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by fortytwo79 3y ago
And could you imagine the bokeh on a portrait?!
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
Isn't this already the case with marijuana? Legal in one state, if you travel with it to another state, but make a stop in an illegal state, you can go to jail? I don't know much about laws on that topic, but it seems to be a simi
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
Okay, now someone needs to do the same study with innocuous end game scenarios. (I know this study links to one other paper that makes this case, but I can't access it, and the abstract has a biased tone) If you're going to explor
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
The article also states this: "With just over 19 weeks into the year, this averages out to about 10 such attacks a week," when referring to the Buffalo shooting. Saying "10 such attacks" implies the attacks are all simil
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
But Buffett's point is that each unit of investment he pursues has the potential to produce incrementally more value. You're saying the aggregate technology underlying bitcoin has value - which it does. But you don't get tw
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
And yet, you shut down the possibility of religion without any degree of exploration. I don't need you to be religious. I understand annoyance with the fact that the culture you're in is pushing something you don't agree with
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
This kind of condescension towards religion is so close-minded, and it's incredibly tiring. I think you'd be surprised just how much the faithful appreciate and embrace science, and how much philosophical thinking about reality a
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by fortytwo79 4y ago
I appreciated the "retro encabulator"-esque reference in the industrial sample.
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
Agreed. Speaking as someone who has hired hundreds of software engineers, I can tell you that having a degree at all tells me a lot about your work ethic. Sure, I'd prefer a comp sci background, but your degree is nearly as good. It&#x
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
People have always been that way. Before Rogan showed up, before the internet was even invented, there were "nutters" that had deeply misinformed perspectives which they followed, sometimes, to death. I'm sure someone will ar
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
I don't think that comment was implying those measures are to blame for rising deaths. I think it was to argue that they haven't had the impact they were expected to have.
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
Yeah, I need to fix that. You're seeing a performance bug. There's a cache in front of the API, and sometimes if you hit the API outside of the cache window, the lambda running in the background is a bit slow. Subsequent loads
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
You bet! There's three major phases to the document matching: Corpus Management, Frequency Modeling, and Matching & Clustering. 1. Corpus Management - First we pull the raw articles - Then we build a bag-of-words document, based o
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Show HN: Privacy-focused news feed that groups stories, using NLP(drewesnews.com)
5 points by fortytwo79 5y ago|6 comments
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
I built Drewes.NEWS as a way to learn NLP and serverless architecture, and to find bias in news by reading the same story from multiple outlets. Now it's evolved into a useful, privacy-focused tool. It's privacy-focused in that t
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
Ha! I literally LOL'ed this. Well played.
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
I think the full lyric here is actually "pandemic ain't real, they just planned it." The meaning and intent of the lyrics are open to interpretation, but I think the latter part of the lyric implies political commentary rathe
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
Watched it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/Saint_BTC/status/1451559663753859... Mostly just the rappers waving their hands around and showing their guns.
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
I wish people would pay me to write headlines like this. How about this idea for an article: "People who find baseball stadium chairs uncomfortable risk developing diabetes.
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by fortytwo79 5y ago
Agree completely. Whenever I see the phrase, "let that sink in," that's a signal for me to stop reading. They're just going to tell me to be angry.
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
Trump was nominated because he brought more middle east leaders to the table for peace than any president in recent memory. Stalin and Hitler murdered gajillions. So, what's your point? If it's that Trump did things not considere
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
The primary thing I disagree with here is the thought that we can squelch our way to a more informed public. You clearly believe you can discern truth from lies, as do I. So why should the solution to misinformation be to trust a small gro
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
I think he/she is saying labor rates are a supply/demand calculation, not a value one. The I-beam in your house might be the most valuable thing to the structural integrity, but it's probably not the most expensive thing in
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
This, 100%. This is the point. Everyone is trying to assert the harmfulness of "misinformation," but is ignoring the harmfulness of censorship. Also, has anyone considered that conspiracy theories are on the rise because they&#
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
Here's my problem with that. Twitter, Facebook, and Snopes likely don't have physicians, virologists, and epidemiologists on their staff. So who are they to determine truth or harmfulness of those doctors' positions? Snopes
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
There are people of all demographics who've had a raw deal. In modern America, there are black people born into lives of "privilege," and there are white people born into adversity. So does flagging a business as minority-ow
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
You keep trying to pull prop 8 back into the conversation. This isn't a discussion on gay marriage. While I agree that a CEO should be aware of their public image I think it's a sad commentary on the state of our society that pu
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
But who is keeping score? You can't censure Alex Jones and QAnon, then give the MSM outlets that pushed the Steele dossier a free pass. They caused measurable harm to an entire nation. Most of QAnon is innocuous, even if conspiratoria
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
That assumes we should all seek to progress towards someone's ideal of human behavior and thought patterns. Why should she self-examine? To adhere to your standards for behavior? To a segment of society's standard? I argue that
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by fortytwo79 6y ago
Who is to say what the appropriate "normal" is? It seems to me that influencing a cultural norm is doing away with what the culture desires. You want to change the culture, not the norms. That's my big problem with all this

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