alcohol in terms of harmfulness. Some analyses find it worse, some find it less harmful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_harmfulness Almost everyone agrees that despite the harms caus
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by praxulus 8y ago
This sounds bad, but racism and sexism in hiring is probably worse.
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by praxulus 8y ago
Detroit enjoyed ~3 generations of prosperity before declining. It would be silly to deny the opportunities provided by the tech industry and the wealth it generates to millions of people just because the area might eventually decline.
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by praxulus 9y ago
Wait, so the terrible science you're talking about was never actually published, yet you still distrust the rest of the field?
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by praxulus 9y ago
A map should show you the information you need, and hopefully look nice while doing so. I strongly disagree with your position, which seems to be that a map should look nice, and hopefully show you the information you need while doing so.
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by praxulus 9y ago
>It's ridiculous to complain to legislatures about skills shortages without stepping up to bring your own resources to bear on the issue. Do you hold people who want to fight climate to the same standard? Is it ridiculous for an ind
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by praxulus 9y ago
It originally ended with a line saying something like, "I realize that Tesla is popular and reason is not, so bring on the downvotes" That's basically saying "most of you are unreasonable," which is a pretty dickish
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by praxulus 9y ago
All student loans should be subject to income-based repayment. They can still be very difficult/impossible to discharge in bankruptcy, but you shouldn't have to make significant payments on them unless you're actually making
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by praxulus 9y ago
Inflation is expected, so by holding dollars you're agreeing to pay it. Nobody is forced to hold dollars. If you don't want to pay that 2% a year, don't accept payment in dollars, or immediately convert it to another store of
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by praxulus 9y ago
Federal Reserve profits are returned to the federal government. While that's still a step or two removed from being returned directly to society, it's far closer than anything in the bitcoin ecosystem. Inflation is pretty stable a
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by praxulus 9y ago
You can't charge as much for that kind of ad, because it has poorer targeting, can't be updated as easily to facilitate shorter marketing campaigns, can't support A/B testing, and probably a dozen other major things adve
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by praxulus 9y ago
Recidivism prediction systems will usually tell you that black people are more likely to get arrested/convicted again. They do so accurately, but also result in longer sentences for black people. https://arxiv.org/abs&#
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by praxulus 9y ago
>wouldn't it make sense to use that piece of information when performing some predictive analysis? No, because eventually your system will graduate from predicting the results of society's bias to reinforcing society's bia
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by praxulus 10y ago
>perhaps we really are zombies Maybe you are, but I'm definitely conscious. I find it hard to believe that I'm unique in that respect.
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by praxulus 10y ago
They work directly with property management companies, not individual master tenants. That's why they're only in a handful of buildings.
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by praxulus 10y ago
No, the way it works is that nobody should get away with lying just because they're calling out a bad thing for being bad.
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by praxulus 10y ago
The auction process only solves that problem if advertisers know what the adjacent content is and use that information to bid less or not bid on it. At that point, we're back to the status quo of advertisers policing content. While you
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by praxulus 10y ago
>The key question is: who benefits? The women engineers who won't get harassed at companies that crack down on bad behavior to avoid sharing Uber's fate. It's a massive conspiracy by the Society of Women Engineers to bring
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by praxulus 10y ago
If you're willing to give up slightly more money, you could join an organization like Code.org or another well-run organization pursuing some kind of social good. These places are absolutely brimming with purpose and satisfaction.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Yes, that explains why we carpet bombed cities in Iraq and Afghanistan to pacify them instead of sending soldiers to door to door.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Because there's absolutely no evidence that it was rigged? Just because the DNC preferred the lifelong Democrat to the lifelong independent (who could have guessed that?) doesn't mean they couldn't still have operated a fair
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by praxulus 10y ago
Who do you think reads the New York Times? Writing for your audience isn't the same as being out of touch with everyone else (though they may well be).
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by praxulus 10y ago
>When it comes to being prepared for the academic culture, though, that firmly seems to be in the socio-economic territory. Maybe the academic culture is wrong? What if that culture is applying arbitrary standards that disproportionately
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by praxulus 10y ago
Well, it's just a code smell . Smelly code isn't necessarily wrong, it's just more likely to be wrong. Sometimes a piece of code needs to be highly optimized to the point of being basically unreadable, at that point it'
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by praxulus 10y ago
Surely cleaning up after cooking is almost always a chore, no matter how delicious the food was?
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by praxulus 10y ago
Comparing the fine to total revenue and total profit is completely meaningless. What's relevant is how much they were saving in infrastructure costs by throttling those users. E.g. If they saved less than $24 million and had a >50%
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by praxulus 10y ago
For Yelp, it's damaging to their core business to have false reviews, and depending on businesses alone to report false reviews is obviously insufficient.
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by praxulus 10y ago
Collectively they do, but no individual poacher has much to gain from killing an individual tuskless elephant. It's like a tragedy of the commons, but one that works out well for the elephants.
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by praxulus 10y ago
> Just modify the standard search algorithm to ignore empty slots (rather than terminate the search) and keep going until you’ve probed longer than the known maximum probe length for the whole table. Why does it need to keep searching af
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by praxulus 10y ago
Perhaps it's just safer to use a password manager for everything.

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