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Trump administration will ban lobbyists(washingtonpost.com)
26 points by tmptmp 10y ago|22 comments
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by tmptmp 10y ago
I may sound over optimistic but I feel this is very good for people who are interested in learning new languages. It will surely help people learn many languages with relative ease and low cost. Anyone can try out various sentences from new
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You, a single person, not meeting a single Trump supporter may not be surprising. You may tend to meet only like-minded people. But the media is/must be a different animal: they should spend time trying to gauze the social moods from d
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by tmptmp 10y ago
This podcast by Sam Harris is worth contemplating. "Sam Harris - President Trump and the Failure of the Left" [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f27qaDQ1uG8
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No offense taken. I feel humbled. Indeed, your argument supports my view. I have deep and very high regard for the people who are able to apply ML to fields like DNA analysis or NLP which can take the dreaded "Turing test". I stan
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by tmptmp 10y ago
Beautifully written and insightful. >>After much trial and error I eventually learned that this is often the case of a training set that has not been correctly randomized and is a problem when you are using stochastic gradient algorit
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I am not making the equivalency, it was an example to illustrate my point that criticizing an ideology should not be seen as insulting some people.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>To claim that Islam is somehow innately "vicious" or "barbaric" is just insulting. First a question: Insulting to whom? If you think it is insulting to Muslims, then I disagree. It may be offensive to some Muslim
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>>If people are no longer free to use words or social stigma to advance their views and opinion, because "tolerance," then what do we have left? I agree with you. But we cannot disregard the dishonest behaviour performed by
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I am not a Trump supporter, as far as his anti-Muslim stance is concerned. But I do support some of his economic stances which are labeled as "protectionist" by mainstream media. I may be wrong as I am not an economic expert also
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>>Spoiler: I'm Muslim. Interacting with you, online, in a civil manner. Good and thanks for it. I do have many Muslim friends, some from Kurdish land. They are real good people. >>copy paste some nonsense /b/ bull
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>>Let's try this a different way: have you ever even attempted to identify what your "issue with Islam" is? My issue with Islam is its ideology and its doctrine. It's very similar to my issue with Nazism and white
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I have had a reasoned and nuanced argument with some other guy on the topic of Islam the other day on HN. It's here FYI [1]. Once again, I am not reducing all Muslims to Islamists, so your argument fails. In fact, you are trying to red
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>>This is a fantasy that is born out of spending too much time on messageboards and not enough in reality. Hope this [1] helps you see some reality. It seems UK has already allowed the barbaric and inhumane Sharia to exist there. So,
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I wish to make it clear that I am not against Muslim people. But I am against the vicious and barbaric ideology of Islam. Many Muslims (especially Muslim women) are the foremost victims of Islam. So, please do not confuse Islam as an ideolo
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It's not surprising. The left-liberal camp was always turning a blind eye towards many important national issues and importantly about the issue of Islam. This reminds me a talk given by Sam Harris about the blunder being done by left-
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US society/culture in general is the main cause of this problem as most people here do not value math. Math requires deep, creative and original thinking and thinking is rather difficult to perform act. It seems that the US culture der
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by tmptmp 10y ago
This reminds me a video by Sam Harris titled: Sam Harris : Liberals failure to talk honestly about Islam is responsible for the rise of Trump [1] I am a liberal but most prominent liberals in America are failing when it comes to dealing w
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by tmptmp 10y ago
>>China is more Capitalism than USA. China is not at all capitalist as there is no free market, and you may say it's not communist/marxist if it pleases you but it's a communist party controlled tyranny. * If anything,
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>>China is not a communist state these days That's your opinion. FYI, China has the dreaded communist politburo running the show.
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by tmptmp 10y ago
I feel sad about the Chinese people and people living under communist/Marxist regimes. Communism/Marxism is one of the worst ideologies out there (along with intolerant religions). The western democracy is the best model the human
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>>(a) and (b): taking away the autopilot feature from both airplanes and cars, an airplane pilot still has to undergo substantially more training than a car driver does, so imho the increased training for pilots compared to vehicle dr
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>>Autopilot is the correct term. I'm tired of always having to cater to the lowest common denominator. Your argument fails as the analogy of car drivers with airplane pilots fails on various grounds. a. The airplanes, which provi
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That's great, can you list the subjects and brief contents?
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This reminds me the story of one of the WhatsApp founders getting rejected by FaceBook. [1] Hope this doesn't turn out that costly for Google. But I'd be happy if it does, if it is the way the interview was really conducted. [1]
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>>Recruiter: I have to check that you know the right answers. This is classic: the right answers!! Must be google getting infested with managers who don't have shit clue about what is programming and computer science.
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>>The problem with metaphors linking the human body with society is they are essentially fascist. The "parts" have no value and the "whole" is supremely important. Yes, and also the problem with metaphors linking t
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>>Iran like all countries have certain cultural norms. I am not allowed to chew gum in Singapore. I am not allowed to drink alcohol publicly in places like Dubai. I am not allowed to smoke outside in the city in parts of Australia. I
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>>Nowhere did I read that it was already a reserve currency or becoming one next month. That's not equivalent to saying: Yuan may become a "world go-to currency" if China manages to remove many communist-style controls
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I am a small time DIY'er and a small time fix-it-yourself person. I came to realize the importance of such tools rather late in my life. Greatly appreciated.

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