rrose

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by rrose 4y ago
im not going to tell you you're wrong for respecting him, but i feel this comment is only telling half the story. He's very well respected in the "rationalist" community, but he and that community are pretty controversia
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by rrose 4y ago
homogeneous teams made up of people who think the same way, have similar backgrounds etc are more likely to have blind spots. Having a diverse set of viewpoints involved in decision making means you are less likely to overlook some corner c
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by rrose 4y ago
It's no more coercive than any other social norm. If you act disrespectful to the people around you, they will treat you accordingly. Everyone everywhere accepts this in 99% of situations and it is interesting to see the specific excep
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by rrose 4y ago
what does your last point even mean? are you objecting to the idea that transphobia is bad? Nobody is suggesting not talking about transphobia. I didn't even say i agreed with censoring anything. I'm just pointing out that a lot
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by rrose 4y ago
it not being interesting to you doesn't mean it isn't incredibly important to them. The fact that it is incredibly important to them is obvious, and the "cognitive load" you're talking about is completely trivial.
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by rrose 4y ago
> Take the pronouns thing oh boy. > Why are you putting your pronouns up? To normalize people being open and explicit about their gender identity so that people with non-obvious gender identities can feel less conspicuous sharing thei
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by rrose 5y ago
i grew up in a big city. great place to grow up. so glad my parents didn't move out to the suburbs. One size doesn't fit all
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by rrose 5y ago
none of the post-beatles albums are as iconic as the big beatles albums, but i think at least all things must pass and ram hold up very well compared to the classic beatles albums. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you either is better t
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by rrose 5y ago
all things must pass is weird, because if it were a double album that just elided the 3rd disc there would be basically no filler on it at all, but that last third of the album is just not up to par with the rest of it at all. I think if yo
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by rrose 5y ago
to be fair, if they really failed you wouldn't know of them
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by rrose 5y ago
every exceptionally talented person/group is unlikely to show up in the exact circumstances that they do. In a thunderstorm, each individual tree has a very low chance of being struck by lightning, but nobody is surprised that some t
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by rrose 5y ago
hospitals being overrun doesn't just affect the unvaccinated, it affects anybody who needs medical attention. just allowing the hospitals to get overrun is not a reasonable option
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by rrose 5y ago
I think the problem is that there isn't really any compelling evidence to suggest that men are more drawn to engineering because of biology. I would actually invert your last paragraph: there are so many plausible extrinsic reasons tha
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by rrose 5y ago
it may be true that women are and always have been less interested in pursuing STEM subjects, but it is basically impossible to draw any conclusions about each sex's "strengths" from that fact. The tech world is notoriously u
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by rrose 5y ago
> People in the US are no longer allowed to question the legitimacy of their elections on most social media platforms. > Yeah, sure you can be banned for questioning if an untransitioned man wearing a wig is really a women, but this i
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by rrose 5y ago
I just am not sure I agree that a politician is more insidious than big business. A big business has no accountability to anyone but their shareholders. PBS is accountable to representatives elected by citizens. And again, we're not ta
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by rrose 5y ago
i understand the worry about the government gatekeeping disinformation/misinformation, but I think the worry is massively overblown. We're not talking about the government having a monopoly on the information ecosystem, and while
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by rrose 5y ago
i would be interested in hearing how you think the government is at fault for this
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by rrose 5y ago
sure, but reusing an integer variable is never going to bring a 2% speedup. allocating a new variable of almost any type is not going to cause any performance issues, at least if it is allocated on the stack, and if the construction of the
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by rrose 5y ago
it feels like this suggests a design flaw. You should probably be creating a new local `total_count` variable for each run that goes out of scope at the end of the run, rather than reusing the same variable over and over again in different
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by rrose 5y ago
yeah, i know that's what it refers to, but it is a straw man. Nobody actually thinks the world is going to literally end in that short of a time frame, and the existence of claims vaguely like this still don't mean its a widely he
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by rrose 5y ago
the idea that HN is a liberal-only site is... not correct
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by rrose 5y ago
"the world is going to end in 12 years" is not a widespread belief, liberal or otherwise
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by rrose 5y ago
the homeless aren't an impediment to walking around unless you live in the tenderloin or someplace downtown that has an especially big problem. In most of the city they are around, but not bothering anybody. Also much of the "walk
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by rrose 5y ago
nobody goes on walks in california? i live in SF and going on walks, or hikes just outside of the city, is easily one of the most common activities people I know participate in. There is no chance going on walks is less popular than microdo
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by rrose 5y ago
also, the issue with the access hollywood tapes wasn't that it was "locker room talk" that got public, it was that what he said was morally pretty disgusting. people were mad about what he said, not the manner or forum in whi
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by rrose 5y ago
profanity isn't a real conduct issue, though, unless the president is using it in speeches or in diplomacy in such a way that it makes the country look bad. and I doubt many people who dislike trump would accept jackson as an archety
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by rrose 5y ago
hilarious detail: if you go all the way back to the homepage ( http://www.whale.to/ ) you see this beautiful line: > Last update 2017. Next update when donations add-up to a good laptop.
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by rrose 5y ago
"FACT: Gloria Steinem is a CIA Agent and everything she has ever done throughout her adult life has been under the direction of the CIA." please. this sentence is so obviously impossible (literally everything she did as an adult w
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by rrose 6y ago
I wonder what the liability concerns with this are. Could a runner that gets injured because the AI coach bugs out and tells them to do something dangerous (e.g. extreme overtraining) sue?

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