smky80

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by smky80 14y ago
The title was "Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars".
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by smky80 14y ago
You need to do the Sydney to Los Angeles 14 hour flight in economy with someone who weighs 350 lbs in the seat next to you, their body spilling over into your seat. If nothing else I think they should charge more by the horizontal area you
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by smky80 14y ago
That will depend entirely on who ends up writing the history books.
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by smky80 14y ago
Probably a Markov chain bot written by a Lisp enthusiast. No doubt the bot itself is currently learning Lisp and becoming self aware. Hopefully it will run out of parentheses before it takes over the world.
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by smky80 14y ago
This is an important idea. Several years back I quit a well-paying job in finance because I wanted to work on meaningful problems. What I realized fairly recently is that most problems are social problems. It's not like some demon is dra
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by smky80 14y ago
To be honest, I think anyone who believes 67% of college graduates should or at least will naturally be women, will be having these conversations consistently anyway, regardless of the merit of the argument. But I agree with your last point
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by smky80 14y ago
Predator drones instead of SEAL teams?
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by smky80 14y ago
If they do it gradually enough, I bet they won't.
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by smky80 14y ago
We can agree to disagree. If you're going to put forward the view above though, you can't really complain if someone were to argue that the lack of women in tech is more due to their own interests and aptitude than it is widespread sexism
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by smky80 14y ago
So would you agree that the current achievement gap between women and men in school is a social/cultural bias or privilege? Or would you argue instead that women are just smarter? Sorry to hear about your father.
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by smky80 14y ago
For starters, women live about 6 years longer than men [0], and currently make up about 67% of college graduates [1] , which is partly due to affirmative action. I can't find a great link, but I believe it's been projected that women are or
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by smky80 14y ago
I'm not defending the guy at all. My point is that this general scenario -- upset some person with a certain amount of power, who then makes your life miserable -- happens quite frequently to men as well. The title of the post is that "it
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by smky80 14y ago
I'm in a position to post my opinions, be they popular or not, on a discussion of an article I read on the internet. Your comment reeks of a worldview that I don't share.
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by smky80 14y ago
I really think the author really draws the wrong message out of this. It sucks that, because there is really no objective way to determine "merit", your position in the social graph can be more important than your talents in terms of your
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by smky80 14y ago
I have to recommend the newer translation by Gregory Hays, which makes the book immensely more readable. I got through it in an evening. One thing that pops out of the Hays translation that isn't so obvious at first glance in the Long tran
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by smky80 14y ago
I could have written the original post word for word, and I enjoyed your post. However, what torments me personally is the knowledge that the outcome could have been very different had small things been very different. A few freak twists
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by smky80 14y ago
The OP didn't really go into the "malice" part of it. FYI if you do good enough work your supervisor might be tempted to appropriate it. The process for doing so might involve painting you as incompetent. It's not pleasant.
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by smky80 14y ago
You need more of the probability distribution for the plays to make that decision. Most trick plays involve a handoff deep in the backfield which can result in large losses, which can kill drives. One reason why football teams run the bal
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by smky80 14y ago
Yeah I get it. My point is just that a lot of people consider the movies to be fairly loyal to the books, and I have to agree with Christopher Tolkien that they really do "eviscerate" the story and aren't much more than action movies aimed
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by smky80 14y ago
I read a lot of comments that people felt the movies were pretty loyal to the books, so I thought I would add my own little rant to add some perspective for those who maybe read the LOTR books when they were ~15 or so and never read the Sil
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by smky80 14y ago
Great post. Could you please email that to myself 5 years ago?