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by pulisse 8y ago
You keep insulting people without argument. (And Cosma Shalizi is anything but a shallow thinker, as even a cursory perusal of his online notebooks should make evident.)
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by pulisse 8y ago
> philosophers who seriously engage in, e.g. both moral philosophy and computability theory are far and few between That's a quite a bit weaker of a claim than "philosophers don't understand Gödel's theorem". To
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by pulisse 8y ago
> the parent comment is as outright an original, authentic, relevant comment you will find here The comment casts a lot of aspersions on academics but doesn't actually justify any of it.
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by pulisse 8y ago
> philosophers don't understand Godel's theorem Philosophy was the disciplinary home of formal logic until the latter part of the 20th century (meaning, research in formal logic largely took place in philosophy), and Anglophone
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by pulisse 8y ago
> He did this via speech. Free speech is a good thing even when the speech is bad, even when spoken by foreigners, even when it's illegal. I'm not sure you've thought this through. There's no line whatsoever? Speech
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Tuning Out: What Happens When You Drop Facebook?(siepr.stanford.edu)
15 points by pulisse 8y ago|13 comments
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Google and Ad Industry Accused of “Massive” Abuse of Intimate Personal Data(fortune.com)
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by pulisse 8y ago
> If they can be so callous when others get laid off maybe its good they get a dose of their own medicine given they seem to be speaking from a place of entitlement Care to cite some examples of BuzzFeed employees displaying such callous
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by pulisse 8y ago
Neither Uber nor Lyft is currently profitable. They can't truly be said to be winning a market competition until they're not effectively running on subsidization. Additionally, until more cities implement congestion pricing, the
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by pulisse 8y ago
Borjas's results consistently lie at the furthest extreme of existing studies. You can see this in the survey I linked. If I claim that the aggregate of research doesn't show a long-term effect of immigration on wages, it's
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by pulisse 8y ago
BuzzFeed was explicit when they published the dossier that it was raw and uncorroborated. They didn't claims its contents to be true, or base other assertions on it. They made the raw document itself available for public download. At
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by pulisse 8y ago
> Periods of mass external migration into the US also depress wages Empirically, this is not the case, at least in the long term[1]: > Empirical research in recent decades suggests that [...] when measured over a period of more than 1
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by pulisse 8y ago
As already pointed out a dozen times in these comments, buzzfeednews.com and buzzfeed.com are distinct.
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by pulisse 8y ago
That's exactly what's happening in, e.g., Miami[1]: > A recent Harvard University study tracked the property values of more than 100,000 single-family homes across Miami going back to the early 1970s. It showed that values of h
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by pulisse 8y ago
> Most of the patches I recognise were churches or Government buildings, roads etc. [...] These aren't the 'elite' "Elite" qualifies the owners, not the property. The Church of England and the crown are most cer
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Auditing Partisan Audience Bias within Google Search [pdf](ronalderobertson.com)
2 points by pulisse 8y ago|0 comments
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by pulisse 8y ago
> In elixir you really get the full power of multi core and support for distributed computing out of the box. Code that would have been beyond my pay grade or wouldn’t even imagine to write in Ruby or JavaScript is now easily reasoned ab
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by pulisse 8y ago
In addition to the factors you mention, there's also freedom from chronic stress.
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by pulisse 8y ago
Github has this feature[1], which we use extensively in our monorepo. [1] https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/
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by pulisse 8y ago
How is that a solution? It would provide well-off students with an opportunity to skate by and exacerbate the problem of having solutions circulating in the wild.
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by pulisse 8y ago
Proponents of g don't claim that it's an alternative to domain-specific abilities. They claim that it exists in addition to domain-specific abilities, and is what explains the correlation between performance across domains. Th
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by pulisse 8y ago
I don't follow your point. We're concerned with the value of -1 % 5, not 1 % 5. There's no definition of the modulus operator on which -1 % 5 = 1.
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by pulisse 8y ago
Negative indices aren't magic. They follow the obvious wraparound (modular) pattern: Negative `i` indexes the element in array `a` located at `i % len(a)`. If they worked any other way it'd be madness.
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Facebook Says a Bug May Have Exposed the Unposted Photos of Millions of Users(buzzfeednews.com)
1 points by pulisse 8y ago|1 comments
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Homelessness Rises More Quickly Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income(zillow.com)
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by pulisse 8y ago
> BuzzFeed was built on Facebook [...] Buzzfeed no longer relies on Facebook for users. Both of these statements are false.
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The U.S. Army Has a New Plan to Recruit Gamers(kotaku.com)
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by pulisse 8y ago
That looks awesome. Emacs's default behavior in this respect is theoretically customizable, but the mechanism for doing so (display-buffer-alist) is (to me) incomprehensible. It seems like what Shackle does is provide a clean interfac
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by pulisse 8y ago
> A small-ish skilled community is enough to keep the project going. The trends of the last few years are worrisome, though, particularly as regards the pool of developers who can work on Emacs core (the part written in C). Right now th
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by pulisse 8y ago
There are very few respects in which Emacs is less functional than other editors (good integration with semantically aware refactoring tools is the primary one, imo), and it has excellent support for the only functionality you explicitly me

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