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by unishark 6y ago
Percentage of the populace who would be excluded. The ranking is simply a comparison of that number.
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by unishark 6y ago
What do you mean? There's been a bunch of emergency funding bills passed.
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by unishark 6y ago
What benefit of what doubt? If anything it seems a bit melodramatic and embarrassing to me.
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by unishark 6y ago
> Yann is still active on twitter. He claimed to leave twitter, but didn't for any reasonable definition of "left". Yet people continue to claim that Gebru "cancelled" him or something. He's had like 15 twit
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by unishark 6y ago
The difference is getting people fired over political arguments, versus getting people fired for getting others fired over political arguments. Is it hypocrisy to have someone arrested for kidnapping?
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by unishark 6y ago
We can still quantify how much freedom of debate they allow and rank them. Would you still rate them the same?
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by unishark 6y ago
Can you customize the diff command used by your code review software? There is a diff tool for Jupyter called nbdime you can install with pip. Of course it doesn't know that you only care about the code, but the diffs are a lot cleaner
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by unishark 6y ago
Yeah but our standards for computers are higher nowadays. I covered analog computers in school, which as I recall consisted of integrating blocks made with linear circuits. You combine them up as needed to simulate systems of linear differe
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by unishark 6y ago
I think "propaganda" is too harsh, more like "spin". This is apparently a fine achievement of quantum optics that will hopefully be applicable to quantum computing. But it is being directly billed as a quantum computer i
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by unishark 6y ago
I'd say research is far more hierarchical and non-egalitarian than industry engineering. It's all about ranking of people based on reputation, and trying to get your name on things first like explorers trying to get places named a
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by unishark 6y ago
I think it's basically a blackmail scheme. Yeah you have a case if they sued you, but you'd be embarrassed by the public accusation of downloading porn so you settle. Or failing that, it's still just extortion by suing people
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by unishark 6y ago
"Hard work" is ultimately just a simple metaphor. I would characterize the advice here as maneuvering into a niche in your field with the highest demand for labor and with less competition (i.e. the niche using the most up-to-date
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by unishark 6y ago
If you just want to rant against SV, I totally agree. It's certainly not fair, because it basically says you have to "work twice as hard" as they say. But the statement is factually correct. While it would certainly be prefer
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by unishark 6y ago
No, economic systems are a superset of systems with coercion, and also include systems without coercion. So when I said "simply" an economic system, I meant lacking in coercion. Your example includes both. Also it's silly to
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by unishark 6y ago
Privacy is fine. It's a valuable technology all of us pay for and desire better advances in. There's an entire field in CS/math known as cryptography, which is basically a subset of privacy. Ethics, however, is a humanities f
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by unishark 6y ago
> Nothing done by humans is objective. This seems like a hyperbole. Obviously there is a lot of garbage that people claim to be science. But 2+2=4 is subjective?
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by unishark 6y ago
> Additionally, remember that most independent recruiters work on some form of commission. It's in their best interest to get you more money because then they also get more money. They may get more money total, but less money per un
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by unishark 6y ago
I'm referring to the posting guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to crit
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by unishark 6y ago
You are supposed to assume good faith about other posters though. And philosophy is (as far as I know) yet another male-dominated major so I don't get what you mean. Personally I think the flagged poster was just ranting about technoph
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by unishark 6y ago
How does it make you money? My money-making idea from this is AI to detect sentences or fragments from your emails that could be taken out of context and made into embarrassing headlines if the email gets leaked.
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by unishark 6y ago
All I'm asking for is the freedom of tenure combined with the pay and equity of industry.
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by unishark 6y ago
> Every single one of these people should be dismissed or resign. They are simply not officer material. The Honor Code is very clear. You lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do and you're not military material. Yeah but since 2
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by unishark 6y ago
> R&D spending? Guess which healthcare companies spend the most on R&D? It's not the American ones. It's all the European ones. #1 is Switzerland's Roche. #4 is Switzerland's Novartis. #6 is France's Sano
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by unishark 6y ago
> The alternative to socialized services are privately owned and operated businesses. Not anarchy, necessarily, but libertarianism. Privatizing these would mean anarchism as there's no longer a monopoly on force. >- The freeways?
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by unishark 6y ago
> Yes it is. No it isn't. Speaking of dodging the point. The US didn't remain in the private system, it half-socialized it. And you must know Canada's system has been increasing in cost like everyone else's. And speak
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by unishark 6y ago
No the poor received charity, directly from the hospitals. In fact historically, hospitals were charities, many still are. And the rest still provide it too. In the story I linked the uninsured person's whole problem was that he earned
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by unishark 6y ago
So food is cheap because the govt intervenes, ignoring the giant private market, and healthcare is expensive because of the private market, ignoring the massive govt intervention. How convenient. "Threatening to not perform a service f
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by unishark 6y ago
> Yes, the bare minimum, then ejecting them out the back door as soon as they possibly can. New goalpost eh? No they generally just treat everyone fully and pass the cost on to people with insurance. Trying to transfer uninsured people o
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by unishark 6y ago
> - Healthcare for 40% of Americans? Socialized. (Medicare, Medicaid, VA). Medicare is socialized medicine. > Americans pay less for food than anyone else and more for medicine than anyone else. Is your point then that food is cheap b
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by unishark 6y ago
> Do go on. Why is dying due to an explicit action any more of a free choice than dying of an explicit inaction? Because one is coercion and the other is simply an economic system. Which by the way is also used for all the other necessit

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