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Here it is: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

I wrote my thesis on this! Application-specific system design can get you orders of magnitude performance improvement, as well as better scalability/fault tolerance properties. I f…

> We haven't really seen socialism/communism without a high degree of authoritarianism, which I also don't really like, so I'm inclined to support working towards socialism democra…

The confusion is the system working as intended I think. It is taught from a young age that Marxism/socialism is about annihilating freedom and personal property, while capitalism …

If everyone has access to food, shelter, transportation, and health care, in what ways would we even still have capitalism? Like, what happens to landlords? Will we fund this stuff…

You cannot have capitalism without the bad stuff unless capital's interests are best served in abstaining from bad stuff. Unfortunately, it seems impossible to set up a system that…

Let's disregard that the USA encouraged Sadam to invade Kuwait and implied he would face no recourse if he did. Would you have been okay with Russia going to Iraq's aid when the US…

Small correction, it's Emmanuelle Charpatier.

Absolutely, 6 years with a 1.2mil grant is ridiculous. I was just hopeful that somewhere there were PhD students making enough money to live from research

Where are you seeing $44k? The link you gave shows payscales for postdocs, and points to another page [1] showing that predoctoral trainees get $27k. Also, in my field and in my re…

Any chance you could expand on this? I hear about pattern matching for fraud analytics but I have never seen concrete examples, or even anything in the literature.

I don't know what you expect me to measure about two different visions of non-existent utopia. Are you suggesting capitalism is not supposed to give control to the capitalist? Or t…

You're talking about democracy vs dictatorship, which is orthogonal to socialism vs capitalism. In a socialist utopia you have more democracy than in a capitalist utopia, because "…

Are you not thinking of capitalism as it exists today? Wanton military spending, bank bailouts, corporate tax cuts, etc. seem to be very common when money can buy legislators.

Maciej Besta, the first author of this paper, is a machine. Aside from coordinating big groups to write tons of papers, he does a bunch of impressive wilderness exploration. I reco…

[1] argues a crucial component of greening is trees "pumping" water from the oceans inland and creating nutritious soil. Otherwise evaporated water is simply blown away by the wind…

So it's not clickbait, right? This is how they hack HN!

Without any prior forethought. Immediately, on a whim. E.g., "We were in Vegas and saw an Elvis chapel, so we spontaneously decided to get married!" They were in Vegas without any …

The fact that the authors are still residing within Iran may also play a role in how much they attribute to Islam.

> Culture is not required to take subterfuge in dog whistles. Only counterculture is. > Culture is what's uncontroversially and fearlessly blasted on front pages, and on mainstream…

> But why? If this is really the majority sentiment, why on earth leave any room for plausible deniability? If you read the comment you're replying to, it answers that question imm…

Ok fine, here's my answer then: they don't need to, because their voters know the GOP doesn't work against white people. I suspect it's different from your answer.

If you read the examples I gave above, they're not vague. Dog-whistles are more for plausible deniability than subtlety, and it's because (shocker) white supremacy is frowned upon.…

You are being dishonest because examples of the GOP pandering to white voters are well-documented and easily accessible. Either you never looked, in which case arguing at all is di…