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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> We used to teach kids to be colorblind but now we're teaching them to see nothing but color. I don't think either method worked.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Pinterest has a Head of Diversity [1]. Her name is Candice and she's great. I think the question is: What does the role actually do ? The cynic in me says it exists to signal that your company cares about diversity. Okay, but
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Calling a company with a head of diversity bloated for instance is telling of your politics. Calling a company with a head of diversity-- and that loses tons of money-- bloated, is sensible business acumen. Unless you blame earnings
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Many of these comments seem to indicate that lots of people are threatened by diversity Because the position of "VP of diversity and inclusion" sounds ridiculous? > These results suggest that racial discrimination is stil
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> But we will also see a huge proportion of sites that could use it continue to ignore it for years to come. There are big business opportunities in finding ways of making a dent in that portion of the market I agree with this wholehea
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I personally know people who went to the Standing Rock camp that were not paid protesters. I didn't see OP claim that there weren't "real" protesters, only that some were paid.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Any place doing serious ML Good thing the vast majority of businesses won't need "serious" ML, but instead will require only simple implementations to help solve business problems.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Prime has a boat-load of movies and tv shows available for free or pay to watch on demand. ...in the US.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Or buy it and wait hours to download it? How it it streamable on Kodi, but takes so long to download from a legitimate source?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
How valuable is this without any of the discussion context surrounding these books? It seems unlikely that I'm going to purchase a book based on a metric like "mentions", when much of the discussion could be negative. I mea
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I personally have 4 factors for my gmail account Tack this on to the list of reasons why no normal person will use bitcoin in any quantity.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
So why aren't the sellers before PE and buyers after PE aware of the fact that no value is being added by PE in the interim, and hence sell cheaply and overpay? Why is it so obvious to you, but not these other people? How does this cha
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> blind reliance on algorithms can be catastrophic. And in other places, basic algorithms smash human judgement: https://www.amazon.com/Clinical-Versus-Statistical-Predictio...
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Another 10 years from now, what will anti-EV people be saying Pointing out facts is now "anti-EV"? Many a car can be optimized for acceleration: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/22/12004422/
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Assuming that anyone who works for GS, or banking in general, are homogenous in morals and ethics and ability is equally delusional.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Only in America is locking people up the solution to all life's problems.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
The NFL nailed it with Sunday games (although more and more are added to the schedule). It allowed you to to follow the sport closely without memorizing a team schedule, and every fan had the day off from work to watch. I wish more sports
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Lending is pretty lax, just like it's been in spots all over the planet for over a decade.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Are there (tech) news-sites which do not have this 10-100MB bloat with three js framweorks and gifs, ads and whatnot? The HackerNews comment section, with the added benefit of it being more informative.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> id honestly be curious to why this comment is being downvoted so much Because it confuses revenues and earnings? It defends Snap chat for not having "negative billions" when, in fact, it is has negative billions.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Snap also has google by the balls here. Surely they don't. > What if snap comes out with a statement saying Gcp sucks and they're moving to aws? Then we question why Snap committed billions of dollars to infrastructure t
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> similarly configured PC laptops cost just as much or more. I guess that depends on what "similarly" means. The Dell XPS 15", for the same price has a far better processor, far better video card, 32GB of RAM, 4k scre
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> How many Macbook Pro users fit that profile? The vast majority.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
I think you should provide a bit of evidence for the "large numbers" of people in favour of "reducing civil liberties" on these boards.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Say what you will about Trump's other policies, but it's high time someone took an ax to the H-1B program. He's just getting started. I'm sure we'll see some doozies; hopefully nothing tragic. But let'
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
HackerNews loves to pat itself on the back about what a great community it is, but when it comes to politics (and other specific topics) the bullying and one-sidedness is as bad as anywhere on the internet. But this is exactly why half of A
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> the large number of authoritarians here. Everybody who has a different viewpoint than me is a <insert label>!
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> This is already exactly how normal, hailable, regulated taxis work It's funny, isn't it? Every pro-Uber article around here talks about the over-regulated, controlled taxi environment and how damaging it is. Then a service
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Just google "scirocco dsg gearbox problems" Or Google "subaru head gasket issues", or "tesla drive unit failure". I don't think there's a manufacturer that can avoid having runs of faulty lines.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Though corporations are just groups of individuals who themselves could absolutely be guilty of crimes. ...or completely innocent of crimes. I think it's important to remember that when there's talk about beheading corpora

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