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by throwaway74432 2y ago
"weight is not really a great measure" followed by saying you measure yourself by looking in the mirror, on an article about weight control is a pretty confusing way to communicate that you measure your health by looking in the mi
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
You're changing the subject now. The article wasn't about measuring health in general, it was about weight control. And the line of discussion that we're on is a good measure of weight. A good measure of weight is different f
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
You're right, it isn't complicated. The beauty of a true good measure (ie, a scale or other measuring device) is that you can track actual discrete progress over a very short time span. If you didn't know your hair grew, coul
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
It sounds like you want someone to agree with you that your memory plus your subjective view of yourself is a "good measure" of progress, despite the existence of scales and measuring tapes, which dwarf your subjective memories in
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Does anyone know the history of noncompetes? It seems like a case of Tacit Collusion[1]. But if there is no competitive advantage to the noncompete, how did it catch on? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Because "a good measure" does not change based on how you feel.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Yes, it's called evolution. Software evolves as well as scales. Scaling is architected growth, evolution is unarchitected growth. (Sometimes scaling results in unarchitected growth, if the architecture was not reasonable.) There are ma
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Honestly I think that you are trolling me , but I am trying to assume good faith. In your first reply to me, you said "[an explanation is that] systemic racism in education in the past has left black applicants less well prepared th
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
It's not crazy to assume that people with less resources and support will do worse. The logic is sound and its in fact the standard explanation (along with discrimination) as to why marginalized groups do worse.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
If they knew that blacks have less resources and are therefore on average worse applicants as a result, then they knew that a bad application statistically meant a black applicant. So by not picking the worse application, they were in effec
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
>>The study adds to a growing body of knowledge about what anonymizing funding applications can—and can’t—do. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), for example, experimented with concealing information about applicants’ identities
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
So just like a non-self-organizing department then?
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
And people are flabbergasted at the healthy skepticism towards pharmaceutical companies, when they literally treat people like expendable cattle at every chance they get.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
You think a little hypocrisy will get in the way of political posturing? It never does.
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Ask HN: Is ChatGPT degrading your writing skills?
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
You fire people until you can afford the people who are left. It's far from insurmountable. Instead, they chose to fire everyone all at once.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
"insurmountable challenges." That rules out funding and community engagement, since both of those can be improved. The problem must have been systemic...
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Were there any warning signs of this decision? I quick look at their blog[1] doesn't raise any red flags. Who knew about this? I'm sure the community would have kept them going if they had known. Is there more to the story? 1. ht
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Wait until your Neuralink can show what you're visualizing.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
I suspect we'll discover/invent an IR (intermediate representation) that behaves like RAG in that it primes the LLM to produce a specific bit of knowledge/facts, but the IR is a lot less like normal english, and more like a s
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
I'm not dismissing anyone, nor am I a "DARE kid", nor am I projecting my own "meaningless life." I'm simply sharing my own unprocessed genuine reaction to this kind of content, and trying to see if anyone else
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
I feel very deeply that my life is full of meaning, so it can't be projection. Not interested in trying to suppress my feelings with drugs either.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
I don't mean to knock this video or anyone that gets a kick out of it. But does anyone else feel a sense of despair when they see that someone has put so much time and effort into something like this? I feel the same about speedrunners
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
What is it called when two nations launch retaliatory attacks in self defense?
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
When you use circular definitions, as you're doing now, you can re-define a word to be whatever is convenient to you. If Christianity is also defined by what Christians do, then what defines a Christian? You have to ground it in a conc
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Christianity is Christ's teachings, and any other definition is a strawman. What you're talking about is man's sinful nature, and that is separate.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
It's a security vs convenience tradeoff. For most people, making the ID practically unguessable, while also preserving index locality in databases, is the right balance.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
I'm asking you because you're the one who just laid the blame of the last 2000 years of bad things on Christ's teachings, and not on mankind's natural behavior. Somehow it was what Christ taught, because it didn't s
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
The evidence of the overkill hypothesis stands against your lack of evidence that it never happened before.
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by throwaway74432 2y ago
Where does Christ's teachings tell people to do those things?

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