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931.
by solveit 8y ago
Yeah, but that would require people understand big numbers. Million, billion, trillion, what's the difference?
932.
by solveit 8y ago
>How much a candidate raises has been correlated to ability to win. Key word being correlated. Winners raise more money in large part because people donate to candidates they think will win. So your third statement is technically true, b
933.
by solveit 8y ago
McKinsey should do nothing because responding to a non-story is terrible PR.
934.
by solveit 8y ago
I agree with everything else, but have people shown causation for >It's pretty successful at decreasing the happiness of people who use it. this? Because unhappiness and facebook use is obviously going to correlate for reasons that
935.
by solveit 8y ago
>That's an indictment of reddit comments more than AI. Perhaps, but that's the world we live in. I suspect the average reddit commenter is already more articulate than the average person (citation needed, I know. But reddit ske
936.
by solveit 8y ago
They end up remarkably similar, but it turns that remarkably similar isn't nearly similar enough to be useful in most contexts. In fact, I think the biggest lesson of the social sciences is a deeper intuitive understanding of how indiv
937.
by solveit 8y ago
There's a cargo cult blogging thing going on in ML, where you also have a large number of tutorials written by variably-competent people written not to inform, but to look good. As I'm sure you know, the results are fairly mixed.
938.
by solveit 8y ago
Because it's the people that matter, not the area of land. Or do you believe Siberia and the Australian outback should dominate a hypothetical democratic world-state? Anyway, the electoral college is a 200+ year-old compromise meant to
939.
by solveit 8y ago
First, it's unclear whether the debt is actually a bad thing. Note debts for countries don't work like debts for individuals, especially if said country controls the world's reserve currency. Second, the idea that immigrants
940.
by solveit 8y ago
That number looks wrong. It can't be the case that thirty thousand people die in mass shootings every year in the US.
941.
by solveit 8y ago
I think what was meant was "If you're in a high paying, in demand field, save more aggressively (in absolute terms) than if you're in a low paying field with limited opportunities." Since you're getting paid more, y
942.
by solveit 8y ago
And this is well known, yet people go into game dev anyway because they want to build games.
943.
by solveit 8y ago
I don't see how any of that relates to the comment you replied to. No matter how your metabolism works, exercising will burn calories, and I think that's all the above comment was getting at. Now that that's been said, woul
944.
by solveit 8y ago
I presume Caviar is a company and your office isn't munching on gourmet food every day?
945.
by solveit 8y ago
The point is that the boundaries are being blurred. Is Amazon a tech company? Is Netflix? Is Netflix a tech company if they mailed you CDs instead of streaming the material? Doing anything at scale pretty much turns you into a tech company
946.
by solveit 8y ago
When we're discussing income, that seems reasonable.
947.
by solveit 8y ago
>They'd take it into account when deciding if they could afford to hire them. Sounds like a great way to incentivise companies to discriminate against old people and people with preexisting conditions.
948.
by solveit 8y ago
No causation, I'd believe any day. But correlation? I'd want to see a statistically rigorous test done before I'd believe that. Correlations are everywhere and pretty much all good traits are correlated with each other. Hell,
949.
by solveit 8y ago
This is not new. First it was the militaries and governments, then it was the financial institutions, now it's big tech companies, and eventually it will actually be AI (because firms will use AI to guide their actions). Aligning anyth
950.
by solveit 8y ago
There's everyday politicking, and then there's Trump.
951.
by solveit 8y ago
Yes, but an extended family spans multiple generations. You can easily get over ten people even if the last generation consists of one person per pair of parents. Still, I'm sure there's a bunch of people that only live together o
952.
by solveit 8y ago
I think this depends greatly on the social group your teenager is in. A bunch of girls that write fanfics together are going to have very different social dynamics than a bunch of boys talking about 9gag (or whatever meme site 14 year-old b
953.
by solveit 8y ago
A good portion of HN is people that got good at things before they were 15 and now lead comfortable lives thanks to that. Early specialization has its merits, unfortunately,
954.
by solveit 8y ago
>if I were a parent, given the gravity of the responsibility, I'd be cautious at least. I'm curious as to what this entails, because >Exposing young people during significant portions of their waking hours to computers/
955.
by solveit 8y ago
As it turns out, American college students drink in far unhealthier ways than European students. It has been suggested that it might have something to do with the absurd legal drinking age of 21.
956.
by solveit 8y ago
Side effects may include an opioid epidemic :(
957.
by solveit 8y ago
The point isn't that the article isn't an advertisement, it's that it isn't just an advertisement. If it provides value we shouldn't immediately dismiss it just for being an ad.
958.
by solveit 8y ago
You're right of course, but I wonder how much it matters that only 45% of the voting population would have voted leave without interference as opposed to 52% (numbers pulled out of thin air). For interference (or a freak event, or weat
959.
by solveit 8y ago
Surveillance for law enforcement is the easy one that everybody's going to worry about. I can also see some niche uses for wildlife observation.
960.
by solveit 8y ago
That's because they tried and failed miserably (kind of, they weren't tech-literate enough to even know what they should try, but they certainly tried very hard to try).

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