drnonsense42

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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Serious question. Are there any alternatives to HN? Been reading HN on and off since 2010 and the decline to this is painfully obvious. Used to learn a lot from reading on here but now only check or post out of habit and lack of a high qual
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
But, the floor of profits for a company is not denominated in dollars. It is shit you put in your mouth and eat or a useful product like a refrigerator which you can put things which allow you to not die. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is some
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
At this point, I think people who can say 1. with a straight face are either intellectually dishonest or just repeat things others say. The majority of teachers make a median US wage fairly early into their career and plenty make a multiple
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Trump tried to ban TikTok (and quite a lot more), but he’s orange and bad, so Biden repealed it. And tariffs are racist, so there’s that. America is not functioning well at this point and nothing indicates it will improve.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
I’m not going to win any upvotes for saying this but I think it’s worth mentioning that this study is dishonest, blatantly politically-themed, and likely intended to score points within the authors’ circle. In other words, it’s meant to be
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
A million years? Let’s crunch the numbers. I think the intellectual honest would acknowledge ashkhenazi intelligence differences. That took quite a lot less than a million years. And certainly intelligence is being selected for more than ev
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
They absolutely did not say anything about “obvious” discoveries. That is even more ridiculous of a claim. Which major breakthroughs in stem were “obvious”? Or are you speaking from hindsight, where in this brave new world we’re smarter tha
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Literally your post, the top comment on the thread, leads with an unabashed claim that humans have already discovered all of the “major advances” in the sciences. It’s flabbergasting.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Regarding replicability, I disagree this is a problem at all. Writing shit code is not going to prevent someone highly capable from replicating your results. If anything, I empathize with researchers writing sloppy code. It’s a creative fie
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Important to note that the audience of this article and Tiktok’s target market are disjoint. Relevant minds need to be swayed.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
I find this take ridiculous. This is the liberal equivalent of “no systemic racism”. What would you call it when a significant portion of your company believes in woke values and promotes some of these individuals into influential roles whe
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Homotopy type theory probably. Uses in modern theorem prover languages include verification of systems/hardware and formalization of math.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
If you’re doing a lot of extra hours, not having to commute and getting some peace makes a huge difference in making it sustainable.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Modern crypto has to be the most ostentatious display of our generation’s detachment from reality and laze. I pray the big players pumping these like penny stocks on a much grander scale are eventually held accountable. While digital curren
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
A lot to disagree with here, but off the bat, many of the highest paid software engineers are the ones working the very least or not at all.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
I’m guessing this was an introductory course? Every college stuffs kids into courses they have no interest in. Society pressures them into college in the first place. Most introductory courses, perhaps not this one but especially in liberal
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
The other responder said the same thing, but to add, a traveling nurse I’m friends with , in Texas, gets paid 5k a week if he chooses to work and chooses where he wants to work. So again, this is like making a judgment about software develo
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Getting a STEM degree at a state school and getting out as quickly as possible is arguably the smartest way to use college. Unfortunately, many 18 year olds and frankly many adults do not have the decision making skills to do this. Just bec
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Just like much of the healthcare system, government jobs, military contracting, etc., college is a glorified welfare-jobs program for much of the staff and arguably entire departments and schools as well as a business for much of the vampir
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
If that were in any way even remotely representative of what is being defined as hate speech and weaponized, you might have a point. Tangentially, I’ve noticed a few occasions where rule enforcement for racial slurs seem to get bent quite o
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
You’re proving my point. “Hate speech” is defined by a very small group of nerds, who are in the 4th sd of privilege with white liberal jesus syndrome and who’ve spent most of their lives on computers or on vacation posting about how oppres
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Apples are red. The sky is blue. Twitter shadowbans and tinkers with who sees who. I wonder what the old guard will do with the codebase over the next few months.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
This, in a nutshell, is the ivory tower conversation silicon valley liberals have been having with themselves for the past few years to justify their ever-creeping censorship. 90% of the people on the site should not have been banned in the
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Reading this is like a manifesto on the maladjusted millenial mind (sorry, this sentence was a coincidence). Didn’t we used to have movie tropes about deranged people who could not move on past high school? Is this “caught up in trauma from
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Oh, here we go. Someone expressing an opinion you find extremely offensive on the internet is equivalent to someone directly , unambiguously causing a stampede. But, but, those hurtful internet words caused the “capital insurrection”! Wh
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Yishan is trying to be impartial but some of that is bologna. What Elon really stands to lose is left-wingers leaving the platform in protest if a viable alternative emerges for the prominent figures to bring their audience over to. Right-w
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Immediately reminded me of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Frampton But in my limited understanding, this seems much more malicious and I’m less inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Which, out of all foreign alliances to ever exist, were based on unconditional love?
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Maybe I didn’t read closely enough but I believe the article only showed correlation for “all” movies and movies with <20 million budget. It doesn’t show blockbusters or anything like that. It’s worth mentioning, too, what is considered
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by drnonsense42 4y ago
Yes, I’m familiar- score is not the most accurate word choice in this case, although I stick by my point.

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