tabeth

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by tabeth 10y ago
A lot of what you say really requires some evidence. For example: > a purely anonymous system is going to end up with hiring tons of young white males- A system that's non anonymous has already proven itself to hire a ton of young w
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by tabeth 10y ago
In the actual research [1] you can see that the discrimination is also affected by gender. In any case, anonymous interviewing doesn't inherently require one to see the duration of ones past experience. I agree the implementation cou
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm confused -- anonymity wouldn't affect diversity, unless the organization was discriminating to begin with. What are your arguments against anonymity, exactly?
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by tabeth 10y ago
So who's not being discriminated against? Let's review who's currently getting the short end of the stick. 1. Women [1] 2. Older Americans [2] 3. Minorities [3] 4. Foreigners [4] What can be done about this? The answer is cle
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by tabeth 10y ago
How are you measuring the "objectively valuable" systems? How much money are we talking?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I guess you didn't read the next sentence? I never claimed it's no big deal. I simply stated an empirical reality. And yes, I've already provided evidence on how your race will affect your earning potential, even as a felon.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Sure. That'd be relevant if I ever made that claim. In fact, I said the opposite: "You will not be fine." (re: white and black felons).
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm sorry about your situation, but I think the people telling you "it'll be fine" are creating a reality you're not going to see. That being said, you can still see success in your career (with tech, primarily) tha
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by tabeth 10y ago
Really? This is common knowledge. Just go read the book -- Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. Why pretend like being black isn't a severe disadvantage in terms of almost every metric you can think of?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'd go with a Dell Precision M6800 or M4800, depending on your desired size. It can run linux natively, has a full sized keyboard, and all components are replaceable (even the CPU is a pretty doable replacement).
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by tabeth 10y ago
The short answer is: if you're a minority, yes. If you're white, no. Either way your potential will be harmed, but like many things, this can be overcome as well. You'll have to be probably way above average to overcome the &
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by tabeth 10y ago
If you really want to know this, go take a look at Google's traffic maps, which are decently accurate. Cross reference that with some city stats on the types of car available and noise levels for makes and models and there you go. Cars
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by tabeth 10y ago
I know this problem isn't unique to Amazon, but what are people's thoughts on the potentially unsustainble levels of e-commerce. I know plenty of people who are in serious debt (primarily student and credit card) and still blow to
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by tabeth 10y ago
Spam comes from expectation or the desirability. If neither exist, then yes, it is spam. Also, businesses get spammed a lot too, so I'm not sure what you're getting at there. In fact, businesses are spammed so much most have pro
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by tabeth 10y ago
AFAIK Africa has a ton of natural resources still available compared to the rest of the continents (other than Antarctica)
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by tabeth 10y ago
So, assuming we're screwed, where's the best place to move preemptively? I know Boston isn't that place. - I assume the coasts are a nonstarter. - Moving inland could be nice, but the ground would need to be pretty arable to
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by tabeth 10y ago
I really must be missing something. You even said it yourself: "Nobody's worried about competent students underperforming." I didn't say this, nor did you... so who are you replying to? Unless you assume all black studen
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm not really sure what your point is.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I disagree that a positive outcome is almost certain. What's happening here is effectively Affirmative Action, and that's hardly a positive outcome in everyone's eyes. For example, Google could just simply give internships to
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by tabeth 10y ago
One thing I struggle with is measurement of progress. For example, what Google is allowing here with Howard U is obviously good for the AA community. However, is Google in general doing things that are good or bad for AAs in general? It&#x2
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by tabeth 10y ago
The reason is pretty simple: the punishment is not great enough. If the gain from doing "bad" acts is greater from any expected punishment, expect the bad behavior to continue.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you have something substantial to say... why not say it?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I haven't started a company before, but I've seen several stories on HN similar to the OP. Wouldn't someone have some sort of 1/N share of the company as long as you work X years contingency? I also suppose you'd ha
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by tabeth 10y ago
I wish you could bet on the odds of some of these succeeding in 3 years or so. Someone should start a startup that does this and get into Y Combinator to be super meta. random commentary below: * FloydHub – Heroku for deep learning * It&#x2
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by tabeth 10y ago
You don't have to actually write for it to be helpful. There are billions of handwritten documents out there already. OCR and handwriting recognition can help with archiving.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Additionally, I'd love to see where it is being used where: 1. It's not for an adtech or financial application. 2. It's not for a company that's primarily adtech or finance. Though clearly AI has value, it seems in pract
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by tabeth 10y ago
I disagree. Whether it was done in bulk or not is irrelevant to the recipient. The easiest way to prove this is to find a message you consider to be spam. Forward it to someone of your choosing. The message previously considered to spam won
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm not really sure what you're talking about. My original comment was referring to the general case. I'm sure, given enough constraints, anyone can prove anything. Even your Olympic example is bad. Is being faster better? Ma
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by tabeth 10y ago
I disagree. There's no such thing as an "objective metric." All qualities are contextual. Being smarter, strong, faster -- qualities one may say are "good" are not always desirable in all situations. Even if it were
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by tabeth 10y ago
This implies that "individually targeted" and "well thought out" somehow make a message not spam. If the recipient is expecting or desires the message, it is not spam, otherwise, it is.

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