the_grue

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by the_grue 5y ago
Can anyone explain the findings? A quick google of 'excess burden' term didn't yield a clear definition, there is a similar term in taxation, but that seems unrelated.
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by the_grue 5y ago
I went that route on a school PC in 1998. There was no floppy drive, so I installed a Linux distro (also Slackware, iirc) onto the Windows partition, then resized the Windows partition with Partition Magic and used the existing Linux as a b
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by the_grue 6y ago
I don't think you can reasonably conclude either that a) anti-vaxxer propaganda is effective insofar it attracts statistically significant number of new people under its bannder, or b) that FB blocking their pages effectively reverses
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by the_grue 6y ago
Take a step back. Why did Moderna founders invest in research and technology? Are they selfless idealists? Probably not, at least that is not the only driving motivator. And even if they are, they still want the company to earn money in ord
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by the_grue 6y ago
As far as I understand the term, white privilege means some kind of economical and political advantage of whites over other races. Meaning that the outcomes are different, depending on one's race. From a brief glimpse of the paper, it
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Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning(medium.com)
4 points by the_grue 7y ago|0 comments
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by the_grue 8y ago
I think a important advance is being able to build neural networks in a modular fashion by constructing a toolkit of components and techniques one can reasonably expect, when combined, to produce certain result. As the field advances, this
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by the_grue 8y ago
Same for Kotlin.
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by the_grue 8y ago
Hmm, your link has an author_access_token in it. Are you sure it's not linked to your or someone else's (author's?) account?
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by the_grue 8y ago
The article is behind the paywall, but it can be accessed through Sci-Hub. Some of the most interesting findings: - 43% respondents did not agree with "Advocacy and research should be kept as separate as possible to protect the objecti
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Sociology’s Sacred Victims and the Politics of Knowledge(link.springer.com)
4 points by the_grue 8y ago|4 comments
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by the_grue 8y ago
I'm using FF 56, since that's the last version to support the old extensions. Sorry, should've mentioned it.
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by the_grue 8y ago
Neither in Firefox...
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by the_grue 8y ago
Unfortunately, I really cannot begin to understand what you're talking about. What country is it in? What city? What kind of people are involved? What kind of jobs are that low-paying that two jobs are not enough to live? Why don'
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by the_grue 8y ago
Actually, the poverty level doesn't continue to rise, it's been stable around 13.5% for the last 30 years. The reason why it stays that way instead of shrinking is probably related to the Pareto distribution problem. https:/
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by the_grue 8y ago
I think JoeAltmaier is right on point. There are way more disadvantageous traits than skin color, and some of them are just as bad. E.g. having low IQ. It's just as unfixable as the skin color is and probably way worse. How about being
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by the_grue 8y ago
> This is so ill-defined as to be useless. The article you linked provides some quotes from Marx and Engels which argue that full equality along all dimensions can never be achieved. But this didn't stop all the implementations of M
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by the_grue 8y ago
> I also think it's disingenuous to claim what "equity" is. The definition I gave is the one widely used in academic disciplines such as "black studies", "gender studies", "women studies" and
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by the_grue 8y ago
Well, I was talking about jokes. I do agree that people were more careful about voicing serious dissent, but then who actually did that? A very small handful of political activists, the rest just never went there, because a) usually their
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by the_grue 8y ago
It sounds like you're trying to disprove an argument I never made. Let me be clear about this: there was no free speech in the USSR and you couldn't sound criticism publicly. But some assume that the absence of free speech means t
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by the_grue 8y ago
Protesting publicly is one thing. Talking in your own kitchen is another. I guess some unlucky people got busted for that, but generally it was safe, as long as no one deliberately ratted you out (which didn't happen much since Stalin
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by the_grue 8y ago
Well, I was born in the 80's, so I only witnessed that. However the famous Soviet "kitchen conversations" existed even before that.
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by the_grue 8y ago
Yeah, that is the only place where waves are mentioned. I don't know whether the author of the article even realized that was a reference to the wave-particle duality.
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by the_grue 8y ago
Are you talking out of experience or just theorizing? Because I was there. People were telling Gorbachov & Reagan jokes all the time in their kitchens, that was just a normal part of life.
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by the_grue 8y ago
The article doesn't do justice to the hilarious reference to the wave-particle duality that Kuryohin makes when he equates mushrooms to radio waves. This is the part that still makes me giggle when I recall this prank.
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by the_grue 8y ago
No, this is totally not how it was. People used to speak quite freely at home (aside from when Stalin was in power, and even then).
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by the_grue 8y ago
> then it just doesn't even apply Then you don't seem to have an argument against Hanlon's razor? > Hanlon setting up malice and stupidity as an exclusive or gate, is not In this case, clearly, the two explanations are
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by the_grue 8y ago
> People are very good at acting dumb to avoid blame. That clearly didn't work in that case, did it? > Hanlon's razor is a method of being polite, rather than a robust logical position. Hanlon's razor is related to Occa
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by the_grue 8y ago
> Are you channeling H. L. Menken? I don't know who that is. But if I am channeling anyone, that would be R.J. Hanlon, who said "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." [1] [1] https:&#
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by the_grue 8y ago
That would be way too subtle for the common folk. Whatever GRU's plan was, in reality most Russian people just take it at face value: Russian spies got exposed, Putin's lie got exposed, the spies put on a miserable show on TV, and

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