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   by tomlock 12y ago

   I'd challenge everyone who hasn't seen this in the workplace to talk to their close female friends about the issue. You may be surprised by their stories!
2. 602.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   The solution system that you've recognized is also recognized by many, many women. Are you suggesting that the woman writing this piece was not aware of that system?
3. 603.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   There are many many reasons why women don't report rapes to the police.
4. 604.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   Awesome article! I hope my fellow dudes read this and really pay attention!
5. 605.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   Rare earth metals were talked about in a similar manner very recently. Other sources were found, and as a result, the alarm eased. One thing about rare earth metals is that they can be a byproduct of metal production, but this process is
6. 606.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   I feel that, and it is just a feeling, SpaceX is particularly cautious surrounding the news of failures that it broadcasts. I don't get the feeling that it is that culturally open. I say this because, for example, the landing attempt
7. 607.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   But, the author observed this discussion occurring within a group of men, and Ryan was obviously comfortable enough in his views to make the comments. These guys obviously weren't calling out his behavior.
8. 608.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   This is tremendously funny, and the revenge is delightful. I applaud the courage of these women!
9. 609.▲
   by tomlock 12y ago

   I don't think queer-exclusive spaces should exist, and I'm queer, and extremely left wing. That opinion is unpopular in queer circles. The flak I cop for that is nothing compared to the very real, quantified consequences for wo
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    I feel like AI will probably be better at communicating than us, but then again I feel like one of the reasons we have few threads to do so is that a lot of our other threads are for instance regulating our breathing and heartbeat, controll
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    The wheel isn't that great a transport mechanism when there aren't any roads! Additionally, machine learning models can get stuck in local optimas, too! I'm not very well versed in machine learning so I apologise if I get th
12. 612.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    I think from my understanding they do have this same kind of computational framework but in a biological context. For example, multiple RNA strands can be processed by ribosomes at once - they are essentially reading code to produce output
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    I upvoted your comment because I don't have a very good response to it. Nice one! I guess I'd place my fear of AI at a level slightly lower than the rise of a new type of bacteria or a new virulent flu. I figure, those forms of
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    Nothing, but that expenditure of effort on replication and repair may place some limits on the effort expended on intelligence. If intelligence was all we needed to expend effort on as humans my belief is that we would look very different.
15. 615.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    I think humans can currently write our own DNA using the technology we have. The capability to optimize without limitation is something we haven't figured out yet. I think the same challenge exists for AI.
16. 616.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    In my understanding logistic growth is a byproduct of resource depletion, not of any self-moderation.
17. 617.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    Sure! But then my feeling is that nature is essentially the same as AI so why should we expect AI to significantly outperform something that has been attempting to achieve the same goals for billions of years?
18. 618.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    And leaves have a lot of self-repair features that solar cells do not. The design is good for efficiency, but is it good for creating a self-sustaining entity?
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    I don't fear AI for the same reason I don't fear nanotechnology - nature tried to take over the world first. The grey goo scenario, where nanobots try and turn the world into more nanobots, resulting in the consumption of all hum
20. 620.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    This looks great vik! Good work!
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    To be fair on the heaviness point though, people add weight to their mice for wireless ones in the form of batteries, and for gaming ones actual literal weights. The raspberry pi is only 45 grams, so it is at least conceivable that this m
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    I think we might be discussing slightly different aspects of the same thing. While I think there are certainly actions that the government takes which promote gentrification, I feel like the resistance to it can create communities which ac
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    This article is full of speculation and really casts an uncritical eye towards the thinly spread facts within. "The huge difference in reproductive success very likely contributed to some personality differences, because different trai
24. 624.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    The "war" on gentrification has in my experience been one of the most passive and apathetic wars, and like the article says, its mostly the first wave of gentrifiers that complain about it. In university, the local anti-gentrific
25. 625.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    Thanks :)
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    I think a flat negative income tax is the way to go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax When you earn a dollar, you lose 30c of your basic income. Once your basic income is eaten up in this way, you los
27. 627.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    >Given how HN leans due to the vast majority of members being young left-leaning idealists with little real life experience ... >While I don't have any data Ugh
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    I think startups can be romanticized so I'm sharing my startup story and some of the things I did do and some of the things I should have done. When I was 23 I joined a startup as employee number 4. We did Salesforce implementations f
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    by tomlock 12y ago

    There was no evidence-driven judgement in favor of there being political discrimination in this case. Perhaps I was being confusing, so I'll try again: What quantifiable evidence (not anecdotal, not hearsay, "may be" or imp
30. 630.▲
    by tomlock 12y ago

    Sure, an out of court settlement suggests a losing judgement, but the article suggests this was probably due to some poor comments the dean made to the press. What I'm proposing is that this didn't exactly come out as a clear jud