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New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Ask HN: What are some of the best documentaries you've seen?"

UmbertoNoEco — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 17:16:06 +0000

you may well be correct but society would be a lot less advanced if not for the works of 'unbalanced' individuals

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "CS 168: The Modern Algorithmic Toolbox"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:17:47 +0000

they are not; this is classic hn posturing

at the veryleast this would belong to a second or third class of algorithms for ug( after the usual meat and potatoes: big,small o notation, searching and sorting, dp, greedy algorithms and so on) depending on the difficulty of the assignments this could be easily a graduate course

remember that no matter how difficult, obscure or new a technical field is you will have people here claiming they took a class about it as a freshman 10 years ago and they wrote some papers about it. sometimes it may be true, but most of the time it isnt

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "All poverty is energy poverty"

UmbertoNoEco — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:37:25 +0000

but we dont have the intelligence

even this site filled with supposedly smart educated individuals is filled to the brim with prejudices; jingoism; hate; intolerance; short-term thinking and huge cognitive blind spots

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Draw Anything – A Simple Stable Diffusion Playground"

UmbertoNoEco — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:31:22 +0000

with literally hundreds of competitors popping up daily you cannot afford to have an overly sensitive nsfw filter; right now this tool is almost useless

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

UmbertoNoEco — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:12:22 +0000

the modern western liberal view is to protect all basic freedoms (of speech;of privacy; of representation; of free trade; of presumption of innocence) as long as they belong to the 'correct people'; as for the ideological enemies no right is needed and no tactic used to curtail those same rights is deemed too low or too hypocritical

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:42:12 +0000

lucky

well connected

belonging to the 'right' race;gender;social class; nationality

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:39:29 +0000

all those polls where people systematically support their national health services probably used tons of americans to influence the answers; i think you are up to something here

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:28:52 +0000

you are not the average us employee; it seems you are completely isolated from the working reality of most americans; including swe

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Lenovo’s Glasses T1 let you bring a private big screen display with you"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 20:13:46 +0000

developers are not industrial designers; i would even argue the skillset is at the 'opposite side' of the spectrum

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "The dictatorship of the articulate"

UmbertoNoEco — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:16:16 +0000

'It’s a funny coincidence that the field where we’re seeing the most innovation happens to be the one we regulated least, and that the fields that got worse are the most regulated ones.'

because the causation is the other way around mostly

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "The dictatorship of the articulate"

UmbertoNoEco — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 18:13:05 +0000

and later the atlantic slave trade and americas colonization several genocides packed in 2

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy"

UmbertoNoEco — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:51:00 +0000

like guantanamo ?

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy"

UmbertoNoEco — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:51:12 +0000

none of which are exclusive to 'western' countries and even less demonstrated by the actions of the big corporations and governments

zuckerberg pelosi liz truss elon musk et al are not paragons of virtue and they are the people being defended here

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy"

UmbertoNoEco — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:47:21 +0000

who is 'you'? white people in the 10% of so of nato;anzac countries? maybe

the rest of he world is not interested on keep perpetuating the status quo

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company"

UmbertoNoEco — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:37:35 +0000

hhahahahahaha i honestly take mark z opinions more seriously ; the best you can say about jack and still be within the norms here is that he is very disingenuous

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "The Best Books on the Great Divergence"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:36:23 +0000

'but the ‘West’ was moving ahead of the ‘rest’ at least by the beginning of the 18th century, and the gulf between them has continued to widen ever since.'

this is not true

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "We don't know how the universe began, and we will never know"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:25:45 +0000

agree but be aware carroll swings way way way way to the other extreme especially about the pet theories he happens to like: multiverses ; the everett interpretation of qm ;boltzmann's brains and so on

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "What to read to understand how economists think"

UmbertoNoEco — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 20:17:02 +0000

krugman and mankiw are adversaries in the sense one prefers the current world neoliberal order designed for the benefit of the us to be led by democrats and the other prefers it to be led by republicans

to the average citizen of the world they are indistinguishable

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "The culture of rejection in computer science publications"

UmbertoNoEco — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:37:11 +0000

'(I'm ethnic Chinese and this is not meant to be a racially charged comment)'

that's not a carte blanche to stereotype a whole nation and it makes as much sense as a mailander chinese person badmouthing singapore taiwan or the abcs and using that excuse

New comment by UmbertoNoEco in "Show HN: Pornpen.ai – AI-Generated Porn"

UmbertoNoEco — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:37:46 +0000

the demand for females must be at least 100:1 . even higher if you consider people who are willing to actually pay for nudes it's not even more skewed because of gay guys