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by repolfx 7y ago
Worse, it seems more about whether they're men at all. I got to the end and stopped reading. I thought this article was going to get into specifics of what these so called "made men" did wrong, it turned out to be a ra-ra fem
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's basically like Obamacare. You have to buy from them and the insurers have to sell to you.
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If you assume people are just molecular reactions in their brain that could, theoretically, be modelled like any physical system then sure. But otherwise there's no useful way to predict the response of whole societies to arbitrary eve
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's a rather offensively culturally relative judgement. The left exists everywhere, one man does not. Why should I have heard of him? Are you assuming everyone comes from the same place and culture you do? You don't seem to hav
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by repolfx 7y ago
Do you think immigrants don't compete in the labour pool against American workers? I mean, you're very quick to label Andrew Yang's rhetoric as explanation and Trump's as manipulation, but if you think cheap immigrant an
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't know anything about John Zerzan but from his Wikipedia page he sounds like someone who applies Marxist theory to primitive vs modern societies instead of proles vs the bourgeoisie. The feminist philosophy of Clinton and the pri
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by repolfx 7y ago
Psychohistory is pure fiction. The closest real equivalent is economics and economic predictions are essentially always wrong. I don't remember where exactly, but I recall reading that someone had done a mass study on economic forecast
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by repolfx 7y ago
There will never be a time when everything is automated.
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by repolfx 7y ago
UBI isn't a redistribution scheme, it's meant to be that everyone gets money, regardless of need. Obviously if a government takes away $1000 and "gives" you $100 back, that's no different from your perspective to
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by repolfx 7y ago
There obviously is a modern left and feminism is a central tenet of it. The fact that feminism has been riddled with violence, man hating and calls for androcide from the start is taboo to discuss today because feminists will respond in t
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by repolfx 7y ago
Have fun with older women who got past their teeny screamy phase, whilst learning how to be charming, interesting and good conversation. Steadily improve your looks and build up a career. Then by the time the average man reaches thirty he&#
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by repolfx 7y ago
It didn't say that actually. Whilst men may be nearly all rated as less attractive than average by women (lol), women are still more likely to message less attractive men than men are women. So men can use dating sites, especially if t
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by repolfx 7y ago
I get where you're trying to go with this, but a core value of 'iteration' just means you don't have any values. Any value you may claim to have can be 'iterated' at any time into the polar opposite, which make
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by repolfx 7y ago
you understand manipulation is a thing, right? Of course. But you're arguing here that Trump won because of massive scale manipulation to the extent that millions of voters don't have free will at all, which is just conspiracy t
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by repolfx 7y ago
Your position is unfalsifiable. If there had been Russian advertising at scale, it's proof of foreign interference. If there's basically no spend at all, that's still proof of foreign interference because dollar spend doesn&#
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by repolfx 7y ago
Facebook used for ethnic cleansing? I'm not sure you should criticise others for hiding the ball or being dishonest when phrasing it like that. Facebook is a website, a pretty trivial one at that. It isn't attached to flying wea
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by repolfx 7y ago
Money laundering law essentially originates with the USA and works like this: if you move money around, you have to stop criminals using your services and report anything suspicious to the authorities. Failure is transitive. If Bank A provi
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by repolfx 7y ago
I give you points for optimism and arguing in good faith :) Unfortunately the extract I quoted is very clear. They aren't talking about understanding that engineer is a person adjective and thus could refer to an entity of unknown gend
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yeah, I know how it works, and the level of automation is the same in all modern languages - as you note, Java's equivalent of "par" is writing ".parallelStream()" instead of ".stream()" so no real differe
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by repolfx 7y ago
Compilers and CPUs only reorder over tiny instruction windows. He's talking about re-orderings over enormous windows, in a way that requires whole program analysis. But that doesn't really happen in reality. FP languages promised
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by repolfx 7y ago
You don't really get easy parallelism, do you? People used to theorise this, but auto-parallelisation never really worked because it's hard to understand - even for a machine - where the cost/benefit tradeoff of parallelism s
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by repolfx 7y ago
You're right that it is hard to disentangle cause and effect, but Google's senior leadership has been very stable over time. Pichai was clearly the continuity candidate. The things I've named were all bottoms up - Google&#x27
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by repolfx 7y ago
I didn't describe a neutral Google internally: looking back, it's possible there were a bunch of closet Marxists who felt uncomfortable admitting that. I doubt it because in other offices I've never seen people on the left ho
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by repolfx 7y ago
It looks from the outside like the opposite - you changed the policy explicitly so you can refuse to deal with organisations whose ideas and opinions you're not receptive to. Worse, it looks like you just reversed direction because the
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by repolfx 7y ago
Experiments that ask people to fill out surveys as themselves, or as they imagine a liberal would, or as they imagine a conservative would, in equal proportion. Jonathan Haidt did one of these experiments with about 2000 participants. It&#x
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by repolfx 7y ago
Erasing gendered pronouns from comments: no, because that's a story I heard from former colleagues who are still there. Arguing maybe girls find geeky stuff boring: this is what Damore did, but he wrote it much more formally and cited
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by repolfx 7y ago
That merge appears to change the policy in ways that render this discussion largely irrelevant (given the current subject line). It used to say: We do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds. f
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by repolfx 7y ago
Navajo speakers aren't a political bloc, they're a linguistic bloc, and support for languages is driven by revenue potential in any software company I've ever seen.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Political opposition? Well, no, not visibly, but that's because "people should only get jobs if they're qualified" is already the default mainstream position. Women In Tech style initiatives claim to be about encourageme
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't think even Google actually encouraged people to discuss politics at work. They never did when I was there. It was more a side-effect of decentralising the power to create forums. Anyone could create discussion lists there wit

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