QuantumChaos

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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I found myself in a very similar situation. My solution was to get a job at a large company. It didn't help much with the making friends part, but I am happy now that I don't work alone. I would consider whether a startup is ri
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I agree, it seemed like he was driving at the idea that we shouldn't dismiss the way women were acting as wrong, but instead try to see the advantages of their approach. Even though he didn't say it like this, I imagine his thoug
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Yes they do have a choice. Their choices are more limited because they live in a poorer country. On the American companies, didn't you said I hear some companies actually get work done this way and are very happy with it, growing co
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I don't really see the problem here. Indians are willing to work under these conditions, which honestly don't sound worse than the US. It sounds like even though they might shrink/grow teams at will, because the building ha
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
This is nonsense. Various funds available to ordinary people, including pension funds, do invest in the hedge funds and private equity funds. If anyone were actively buying businesses and replacing people with capital equipment, it would
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I don't see how this rule helps me figure out the meaning of sama's actions. At least five people (including myself) in that thread interpreted his actions as indicating that mods would use tactics like this (presumably escalatin
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I never implied that sama's actions were doxing. I would however, like to a clear statement from mods regarding actual doxing, whether by them or other users.
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Ask HN: Is doxing allowed?
3 points by QuantumChaos 12y ago|9 comments
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
How is Can we have a publication named "The Forgotten Male Programmers Who Created Modern Tech" now?" harassment? Seems like providing personal information of an individual who thought they were anonymous, and merely expres
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Well everyone here is as anonymous as they choose to be, apart from being outed by mods. Given that mods can ban any person with a click, I don't see any excuse for them punishing people by selectively providing their personal informa
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>At a base level, as you can see in a lot of the replies, it comes down to "people believe that if they've been somewhere long enough, they now have a right to stay there as long as they like, and anything else is harsh and me
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Have to disagree with you there. Educated people tend to be well informed and hold sensible opinions on global warming, vaccination, and education (and often hold silly opinions on nutrition, even though there is a very strong incentive).
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
The argument was that people should move to a cheaper city if being a Facebook bus driver can't support them. But that doesn't imply that Facebook is forcing people to move cities. Facebook isn't altering the labor market by
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Labor markets are inefficient, that's the primary reason the field of "Labor Econoimcs" exists. However, these inefficiencies do not explain why Facebook bus drivers make so little. Classical economics is sufficient for that
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think that when people argue against unions, they are usually implicitly arguing against the moral duty of the company to concede to the unions demands, or to allow the union to form (assuming they could legally prevent the union from for
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I rode the corporate buses, and underpaid or not, the drivers are highly professional. I wouldn't trust my life to a random fellow employee over a trained and experienced driver.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I appreciate you and DannyBee's comments. It is disheartening to me that basic economics is treated here as right wing propaganda. Mainstream economics won against all other theories academically. Yet many otherwise educated people
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
“You can’t legislate your way out of a red-hot housing market, but the Board of Supervisors is trying to mitigate the damage,” Ms. Wolf said. “This is a big problem. If you don’t care about poor people, you should care about tourism, which
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Maybe the speed of light has changed, but your reasoning is completely wrong. The big bang theory is based on solutions to the equations of General Relativity, the same equations that predict black holes. Since these equations do allow for
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think you've hit on something very fundamental here. When the government has well targeted interventions that achieve specific goals, this can be a good thing. But the cumulative effect of many social interventions can give the gove
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
I think we need to balance the need for deception in some cases, against the fact that tricking/pranking people is fun, and makes you look cool. There is an inherent ego boost from making other people look stupid and foolish, and that
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Selectively providing information is not equivalent to lying.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Ethics panels are important, but not the final word on what is right or wrong. If someone isn't defined to be an experimental subject, then the rules regarding deception are pretty lax. In fact, your post exhibits exactly the supercil
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
>The reasons behind her actions, however, are noble: it was all part of a university project, in which she wanted to show how Facebook activity is not necessarily reflective of real life. I don't think doing academic research is a
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Your post captures the problem much better than the linked article. I would summarize the problem as being that the result is tautological, but the gloss of mathematics gives it the appearance of not being tautological. If people said &quot
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
This article is shallow and misleading. Economists do indeed have models of perfect competition, and perfect monopoly. But these are not the only concepts that economics has. For example, the market for pharmaceuticals is competitive ex a
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Correlation vs causation is not actually a complex mathematical problem. The issue is more philosophical. Bayesian networks are a highly sophisticated and flexible framework for thinking about causation. And yet the essence of Bayesian ne
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
Racism is a politically loaded term, and it's not possible to use it out of the context of a progressive viewpoint that defines racism to be a culture of White supremacy. In this context, the author is assuming that Black women are as
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
oh ok, two separate issue then I guess.
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by QuantumChaos 12y ago
At the risk of being boring, Amazon's "no profit" model works because profit is an accounting measure, not an economic measure. Amazon is increasing in value, but because they are investing in themselves, on paper (i.e. accor

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