postnihilism

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by postnihilism 6y ago
And when that company commits a crime, it should be punished and its stock should lose value. It seems like you're arguing that shareholders should reap rewards for actions that a company takes but be shielded from negative financial r
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by postnihilism 6y ago
> "This 'Skinnerism' has been discredited in cognitive psychology decades ago and makes absolutely no biological sense whatsoever for the simple reason that any organism trying to adapt in this way will be eaten by predato
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by postnihilism 6y ago
kbensons is explicitly referencing a legal case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...
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by postnihilism 6y ago
Given the relationship the current US administration has with Russia, it seems like Facebook would be a less welcome alternative for a pro-democracy Belarusian protestor.
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by postnihilism 6y ago
It's currently a good predictor (socio-economic clustering) but it's less causal (find the right buddy -> immediately become wealthy). It's objectionable because it introduces yet another mechanism for dramatically increas
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by postnihilism 6y ago
Agreed, but the parking lot example seems like a clear example of public information.
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by postnihilism 6y ago
And immediately the single most important aspect of financial success in the United States becomes having golf buddies that work in finance and M&A.
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by postnihilism 6y ago
General intelligence in its biological form was achieved with hundreds of millions of years evolution, which required the "evaluation" of trillions and trillions of instantiations of nervous systems. The total energy consumption o
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by postnihilism 6y ago
Are you describing yourself as European with a capital E?
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by postnihilism 6y ago
Are you asking me if I think Facebook should have to host that content? Naw, seems like a better fit for tiktok.
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by postnihilism 6y ago
You think his marketing team randomly chose from a selection of polygons to run as the primary image on a national ad campaign? The Trump administration loves their dog whistles.
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by postnihilism 6y ago
I support your position of outlawing lobbyists, overturning Citizens United and instituting a blanket ban on political contributions by corporations.
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by postnihilism 6y ago
I have an immediate family member with rheumatoid arthritis who struggled to fill their prescription through Kaiser because of this as well. It caused a lot of stress in my family. If they were unable to fill their prescription and had comp
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by postnihilism 6y ago
I know someone who submits PRs to large open source projects at the beginning of the year to update forgotten copyright values in their codebases in order to get listed as a contributor on github. It's a bit tongue in cheek but on firs
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by postnihilism 6y ago
It's a classic :) I made a little framework for building these types of models: https://github.com/jrhdoty/SwarmJS Here's a boids implementation using it: http://jrhdoty.github.io/SwarmJS&#x2F
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by postnihilism 7y ago
Hi maram, I'd love to have copy too. My email is postnihilismhn@gmail.com. Thanks!
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by postnihilism 7y ago
> As long as it stays within the boundaries set by the law. > Stop trying to tell a large corporation to stop doing business and make profits, go change the society in which it operates. This comment posits that companies act in a clo
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by postnihilism 8y ago
How does this play out at work? You saddle up to a co-worker at the water cooler. Hi Yasir (he's from the Bay Area), you know your religion has a terrible record of human rights? Yeah? Cool, see you at the standup in 30 minutes.
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by postnihilism 8y ago
Equating 'misogynistic divorce laws, violence against “immodest” women, and application of the death penalty for homosexuality' with an entire religion of 1.6 billion people is the issue, not criticism of a specific country's
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by postnihilism 9y ago
The first generation TPUs were focused on inference. Second generation TPUs are focused on both training and inference. https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-off...
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Your company almost certainly makes use of multiple pieces of open source software. What do you do when you need a feature that doesn't yet exist in one of them?
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by postnihilism 9y ago
His pulled hamstring is from over extending this analogy.
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Maybe, but using one of the most successful and wealthy institutions in the world as an example of ineffective bloat isn't useful for the overall argument. "This workout routine is a waste of time and effort. See, look at Usain Bo
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by postnihilism 9y ago
I've enjoyed the Deep Learning Nanodegree [0]. It is a 6 month survey course of deep learning techniques and applications. Some of the lessons and instructors are better than others but overall the content and projects have been good.
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by postnihilism 9y ago
My comment about 'White Male Persecution Complex (PC)" was tongue and cheek. I should have known that would be a mistake in this conversation. I have many white male coworkers (as you'd expect given the demographic statistics
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Could your great grandmother vote?
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Hence the white and gold, (er, blue and black dress). I'd reiterate and ask you to have a conversation with a female colleague or friend who works in tech and ask for their perspective.
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by postnihilism 9y ago
We had racial policy in the form of slavery, then segregation and Jim Crow, to discriminatory housing policies, to inequitable application of drug laws but now, let's just ignore race and all of its historical context when it comes to
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by postnihilism 9y ago
Yes, but the beginning of those conversations can't be, "you're biologically inferior at doing the same job as me." That's not "engaging in reasoned debate", it's being an asshole. We can have a discu
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by postnihilism 9y ago
I appreciate where you are coming from. And I agree we should, "strive towards a world in which we stop making exactly those kinds of distinctions and instead judge people on the content of their character and the value they can create

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