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kemerover commented on How to break into 100k+ Euro salary in EU/EEA?    · Posted by u/eskimo87
mschuster91 · 8 years ago
Switzerland is not in the EU as OP asked, also you spend a large chunk of the gains over Germany on higher living cost (rent, but also basic stuff like cheeseburgers is up to 3x the price of Germany). Oh and they have both a strict immigration regime as well as a huge right-wing problem, which might be another factor against moving to Switzerland for work.
kemerover · 8 years ago
>a huge right-wing problem

Or a right-wing solution if you like direct democracy and societal cohesion.

kemerover commented on Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say   nytimes.com/2017/10/12/sc... · Posted by u/digital55
astrodust · 8 years ago
That link about vocal characteristics is only relevant when talking about huge populations. On an individual basis it's meaningless, there's just too much variation. You need samples of a thousand or more to develop a picture. Where biological differences do exist that might affect intonation in a particular dialect, but not when soemeone was raised with a different dialect or intonation.

Now if "Japanese" isn't a race then nothing is. The vast majority of Japanese are identifiable on a genetic level due to the relative isolation of the country. Same goes for Inuit who were geographically and culturally isolated.

> Middle Eastern and European are better examples.

If you're talking some stereotypically Polish person compared to some stereotypically Arabic person from Egypt, obviously, but there's cases where ordinary Turkish people look more "European" than some groups of Europeans do.

The bell curve on these things is just too wide, there's nothing but overlap in all but the most extreme fringes.

kemerover · 8 years ago
>That link about vocal characteristics is only relevant when talking about huge populations. On an individual basis it's meaningless, there's just too much variation.

If we are talking about white/black voice difference, then it is meaningful.

>Now if "Japanese" isn't a race then nothing is. The vast majority of Japanese are identifiable on a genetic level due to the relative isolation of the country.

Race is just a more broad concept than an ethnic group, that's what I mean.

>If you're talking some stereotypically Polish person compared to some stereotypically Arabic person from Egypt, obviously, but there's cases where ordinary Turkish people look more "European" than some groups of Europeans do.

That's what I meant when I said that it would be easier if you take groups 100 hundred people, it averages out. And yeah, Europeans and Arabs are white, so there is little difference between them.

>The bell curve on these things is just too wide, there's nothing but overlap in all but the most extreme fringes.

Yes, "cline" is a better description than "race" but it is not as useful in daily life as "race" is.

kemerover commented on Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say   nytimes.com/2017/10/12/sc... · Posted by u/digital55
astrodust · 8 years ago
They're saying that skin color is what people think is a reliable indicator of race, but in fact, genetically speaking, it's a total mess and nothing is clear at all.
kemerover · 8 years ago
But it is a reliable indicator of race.

Article even says it:

>The dark-skinned people of southern India, Australia and New Guinea, for example, did not independently evolve their color simply because evolution favored it.

>They inherited the ancestral dark variants Dr. Tishkoff’s team found in Africans. “They had to be introduced from an African population,” said Dr. Tishkoff.

kemerover commented on Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say   nytimes.com/2017/10/12/sc... · Posted by u/digital55
astrodust · 8 years ago
Uh, voice? That seems dubious. Apart from vernacular or speaking styles that are generally racial in nature, there's really nothing there.

> But every human can easily identify black/white/Asian...

It's not the obvious cases that matter, but the borderline ones. Is that person Japanese or maybe Inuit?

> If racists believed that race is just a skin color, why would they be racists?

Yes. If we were all precisely the same skin color they'd find other ways to put people down. Your "Jewish" nose. Your "nappy" hair. Color's just the tip of the ice-berg.

Some people are perceived as being inferior because that's what some elements in society need them to be in order to advance their own social standing.

kemerover · 8 years ago
>Uh, voice? That seems dubious. Apart from vernacular or speaking styles that are generally racial in nature, there's really nothing there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17342877

>It's not the obvious cases that matter, but the borderline ones. Is that person Japanese or maybe Inuit?

First of all, I don't think it is appropriate to classify "Japanese" or "Inuit" as races. Race is a more general concept.

Anyway, Japanese and Inuit are easy to distinguish. Middle Eastern and European are better examples. If you take one European person and one Middle Eastern person it would be hard to differentiate them, if you take two groups of one hundred people it would be easy.

kemerover commented on Genes for Skin Color Rebut Dated Notions of Race, Researchers Say   nytimes.com/2017/10/12/sc... · Posted by u/digital55
kemerover · 8 years ago
I don't really understand the point of the article.

How does this research “dispels a biological concept of race”?

>“If you ask somebody on the street, ‘What are the main differences between races?,’ they’re going to say skin color,” said Sarah A. Tishkoff, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Yep, that's true. Skin color is the most prominent and easily identifiable feature. But every human can easily identify black/white/Asian based on facial features or voice. Forensic anthropologists can identify a race based on skull, they can even make a pretty good prediction based solely on a jaw.

