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by sequoia 2y ago
The point of this law is to reward merit and hard work and discourage universities from offering back-doors for wealthy donors and alums. The point of it is to encourage fairness. Unless you're suggesting that Asians are overrepresen
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by sequoia 2y ago
Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel more or less continuously since October 7, and Israel has been firing back. I believe both countries have had to evacuate border areas, something like 100,000 Israelis living hear Lebanon are in
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by sequoia 2y ago
Can you clarify what “evidence” your link provides? And what exactly are you suggesting “has been going on”? Your claim is vague and spooky. Please clarify what you think “they” have been doing.
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by sequoia 2y ago
Pro tip for reading an article that concerns Israel: compare and get context. Israel is often held up as a boogeyman even when it compares similarly to other countries. For example, I could say “Israel has a higher rate of incarceration tha
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by sequoia 2y ago
You said the conflict is "asymmetric." You don't clarify what you mean by this but it seems like a safe assumption that you're referring to Israel's superior military power. I was pointing out that when it comes to
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by sequoia 2y ago
If you think Israel has more supporters on social media than Hamas, you definitely don't use twitter and probably don't use facebook. And you definitely don't use Tiktok, which is overwhelmingly anti-Israel. As another comm
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by sequoia 2y ago
We played to play campus-wide capture the flag at the camp I went to as a kid a couple times and I will never forget the experience. The camp spanned an enormous area with all kinds of varied terrain and we had ~170 campers and counsellors
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by sequoia 3y ago
I don't think it's fair to disparage this article. The other one is perhaps good for a "deeper dive" but I'd say TFA is better overall at illustrating the concept.
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by sequoia 3y ago
This is obviously veering way off course of the topic of AI at this point, but I imagine the residents of kibbutz be'eri and the 100+ hostages still held in Gaza would disagree that Isreal is fighting for "basically no reason.&quo
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by sequoia 3y ago
If that's the only case where this is true, then both the headline and the first sentence of this article are misleading or incorrect. The headline states "Ninety Per Cent of War-Time Casualties Are Civilians" with no qualifi
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by sequoia 3y ago
Hm OK, I read this a bit differently. I read these sections: > One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 s
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by sequoia 3y ago
I'm disturbed by the idea that an AI could be used to make decisions that could proactively kill someone. (Presumably computer already make decisions that passively kill people by, for example, navigating a self-driving car.) Though th
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by sequoia 3y ago
OK, so this is an android problem not an overdrive or letsencrypt problem
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by sequoia 3y ago
Ah OK. I didn't realize I was violating guidelines. I'll try flagging in the future. I thought there was some utility to analyzing the comment because it's characteristic of much of the rhetoric on this topic and it seemed li
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by sequoia 3y ago
I'm a fairly ignorant outside observer, but it seems that government disarray and massive internal dissension within Israeli society caused by Netanyahu's increasingly extreme political moves must have contributed to Israel's
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by sequoia 3y ago
> at least twenty-two thousand people, some 70 percent of them women and children. People are definitely dying and that includes civilians, but facts matter and a lot of these numbers are simply made up by Hamas. Here's some analysi
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by sequoia 3y ago
I don't get it. The example is a library. I'm paying €39 for you to tell me that if I want some quiet, go to a library? I truly do not understand the value proposition here. How is this different from punching "library"
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by sequoia 3y ago
agreed, but this is IMO qualitatively different from a 50mil salary. The $120k job might be classified as normal competition for talent and therefor be outside the scope of what this article is talking about (astronomical salaries).
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by sequoia 3y ago
It's pretty absurd of him to talk about how it's ridiculous that people are paid $50mil (I agree) then pivot and say that $120,000 per annum for a new grad is another example of "ridiculous comp." These things are not in
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by sequoia 3y ago
People who don’t use scrum or sprints or any of it, two questions: 1. Do you actually have very few meeting and all of them are meaningful and useful? 2. Is your work predictable and both devs and PMs have a reasonable idea of how much work
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by sequoia 3y ago
> Because I can't imagine people paying hundreds of dollars for that. We're talking apple customers here. I just spent $300 on "air pods." Would I spend $300 on a two pack of AirFrames? Very maybe! The value of sharin
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by sequoia 3y ago
yeah I can't get my mouse to focus on it. It's too small so the WM thinks I'm trying to resize the window.
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by sequoia 3y ago
Some of these are like: DRAFT: conceptual work of art that the artist enjoyed making & might impress other artists FINAL: a book cover, a product of commercial design, designed to sell a book It's really not shocking that they went
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by sequoia 3y ago
Since this argument has somehow become personal, Mr/Ms Internet Stranger, I'd encourage you consider how frequently you give positive feedback to colleagues & peers that their manager could see (i.e. "on the record")
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by sequoia 3y ago
This has dictation errors in the very first two words, in the title no less. https://ia801604.us.archive.org/29/items/synapseml_gutenberg... "Mrs. [pause] Shelly by Lucy Maddox Brown Rosetti" I expected
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by sequoia 3y ago
A couple reasons: Some people are excessively modest to the point of self-sabotage & will discourage you from providing deserved praise because they see it as boasting. Also, asking is another step and creates more friction in providing
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by sequoia 3y ago
benefit of starting to give feedback if you're not already: ============================== - a lot risk that giving feedback without asking that hurts the recipient: == - very small 0 ----------------------------
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by sequoia 3y ago
I've been doxxed & threatened on 4chan[0] (most of the doxxing was actually on pastebin), I contacted 4chan admins and received no response. 4chan does little or nothing to combat doxxing & harassment, I think you're incor
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by sequoia 3y ago
If this were the case, I wonder how 4chan, stormfront, etc. stay online. Surely 4chan's providers get floods of complaints about doxxing etc. Or pastebin for that matter. The fact that the EFF is writing about this case and that they&#

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