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Plus, that sentiment is only true with a narrow set of upper middle class, white collar assumptions. What about hard working retail workers or factory workers? Or look how vast the…

But the point isn’t the individual. The questions we need to ask are - why did people feel empowered to do what they did? Why wasn’t there anything in place to hold these people ac…

I’ve found it pretty unreliable. I was researching Teflon pans the other day, and all the instant answers were myths about how Teflon pans will give you cancer. And when you click …

This is nonsense both-sides-ism. The right very obviously redacts true data (just look at Fox News re: Mueller). And the issue is not just whether people lie and omit facts. You ha…

Instagram’s CEO has said one of the most valuable parts of being acquired by FB is they could just hook into their vast revenue org (probably thousands of employees, and battle tes…

Eh, conservatives have been making this complaint for ages. It’s really not new. Take the Vietnam war and civil rights protests of the 60s and 70s for example. Tech has changed som…

Richard Spencer held a rally at UF last week, and they had to arrest 3 of his supporters for firing shots at protesters. I don’t have much sympathy for this “college kids are overr…

Yeah, like, those are actually the extremist groups with ties to terrorism that this kind policy is designed for. It’s not Twitter’s fault that mainstream politics has gone haywire…

> as soon as someone who's willing to consider only the rules of the game in constructing their strategy comes along, and easily crushes all their competitors Also relevant to code…

* Links are 20 characters, flat (could be less, but users would spam 100+ links). * Images aren't counted (unless they come from links). * @handles were moved out of the text for r…

If DAU is your only metric, sure. WeChat has a horizontal breadth that Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp have been trying to copy though. The equivalent of ApplePay, Venmo, basic onl…

China's not blocking out the sharing of ideas though. Until a few months ago, Andrew Ng worked at Baidu! They are isolating data , but hoarding data is a competitive advantage in a…

My experience was that the top students (now PhD students at MIT, Stanford, etc) were very diligent about homework. In the honors classes, you often needed to go far above and beyo…

Eh, investment banking is arduous cause of the hours, and does require you to be pretty smart, but its not as meritocratic as your claiming. It's stacked with Ivy League kids exact…

The point-free style is harder to read and reason about imo, especially since the data gets transformed in that pipeline. We use scala, and will avoid currying for this reason.

Bind is flatMap (>>=) Confusingly, map in scala is fmap in Haskell

Monoids and posets have very little structure, so you really aren't gonna get deep useful theorems out of them. Maybe you can make some clever reductions, but those are hardly deep…

Eh, as someone who works in scala day-to-day, and has studied actual category theory, I think the emphasis on category theory itself is silly. And in fact, most of the time, more c…

> I'm not even sure what "defining it as a tuple" is meant to imply Yeah, in a computer science situation it's needlessly obfuscatory. It's literally just an interface with a "plus…

This is a shallow reading of Zeynep Tufekci's work (which I agree is among the sharpest analyses out there). She very explicitly calls out sites like Twitter, Reddit, and Facebook …

That's exactly how we got to the situation we're in with climate change. The fact that corporate money can hold so much influence over what we research, what we say, and therefore …

> “We are in the process of trying to expand our relationship with Google on some absolutely key points,” Ms. Slaughter wrote in an email to Mr. Lynn, urging him to “just THINK abo…

This misunderstands the way technology, social media in particular, have exacerbated problems with misinformation. No one is claiming the media was perfect before. Obviously hoaxes…

Protests aren't meant to persuade - they're meant to draw attention. Persuasion is a separate step in the movement. Look at BlackLivesMatter. The initial protests drew attention to…

The poorest people in this country are black and brown. The first people impacted by environmental disasters (and soon climate change) will be black and brown (Katrina, oil spills,…