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I feel uneasy visiting friends with Alexa and all that.

This is why high IQ is evolutionarily disadvantageous after a certain point. Probability of mating declines with increasing IQ.

Why should the tax payers subsidize Zuck's income? Imagine facebook has a $100 million profit. If it pays that to Zuck, the company then makes NO profit and pays no tax. Zuck pays income tax on it, but it's not double taxed through the corporation.

Thus, the tax payers are subsidizing Zuck's income.

AirBnB doesn't cheat? Uber? Facebook? Cheating and breaking rules is lauded in Silicon Valley, dare I say admired in entrepreneurs.

Black employees though, not so much.

This is racism.

EDIT: Before you start nitpicking my examples: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

"They delight in breaking rules..."

I honestly don't know what to think of your comment. I will say though, that from a perspective, you are basically saying you read with interest until you found a reason the "stupidly short-sighted" black man shouldn't have been hired.

When compared to the reality that almost an entire race of people in North America were stolen from their homes and brought to a new land as slaves to benefit their white owners... any potential wrong you are focusing on here is only visible with a microscope.

Your bad behavior doesn't need intent. You didn't need to intend to be a racist when you put him under a microscope like that -- but that doesn't mean you weren't racist when you decided it was important enough to write about. Especially considering the exact behavior is frequent among all races.

And it's the top comment at HN. I can't help but think this says something important about what is really going on.

You don't have to short it, however, would it make sense to start selling things? Where should money be right now or where should it start going if it is about to hit the fan?

What's the logic of that? If there are lots of comments, seems the content would be interesting to the community. It takes more to comment on something than to just click an up or down vote.

There's a not un-serious push to switch to permanent daylight savings in Cascadia (western part of north america). I wonder what this will do to all the date code that doesn't use a library or libraries that aren't updated.

Meta: I see a lot of long form articles here without any comments and I wonder, are they upvoted by bots? What is there to learn from this? I load and read and read and read to find the significance and relevance to my life... something to learn, but I find nothing on the order of other content here. How can this have been on here 8 hours, with 25 upvotes, not a single comment and a consumption time-to-insight value that is very low relative to the majority of content at HN?

For what it's worth, what I did learn from reading this article is that it takes a "necessary talent" to understand the talent behind a work. The lay person, that person without talent, might be the kind who thinks, "I could paint that. The artist didn't even get the cheeks right" without even realizing the artist intentionally painted the cheeks that way knowing and resisting the urge to preemptively counter criticisms about said cheeks.

Maybe it's my old cynical self, but by this time in my life, I know most people don't have the capacity or experience to understand the amount of thought that goes into a work of art or architecture or ... software.

Perhaps the whole point of this article is to waste time learning something you already know.

I got the same email about S3 and some lambdas, with a link to fix them, that went to some generic page. You'd think Amazon could do better. Why not link me right to the bucket's configuration page? Why not list all the problem buckets in the email?

But it could if some folks on the bitcoin team fight with others. Bitcoin is still controlled by humans and thus, not a replacement for traditional fiat currencies.

If you want a currency to be spent, it can't increase in value. That's the kind of thing you hold onto -- a store of value.

I never considered them as such. I had previously put their writing in the same realm as The New Yorker or Harpers, maybe not quite that good. McCleans or der Speigel from other regions.

It's not censorship. Censorship would be South Africa removing writings of the Lama from libraries. South Africans still have access to his message, which, according to Penn & Teller is bullshit.

while the folks telling them what to do go home early every day.

Could you not use something like the "magic wand" selection tool in image editing programs? Doesn't the dramatic color difference indicate it's not part of the same object?

I thought maybe it grabbed it because it was the same color as the bouquet she is holding, but that is entirely within the white of her dress.

You'll notice the effect isn't as good at about 7 seconds into the movie where the green grass between the bride and her maids moves with the bride.

Why does the algorithm think that is part of her, rather than the background?