The idea that race is just a skin color is not a dated notion of race, it is a modern interpretation that is pushed by leftists. If racists believed that race is just a skin color, why would they be racists?

Now, if we could dispel the idea that race is just a skin color and the idea that some races are inferior, if we could stop treating it as a dichotomy, that would be good.

kemerover commented on Floating Point Visually Explained   fabiensanglard.net/floati... · Posted by u/alxmdev
jordigh · 8 years ago
Okay, fine, I agree that sometimes mathematical notation is bad and we are all computer people here, not math people, so we get really scared of mathematical notation.

But is (-1)^S 1.M 2^(E-127) so bad that it required a whole blog post to explain it? Except for the "1.M" pseudo-notation to explain the mantissa with the implicit on bit, all of those symbols are found in most programming languages we use.

I don't think the value of the blog post was explaining the notation. We all knew what operations to perform when we saw it. The value seems to lie more in thinking of the exponent as the offset on the real line and the mantissa as a certain window inside that offset.

Personally, though, this still doesn't seem like a huge, deep insight to me, but maybe I'm just way too used to floating point and have forgotten how hard it was to learn this. I did learn about mantissa, exponents, and even learned how to use a log table in high school, but maybe I'm just old and had an unusual high school experience.

kemerover · 8 years ago
I don't really understand significance of this insight easier. Floating point number is just stored in scientific notation base 2. That's it. And kids learn scientific notation in 7th grade? 8th tops. I mean, swap base 2 to base 10 in this image, and the effect changes from "woah" to "duh, obviously".
kemerover commented on Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show   theverge.com/2017/9/26/16... · Posted by u/alttab
blibble · 8 years ago
given complete freedom, the EU would probably ban youtube from the EU entirely as it doesn't meet the minimum requirement of 30% EU created content

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/25/eu_pegs_homegrown_n...

kemerover · 8 years ago
Nonsense, Youtube and Netflix offer two completely different services.
kemerover commented on Google pulls YouTube off the Amazon Echo Show   theverge.com/2017/9/26/16... · Posted by u/alttab
izacus · 8 years ago
About as anticompetitive as Amazon refusing to list Chromecast and Google Home devices, blocking installation of Prime Video on Android TV devices and several other customer hostile actions this spat has resulted in.

Thanks to walled gardens, we're now pretty much stuck in a shitty situation noone else can fix.

kemerover · 8 years ago
The EU is my last hope. Out of all governments and international entities, the EU is the only one I have a stretch of confidence in. The fact that Google and Amazon are located in the US means that the EU has nothing to lose if they want to regulate them. An additional fact that the EU consists of multiple countries that can bully each other to comply with their own laws makes it effective. I believe that if there is someone who can fix this shitty situation, it is the EU.
kemerover commented on Giving you more characters   blog.twitter.com/official... · Posted by u/coloneltcb
aaron-lebo · 8 years ago
Hey man, Jack's been putting in 23 hour days for the last seven years to make this happen. Not cool to mock his effort.

But seriously that Tweet shows the usefulness. For them not to have tried it until now shows how scared they are to make any real changes. 1) Guess 2) this 3) doesn't 4) fix 5) this 6) nonsense? Those comments are absolute youtube quality cancer though. Goddamn tragedy that this is the pinnacle of human discourse right now.

These are the first five replies to that tweet:

Near deGrasse Tyson‏ @DrNeilTyson 1h1 hour ago Replying to @jack

I will reserve my full response until I get 280 characters but this is a slap in the face to everyone harmed by your lax governance 1 reply 15 retweets 109 likes Near deGrasse Tyson‏ @DrNeilTyson 57m57 minutes ago

Your platform has been co-opted and manipulated, turned into a megaphone for hate and propaganda. 3 replies 20 retweets 154 likes Near deGrasse Tyson‏ @DrNeilTyson 56m56 minutes ago

Your response? Remove the last filter forcing careful selection of words. This makes Twitter boring without making room for real thought. 4 replies 14 retweets 107 likes Near deGrasse Tyson‏ @DrNeilTyson 55m55 minutes ago

And yet again, another surface-level tweak that fails to deal with the rot inside this community. 1 reply 10 retweets 82 likes Near deGrasse Tyson‏ @DrNeilTyson 54m54 minutes ago

You have failed signally in your responsibilities to your users, investors, and frankly to all of humanity. Thanks, Jack.

What a weird platform.

kemerover · 8 years ago
It is a parody account.
kemerover commented on Understanding Uber: It's Not About the App   londonreconnections.com/2... · Posted by u/porker
namelost · 8 years ago
Nobody is suggesting that Uber did anything illegal, their licence to operate is being revoked.
kemerover · 8 years ago
And I didn't suggest that it shouldn't be revoked.

u/kemerover

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