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by rebelos 5y ago
This is ad hominem and doesn't remotely reflect the substance of the article. I personally don't like Greenwald either, but he makes a decent point here about the ACLU's actions. And it's especially germane because that
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by rebelos 6y ago
Good analogy. I'd say the efficient markets hypothesis would be better interpreted as "you cannot deterministically identify an inefficiency", i.e. you're always assuming some amount of risk with any trade. You could pro
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by rebelos 6y ago
To think that China couldn't or wouldn't carefully control this situation and what information is available to external parties is being credulous to the point of this sounding like propaganda. They did everything they could to do
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by rebelos 6y ago
No serious person looks at average income numbers when doing this sort of analysis. In fact, in this domain (and many others), any coarse-grained summary statistic misses far too much nuance to have much practical utility.
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by rebelos 6y ago
I'm going to assume you mean a video recording, which is the only way to be absolutely certain about what occurred when you have exactly two witnesses who also happen to be the accuser and the accused. I omitted this possibility for ob
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by rebelos 6y ago
While this is technically true, it's important to note that modern criminal justice systems are designed to minimize the likelihood of false convictions at the expense of increasing the likelihood of false acquittals. It's suppos
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by rebelos 6y ago
Being sexually active is particularly dangerous for heterosexual women. It's nearly impossible to prove a rape case in court. Because of this, there has been some groundswell of support for relaxing the burden of proof in rape cases to
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by rebelos 6y ago
> Oddly enough, your scenario of high expert adding their expertise to the system is much more like the original Gofai model where a few experts would hypothetically program in their expertise. That scenario fell with difficulty of exper
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by rebelos 6y ago
I really fail to see how parts of the tech community continue to be beguiled by utopianist notions wrt AI and automation, unless what's really happening is that the already successful techno-capitalists are trying to lay a disingenuous
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by rebelos 6y ago
The only way you could be beguiled by this framing is if you don't understand just how inept most doctors and lawyers really are. A future configuration will probably look something like: far fewer highly talented doctors and lawyers r
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by rebelos 6y ago
> What are the trends that will lead to mass unemployment, even decades hence? Visit a slum in Mumbai or a village in the Congo. Better yet, visit a trailer park in the Rust Belt. I really don't get why people don't understand
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by rebelos 6y ago
That hardly matters when you're talking about one of the all time greatest crooks who got away with it (and still does) [1]. [1] https://prospect.org/economy/falling-upward-larry-summers/
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by rebelos 6y ago
> Late in the article the author discusses the way QE has been regressive, disproportionately impacting the rich. What makes anyone so confident that other forms of injecting money into the economy won't get siphoned the same way? W
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by rebelos 6y ago
> To her, "white privilege" is an academic abstraction. She grew up in real poverty and never went to college. By contrast, "be less white" is quite easy to understand as a statement of overt racism. And, perplexingly
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by rebelos 6y ago
I'm not disagreeing that CRDB will likely get there, but people are still reporting various issues: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23087071 . It does seem however like you appreciate why Spanner and CRDB are impor
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by rebelos 6y ago
Your answer suggests that you don't fully understand what problems Spanner is solving and why it's worth paying for that. CRDB is improving but I don't think it's consensus production-grade quite yet.
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by rebelos 6y ago
You can get 3 nodes for about $27k a year and that'll handle 30k read QPS and in the neighborhood 1-2k write QPS iirc. It's a fraction of the cost of even a single dedicated engineer. And you'd probably need several engineers
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by rebelos 6y ago
I don't quite understand why, but much of the tech industry seems to be sleeping on Cloud Spanner. Google quietly completely revolutionized managed+consistent+available+scalable RDBMS and very few people seem to have caught on yet. May
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by rebelos 6y ago
Many of these cases may be due to sleep-disordered breathing, which is massively under-diagnosed because of a little known controversy within the sleep medicine field involving the scoring of sleep polysomnographies. The American Academy of
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by rebelos 6y ago
I think a lot of people very fond of crypto for its more anarchist features overestimate the mainstream's willingness to break from "the system". If regulations come down on exchanges or the crypto space more broadly, it will
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by rebelos 6y ago
> Funny thing is bitcoin is only a small technology that will hurt the fiat system, there are more such disruptive technologies on the way but governments are far too stupid to see the writing on the wall. Examples?
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by rebelos 6y ago
You clearly have zero idea what it is to be a true "alpha" male. The societal stigma you alluded to is levied on toxic assholes.
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by rebelos 6y ago
"There's no hope boys. Lay down your arms and let them have the women and children."
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by rebelos 6y ago
Naval Ravikant is a bit of a "head in the clouds" type, but he does have some genuinely interesting ideas that are worth paying attention to. The problem with both Ravikant and Graham is that they're pontificating in a space
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by rebelos 6y ago
I think we can safely not blame the bankers for failing to assign a $100B valuation to a travel sector company that was valued at $31B before the pandemic.
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by rebelos 6y ago
I rather categorically did not condone anything. You've made some truly astounding logical leaps here.
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by rebelos 6y ago
> It seems to be the attitude of many big tech companies that their users are too dumb to look at information and decide for themselves what is and isn’t true. This seems demonstrably true for vast swathes of users, who have become enamo
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by rebelos 6y ago
I suspect you're being downvoted because this post sounds like a denial of very real issues of sexism and racism. However, the suggestion that employers will work to identify and preemptively reject employees with an SJW bent is not on
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by rebelos 6y ago
My quarrel is entirely with the packaging and its author. Admittedly, I was already familiar with Tyson's double life as a reader. Many fans are aware of that detail.
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by rebelos 6y ago
The emotional valence of the word "biases" here suggests you're reading something in my comment that simply isn't there. This is not a substantive counterargument. The post was written as if a formal education is somehow

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