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I agree it's on the journalist -- just wondering which statement is most suspected to be untrue.

Which part is false?

As someone who’s changed careers, I value HN for the wide variety of intellectual topics and often insightful commentary. I think in recent years it’s actually moved further away f…

I’d say that’s a feature but what I’m talking about is real in-use projects

What’s your counterexample?

Another point I’d add: isn’t it telling that we haven’t come up with use cases for crypto that aren’t in some way speculation in the last decade plus?

This is literally addressed in the second paragraph: In electromagnetism and most other fields of physics, imaginary numbers are merely a mathematical convenience. All the relevant…

Perhaps the outcome was better for Britain in the end, but I object to glorifying Soros on the grounds that his intentions were clearly to take money out of the system, and breakin…

“If it hadn’t been exploited by this person, someone else would have” I’ve only ever heard this line of reasoning used to justify something unethical. And in the case of software, …

I think you’re right in a way, but the problem is multifaceted. If true, the idea that 1-1 tutoring pushes an average student two standard deviations above the mean where nothing e…

I do think so. I think wealth disparity has enabled intellectual folks to, very quickly, propel themselves into the upper class, by essentially being part of the money machine that…

My point is, it doesn't matter whether you or I consider it a "bad definition". To say that these things are not pyramid schemes "in any way" is unnecessarily pedantic and not usef…

Or really, any stimulants.

It comes from the office of the NYS attorney general. https://ag.ny.gov/consumer-frauds/pyramid-schemes Please send them an email elucidating the finer points of what scheme is wha…

‘A pyramid scheme is a fraudulent system of making money based on recruiting an ever-increasing number of "investors." The initial promoters recruit investors, who in turn recruit …

Okay, it may not be a pyramid scheme in the exact technical sense, but combined with the other items on the list, "get-rich-quick", etc., I think pump-and-dumping shitcoins counts,…

Because there is money to be had, and people like money.

Wait, isn't that exactly a pyramid scheme?

Thank you — that is definitely encouraging. It doesn’t sound like a killer app yet but it certainly seems to establish deep learning’s place at least as part of a modern software s…

I think this is unfair. Tens (hundreds?) of billions of dollars have gone into deep learning and, as I understand it, most effort consists of scaling up this golden goose and prese…

Can you provide more context on how MIT spent most of its integrity and soul to build its brand? I went to MIT over a decade ago and I always appreciated how honest, hardworking, a…

Haha. I thought this too but I can’t quite place my finger on it. What exactly made the protagonist so insufferable?