moistgorilla

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by moistgorilla 10y ago
So the UK is basically subsidizing worthless degrees.
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by moistgorilla 10y ago
I've been living in Georgia for 5 years and I can count the amount of times I've seen or heard someone being blatantly racist on my hand.
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by moistgorilla 10y ago
While somewhat unrelated considering that for new grads google forces them to submit a transcript. I woudln't be surprised if they cared about degrees over experience.
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by moistgorilla 10y ago
Except when you are using a library like boost or pandas you know the people behind it know what they are doing. When you are importing from a thousand different package authors any one of those people could be incompetent and/or malic
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by moistgorilla 10y ago
if the bubble pops it means people are selling.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
I don't know why you wouldn't think he was serious. I think you are ignoring that the vast majority of people that use pot smoke it. In that sense, it's probably worse because most people that smoke weed tend to hold the smok
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
Thanks for the interesting discussion. Anyway after further thought I came to agree with you because the person in the second situation also had their privacy violated twice when they had the video/images stolen from their device and w
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
>esp. in the anglo world oh god, you think it's bad here in the anglo world? Don't look at Korea and Japan then.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
While both are horrendous, I think we can say that having intimate photos of you taken without your knowledge being spread is worth than having photos you took being spread. The reason being that in the first case your rights to privacy wer
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
You tell me the data is misrepresented, please tell me how? The data in the charts are accurate and this is from an esteemed economist. Actually read the article I linked and he discusses how the standard economics literature has completely
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
This is not true. Unchecked immigration is always a negative for native workers. It can be accurately described as wealth redistribution from workers to the companies that employee them. They cause $515 billion in losses for native workers
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
>My bias is my personal relationship with engineers abroad who are paid fractions of what we are. I am completely aware of my own bias and do not consider my position to be the "universally correct" position. I don't think
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
So here is what I don't understand about the supply demand argument in the context of workers. When Disney hired their IT division it was clearly because their was a need and benefit from having them. If paying the wages of that divisi
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
>First, do not accuse HN commenters of shilling for their own economic agenda. There are 18 zillion different forms of message board incivility, and accusations of bad faith commenting are one of the minuscule few than the site bans over
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
The only self-interest you seem to be pursuing is the self-interest of business owners. Targeted immigration at a specific field is wealth redistribution from people that compete with immigrants to people that do not (ie, the person that hi
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
>That's the problem, HackerNews comments aren't supposed to be humorous. I don't know where you got this impression but it's not true
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
why would this in anyway end the scandal? so because the NSA didn't give in to your request you can go break security protocol and put people's lives at risk?
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/the-impact-of-high-... Here is a link to his senate testimony. He begins speaking at ~43:00 One of the most interesting quotes from him is "Immigration redistributes wealt
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George Borjas talks about the impact of high levels of Immigration on US Workers(gborjas.org)
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
I can't wait to live in a tenement with my coworkers and getting my daily rations of soylent and coffee from a dispenser in the wall.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
Wouldn't a million self play games exacerbate overfitting by learning it's own play style which it initially learned from amateur games? I
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
Honestly, I think that is a meaningless distinction unless AlphaGo actually broke down in the middle of the match
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
I thought you were supposed to implement it in a basic way then have the investor money pay for other people to think through your project
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
Not to downplay how amazing Atlas is but I don't think that it reaches "about as well as a human" yet.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
How about walking and image recognition.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
No, we aren't all slaves despite how many edgy kids like to think. We can choose our job or not to work. We can decide not to pay our debts. I guarantee you if these people chose to run away or not pay they would be beaten.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
When I was 20 I wanted to kill myself. Thank whomever that assisted suicide isn't a socially acceptable practice because I could have easily gone into some clinic and had someone kill me without my family knowing.
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
I read the article and I don't think I got anything wrong, also I think you meant to say "Why is it worse for a white man to play a black man for a light skinned woman to play a darker-skinned woman than?" And it's wors
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
We've gotten to the point where your history and the oppression your people faced isn't important anymore. What matters is the color of your skin, if your skin tone is darker you receive more institutional oppression. Look at how
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by moistgorilla 11y ago
More like extremes ends of the political spectrum always tend to adopt authoritarianism because their demands on humans are too extreme to be enforced any other way.

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