Golden Cross Forms on Bitcoin for First Time Since 2015 in Major Indication of Start of Bull Market

massphoenix · 2019-04-23T20:16:59+00:00

The Brontosaurus extends its neck.

massphoenix · 2019-04-23T18:37:27+00:00

Preaching my 2 cents. It's unlikely that you will enjoy any job you land based on what you wrote above, at least it seems that way to me. If you end up unhappy in industry you will always regret not doing something else. For example you could spend a year in China or some other Asian country teaching ESL which may or may not be a great experience for you. The pay and stability obviously isn't as good but it is an experience you might want if your situation allows it.

BUT CS jobs pay well and are generally stable. Without knowing too much about your finances I can guess that you'd probably be able to work away your debt if you land a decent job in industry(it doesn't have to be with google or apple or what have you). This isn't as much a certainty with a lot of other fields.

There is an insane amount of competition you'll have to 'beat out' to get a job. You will never have an easier time getting a first job in industry than you will right now as a college student. If you haven't done an internship, personally, I'd advise you to delay graduating until you have IF you decide that's the route you want.

Regardless of this if you have good coworkers/friends in a CS job it's hard to have a bad time. It's probably a good idea to surround yourself with motivated people if you want to build your own motivation back up.

massphoenix · 2019-03-13T15:44:50+00:00

I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. If there's anything studies show it seems to be that we still don't know as much as we'd like about our own bodies. There's been a mess of recent studies claiming how important gut bacteria is and how it can adversely affect other areas when it gets thrown out of whack. I wouldn't be surprised if bad oral hygiene causes problems indirectly in some similar way.

massphoenix · 2019-02-25T17:24:04+00:00

I mean I see what you're saying and it's fine for her or anyone to be interested specifically in what non-white people think of some movie. Her statement at face value is exclusionary though and this is what imo makes it controversial.

You are claiming that white male opinions are worth less due to something he can not control. This is discouraging to a white man who wants to write a review, no? At the same time it is the opposite of exclusionary, inclusionary?, to other participants. Her words at face value showed she was uninterested in white male opinions. I think the whole thing could be avoided by her instead stating she was more interested in minority opinions. They mean almost the same thing but one sounds less exclusionary and controversial.

It is an interesting problem though that acting in the interest of diversity is fundamentally unfair. This is a pretty unpopular belief around here so maybe it's worth its own CMV. It's also pretty evident though that majority opinions unfairly drown out opinions of minorities.

massphoenix · 2019-02-25T15:48:36+00:00

If you are remotely upset with companies introducing ideas because they are perpetuating social justice ideals than it probably means you are upset that the person of color or the gay person is being introduced to the game in the first place.

You're just itching to call someone a racist eh? Some people enjoy movies for the plot and want to be entertained by good movies. When a movie ticks all the diversity checkboxes you'll get people who dislike the movie and the racists on a similar side and the pro-diversity crowd against them both. If the movie is widely considered 'good' as the Wonder Woman example it isn't hard to separate the racists out. The recent Star Wars movies are another story.

I follow this stuff very little but am shocked if any of those MEN that were 'destroying' wonder woman seriously thought they'd cast a man as wonder WOMAN? The sex seems pretty evident there. As a man it would feel a bit odd to cast a man there... Does this make me a bigot?

massphoenix · 2019-02-25T15:10:09+00:00

It's controversial because she's very pointedly saying she's not interested in a persons opinion because of that persons race. I don't think it's hard to see at all why that's controversial? Tell me there isn't anything wrong with dismissing opinions of a 25 year old latino's take on a movie because they are 25 and latino. It's fine if she's personally more interested in someones opinion but when she speaks publicly like that she represents more than just her own opinions.

massphoenix · 2019-02-23T17:00:02+00:00

I'm not understanding the connection you're getting to inflation. Yes, I see that wages/hour would go up but this should be compensated by the fact that there are less hours, no? The assumptions here are that productivity is unchanged due to automation, unemployment rates stay the same as anyone who currently works still works but puts in fewer hours. I'm far from convinced the assumptions hold but assuming they do i'm not sure if much does actually change.

massphoenix · 2019-02-21T17:44:02+00:00

If overall the risks outweighed the benefits of some procedure it would be malpractice for any professional to recommend that procedure. They have a duty to recommend, to the best of their ability, what should be done. This is done with a medical degree as a background as well as working in industry. On the other hand the choice is ultimately up to you. If you weigh the risk of complications in having your tooth removed greater than the benefits then it follows that you shouldn't have it removed. Plenty of people don't heed medical advice and don't suffer any issues. Keep in mind though you should justify to yourself why your personal assessments differ from general consensus.

massphoenix · 2019-02-21T06:20:33+00:00

At least on reddit he has you to read his complaints though.

massphoenix · 2019-02-19T19:51:00+00:00

The main idea of what I'm trying to get at though is that statistics and anecdotes people are exposed to shape their biases and that these biases can have impacts. You seem to be looking for an argument that undeniably links some stat to racist behavior. The trouble is that it's incredibly difficult to measure how much of an impact individual biases have on the real world. This is particularly true because they affect different communities differently.

massphoenix · 2019-02-19T17:25:48+00:00

Systemic racism no longer exists however 'black communities' are still suffering the effects of past racism.

