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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
You're missing the point. As a voter I'm comparing him and his managerial expertise with Clinton. I weigh the ability to manage an organization very high when it comes to who I'd want running the country (which in a lot of wa
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
There should be nothing controversial about the fact that illegal immigrants commit disproportionate amounts of crime and threaten American livelihood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Stat... &g
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I don't think it's absurd, because it's happened: http://adst.org/2015/04/a-flood-of-cuban-migrants-the-mariel... > more than 125,000 Cubans fled their country and overwhelmed the shores of the U
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization What he created and grew is undeniably better than where he started, even with loans from his father. I believe he has a few misses like selling steaks, water, and m
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The point of a ghost writer is to do the work and not take the credit, hence the word "ghost". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter > A ghostwriter is a person who is hired to author books, manuscript
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Like him or hate him, does anyone else find the blatant media bias and lies just plain unfair? Here are some examples: > Trump denounced Mexican immigrants as “rapists,” near the end of the speech Incorrect. The quote was, "They&#x2
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Provocative title! Substantive points to back it up? > Early versions of a product are often prototypes that are intentionally meant to be rewritten or heavily refactored in the near future. Cool, but surely a check of basic physics is i
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> We argue that while this law will pose large challenges for industry, it highlights opportunities for machine learning researchers to take the lead in designing algorithms and evaluation frameworks which avoid discrimination. This soun
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
>Palantir's repurchase offer Yes, it's an offer. I don't see why everyone is so up-in-arms over an offer. People can reject offers just like they can make them. Other similar offers include employment offers. I'm goin
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Agreed. This reminds me of a related unexpected networking effect. I read a study that hypothesized that internet-enabled chat on mobile phones would distribute more messages across a more diverse set of one's friends and acquaintances
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
I would recommend a first-principles approach, if you're really interested in the field, building a career around it, and not just jumping on something because it's "hot". To that end, start with Convex Optimization [1].
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This first book doesn't seem great. > For example, a common response to the question “how do I get started in deep learning” might be: > Develop a strong grounding in statistics, probability, linear algebra, multivariate statisti
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Do you really think skilled labor that is qualified to work at any of "Spotify. Just-Eat. King. Skype. Transferwise." will no longer be able to make the pilgrimage to London, now that Brexit has occurred? I doubt it. I think the r
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
People are missing the point of robots. Robots have the potential to give us what we've always wanted but could never ethically achieve: slaves. We want capable beings to do our bidding. To serve us, to build for us, to obey us. If we
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
"Your Honor, I swear the AI told me to do it!"
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Let's put it this way -- if everything were fine and companies had strong fundamentals, we wouldn't need some investor to tell us otherwise.
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
If reddit is dying, is going to be because of censorship and poor treatment of their users. The latest debacle was the incredible mishandling of the Orlando nightclub terrorist attack this Sunday. The moderation team on the r/news subr
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Maybe this can be a good thing. Market competition providing an alternative for certain, shall we say, needs , means that the ones providing them in the past need to compete in other ways and provide more value. On the flip side, you think
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> So while I’ll tell you that it is going to be harder for you as a woman, I read this phrase a few times. I'm genuinely curious - and didn't really see it in the article - what are the reasons for which Jessica is referring? E
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uBeam is most likely vaporware that violates the laws of physics - at least in what they propose on a product level - but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be funded to try working on a really hard problem. Maybe in their R&am
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Do these count as American companies? If so, is there not some violation of the First Amendment? > The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religio
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Interesting. Can you provide a source? Would definitely add another dimension to the mincome debate.
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Congratulations on your success thus far, I think you've started a great business that serves a real need. Hope it's people like you writing more blog posts in the future. Off-topic: a while back I toyed with the idea of making an
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If it means drastically reducing government-provided welfare programs and letting people "vote with their wallets", then I think minimum income can be a great solution to the social safety net issue. Certainly better than a minimu
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I don't understand the extremist views of blog posts like this. Do you really need to think in such simplistic "truisms" and catch phrases? > Quitting your job to pursue your passion is bullshit. Not at all true. I know pl
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Commodity fitness trackers are a terrible business to be in, I almost fell for the hype a few years ago. As a user I never saw it, couldn't even get myself to use them consistently and I really liked the idea. And I even heard an inves
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
No! Be quiet and let me raise money via overfitting my datasets and making short demo vids! More seriously though, even if there's a lot of undeserved hype (I don't think so, I just think non-technical people are making up foolish
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Everyone should give this a read if they haven't already: http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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> When an article makes a politically correct claim: "Yeah I totally feel this is true, this one time [insert anecdote here]" > When an article makes a not-so politically correct claim: "Well it's not peer reviewed
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by zxcvvcxz 10y ago
Thiel believes that out-of-control political correctness and character shaming will ultimately degrade the quality of rational discussion and debate in this country. Seeing as Gawker represents so much of that nonsense, I'd say good on

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