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by tedks 13y ago
Many things correlate to drops in real-world violence. Heat correlates with increases in violence; that is not a reason to depopulate the equator and colonize the Antarctic. In general, the reinforcement learning present in humans mean that
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>the same stuff they're into. This is only relevant for the very small fraction of the population that are "into" those things.
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I'm in my lab now, but if you insist I can transcribe the reference section of my favorite psychology of women textbook when I get home. I don't think it's unfair to call out people with obvious agendas (in this case, single-
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>There are plenty of feminist research that shows there exist an gender imbalance in STEM, and most studies gives one or other kind of theory around the why. The theories are however rarely if ever tested. The "years of feminist res
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by tedks 13y ago
When I was a teenager (which was not long ago), coding or being technical in general was entirely uncool, but widely acknowledged as powerful. People would come to me asking if I could "hack" various things ranging from friends Fa
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by tedks 13y ago
That's entirely untrue. There's no way to even do that, short of having a copyrighted asset included in every output (but that could be trivially changed and has nothing to do with the license). I also fail to see how such a thi
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>...and the tech industry is any better? I don't think I said that.
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Not this man in particular, but in general I think people in this forum conflate "being successful in commercial enterprises" with "living a moral/fulfilling/best-possible life." As do plenty of people in socie
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> Should we think 90% of the stuff produced by HN readers on a daily basis (I mean the software we write, not our comments, hehe) are good things? In the world I want to live in, would 90% of the stuff produced by HN readers, software, c
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by tedks 13y ago
Thanks for being understanding and discerning. I wouldn't say pop music is damaging or bad, but it does seem undesirable in that it's very obvious that you can do far better. Listening to pop music (not necessarily popular music,
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>Anki unfortunately jumped the AGPL shark recently, making the code dangerous to have around. Seriously? Do you sometimes sneeze and, in the process, integrate your projects with external code (that isn't even packaged as a library)
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Sure. Heroin and slaves are really, really bad. Pop music is just mildly bad. That's a comparison. The point I intended to make is that there are markets for everything. I don't even think pop music is that bad, but being successf
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>there's a market for it & he's excelled at creating something that sells that. There's also a market for black tar heroin, nuclear missiles, drones, slaves, and so on. >Just because it's pop music doesn't
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>Well, this is exactly my point -- that this happens regularly, and isn't even commented upon, in many posts on HN when the inner state is, to take an example, a woman discussing her feelings of exclusion or a racial/social min
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>And, people just can't or won't believe me. It seems to me that not believing you is the right thing to do. Childhood amnesia is well-studied; false memories are equally well-studied and are easily formed; since the former is
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by tedks 13y ago
All data is emotive. All emotions stem from data. When you look at the Mona Lisa or hear Sun by Koreless (IMO the most beautiful piece of music from 2013) you're processing data. It's just wave oscillations or light refraction.
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https://speakerdeck.com/kachayev/stop-coding-pascal
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>Studies have shown that if you add in even a small amount of extrinsic motivation (i.e. pay people) it dramatically affects their perception of intrinsic reward. These studies are typically set up such that there's no choice; you h
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by tedks 13y ago
1. Drive a car with enough Ron Paul bumper stickers to create a local gravitational distortion and bend light away from your license plate. Which you only have because government FATCATS force you to REGISTER impeding your natural right of
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by tedks 13y ago
I think the implication that Google's UX is a monstrosity isn't really warranted based on the content of this page. Most of these fall into a few categories: 1. Hey, this service exists (Google Contacts, Google Keep, Google News)
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This article is not about police tanks. (Even though it's horrifying that if the tanks were about to roll into America's equivalent of Tianeman Square, our American Tank Man would just be tasered, at best.) This article is about t
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I've kept this on for a while, because since I already have a phone that runs non-free Google-written silently-updatable software, I already leak all this data anyway. I figure if I'm leaking this data, I might as well leak it in
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>On the other hand, it frustrates me that the tipping point for how Snowden's legacy will be viewed is action by a set of corporations, and not action by elected officials, the media, or an informed public... Democracy is effectivel
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>Indeed, cyberlibertarians are all about decentralized power structures. This isn't really true. Libertarians are all about having many centralized power structures. You could call this "decentralized," but it's decen
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This article isn't about a leftist view of cyberlibertarianism, but about a liberal view of cyberlibertarianism. I doubt that many leftists see the capitalist Western states as "the realization of democracy".
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The first paragraph on a sales page should never include the word "pulseaudio." It probably shouldn't even include "Linux" unless you're selling server hardware.
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Making a new account, or using a new account to tell people to be cautious about who they throw money to on the Internet, is hardly equivalent to writing a sob story and then accepting donations from the Internet (which, to his credit, the
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This seems to contradict earlier reports in this thread, so there's probably a lot of volatility due to Time removing what they see as fraud. I stand by my original prediction[0], however. [0] http://predictionbook.com/
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Fabrice Bellard doesn't have a twitter, doesn't blog, and maybe doesn't go to conferences. But he's done more than most who have, almost certainly. His wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
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The point behind capitalism is making more money faster. This is why Zynga and Lockheed Martin exist.

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