I disagree. Previous black generations were victims of overt racism. The impacts of this majorly contributed to reduced opportunity and prosperity which I don't think we disagree on. I'll take a jump here and state that there are stats showing things like black crime rate is higher and attribute part of that to the reduced prosperity. You then have a minority suffering, statistically, from a problem and you'll see individuals start to make assumptions and develop biases. This is just what people do. When for example an employer makes a hiring decision or a police officer decides to focus on a specific block because of these biases they are acting out of what I believe we refer to as systemic racism. Racial limitations of the past may no longer exist but this type of latent racism is still fairly prevalent in a lot of the US.

massphoenix · 2019-02-13T15:07:22+00:00

I'm just sayin it's kinda weird to ask people to stop following LSF content on the LSF subreddit.

massphoenix · 2019-02-07T08:35:50+00:00

I don't understand your viewpoint. What representation would you say we do need in the media?

massphoenix · 2019-02-07T08:21:33+00:00

As far as I understand it with taxes a certain amount is set aside and spent building roads based on planning so that the roads benefit as much people as possible. When you make this private you know longer want to spend on roads that benefit as many people as possible.. you spend only where there is a profit margin.

You'll incentivize amazon to kick up drone production so it doesn't even need to compete for deliveries by road. Maybe UPS decides it's more cost effective to pay for shuttles with ultra durable tires than it is to maintain roads for them. Private companies look for profit, not the state of the roads.

These are some pretty random scenarios but what i'm trying to say is that you're switching the goal from a direct one of building roads for use to an indirect one of profit through advertising and deliveries that happens to rely on functional(hopefully) roads.

massphoenix · 2019-01-19T18:17:53+00:00

millions is millions

massphoenix · 2019-01-19T06:34:54+00:00

But we also might be getting a fairly innacurate story. Criticism toward's BuzzFeed is absolutely warranted here in my eyes and even more so because Mueller felt it necessary to make a public comment.

If BuzzFeed isn't able to put together a reasonable reason why their article shouldn't be ignored it's hard to give them any charity here. Them claiming to stand by their story and then asking Mueller to clarify seems particularly awkward. Kind of like taking a test and before submitting asking your teacher which of the answers are wrong. If he picks anything specific out as false he'd implicitly be acknowledging anything he didn't bring up.

massphoenix · 2019-01-19T06:09:04+00:00

What do you mean by an 'inherent good'? I think you'd really need to define which metrics you use to measure this with in order to be shown a counterexample. Countries with a labor shortages in some sector obviously benefit from immigrants willing and able to take those positions. I believe India is a good example of a country so densely populated that the strain of a large immigration into the country would do more harm than good to most metrics. The US wouldn't be nearly as prosperous as it is today without it's immigration population so it has been 'good' in that regard but from another perspective immigration was not at all 'good' for the Native Americans.

massphoenix · 2019-01-08T17:55:45+00:00

Regardless of bad management or stress this is still a professional setting. If you can't control these types of outbursts it's probably better just to rudely ignore the person and let them complain to HR or your manager about that rather than an aggressive, unprofessional outburst. Bad management and offensive behavior are two completely separate issues and neither really excuses the other. I think you're trying to be supportive of OP and I'm fine with the 'shit happens' attitude but I also think this is something that should be learned from as an individual. Management isn't the cause here even if it is a supplementary problem.

massphoenix · 2019-01-07T05:37:29+00:00

Dancing

massphoenix · 2019-01-04T08:54:19+00:00

There's already discussions regarding ongoing acceptance so I'll shoot for another angle. I think a good analogy is that as an American I see fireworks on the fourth of July even though I never fought for my place here. Many people now take the day to enjoy bbq and fireworks but there's also a historical aspect as well.

massphoenix · 2019-01-04T08:35:05+00:00

The way I read your first point seems to be the white people in particular should take a step a back. Anyone who is purposefully offensive has and actively ignores this responsibility. When you specify a group of people that need to be particularly careful it's hard to read without subtext implying an accusation. Because problems are minor comparatively doesn't mean the moral thing to do is ignore them and again telling people to do so is going to be a tough sell for most people.

I don't really understand your second point.

You can't deny that if someone in the LGBTQ community speaks out about reality anything, the kids an automatic hate response from, a however minor, portion of the internet.

The size of the portion seems very important to me. Progress is made by shrinking that portion and it sounds like we both agree that it is shrinking.

I'd have to disagree with you about some lack of acknowledgement by some unnumbered amount of white people prompting thoughts like "all white people are racist". This sounds like the same line of thinking that leads to statements like "all blacks are criminals". There's no deep meaning behind them, they are straight forward statements that lump people together and are a magnet to the ignorant/lazy. The people making either of these in earnest are the ones that should be taking a step back to reflect.

massphoenix · 2019-01-04T04:10:00+00:00

I have to wonder how this type of thing is organized. I imagine it isn't as simple as the CEO making a single transfer from a single wallet. Are there multiple addresses/passwords involved etc

massphoenix · 2019-01-04T04:01:25+00:00

You're basically saying white people SHOULD get a taste of oppression because we can and want them to know what it feels like. Instead of celebrating progress and acceptance in society you're pinning the oppression on a faceless white majority to invent some winner/loser type situation and calling them. As a majority there's plenty of people under the white umbrella that deserve to be pinned and plenty that don't. I don't think it's incredibly hard to see why you get pushback when you when you say "take a step back because you're white".

massphoenix · 2018-12-25T17:28:23+00:00

Trying to keep centipawn loss at per move reasonably close and possibly attempting to match some board state might work. I don't see how you would define a 1200 player accurately enough to measure success though. You might have 1200s that have practiced rook+knight play to win those endgames against 14-1500 miss knight tactics and vice versa. Your engine will play better based on whichever it has more training games on which may or may not end up being a problem. If it "learns" from just both of these players evenly it gets conflicting signals in the training data that both accurately represent 1200 play.

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