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by andxor_ 2y ago
> Why do we fear being lied to? Because we don’t like others manipulating our beliefs. But our fear of being misled by false news pales by comparison to our fear of suffering total “mind-control”. Funny thing is that because we fear bein
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by andxor_ 2y ago
Ramanujan was extra-terrestrial. His note books have produced so many papers and PhD theses. Probably will continue to do so for many more years.
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by andxor_ 2y ago
> American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. and its subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Company Inc. (hereinafter together "Pfizer") have agreed to pay $2.3 billion, the largest health care fraud settlement in the history of the
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by andxor_ 2y ago
Apologies. I would like to delete the comments, but unable to.
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by andxor_ 2y ago
There is also no group other than big pharma that have paid as much criminal fines in the history of commerce. So instead of cultivating a religious faith in whatever they are pushing, be skeptical and do some due diligence.
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Good bye New York, good bye Washington(pbs.twimg.com)
3 points by andxor_ 2y ago|3 comments
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by andxor_ 2y ago
Your comments are a bit harsh and naive. One cannot look to paid entertainment professionals for moral and ethical guidance. Nor can we hold them to higher standards than mere mortals.
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by andxor_ 3y ago
> this is how business often operates on a day to day basis - vague objectives with recognition for effort and process, instead of the actual result. That's a good point. Perhaps, seen more in larger businesses than smaller ones. As
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by andxor_ 3y ago
China is the new bogey man. We always need someone to hate to rally the troops (and to keep them distracted).
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by andxor_ 3y ago
A leader shows direction(s) and has followers i.e. those that execute. To show direction, one needs to know his stuff well. Many qualify for this. Getting followers that execute is very hard. Mountains have been written about this, with a l
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Don't Worry About Donald Trump. Worry About Yourself(thefp.com)
2 points by andxor_ 3y ago|0 comments
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by andxor_ 3y ago
Higher suicide rates in themselves might not be an evolutionary handicap. They probably get far more stuff done relative to the ones that are emotionally closer to females and live longer. Just spit balling here.
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by andxor_ 3y ago
> What a different world we’d live in if more boys felt safe sharing feelings, in their own way, right from the start. What if it turned out to be a world much worse than what we have? There is perhaps some evolutionary advantage to peop
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by andxor_ 3y ago
Markets are about information processing. The information set is huge and price update has bandwidth limitation. GPT-n like systems perhaps can increase that bandwidth by orders of magnitude. That is in some sense "seeing the future&qu
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by andxor_ 3y ago
I hope this does not swing back harder in the other direction.
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by andxor_ 3y ago
This is some far left nutcase conspiracy! Trump derangement syndrome is real and deserves a place in DSM manual.
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by andxor_ 3y ago
I prefer well written comments and short variable names to long, descriptive variable names. A bit like how math textbooks are written. Of course, this is in the context of professional programming where code is written and maintained by tr
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by andxor_ 3y ago
Unfortunately, we gave them record, windfall profits with no downside or obligations by forcing drugs on people under threats of ostracisation and loss of employment. Now we don't get to whine about them.
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by andxor_ 3y ago
Very well written. AD is like magic and this is a good exposition on the basic building block. I quite like Jeremy's approach: https://nbviewer.org/github/fastai/fastbook/blob/master/17_f... It
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by andxor_ 3y ago
Great stuff. Thanks for sharing.
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by andxor_ 3y ago
You can too! Recommended: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691147437/cl...