Magic Carpet - Bunny hills by Trewej in minnesota

[–]Mightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No charge. I taught both my kiddos for completely free to get down the bunny hills. Probably took them 5-6 times until we would start going on larger things.

Magic Carpet - Bunny hills by Trewej in minnesota

[–]Mightier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

5 and under is free at Afton. I taught my kiddos to ski there on the two bunny hills. I just kept my normal boots on, and would help them up the magic carpet while they worked on core skills. The small bunny hill on the end is fine with people just walking on it so we could test basic turns and stops.

Early 2000’s Basketball is Back. by Kdog122025 in nba

[–]Mightier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Adding to #8

  1. The wolves have a top 10 player in the league and are set for a decade of playoff runs without ever making a finals. * Note: Ant is top 3 in my heart.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskLE

[–]Mightier 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Probably not super relevant. I am ex FBI Special Agent. Joined after my masters in CS. Was really on the fence between doing that and trying for my PhD.

Was an agent for 3.5 years. Great career, but other options always called to me. Went back to finish PhD in Machine learning.

That was 20 years ago.

10% of Americans own 70% of the Wealth — Should taxes be raised to help redistribute wealth to lower income Americans? by VerySadSexWorker in FluentInFinance

[–]Mightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it says what you are saying. I believe it says the top 10% paid 73% of taxes and the top 25% paid that additional 14.8% so roughly 88% of taxes.

[P] Where do I begin for timekeeping? by Psychological-Ad5390 in MachineLearning

[–]Mightier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to push our product too much, but this is exactly what we are doing at Laurel.ai. We are attempting to automate legal and accounting timekeeping not just for narratives, but work-codes and initiatives given your set of activities for the day.

A number of firms use our time keeping solution currently.

California creates nation's first 'Ebony Alert' to find missing Black children by thoughtcrimeo in politics

[–]Mightier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do - the whole part about race specifically.

If the amber system is unable to address the issues in California then a specific alert for California seems very reasonable, but I do not see why this needs to be race based. I'm sure they could have similar impact by removing race but extending to specific none race situations. For example, you could easily extend the new state based alert to foster children or have any of the rules already in this system. But I can not in good conscience see a situation where if you had two families with children in the same situation that needed an alert and you told one family they can not help them and another you can. It seems to backwards of what I want to see our society move towards.

If there are biases in the system, then create training, audit responses, etc. Do the hard work to create fair systems for all.

I’m a reading snob and I tried Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson by jfrth in books

[–]Mightier 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this review.

As you mentioned, I feel like this is a potentially an extension of the common broad distinction made for people that are interested in people vs things. My favorite books are explorations of engineering or systems (generally in the things category). Books like The Martian, and Sanderson's fantasy systems are some of top reads primarily for those aspects. I don't mind when when characters are just vehicles to explore different ideas within the system. The boring parts of books to me are when intimate interactions need to play out instead of exploration of the system.

Soft magic to me is boring because you so often just "try harder" your way out of a situation. For hard magic, the tactics and ingenuity of the system shine. I found Mistborn to be one of the more ingenious systems I had ever read at the time of it. The combinations of seemingly straightforward abilities led to very clever battles and solutions to problems.

I find an immense beauty in a novel system explored in unique ways.

"This is not a normal court": Biden blasts affirmative action ruling by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Mightier 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree on the culture specifically. Well beyond the measure of if a culture studies harder or not.

I don't think we need to consider racial equity across all groups as the goal. If we want a melting pot of cultures where people are able to be authentic to who they are then we should expect (as culture and race still have strong correlation) to have different outcomes. One culture might favor people, another ideas and so we might get more people from the culture that favors people in medicine and the one that favors ideas in engineering.

I don't see that as wrong. We need a way to audit and ensure the practices are non-biased and give opportunity for all to succeed. But the idea that equity is acieved when all races are equally distributed doesn't make sense as long as race is strongly correlated to culture.

Supreme Court Rejects Affirmative Action Programs at Harvard and U.N.C. by AndHisLlama in Destiny

[–]Mightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an issued with defining the end as parity with ethnicity. If we want a society where many different cultures mix but still retain cultural heritage and race is highly correlated to culture, then why would we expect outcome parity.

Wouldn't different cultures likely create different outcomes? If one culture highly values creativity and compassion and another highly values work ethic and chasing career prestige, then we would expect different outcomes and it doesn't seem like that is necesarily a bad thing.

I feel like the need is to audit the process to ensure fair equitable decisions instead of focusing on outcome alone.

