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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
> I think that "high investment" is an important note. Even in dual parenting situations, the temptation is to want parenting to be low-investment. (I'm a parent; I definitely struggled with that.) Missing the point. I&#x2
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Please cite your own sources to discredit the ones I've provided. Yes, the font and web design is straight out of 1999. But the sources include the "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services". I've easily googled othe
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
There's a substantial difference between a few months (or even years) of deployment vs. 18 years of child development with no father. Also interesting to note is that a lot of negative children statistics do not apply to single mother
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To give another perspective, let's examine some of the negatives associated with single motherhood: http://www.photius.com/feminocracy/facts_on_fatherless_kids.... As someone who grew up in a single mother home, w
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That's some grade-A Hacker News skepticism, mate.
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> The thrust of your argument is basically that we can boil down this very complex web of variables that make up the decision tree to seek a divorce to a cold calculation of, "Can I do better?" Were you to model this behavior
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Thanks, I've been working on my over-the-top writing style as it sparks discussion and draws attention. > 1) What percentage of partners that end up leaving the marriage do so with another partner lined up? According to [1], surveys
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Maybe an age thing, hormones do die down I hear! But I doubt these people you're talking about (yourself included) are all celibate though. > "I'm stuck in this situation; kids, a marriage where I get no real benefit, I ju
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> 2) Life pro tip on understanding other people (this is a quick reinforcement of a bunch of points in the article): if someone is behaving irrationally, 99% of the time its because they are subconciously insecure about something. How ab
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Here's an uncomfortable thought: an effective 1-to-1 mapping between men and women probably doesn't exist. The fact of the matter is that women are primarily interested in a top smaller percentage of high value men (this is called
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> Bill Gates gave an excellent summary of the argument against unchecked levels of economic inequality[2]: High levels of inequality are a problem — messing up economic incentives, tilting democracies in favor of powerful interests, and
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> 3. Colleges continue to justify costs based on lifetime earnings delta of people with degrees. Sadly, this data is backwards-looking and not indicative of what today's students should expect. Not only that, it's downright bul
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"Stream of consciousness writing" or whatever it's called =) I don't consider the two viewpoints expressed to be contraditory.
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Man I dunno about some of this media hype surrounding the topic of AI. I understand how powerful ML/AI algorithms are for general pattern matching (with a big enough computer, gradient descent can learn a lot of things...), but this wh
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Traditional product crowdfunding, a la Kickstarter, is meant to act as product pre-sales (debt financing). I think we're starting to move further away from flashy CGI promising us a concept (and subsequently squandering investment mone
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Then you shouldn't be working with them...
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned anything about "Black Swans" yet. There's an alternative view point on why this optimism may be misplaced. Basically, just because small effects (average levels of violence) are being s
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
I never understand these articles. No they're not. You're not required to use these two (out of billions of) websites. Vote with your time and attention. For better or worse, the majority of people vote for these sites.
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I suspect the reason is this: Super Mario Bros constitutes a discrete Markov decision making framework with a reasonably sized state space. I.e. one can iterate through many possible future scenarios, similar to chess, on a modern computer.
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But 2015 Google...
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Well someone clearly has a horse in this race. Your comment is a bit obtuse, developers are not creating parsers and compilers. Elevators and calculators are very robust technologies that already work. What I worry about is a new wave of en
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Is anyone else at least a bit worried about a bunch of developers running around doing "machine learning" without much understanding of mathematics and probability? E.g. consider the creation of fragile models that overfit data be
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Can someone explain why blog website needs 82M?
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Does anyone else think that these unoriginal, doomed-from-the-start startups are a direct result of funding institutions looking for founders that appear really good "on paper"? You know, experience with this BigCo, a degree at th
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Here's a snarky contrarian view: social skills matter more now because there is less meaningful production and creation occurring. When engineering consists of making CRUD apps and serving up ads, you're better off politicking to
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Amen. I always thought the best way to make females, younger people, minorities, space cowboys, etc more comfortable at work was to just focus on the work . In fact I've had a lot of minorities tell me that they don't like anythi
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Yes, perhaps it was mainly the appearance and expectation (and aspirational goal) of monogamy that dominated. Sure. I don't think that detracts from the following thesis: namely that traditional social structures are eroding as a r
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by zxcvvcxz 11y ago
Bingo. The beta males did not invent monogamy; it evolved as a system whereby more productive abled bodies were invested in the success of a society. These societies proliferated. > Whether this remains true now is an interesting questio
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> “For young women the problem in navigating sexuality and relationships is still gender inequality,” says Elizabeth Armstrong, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan who specializes in sexuality and gender. “Young women
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Employees get money. If they don't, they leave. If they want to hang in there through some late paycheques, it's because either they believe in the founders and/or the work is rewarding enough. You don't have to coddle e

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