lasfter

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by lasfter 10mo ago
Here it is: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...
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by lasfter 11mo ago
I wrote my thesis on this! Application-specific system design can get you orders of magnitude performance improvement, as well as better scalability/fault tolerance properties. I focused on graph analytics, but it's reasonable to
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by lasfter 3y ago
> We haven't really seen socialism/communism without a high degree of authoritarianism, which I also don't really like, so I'm inclined to support working towards socialism democratically rather than trying to overthr
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by lasfter 3y ago
The confusion is the system working as intended I think. It is taught from a young age that Marxism/socialism is about annihilating freedom and personal property, while capitalism rewards hard work etc etc. So you get these well-meanin
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by lasfter 3y ago
If everyone has access to food, shelter, transportation, and health care, in what ways would we even still have capitalism? Like, what happens to landlords? Will we fund this stuff with heavy taxation on the wealthy? Will defense budgets be
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by lasfter 3y ago
You cannot have capitalism without the bad stuff unless capital's interests are best served in abstaining from bad stuff. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to set up a system that aligns the world's interests with capital's,
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by lasfter 3y ago
Let's disregard that the USA encouraged Sadam to invade Kuwait and implied he would face no recourse if he did. Would you have been okay with Russia going to Iraq's aid when the USA invaded the second time? You think it's fin
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by lasfter 3y ago
Small correction, it's Emmanuelle Charpatier.
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by lasfter 3y ago
Absolutely, 6 years with a 1.2mil grant is ridiculous. I was just hopeful that somewhere there were PhD students making enough money to live from research
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by lasfter 3y ago
Where are you seeing $44k? The link you gave shows payscales for postdocs, and points to another page [1] showing that predoctoral trainees get $27k. Also, in my field and in my region, $27k is massive funding. I don't know anybody who
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by lasfter 3y ago
Any chance you could expand on this? I hear about pattern matching for fraud analytics but I have never seen concrete examples, or even anything in the literature.
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by lasfter 3y ago
I don't know what you expect me to measure about two different visions of non-existent utopia. Are you suggesting capitalism is not supposed to give control to the capitalist? Or that socialism is not supposed to give control to the wo
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by lasfter 3y ago
You're talking about democracy vs dictatorship, which is orthogonal to socialism vs capitalism. In a socialist utopia you have more democracy than in a capitalist utopia, because "true" socialism gives workers democratic cont
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by lasfter 3y ago
Are you not thinking of capitalism as it exists today? Wanton military spending, bank bailouts, corporate tax cuts, etc. seem to be very common when money can buy legislators.
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by lasfter 3y ago
Maciej Besta, the first author of this paper, is a machine. Aside from coordinating big groups to write tons of papers, he does a bunch of impressive wilderness exploration. I recommend checking out his website, there's some stunning p
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by lasfter 3y ago
[1] argues a crucial component of greening is trees "pumping" water from the oceans inland and creating nutritious soil. Otherwise evaporated water is simply blown away by the wind. I'm sure other local terrain (e.g., mountai
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by lasfter 3y ago
So it's not clickbait, right? This is how they hack HN!
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by lasfter 3y ago
Without any prior forethought. Immediately, on a whim. E.g., "We were in Vegas and saw an Elvis chapel, so we spontaneously decided to get married!" They were in Vegas without any plans of marriage, saw a venue, and decided immedi
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by lasfter 3y ago
The fact that the authors are still residing within Iran may also play a role in how much they attribute to Islam.
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by lasfter 4y ago
> Culture is not required to take subterfuge in dog whistles. Only counterculture is. > Culture is what's uncontroversially and fearlessly blasted on front pages, and on mainstream TV. My comments on dog-whistling were specifical
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by lasfter 4y ago
> But why? If this is really the majority sentiment, why on earth leave any room for plausible deniability? If you read the comment you're replying to, it answers that question immediately. > Not really, though. Voting levels are
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by lasfter 4y ago
Ok fine, here's my answer then: they don't need to, because their voters know the GOP doesn't work against white people. I suspect it's different from your answer.
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by lasfter 4y ago
If you read the examples I gave above, they're not vague. Dog-whistles are more for plausible deniability than subtlety, and it's because (shocker) white supremacy is frowned upon. If you think liking white people requires openly
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by lasfter 4y ago
You are being dishonest because examples of the GOP pandering to white voters are well-documented and easily accessible. Either you never looked, in which case arguing at all is dishonest since you don't know what you're talking a
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by lasfter 4y ago
My bad, I wasn't trying to excuse anything. Perhaps a better way to put it is that all business owners will use right-wing politics to their advantage, and to think that a purported "left-wing" owner of a large business will
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by lasfter 4y ago
It's because people work in their own self-interest, and the interest of large business owners is always in conflict with their employees. Business owners want to extract maximum value from workers for minimum pay. It's unwise to
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by lasfter 4y ago
> I believe that's responsive to your major point Not really, because while I am talking about how things ought to be, you are talking about how things are . Once again my point: this was evil and the people responsible deserve
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by lasfter 4y ago
This discussion is spiralling. It feels like you attack tiny parts of my comments while ignoring the broader point, and I don't really know if you're commenting in good faith. You're telling me people in power in 1923 knew th
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by lasfter 4y ago
> What is the appropriate punishment Obviously this question deserves more thorough and qualified treatment than I could give, but it doesn't seem outlandish to expect that the corporation should lose some 'rights' much li
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by lasfter 4y ago
I don't say oil is convenient, I say oil is necessary. Is farming your own food without any fossil fuels possible for you? For me, it is impossible. Not inconvenient, not infeasible, but impossible . I can't afford land to farm o

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