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bofadeezon Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are

Unless you're a full time quant with a high deflated sharpe ratio you have no business making trades. It's not an investment to speculate on unpredictable price, that's called gambling, as Eugene Fama explained. Investments yield income. A stock buyback is not better than a dividend.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

This must be the first time as a far left liberal that you had a comment net downvoted just for saying demonstrably true facts? Frustrating huh? That's how it goes here if you don't conform to what others here would prefer to be true.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

Yeah reality TV is not a good source, but it's embarrassing that guests in America even felt slightly uncomfortable expressing their opinions. They're human beings who have the right to peacefully express any opinion they want.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

If you let it happen to the extremists then it can also happen to the moderates next.

What can't be tolerated is any law that restricts or hinders freedoms of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

That's why the ACLU used to have principles and support extremist groups' right to speech. If they come for them, they'll come for you next. How can you mediate the boundaries of conversation? Every individual must be allowed to peacefully express their opinion. Anyone being attacked for doing so will get support of any classical liberal still around. Call them names if you want, it doesn't work anymore.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

Clearly

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

You're confused. Silencing people is the thing 1A protects against.

"I'm in favor of gun rights and that's why we need to eliminate the 2A"

I don't think you get it lol. Your arguments are not consistent with you understanding the facts. Who do you expect to convince with unapologetc ignorance?

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

I'm glad I live in a country where nothing you say or think or do can ever take away my natural right to speak any opinion in a peaceful way. If you don't already have freedom too, I hope someday your government will stop oppressing your people and let them express their opinions in a peaceful way.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

> We genocided the native Americans

That's also bad. But two wrongs don't make a right. Natives should have been afforded citizenship and constitutional rights also. The solution isn't to undo progress and take rights away from people again. I thought you were progressive?

> Our president wants to genocide brown people.

This discredits you quite a lot, since I've never heard even the most left-wing public figures insinuate such a wild unsubstantiated thing. If true, that would be deplorable also.

Whether what you're saying is true or false has no bearing on the truth value of what I said. You're just making unrelated angry hyperbolic claims that lack any nuance at all.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

People in USA live in a constitutional republic based on self-evident natural rights given by god. We just have (somewhat) democratically elected representatives.

In an "actual democracy" with no constitutional rights, the majority can (legally) genocide the minority - and that's happened more than a few times in "actual democracies" in Europe in the very recent past.

You should probably think deeper about what you're advocating for.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

People in Europe are also human beings and so they also have a natural right to free speech. They just happen to live in oppressive governments willing to use violence against them for expressing their natural right to speak their opinion.

bofadeezon Judge says Education Dept partisan out-of-office emails violated First Amendment

I think we can all agree on this. It would just be nice if there was consistent enthusiasm for the first amendment when it comes to actual taboo ideas. Are you quoting this when you hear about right wing extremists being canceled or jailed in Europe? In the 1970s, Jewish lawyers at the ACLU defended the American Nazi Party’s right to march in Skokie. Not out of support, but to uphold the principle of free speech for all. What happened to intellectual honesty?

bofadeezon Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated

Even a p-value is insufficient. Maybe can use some of this stuff https://web.stanford.edu/~swager/causal_inf_book.pdf

bofadeezon Study identifies weaknesses in how AI systems are evaluated

Has your lab tried using any of the newer causal inference–style evaluation methods? Things like interventional or counterfactual benchmarking, or causal graphs to tease apart real reasoning gains from data or scale effects. Wondering if that’s something you’ve looked into yet, or if it’s still too experimental for practical benchmarking work.

bofadeezon As CO2 Levels Rise, Old Amazon Trees Are Getting Bigger

Proof that forests are more resilient and responsive to co2 than previous models assumed.

bofadeezon Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)

Time traveler: "No, in 120 years we won't have moving sidewalks almost anywhere"

Tech enthusiasts: "Oh what a luddite, didn't you see the demo? This is the future!"

bofadeezon The scariest "user support" email I've received

Okay, so one can "improve themselves" as a hobby at a leisurely pace instead of cramming for exams and becoming a competitive professional. Same thing.

"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome"

bofadeezon The scariest "user support" email I've received

Yeah it's interesting. What's the incentive to spend 10 years learning tedious stuff anymore? In another 1-2 generations all non AI knowledge will be gone.

bofadeezon Replacement.ai

So brave. So courageous. (Slow clap). Not at all similar to something Michael Scott would say.

bofadeezon Show HN: Notepad.exe – macOS editor for Swift and Python (now Linux runtime)

"stop fighting with your IDE" wow it's like reading my mind. All I do is fight with IDEs 24/7

bofadeezon Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

I asserted the US is objectively not a full blown oligarchy. Therefore calling someone an oligarch is objectively propaganda.

bofadeezon Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

That's just a non-sequitur childish retort, but okay, if that helps you? Not much to chew on.

bofadeezon Half of America's Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch

A propagandist

bofadeezon Ask HN: Any local agents to help repetitive browser tasks?

https://github.com/tebelorg/RPA-Python

bofadeezon University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

I've never taken an IQ test. I just care about intellectual honesty and was responding to someone who called for IQ testing as a prerequisite to posting on this forum. What's the next pivot in the argument?

bofadeezon University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

So you just affirmed "a business that believes hiring is better using IQ is not able to do so since the supreme court ruled that is racist" without realizing it. Not being consistent but it's okay. Great job lol

bofadeezon University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0033-2909.1...

full: https://www.talytica.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Schmidt-...

proof provided. what's the next pivot now? can't wait to see the mental gymnastics d1sxeyes does to respond.

bofadeezon University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

Duke Power Company was discriminating by IQ not race. It just happened to have been easier for white people to pass the IQ test at the time, but that's secondary. You're using the same logic used by Duke power Company's defense team.

bofadeezon University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

So now you're pivoting to saying Flynn Effect is just an observation of noise and human error with no meaning. You brought up the Flynn Effect, but you don't think it's meaningful to measure IQ? But you do think time series analysis on IQ is meaningful? You made no attempt at even a reasoned claim that Flynn Effect debunks validity of IQ. It's all patchwork emo stuff going on with u, and u agree grammur policing is a last resort of a broken mind. Not much respond to when you have to twist yourself in a pretzel and then trip over your own arguments on the pivot.

bofadeezon University of Cambridge Cognitive Ability Test

If you had to pick 120 or 80, what would it be? You have no preference whether they can read or write? Notice you're cornered logically? Wouldn't you prefer to have a strong opinion based in reason?