Brusco_RF

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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Woah, pump the brakes there. I never passed a moral judgement. I never called anyone inferior. Believe me, I have plenty of vices. Question. The addict you mentioned. Do you believe they more or less likely to recover if they believe they h
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Not only that, but the person reading the essay is also biased and will select for students who align with their bias. It is a terrible admission metric.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence :) You would also need to prove to me that a deterministic universe where individuals do not have the capacity to calculate the future is somehow distinct from a non-deterministic universe
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Choice either is or isn't an illusion. YOU presented that dichotomy. I simply took the other side of it. I understand that we do not live in a vacuum. Yes of course we respond to stimuli, that's part of what it means to be alive.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
They use it because it allows them to ignore standardized test scores and just do admissions based on their own preferences. They used less merit-based metrics because they don't WANT a meritocracy. Question. Which tells you more about
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
People literally buy packs of cigarettes with graphic pictures of bloody lungs full of tumors on them. They are not being fooled about what a cigarette does.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
I think it is a devils advocate because there are plenty of people who think the state should disallow gambling by consenting adults. As for when coercion is used... I don't think it's useful to play devils advocate for coercion.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
I get that. I just never really understood why higher education and semi-pro athletics are so deeply linked together. They are totally different things!
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Yeah the SAT is the worst admissions metric, besides all the other ones. What would you use in its place? You think grades don't have bias?
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Yeah I see this take all the time. Admissions offices are allowed to take a student's means into account! So in deciding between two students with equal SAT scores, one from a Greenwich private school and one from South Tucson, the one
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Allow me to play devils advocate. If a consenting adult wants to blow their whole paycheck at the casino, who are you to stop them? The casino did not trick or coerce the gambler. The rules are known and unchanging. According to the princip
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Well thats... a take. Do you believe you have any agency at all in your life? Or is everything controlled by the puppet master?
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
I see this ad nauseum in the weekly "f*ck cars" thread. Some young ideologue wants to create their personal utopia by banning cars, parking lots and highways and building trains. > People like their cars. I don't think the
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
All models are incorrect, but some are useful. Fine, you win Timon3, earth is not a blackbody because blackbodies don't actually exist.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
People think that the laws make the society, not the other way around. They want people to live THEIR way, and they see the force of government as the fastest route to obedience.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
You can label it, sure. The question is should we outlaw it.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Earth is a blackbody[1]. We receive heat from the sun in the form of radiation. We also radiate heat out to space. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
This is not even close to true. Most of the world is still wilderness, and always will be. I'd love to drop you in the middle of Siberia, northern Canada, or the Amazon and watch you try to find a road or hut :) Hell, I could drop you
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Consider two cars with fading batteries at the end of their lifecycles. They are on their last start before needing to be replaced. They both have exactly enough energy to start the car with nothing left over, however one car has this syste
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Couldn't a thief just observe the car's wipers/headlights/blinkers to obtain the secret combination that unlocks the starter ?
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
We're considering the entire battery lifecycle. So the correct way to think about this change is: More energy required to start engine --> Minimum battery health required to start engine increases --> battery lifecycle decreases.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
It will necessarily be worse than the fixed oven.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Those commercial non-voice, non-broadcast communications could be encrypted, no?
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Can't wait for you to get older and start shaking your fist at the youngins who hate you for no discernable reason.
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
> I've actually seen hams go on a >20 minute rant about how digital is ruining ham radio. Only 20 minutes? That's short for an RF guy rant! I used to work with ~20 mmWave guys. All older dudes, and MAN could they talk. There
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
For a particular band, yes
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
What you are describing is "expropriation." Cuba and Venezuela both did it. So if you want the US to look more like Venezuela, keep it up
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
Any genuinely terrible idea should be an uphill battle politically. Do you know how much you, personally, benefit from modern material science? Do you think our nation could even operate with out Bayer, Dupont, 3M and the likes?
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
I disagree. At most you'll see parents deciding that their tax dollars should not be used to stock a school library with "obscene" books in schools. That is not an infringement on speech, those authors are free to publish and
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by Brusco_RF 3y ago
You aren't under the impression that the 1st amendment protects government speech, are you?

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