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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
You're shaming someone for having low stress, bland social media habits.
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
This is a penetrating analysis and I completely agree with its values. In practise, however, it is a very quixotic pursuit to try to pull the social world away from SV companies with network effect lock-in. The only way to succeed just may
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by whatyoucantsay 9y ago
Facebook is ethically bankrupt, but their power is much more limited. Google is nothing less than the greatest threat to humanity. Trump, North Korea, militant Islam and Putin all pale in comparison to what Google is capable of. Only Xi&#x2
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> what most people, including the Tawainese themselves, agree is a part of China. I truly cannot distinguish if you're trolling or serious. You continue repeating the same points throughout this thread and they are not true. Taiwa
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There is a difference between empiricism, as in testing ideas, and ideologically motivated behavior that involves only seeking only information that can buttress one's current beliefs. > Only example I know, Giordano Bruno... You
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I did read it. It fit the archetype. A high agency individual looks for and finds solutions. Sidekiq is a great example. So is WordPress. Even Github was. Watch Tom Preston-Werner's Mixergy interview and you'll see that he specifi
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> "while slightly missing the fact that society as a whole always has to be the enabler for what they do - even when it appears to be resisting them!" Even when society was drowning and burning them to death for heresy? There a
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> I’ve noticed that everything Pinker writes bears the scars of the hostile mistranslation tactic. Scarcely does he say anything before he turns around and says, “and here’s what I’m not saying”—and then proceeds to ward off five diffe
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It's very easy for a highly credentialed person who has lived in the first world of the first world for years before this startup. These are becoming spammy.
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The tortured protagonist is a core online archetype.
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This appears backward thinking. A focus in CS would have paid off spectacularly over the past 25 years. Forward looking might involve focussing rather more on the human capabilities hardest for machines to replicate—relationship building,
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It's natural to think this way and it's a struggle to overcome it. People are not only members of "groups" that you chose for them based on their race, sex, country, etc. Each person deserves dignity as a human. Even if
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From over here in Asia, your comments are both non-empathatic and dangerous. Best of luck with your "non-empathy" approach, but I suspect it will make things worse for you.
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You're literally advocating non-empathy for a large group of people due to their heritage. You can't simply divide people into groups based on immutable characteristics and decide who does and does not deserve sympathy. Punishing
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Tribalism is a part of human nature and you engage in it, too. It's not pretty in any circumstance.
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What you write is a reasonable precaution in 2018. Many, many HN posts and accounts were created before the Snowden revelations, before Xi came to power and before the Charlie Hebdo attack. Many comments will be and have been mined years af
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Have your extensive comments about the CCP on HN caused you any hassles? The fact that comments cannot be deleted is increasingly unethical as ML makes privacy easier and easier to pierce. People who made rational decisions about the risks
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This is about what a reasonable person would expect from Google. Also concerning is that one of YouTube's primary stated goals this year is to tighten their content control. At first, it will likely be used for preventing content most
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Do you dispute that Carmack built rockets? Have you read Masters of Doom or even Googled the question? http://bfy.tw/H8Z5
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Yes. This is exactly why it's important to do a rigourous exam such as a GRE subject test or a CFA.
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> On the other hand, you'd probably have a hard time telling the difference between a Korean and a Chinese northerner who lives near the Korean border, as well as the difference between a Vietnamese person, and a Chinese southerner
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> largely targeted at Chinese-speakers. These policies included major tax breaks for Chinese speakers with advanced degrees It's not about being a Chinese speaker . It's about ethno-nationalism or racism, depending upon one&
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> It is how they inspire an entire generation to seek out knowledge, understanding and fill us all with a sense of humility, awe and wonder. It's one of the finest things one can do. In today's climate of dystopian science fi
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Doing certificates on edX and Coursera is the wrong path. Their certificates and "micro-masters" or "nano degrees" are worthless. The way you do it is you go through a full 4-year program on MIT's OCW. You do the sa
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Capitalizing entire words doesn't strengthen your case. To answer your question, yes I would in cases where they are more educated than their schooled counterparts in the specific help I need. This is less common in medicine than in ar
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Yes, but not in the way you think. They selected themselves. Of course people know more of fantastic successes than those who end up in the middle or at the bottom of the heap. Many both with and without credentials fail. More of those with
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> But it really depends what you're learning. If you took a bunch of mechanical engineering self-taught courses, it is unlikely anyone is going to let you design a bridge. And yet Elon Musk, who studied aerospace on his own, is bu
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From experience, most of them would have discarded their own founders' CVs.
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When homo-sapiens out-competed and slaughtered the Neanderthal, which Neanderthal was responsible?
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Cultural exports. Thanks to Hollywood, most the world confuses American for International.

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