BobaFloutist

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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
And, notably, require a license, a test, insurance, and registration.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
The most secure platform is one that protects the user from themselves by never letting them log in, or even turn it on.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
> tokens aren't fungible Not again...
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
>I am not convinced that separating students by ability harms anybody's academic performance. You're not convinced that it can do that, that it typically does as currently implemented, or that it always will do that? Presum
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
> It's also quite likely that a "superior" morality — the one that's actually built for a global scale — would be incomprehensible (likely requiring superintelligence to even access), and alien or disturbing from our
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
I will of course agree that equity programs are completely susceptible to flawed design and implementations, like everything else. What makes it difficult to have productive conversations, is that it's very difficult to untangle who ha
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
They're saying if the stock goes up and you get margin-called on the short, you have to sell index shares, you can't just annihilate the Tesla shares with the anti-Tesla shares and walk away.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
This is understandable, not easy to fix, and deeply frustrating for people who don't have or intend to get toddlers.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Yes, but in schools we're trying to get the best overall result, not optimize for one amazing school and a bunch of bad ones.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
RIP Slopify.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
I'm not saying that charter schools can never be an improvement, there's probably very few changes to anything for which that can be confidently said, since sometimes systems and organizations get so mired in dysfunction that ev
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
I don't think it's a good idea to eliminate any class of people for the electorate. But at the end of the day, the point is moot: if non-pensioners can get their shit together enough to enact such a policy, they can surely organiz
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Because intrinsic ability is such a vanishingly small part of the equation that we can't know who could actually be the best until we actually give everyone a fair shot. There might be the rare generational talent that, starting in the
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
It's actually zip code.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Charter schools deliver results the same way that private schools deliver results: selection bias. It's really easy to have good outcomes when you have the ability to curate your student population. And though charter schools are regul
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
After a point, sufficiently competent propaganda is indistinguishable from information. If you make the bias so subtle that people actively looking for it can't find it, you're just doing a decent job describing the topic. Sure, t
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
I think the answer is that neither is an appropriate way to contribute to Wikipedia, and so a group of people interested in a topic who, knowing that their intent (politicizing controversial articles, rather than their particular valence) i
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Then it's probably worth being aware that you're an outlier, because companies sure aren't being vague for the hell of it.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Blood in stool has a strong effect on the odor, so you'd probably notice it. If your stool smells dramatically worse (or at least different) than usual, in a maybe metallic way, that's how you know. And "unusual" usually
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Basically we'll get 99% of websites with headers that amount to "Online Interactions Not Rated by the ESRB"
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> Any kind of consumer power technology can only ever be truly "good enough" if it never causes any inconvenience or significant cost. I mean, that's not the case with current consumer power technology
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
That's true, you don't need to be a practitioner of science to live a modern and fulfilling life. Are you trying to argue that some things I consider valuable were first developed within religion (which I won't argue with, th
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
I don't know how to say that you can have positive stories without believing in god without feeling like I'm arguing against a strawman. Can you please give me something with a little more substance?
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I think one thing that's happening is that they're good at things we're frustratingly bad at, and bad at things we don't even realize we're good at, so they get used as an example an awful lot.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
By that standard, nobody has any right to anything. I think it's pretty widely understood that rights range from aspirational descriptions of a just world to widely accepted legal consensus.
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
I didn't "steal" your passwords, I just "copied" them. I don't know what you're getting so upset about, you still have your list of passwords, and the fact that my changing all your accounts' password
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by BobaFloutist 5mo ago
Pray elaborate.
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>However, if matter is all there is, then there is no meaning in the world. This is not a way to flourish in the world. Things like this really make it hard, as an atheist, to receive the argument that my problem is with Christianity, an
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Probably it's just attacking accessible cells, and nerve cells in the nose are relatively exposed.
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>that are very easy to join That's the case for most service-sector unions, but a lot (certainly not all) of builder's unions seem to meter the amount of people that are allowed to join, making it prohibitively difficult to act

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