Just because something is more complex than we currently can mathematically model, does not mean we cannot mathematically model it.

If we can mathematically model it, then we can use 1's and 0's to do so. What you are suggesting is that how we think and observe the world with our brains is not mathematically possible. If that's the case, then Math is wrong, or at best: an approximation to the universe.

Implication: Consciousness exists in the gap between the universe and math.

This is non-sequitur at best. Americans aren't allowed to visit Cuba either. This has been going on for years and has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

I think it is important to recognize the bias in this article. It isn't until the end, that The Atlantic says, "This article is part of “The Speech Wars,” a project supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the Fetzer Institute."

A quick search for Koch's influence on free speech will add light to their motivations. Here's a recent one: https://www.thenation.com/article/portland-speech-milo-antif...

They probably didn't want to waste ad money on a movie they knew was gonna flop. The money they expected to make with this wasn't from sales at the box office, but rather from financial contributions from China.

Same thing happens in real estate. Americans work with Chinese investors on a real estate deal. Buy lots of land. Promise to build lots of houses. Pay themselves 6 or 7 figures per year to work on the project. Ultimately, however, nothing sells. Few or no homes are built and the Chinese investors are left with nothing, while the Americans putting the deal together are millions richer for it.

Those all still boil down to yes or no. Have you seen it? Yes or no? More than 50% sure? yes or no? More than 90% sure? Yes or no?

The neuron either reaches a threshold to fire, or it does not. On or off.

Aren't brains also "dumb pattern match"ers?

I see people talking all the time about how machines can't be conscious, but yet, animals are just machines themselves, so what gives?

It's religious I think. People just want to be special. Not only as individuals, but also as a species.

We've been progressively loading webpages for years. It's like the 7th layer of the stack is working its way down.

Can someone please explain to me the race to the blackest black?

If you haven't played poker, this is significant.

Unlike Chess, Go and almost all board games, poker is a game of incomplete information. You don't know what cards your opponents are holding.

Plus, there are multiple opponents.

This computer program, named Pluribus, beat 6 players who at that time had won over a million dollars.

It's illegal to lie on your resume, but lying to your recruits -- oh, that's fine. Corporate Immunity.

A man who does that signals that he buys into all the social hype, but is too cheap to really buy in ... and he'll be forcing his wife to either reveal that or perpetuate a lie.

Why not just be a real man, speak and live the truth. Eschew the lies.

Why can't we all just do that as a society? It doesn't matter how much you love each other or your mutual respect? Why do rings even matter?

It's the kind of irrational behavior that has destroyed an entire planet!

I disagree. In fact, the opposite could be true. The focus on material possessions like clothes, diamonds, cars, homes, and just in general -- consumption -- has made us less healthy than we otherwise would be and we don't have money to spend on good food, the time to exercise or find peace of mind.

Just because we got bigger houses and less polio in the same timeline doesn't mean those too things are correlated to the same cause. In my experience, most of the scientific researchers producing cures for disease and prolonging life aren't doing it for material wealth. There's a deeper drive to it than that.

Maybe the progress in healthcare proceeds against the tide of social forces. It probably does, considering doctors artificially limit the supply of doctors, precisely so they can buy bigger houses, fancier cars, and more jewelry.

It's estimated that Jonas Salk would have made $7 Billion if he'd patented the polio vaccine.

I believe if we are going to reverse the damage we have done to the planet, we have to invert our social reward structure. We should shame those who spend extravagantly and praise restraint.

> “They didn’t care about possessions,” Roberts says, “and they lived in housing fit for animals.”

I find it interesting how disrespectfully nose up folks talk about humble people like the Cedar Choppers, when if we all continued to live like they did, we wouldn't be in this climate mess we are in.

It's caring about possessions and extravagant homes (unfit for animals?) that has destroyed the planet for all animals.

Actually, or perhaps also, the electoral college exists because the founding fathers didn't trust the people to make good decisions. This is discussed at length in the letters the founding fathers wrote about their political opinions.