ebola1717

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by ebola1717 9y ago
Plus, that sentiment is only true with a narrow set of upper middle class, white collar assumptions. What about hard working retail workers or factory workers? Or look how vast the race and gender disparities are...
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by ebola1717 9y ago
But the point isn’t the individual. The questions we need to ask are - why did people feel empowered to do what they did? Why wasn’t there anything in place to hold these people accountable for their actions? And what are the larger patter
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I’ve found it pretty unreliable. I was researching Teflon pans the other day, and all the instant answers were myths about how Teflon pans will give you cancer. And when you click no the sites, it’s usually clear if their answer is at all
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This is nonsense both-sides-ism. The right very obviously redacts true data (just look at Fox News re: Mueller). And the issue is not just whether people lie and omit facts. You have to consider the the magnitude and motivation behind tho
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Instagram’s CEO has said one of the most valuable parts of being acquired by FB is they could just hook into their vast revenue org (probably thousands of employees, and battle tested ad targeting tech and expertise). Twitter has to build
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Eh, conservatives have been making this complaint for ages. It’s really not new. Take the Vietnam war and civil rights protests of the 60s and 70s for example. Tech has changed some dynamics, but in this case, it hasn’t introduced somethin
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Richard Spencer held a rally at UF last week, and they had to arrest 3 of his supporters for firing shots at protesters. I don’t have much sympathy for this “college kids are overreacting” argument these days.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Yeah, like, those are actually the extremist groups with ties to terrorism that this kind policy is designed for. It’s not Twitter’s fault that mainstream politics has gone haywire... I mean maybe it is, but point stands
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> as soon as someone who's willing to consider only the rules of the game in constructing their strategy comes along, and easily crushes all their competitors Also relevant to codes of conduct unfortunately.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
* Links are 20 characters, flat (could be less, but users would spam 100+ links). * Images aren't counted (unless they come from links). * @handles were moved out of the text for replies. * Threads have improved a lot over the past yea
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by ebola1717 9y ago
If DAU is your only metric, sure. WeChat has a horizontal breadth that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have been trying to copy though. The equivalent of ApplePay, Venmo, basic online shopping, etc are all in WeChat. https://a1
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by ebola1717 9y ago
China's not blocking out the sharing of ideas though. Until a few months ago, Andrew Ng worked at Baidu! They are isolating data , but hoarding data is a competitive advantage in a way that isolating knowledge isn't.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
My experience was that the top students (now PhD students at MIT, Stanford, etc) were very diligent about homework. In the honors classes, you often needed to go far above and beyond the textbook for some questions. The average students (
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Eh, investment banking is arduous cause of the hours, and does require you to be pretty smart, but its not as meritocratic as your claiming. It's stacked with Ivy League kids exactly because elitism at big banks works in their favor d
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by ebola1717 9y ago
The point-free style is harder to read and reason about imo, especially since the data gets transformed in that pipeline. We use scala, and will avoid currying for this reason.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Bind is flatMap (>>=) Confusingly, map in scala is fmap in Haskell
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Monoids and posets have very little structure, so you really aren't gonna get deep useful theorems out of them. Maybe you can make some clever reductions, but those are hardly deep theorems. I'm not arguing the underlying math is
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Eh, as someone who works in scala day-to-day, and has studied actual category theory, I think the emphasis on category theory itself is silly. And in fact, most of the time, more category theory and more monads will make your code worse (e
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> I'm not even sure what "defining it as a tuple" is meant to imply Yeah, in a computer science situation it's needlessly obfuscatory. It's literally just an interface with a "plus" method and an ident
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This is a shallow reading of Zeynep Tufekci's work (which I agree is among the sharpest analyses out there). She very explicitly calls out sites like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook for not doing enough to curb hate speech and harassmen
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by ebola1717 9y ago
That's exactly how we got to the situation we're in with climate change. The fact that corporate money can hold so much influence over what we research, what we say, and therefore what we know and believe, is and has already prove
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by ebola1717 9y ago
> “We are in the process of trying to expand our relationship with Google on some absolutely key points,” Ms. Slaughter wrote in an email to Mr. Lynn, urging him to “just THINK about how you are imperiling funding for others.” That was a
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by ebola1717 9y ago
This misunderstands the way technology, social media in particular, have exacerbated problems with misinformation. No one is claiming the media was perfect before. Obviously hoaxes and false rumors have always been a thing. But social med
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Protests aren't meant to persuade - they're meant to draw attention. Persuasion is a separate step in the movement. Look at BlackLivesMatter. The initial protests drew attention to issues of police brutality that most Americans
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by ebola1717 9y ago
The poorest people in this country are black and brown. The first people impacted by environmental disasters (and soon climate change) will be black and brown (Katrina, oil spills, [1]). That's why the people you decry as focusing to
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by ebola1717 9y ago
That went to some weird places - Modern protests have largely been peaceful. There's a protest every week nowadays, and the only violent ones I can recall in the past few years were Baltimore and Charlottesville. Smaller scale violence
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by ebola1717 9y ago
Zeynep Tufecki's boom Twitter and Tear Gas argues this exact point very thoroughly. Would recommend to anyone interested by this discussion.
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I mean, it's all interconnected, so yes. - Activists who lead protests often work with writers, journalists, and professors - Protests also draw attention to otherwise less mainstream issues - just look at how we talk about income ineq
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by ebola1717 9y ago
I'm confused why you think protests aren't a huge part of all those zeitgeist shifts. Even today, look at BlackLivesMatter: people are talking about police brutality and prison reform now - that was not even close to being a main
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by ebola1717 9y ago
As I understand, the question wasn't the veracity of the claims - I'm not sure those were contested. The question was whether they warranted his removal, and that comes down to how much you care about the Code of Conduct and beli

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