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by sp527 10y ago
I didn't realize until reading this comment section that there's an entire demographic of intelligent people in denial about why we are conscious (generic cognition is an evolutionary advantage in responding to circumstances that
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by sp527 10y ago
Perfect illustration of what I realized almost 5 years ago having lived in both SF and NYC. SF is an almost uniquely shitty urban taxi market.
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by sp527 10y ago
I gradually hot reload my way to perfection. And I'm dam proud of that.
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by sp527 10y ago
> I disagree. I think part of the fundamental disagreement you and I have is that I think giving someone a badge does not put them above the law or above ethics. Just because someone is an LEO doesn't mean they should shoot everyone
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by sp527 10y ago
So you're saying it would have been fine for the armed, suicidal man to be shot more or less immediately if a bystander had been present? Good at least we can agree on that. If Mader had been trained to deal with this situation and exp
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by sp527 10y ago
Sure that's fine. My personal belief is that no matter which way you look at it, you're dealing with a tradeoff between the likelihood of a cop being killed and the likelihood of an 'innocent' armed and unstable person b
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by sp527 10y ago
> My actual opinion, which you have completely ignored, is that when police make the correct call and correctly identify that a suspect is not dangerous despite the fact that the suspect is holding a gun, police should not be punished fo
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by sp527 10y ago
We're also discussing a cop who failed to 'err on the side of self-preservation', which is an obviously relevant detail. The officer was facing a man who was emotionally unstable and had a gun. The cop certainly did the moral
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by sp527 10y ago
If we end up with a bubble in this case, it will be due to the nature of hard science contrasted against the prevailing Theranosian assumption that R&D can be brute forced by entrepreneurs.
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by sp527 10y ago
Here's where you're mistaken: cops are at the end of the day mostly just normal people like us. There isn't some secret reservoir of especially heroic people to draw on. They are not expected to place their lives at unnecessa
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by sp527 10y ago
I'm defending statistics. If a cop has say a 10% chance of being shot by an armed opponent, then this will occur within 10 such encounters, in expectation. This is ultimately why cops are trained not to gamble. I didn't say '
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by sp527 10y ago
Oh you're ignoring a lot of essential practical aspects of using a gun, the most relevant of which are (1) you can miss and (2) the target may not be immediately incapacitated. Guns don't work in real life like they do in the movi
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by sp527 10y ago
I think resorting to our own anecdata coupled with what the media presents us is a tempting fallacy. It's likely that most cops are good people trying to do the right thing. You might be hard-pressed to find even staunch BLM supporters
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by sp527 10y ago
It would be very hard to get apples to apples numbers to make that determination. Let me be clear that the recent spate of high profile executions (and believe me when I say that's how I feel about many of these cases) of various un
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by sp527 10y ago
You sound like the perfect candidate for police work since you clearly place a low value on your own life. Asking people to endanger themselves on the off chance a person with a gun isn't going to shoot is nothing short of insane.
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by sp527 10y ago
No actually the logic here is really simple. Any rational system of law enforcement has to operate with extreme prejudice in a threatening situation. The reason is obvious: 9 times you might survive trying to do the right thing and then get
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by sp527 10y ago
I would have thought this was obvious but the down votes suggest otherwise. Yes: hesitation to act once you see a gun in the hands of someone who presents him/herself as unstable places your life and (perhaps more relevant to this situ
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by sp527 10y ago
Suicidal man had a gun. Nothing to see here.
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by sp527 10y ago
Just an Easter egg: http://wais.stanford.edu/Democracy/democracy_DemocracyAndChu...
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by sp527 10y ago
What you're witnessing is the migration of complexity to the frontend. It's becoming very difficult to find a backend problem that doesn't have a well-defined, generally accepted solution and accompanying FOSS that you would
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by sp527 10y ago
I think you're already doing the right thing in continually learning. No one can tell you whether or not studying ML will prove to be valuable with any certainty, so it might be a good bet to pursue it if it interests you and you have
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by sp527 10y ago
Hardly. We use this reduction because it's essential from a mathematical and axiomatic perspective and because limits are a fundamental construct. But more philosophically, a natural and nonterminating simulation of 0.999... (were it p
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by sp527 10y ago
It's also not strictly, theoretically true. More an 'for all intents and purposes' kind of thing.
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by sp527 10y ago
This has so much more to do with the lack of easily monetizable applications of complex mathematics. I'm sure a significant number of engineers and STEM professionals feel (as I do) that they're deliberately eschewing those subjec
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by sp527 10y ago
Stop looking for a girlfriend in bars and on Tinder. Go to events/meetups/friends' parties and talk to girls while there.
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by sp527 10y ago
This is so transparent (pun intended) and clumsy that it's hilarious. You would think someone supposedly having several million in net worth could do better.
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by sp527 10y ago
This must have been a traumatizing experience but the one thing I would want to add to it based upon my own experience is that things don't get that much better at the unicorns. Having worked for one that's still chugging along, I
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by sp527 10y ago
The "have you tried turning it off and on again" of DevOps. It makes a surprising amount of sense though, as long as your service is truly stateless, the restart can be easily orchestrated, and it results in no difference in opera
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by sp527 10y ago
Speaking as a lifelong US resident, I found this assessment almost charmingly bucolic. Trying to capture the entirety of our country and its values in one sweeping and dismissively ethnocentric characterization is pitifully misguided.
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by sp527 10y ago
Oh it gets even better. You can't even find the best ones in online pictures I think. They have an auditorium with floor to ceiling banners everywhere with those slogans (and those are the bold white font on red background I was referr

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