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by leohutson 8y ago
The other option is to have the wholesaler owned by the govt, then the economic surplus can come off everyones tax bill.
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by leohutson 8y ago
Well this is pretty much how it works in NZ. We had a state owned company, telecom, which was then privatised by a National govt., and then as a response to local loop unbundling regulations from Labour, it split itself into two companies,
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by leohutson 8y ago
> I think, on the positive side, it'll make people reconsider that genetics and race affect intelligence I’m wondering why people dig at this so much, what is the answer you are looking for? To me the reason it’s not “politically co
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by leohutson 8y ago
So basically a container or VM image. To be honest the python version seems like the smallest issue for reproducibility. I would be more worried about different floating point operations with respect to GPUs for instance.
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by leohutson 8y ago
Exactly, that's why "OK Google" isn't a thing.
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by leohutson 8y ago
The recruiter is not usually empowered to filter a qualified candidate because they "only" worked at Amazon though, especially not if they made a good impression at Amazon and come with a referral. I don't think anyone with a
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by leohutson 8y ago
Do your parents work in the public sector by any chance?
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by leohutson 8y ago
How are you so certain?
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by leohutson 8y ago
I didn't interpret that way at all, read their other comments. Even if they are just trolling they clearly aren't healthy right now, because that's a pretty fucked joke. I know people here as a rule aren't very empatheti
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by leohutson 8y ago
What's the protocal for a commenter with suicidal ideation? I feel like many of the replies here are unhelpful, and you should do something about it.
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by leohutson 8y ago
I don't think that there's anything wrong with expecting some money and appreciation to follow genuine achievement, but focusing on those rewards to the detriment of actually making something cool is going to be pretty unfulfillin
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by leohutson 8y ago
The person you replied to is considering suicide, and your only response is to ignore that and agree with the rationale that led them there?
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by leohutson 8y ago
No hiring manager looking at resumes is going to put any stock into whether it says Google, Amazon or FB, or what school you went to. They will care what you worked on. If you bring with you this completely unjustified view that your cowork
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by leohutson 8y ago
This is a completely irrational way to look at it. The risk of a pedestrian fatality posed by a collision with a car travelling 30kmh is closer to the risk from a car going 5kmh than that of a car going 50kmh. Look at the chart here: http:
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by leohutson 8y ago
1) An auto going 30kmh is a great deal more dangerous to a pedestrian or cyclist than a cycle doing the same. 2) Cars pose a risk to cyclists, even if cars are going the same speed, which is a fictional scenario, as many motorists don'
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by leohutson 8y ago
Well reflexively referring to the DEFINITION of a WORD is not an argument. When there are no dedicated cycleways, either pedestrians share with at least some cyclists or scooterists or you have children cycling on the road.
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by leohutson 8y ago
My guess is that this is a conspiracy being propagated by the extremists, and that's why it ended up in the file, but the description and source of the document was lost or redacted.
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by leohutson 8y ago
I think its just grating for grammar nazis, rather than a legal issue. It's like saying sheeps.
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by leohutson 8y ago
This already happens a lot, most VFX heavy productions will have digital doubles of the main cast, and they can be used for as simple a reason as reframing a shot.
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by leohutson 9y ago
Policies should take also into account individual preferences and freedom. Individual freedoms should only be taken away if there is evidence good evidence that they are causing significant harm to others at a group level or individual leve
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by leohutson 9y ago
What does that have to do with assignment of blame? I can say a book is crap, and makes it's readers dumb, without saying that I'm going to ban it. I can say a social media site is bad and it's creators should feel bad, and t
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by leohutson 9y ago
Haven’t you just done the same thing to liberals?
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by leohutson 9y ago
Based on which values though? I don’t think they should go unstated, because if I don’t hold the same values then arguments holds no water with me. A particularly annoying one is when people lie about their values or worse claim that their
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by leohutson 9y ago
I agree for the most, but it might be better to phrase it as this culture differs from my culture because my value X is incompatible with my value y. Because otherwise you are only making a one sided statement, I can’t assume to know what y
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by leohutson 9y ago
How is that relevant to what was being discussed earlier in the thread? It was merely an example. That you share some values with a historical culture is hardly important information, if you look hard enough you can probably find something
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by leohutson 9y ago
I can't respond to your other question, but the particular value we were discussing was this: > For instance, by the standard of the general wellbeing of African Americans, it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture i
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by leohutson 9y ago
We'll perhaps there are some HN commenters that have those values, but I hope not! But 1850's American culture is distasteful to me and also to sullyj3 as they say: "it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture i
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by leohutson 9y ago
All those scales are valued differently by different cultures. If I show a conservative American gun crime statistics that we agree on and we agree that are caused by American gun culture, I cannot tell them that American gun culture is inf
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by leohutson 9y ago
> For instance, by the standard of the general wellbeing of African Americans, it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture is superior to American culture of the 1850s. But it might be hard to convince a 1850s white America
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by leohutson 9y ago
You might say that multiculturalism is a cultural value in itself, and perhaps some might value multiculturalism more than the survival of their culture. My view is that syncretic cultures are dominant because they are capable of absorbing

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