rmellow

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by rmellow 7y ago
(please google Talmudic questions before downvoting parent - they're asking for consistency in my example and that's fair) The utility of the example I gave depends on your moral values [1], which admittedly was crafted for the pe
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by rmellow 7y ago
Suffering is always relative and it's a slippery slope to dismiss as whining. By this logic, 99% of issues in the US are "whining" because other countries have it much worse. Anyone in Sierra Leone could claim to a US citiz
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by rmellow 7y ago
> you would be stuck keeping an old computer alive that had a floppy drive and a CD burner, to burn any data you needed to a CD, then another old computer that has a CD drive and a USB port to move the data off a CD (/s, but only ki
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by rmellow 7y ago
What kind of results do you expect from blindly using correlation? Building a e.g. credit rating model with this kind of mentality will just result in a racially biased model.
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by rmellow 7y ago
Exams are the formal yardstick here, and a serious institution should not subject itself to such a powerful and informal system that is completely unchallengeable and opaque as "your supervisor's secret opinion of you". If &q
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by rmellow 7y ago
If you meant to stay on topic (reads like a tangent), I believe firearm videos are still kosher on Youtube. Look up FPSRussia.
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by rmellow 7y ago
I know exactly how that feels. A switch flipped at some point though and it stopped bothering me: I gave up on any notions of mysticism - religion, higher meaning and all that and instead just accepted causality is all there is. Things happ
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by rmellow 7y ago
Non-paywalled alternative: https://www.coindesk.com/craig-wright-spars-with-kleiman-law...
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by rmellow 7y ago
I consciously refuse to consume it. HN used to be better at avoiding paywalled articles, but it's become increasingly common in the last year (source: myself, consuming it since 2011).
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by rmellow 7y ago
I think many people understand this is as a figure of speech, not as literal goosebumps. edit: Yes, some people get literal goosebumps! Just highlighting there are two groups here.
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by rmellow 7y ago
The fact you are being downvoted really makes the case that any dissent on climate change makes you a heretic. And before I'm downvoted, note that you don't know my position on climate change: all I'm against is punishing peo
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by rmellow 7y ago
On this point, I just got a Withings Steel HR [1]: It's a classic analog watch, with a sole extra function of measuring heartbeat and exercise on a tiny LCD in the back of the watch face. I love that it's purpose-specific and isn&
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by rmellow 7y ago
The normalisation would work towards allowing the drug companies to be comfortable with a rent-seeking scenario, where they have a huge population that has little choice but to use their services, at whatever cost. And of course, that might
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by rmellow 7y ago
It means an unwarranted view of an "undetectable" individual as a source of HIV transmission. That is, an individual that is "undetectable" (formerly HIV+ but underwent treatment so that the viral load is not detectable)
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by rmellow 7y ago
Condoms break, despite whatever trust I have in them. That's when it's time for Plan B.
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by rmellow 7y ago
Why didn't the farmers just independently open an Amazon shop before he came along? Is it just the case that they're not tech savvy enough? I'm not downplaying what he did - it's really cool - what I'm trying is to
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by rmellow 8y ago
It's still newsworthy regardless: I live in Toronto, where we have Winter season and Construction season. It's everywhere in the city and a noisy construction might just pop up anywhere, poor neighborhood or not. Dealing with cons
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by rmellow 8y ago
Why discriminate against rich people? Edit: Yes, my gut feeling was that I would be downvoted for asking this, but it's a genuine question. Thanks for correcting me HN </s>.
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by rmellow 8y ago
UK as well: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Her_Majesty%27s_pleasure
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by rmellow 8y ago
This corroborates how I got out of my own depression. No episode in particular caused it, just growing up around shitty people that mined my self-confidence and social skills. How did I get out of it? Just like the author, a switch flipped.
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by rmellow 8y ago
The nature of this problem (that companies are able to track you) is not so much a technological problem, but an economical one. Even if gopher were the only alternative back then, it would have evolved just as HTML/HTTP did to support
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by rmellow 8y ago
Please rethink that it's a good world where positive genetic traits can be added to babies - in a world where this is common, you or your kids would be in unfair competition with genetically superior people simply because their parents
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by rmellow 8y ago
IMHO most of Netflix's catalogue is crap... Or their recommender system just doesn't get me. It seems to have overfit on anime, even though I just watched a couple a long time ago.
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by rmellow 8y ago
I assume you mean Null Hypothesis Significance Testing. Can you elaborate or provide sources as to why this destroys adopters?
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by rmellow 9y ago
I expect training & testing to make use of emulators & ROMs - wouldn't Sega potentially have a problem with this or is it considered fair use?
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by rmellow 9y ago
> I am always annoyed at claims in supervised learning that a machine predictor is better than humans. Humans obviously are the ones that scored the dataset to begin with For some problems, sure. For prediction tasks on the other hand, y
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by rmellow 9y ago
Good point! If we carry over this use of "legalized" to "legalized marijuana", it means you are obligated to consume it under penalty of law.
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by rmellow 9y ago
This language seems like an attempt to give a positive spin to more regulation. Disclaimer: I'm am all for equal pay. We just might disagree on the best way to get there, but that's healthy right?
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by rmellow 9y ago
Sometimes we forget the entrepreneurs behind these services can be technologically illiterate. When they realize they have a problem they don't understand, they get scared, and can easily get confrontational and try to dodge any liabil
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by rmellow 9y ago
"If the people of Brazil value the rainforest at all, it is a lower priority than whatever they are dealing with in their day to day life." You assume Brazilians are represented by their government. In theory, yes. In theory.

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