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by aje403 8y ago
Stop, you're making a comment that is not unequivocally anti-Facebook, therefore it is incorrect
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by aje403 8y ago
"I agree with this, but I'd replace soft with relentlessly selfish. Instead of realizing the need to work together to make something better, they're in it for personal gain." Please do not use the phrases "simple mi
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by aje403 8y ago
Airbnb is a service. Bitcoin is a commodity in the same way online poker chips are a commodity
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by aje403 8y ago
Elderly people are not soft. Elderly senators caught the tail end of WW2 and the Cold War. Relentlessly selfish refers to young people who think believe mother nature itself entitles them to the newest iPhone, free housing, healthcare, and
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by aje403 8y ago
No but seriously, who else wants a VP of Social Good trophy
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by aje403 8y ago
TBH it does make sense that the "VP of Social Good" isn't going anywhere
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by aje403 8y ago
Whoops! Slanted review
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by aje403 8y ago
Slant article of a topic that has been slaughtered to death by people with more industry knowledge than the author
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by aje403 8y ago
By both virtue of education and selection process, and given that their education was adequately rigorous, they've likely been working hard at academics for > 10 years, they had the mental faculties to understand everything in their
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by aje403 8y ago
Great example, rocket science, let’s throw a bunch of 15 year olds who say they want to be a rocket scientist into nasa. What could go wrong? The mit engineering grad has proven for a few more years that he’s less likely to screw things up.
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by aje403 8y ago
Mortgages are not a remotely valid analogy here unless, in the case of Robinhood, you try to compare it with margin accounts, which I think is actually a fair analogy but is not the case here. And even then, the bank does not steal your tra
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by aje403 8y ago
Same thing after a few magical alchemists in labs started inventing things ~100 years ago, who would've thought?
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by aje403 8y ago
Earnest Davis from NYU right? Next bit of news we’ll hear is “Yann Lencun starts fist fight with fellow professor”
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by aje403 8y ago
It’s what the Buddhists were saying all along long! You’ll just need to accept that you don’t have any self. I think Nietzsche was whining this was gonna happen too. Or wait are you seriously suggesting it won’t happen? Honestly it’s better
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by aje403 8y ago
Here’s a really hyperbolic example: https://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.4425.pdf
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by aje403 8y ago
Do you have any proof that non technical managers are setting the hiring bar and writing the requirements for data science positions at most companies, which is what it seriously sounds like you’re implying. The guy above you was joking
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by aje403 8y ago
Actually no, a lot of PhD's are a bit smarter than you, some PhD's are a lot smarter than you
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by aje403 8y ago
The average CS student didn't do that great in LA/Calc. Most CS programs don't require vector calc. At an average uni, the vector calc class/linear algebra will be extremely forgiving and you really don't need to un
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by aje403 8y ago
Big data's also like a big dick. Everyone's running around telling their clients they've got an 8 incher if they buy.
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by aje403 8y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, you're right (although the definition of 'genius' is always up for debate). This is just one of a million opinion articles on the same questions which happens to have a reg
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by aje403 8y ago
If we're going to use invalid analogies, there's also a big difference between "I declare murder to be legal in the home that I own!" and "I think murder should be legalized!"
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by aje403 8y ago
There are no doubt hypocrisies and fallacies on both sides, employers included. I am certainly not arguing against that. That's a different debate, though. Employees want to get rich, employers want free work from overqualified candida
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by aje403 8y ago
I'm not misreading it at all. The two parent comments fall under the general umbrella of complaining about job listings requiring too much experience which is a standard point of contention against employers on HN. Leaving "20 yea
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by aje403 8y ago
Personas and reputations are beneficial in any human pursuit. People who are respected and acknowledged more by others have an advantage. We now have the internet and social media and other ways to market one's self. With less networke
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by aje403 8y ago
Can you post where you work so that people reading this know not to apply to your company? Thanks
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by aje403 8y ago
Exactly this. You have to be very naive and sheltered to not recognize this as being the case.
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by aje403 8y ago
What are you even talking about? His opinion is not remotely controversial. Every populist hivemind drone on this site contends some form of this argument. Not a single person is (at least, getting upvoted) DEFENDING high or reasonable hiri
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by aje403 8y ago
Dude your post is orthogonal
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by aje403 8y ago
Perhaps colleges can start adding an "applied" math major with a focus on subjects that more directly involve the human environment more directly to alleviate the problem you're describing?
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by aje403 8y ago
It's pretty much ubiquitous in any quantitative field... would not even know where to start

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