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How long until this guy gets screamed at by students claiming he made them feel unsafe and then is forced to resign?

When the virtue signaling is cheap they're all over it. Giving up a recognized valuable brand like Yale? Way too expensive.

This can be interpreted two, opposing ways. Very clever

Do you have a link to something describing the hoax?

college tuition

Haha I can't believe Im getting downvoted for the comment. Classic hacker news.

Anyway, did you read the article? He's kicking out a bunch of ambassadors and closing down diplomatic outposts in a way that will be hard to undo.

Well there's this and the UN Israel resolution, both of which are things Trump would have been unlikely to do. Then there's the raft of executive orders..

So is this how US politics will be from now on? Every president spends their lame duck period doing everything possible to sabotage the next guy (if they're the other party)? I seem to recall GWB having a bit more decorum than Obama here but maybe I'm wrong. Is the political climate really more poisonous than ever or does it just seem that way?

The article doesn't say whether he tried turning it off and then turning it on again...

Without the closed captions, how are the deaf going to find knowledge in written form??

Facebook Recruiter: "I won't be able to afford to send my kid to college unless you wear this sombrero to your interviews."

Unfortunately whatever algorithm computers come up with to assess creditworthiness is going to be "racist" by the broad disparate impact definition of racism that the government uses. Ironically, the algorithms will have to be made actually racist to correct for this.

> averages don't represent correlation

what does this even mean?

> and massive aggregate numbers tell us nothing about any member of the population

sounds like someone cheated their way through statistics class.

Maybe if an idea can only be implemented idiotically, it is an idiotic idea?

I also read just far enough in to find something to sneer at so I could post a comment!

Scientific proof that the germans on twitter are retarded!

They got shitty results!

And the most majestic eagles.

Yeah there was this bakery I think that didn't want to make a cake for a gay wedding. That's ok too right? Or should we burn down their business?

In case anyone else is interested in becoming a virtuoso logician like quanticle and hingisundhorsa, here are some helpful links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_assertion

Typical victim blaming. Everyone knows poor people have no agency.

Do you or anyone else have any further sources studying this split between "fast thinkers" and "deep thinkers"? I would be very interested in a way to find people who were "deep;" it seems like most of the technical interviewing techniques screen more for "fast" people.

I think there's a flip side to this, too, though. Being told you're smart, or good at math, or whatever, can be a motivator. It can encourage you to seek out and develop that talent, and also to persevere when things are difficult. At least for me, personally, when faced with a tough math concept I would think "well Ive been told all my life I'm good at math and I've been pretty good up until now so I'm sure I will be able to figure this out."

Giving negative motivation to a kid, saying "you're stupid," is recognized to sometimes be a self-fulfilling prophecy. There's no reason that "you're smart" can't work in the same way. I would not be surprised if a lot of this phenomenon of children being negatively motivated from positive feedback ends up having a different explanation than the one posited here.

Im really, honestly, interested in what data you're talking about. Please paste a link.

The main point of the parent is this:

"people who don't demand overtime pay are deluded/stupid/victims of false consciousness/act against their own interest"

right? This is was I took him gnu8 to mean when he said "... the startup culture stock option lottery deludes them into thinking they are a part of the ownership class rather than the working class. Thus, they allow basically all of the fruits of their labor to be stolen from them." What other point am I missing?

I think my post and the follow up make a pretty coherent argument that no, in fact, mass delusion on the part of tech industry workers is not the best explanation. The delusion argument is an argument from the "left wing," especially when given in terms of capital and labor and conflict between classes and so forth. That's just a positive statement, not a normative one, so I don't understand how that can constitute a "rant."

What I think might be illuminating to Europeans who are incredulous about how our workers would allow the "fruits of their labor to be stolen," would be to hear why they might not consider working unpaid overtime to be being stolen from.

I really don't understand the point you're trying to make here. The parent says that tech industry workers are "deluded" because they think of themselves as part of the "ownership class" rather than the "working class," thus allowing the "fruits of their labor" to be "stolen," so clearly he's talking about the behavior of individuals, albeit en masse. Because they're deluded, they're acting irrationally.

All I'm saying that given the job fluidity within the tech industry as a whole, it is unlikely that individuals are going to allow themselves to be compensated at rates very much less than the value they provide. Having the government force employers and employees to account for their work on an hourly basis, so that their labor is not "stolen," is a restriction on their respective individual freedom. So the other side to the parents argument is that maybe the tech industry as a whole is not deluded, maybe it just wants this freedom.

There are a lot of comments like this in this thread, the gist of which being "people who don't demand overtime pay are deluded/stupid/victims of false consciousness/act against their own interest."

Pretty much everyone is an at will employee, free to go find another job. Since these exempt positions tend to be high skill, the logic behind these laws is that these kinds of employees don't need this extra layer of government protection between them and their paycheck. They have the wherewithal to go find another employer if they feel they're being treated unfairly.

The left wing side of this argument is certainly getting a hearing, but coming to a different conclusion doesn't make you a deluded member of the under class (if I'm interpreting your claptrap correctly).

I was going to post a comment with similar points, but instead Ill just add to srean's ideas.

If nothing is known about the objective function, no optimization algorithm can possibly be said to be better than any other. This is the no free lunch theorem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

So there is absolutely no sense in talking about optimization algorithms in isolation from the problems they're meant to solve. An intelligent appraisal of genetic algorithms would talk about the types of objective functions they seem to be able to find good answers for.

I don't understand your comment about Southwest. He doesn't give a "quick dismissal," he mentions things about Southwest that are unique and seem to make them an exception to this general trend. What exactly is your critique of his argument? Your comment is far more hand wavy than this article.

Does anyone know how/where one might get access to a data set like the one he uses in this paper? (1993 student demographic data, high school GPAs, SAT scores, and freshman GPAs)