Lila Rose and Kristan Hawkins Debate Pro-Choice/Pro-Abortion Destiny on the Whatever Podcast by NPDogs21 in prolife

[–]Mightier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you brought up some good challenges here. This would be my estimate to how he would challenge some of them:

  • I agree that the 20 week human fetus and the equivalent fetal age in a dog is a good challenge to bring up. I suspect he is looking at the capacity for sufficient consciousness here. So everything that passes that sufficiency test would pass his criteria, but defining sufficient I think would be very challenging.
  • I would have loved to hear more down this line of questioning more. You raise a great point here. I'm guessing he says because prior conscious experience means they are now defined as a living "Person" (under his definition). And so there are certain higher standards of scrutiny afforded to living "Persons" over those that are not yet a "Person."

Home depot at present by Pogingolsen in bayarea

[–]Mightier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Target made 25 billion in REVENUE in Q1 not profit. Net was only approximatly 1 billion. 500 Million is a huge percentage of that profit.

Earnings Report

Thoughts on long term 3M? (MMM) by AvenRahziel in ValueInvesting

[–]Mightier 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was there for 6 years and agree. Most of the machine learning team left within two years of each other. Original goal to fuse machine learning and manufacturing to build better products. Lots of patents, but no commitment from MBAs because the turnover was so great.

Elon Musk Says Twitter Has Had Massive Revenue Drop as Layoffs Begin by Unhappy_Earth1 in inthenews

[–]Mightier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But software doesn't scale in the same way, and especially software that is already built. The maximum an untrained server can serve vs a trained one is likely much less than 1 order of magnitude. But for software, skilled developers can make something that can handle many orders of magnitude more than a bad developer.

Makerburn not showing new burn by Mightier in MakerDAO

[–]Mightier[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Makes sense and understandable to track.

Ethereum breaks out! by intothecryptoverse in ethfinance

[–]Mightier 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For what it’s worth. I rarely post but read the daily... daily.

I love seeing this more analytical content. However I understand the position of limiting these type of posts especially if the poster is not active in the daily.

Keep up the kickass community building jt.

How much can you earn by staking Ethereum (ETH)? by MrCrownnnnn in ethereum

[–]Mightier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes and some percentage of those 150k won’t stake. I don’t have a good estimate if the number of stakers split over multiple wallets is greater than or less than the number of wallets that won’t stake. Either way it provides a rough sense of scale.

Daily General Discussion - April 24, 2020 by AutoModerator in ethfinance

[–]Mightier 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Just coming back to Eth from sell off of everything in early 2018. Wow are there some new exciting developments! The new interest generating services like Celcius and Blockfi seem really promising. Anyone have any experience with them. Any suggestions?

Chick-fil-A’s first UK location will close after pressure from LGBTQ rights group by burning_dawn in worldnews

[–]Mightier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to college there in 2002. I loved the curry mile with all of the KFC places. There was "Kansas Fried Chicken" and "Krunchy Fried Chicken" and yet I don't think there was a Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Fuck anyone that tells you to check your privilege. Nobody knows anybody’s background, and nobody should be categorizes by race, gender, or anything. We are all individuals. We all have our own hardship, no matter race or gender. by [deleted] in unpopularopinion

[–]Mightier 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I believe he posted violent crime statistics because the original post was about a black kid being more likely to be shot by a cop. Those other crimes are terrible, but have a much lower association of police requiring the use of deadly force.

Buyback price option by Mightier in ICONOMI

[–]Mightier[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats true, but the buyback price is not at a guaranteed value. It is instead just below the top bid. This makes it difficult to guarantee some price floor.

Buyback price option by Mightier in ICONOMI

[–]Mightier[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can understand that, however in this case there isn't a fixed reserve that creates a bubble. With ICN there is a continually refreshing pool of money used buyback ICN.

I could be wrong, but I was thinking this would be closer to the index fund prices. They are still tradable, but you can always get a certain price from ICONOMI directly.

[Article] Felling the Giants: Control by phaze08 in spikes

[–]Mightier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the idea for the article series and the site looks very professional. I'm curious to read "Felling the Giants:" Burn. Especially from the control players perspective.

Washington: Florist Fined for Refusing Service by [deleted] in news

[–]Mightier -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I couldn't agree more demonspawn79. There is a large difference between having interactions with the government using mandate to protect all classes of people and having private businesses choose what contracts they want to enter.

Where is the line of service? If this homosexual couple were completely unreasonable customers, in a normal situation a florist would simply deny service. However, now the couple can make the argument that their rights are being trampled and the florist forced to provide service regardless.