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by sooheon 7y ago
Interesting to see those stats, but you also see the same family names in politics over and over again (Bush, Clinton, Kennedy...). I could grant that information loss for the population as a whole, and still also recognize that dynasties e
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by sooheon 7y ago
And strength is the currency which you can cash out as power or freedom. What you choose is up to you, but you need to be strong to get what you want.
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by sooheon 7y ago
If you grant that motivation for actions have two components, causal and stochastic, and ignore the stochastic element as just error, I could see labeling all causal impetuses as "desires" at some level. Anything you do, you do be
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by sooheon 7y ago
If life isn't a support system for art, the implication is art should support life. My take is that art (or your work) should be supplementary to life itself, and should not take over it entirely.
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by sooheon 7y ago
Not the writer of that post, but maybe they're pointing out the difference between "lending a helping hand" and "deplatforming".
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by sooheon 7y ago
Check out Neanderthal[0], it seems to have support for some subset of sparse matrices and it's faster than ND4J[1] to boot. [0]: https://neanderthal.uncomplicate.org [1]: https://dragan.rocks/articles/1
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by sooheon 8y ago
What makes you think the US is not the defector?
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by sooheon 8y ago
You're right we're not sure, but splitting the difference like this sounds like you're equivocating the two possibilities. "Oh, it could get worse, it could get better, we just don't know." When the reality mig
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by sooheon 8y ago
I think not challenging a notion because it may be religious in nature is the actual condescending stance. Why is asking questions about a religious experience different from asking about any other? Can they not handle an iota of push back?
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by sooheon 8y ago
What do you think the half life of most electronics is? Why do you think so many people get anxious about Apple "abandoning" the Mac? A trickle of security updates does not make a well supported and thriving product line.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Maybe if you're talking about a specific type of start up cost where toll revenues from initial infra pays for later construction. Probably just loose usage.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Yep, it's always possible to have a mismatch in assumptions. That one definitely bit me as well. What's important is that the learning curve is not due to arbitrary rules, it's a faithful application of the logic of the macro
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by sooheon 8y ago
It asserts a solution.
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by sooheon 8y ago
It's cool, and I wouldn't be sad to work with Haskell by any means, but I still think there's an elegance to lisp syntax that can't be beat. There are very few language level rules, everything is composable building bloc
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by sooheon 8y ago
Tasteful macros can alleviate this, and Clojure's std lib has a few which are just delightful. The following does exactly what you'd expect, and there are even cooler ones like `some->` or `as->`. (->> some-nums
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by sooheon 8y ago
The data science story in Clojure is good and improving fast. Neanderthal is the fastest matrix library available on the JVM. Bayadera is ridiculously fast probabilistic programming (not to mention Anglican, which has a slightly easier API
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by sooheon 8y ago
Jeremy Howard and Chris Lattner are starting to push Swift for Tensorflow: - https://www.github.com/tensorflow/swift - https://www.fast.ai/2019/03/06/fastai-swift/
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by sooheon 8y ago
Not OP, but my take on that is this: if that industrious 20x / 2x value creator could exist in a vacuum there's no reason to stop them. Im fine even with a 1000x / 1.1x split, ceteris paribus. My problem with aggregation of w
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by sooheon 8y ago
That reads like Graham is poking fun at Google/Larry opposers, am I missing something? He's saying fighting poverty by bringing up the bottom is noble, but fighting inequality by capping the top end is foolish. BTW I agree with hi
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by sooheon 8y ago
Are you implying that financial independence between generations is everything that makes the US better than South Asia?
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by sooheon 8y ago
> Collusion can't mean that the sellers all have an implicitly coordinated price. Why? Obviously explicitly coordinating prices is collusion. Implicitly coordinated prices depends on nobody else defecting to a lower price point. If
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by sooheon 8y ago
This is cool. I'll note that "members of a system", implying individual focus, is a slight straw man of my argument, which is that elements such as "CEOs" or "boardmembers" could be incentivized with new k
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by sooheon 8y ago
During the same period, we have put presidents in jail immediately after the end of their term, others have fled with billions, another has committed suicide, and it's open knowledge that corruption is rampant and a handful of conglome
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by sooheon 8y ago
During the same period, we have put presidents in jail immediately after the end of their term, others have fled, another has committed suicide, and it's open knowledge that corruption is rampant. We had dictator presidents for decades
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by sooheon 8y ago
How do you affect change in systems if not by applying pressure and leverage against elements in the system?
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by sooheon 8y ago
Yes, but I'd say helping out and saving time is just being useful, not "seeming" useful. I suspect like any domain, SQL and DBs have a fractal of complexity, so reading is different from writing is different from architecting
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by sooheon 8y ago
Speaking as not an SQL guru -- isn't this true for every skill? Theoretically anyone can figure anything out with enough time, the value is of specialists having better mental maps for what solutions apply, when you need them.
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by sooheon 8y ago
> as economies become more free, they become more prosperous This is a bald faced lie. Enacting protectionist policies for you own country, and kicking away the ladder from those poorer than you is the historically proven way to prosperi
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by sooheon 8y ago
Protectionism and controlled liberal policies brought China and the rest of the Asian Tigers to prosperity. Forced neoliberal policies is a curse on nascent economies.
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by sooheon 8y ago
> Hickel accuses Gates/Pinker et. al. of promoting 'hard neoliberal' (i.e. strong free market) ideals. I don't believe this characterization is fair. Gates/Pinker are selling exactly the antidote to potential gui

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