Buldak

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by Buldak 5y ago
This is a strange suggestion to me because, if anything, I tend to find the opposite. That is, introversion has a lot of positive connotations (introverts are thoughtful, sensitive; extroverts are vapid, etc.), and people are generally more
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by Buldak 6y ago
I'm not sure if this is a serious comment, but I'd think professors generally aren't in a position to know their students' standardized test scores (never mind whether they'd care).
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by Buldak 6y ago
I think you're right about the underlying concern about status. My sense is that people in this discussion are really asking whether software engineering is just easier than mechanical or chemical or aerospace--or whatever--engineering
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by Buldak 6y ago
One reason this strikes me as implausible is that I doubt other similarly urbanized societies (e.g. Japan) have overweight and obesity rates anywhere near ours.
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by Buldak 6y ago
For what it's worth, I don't identify preoccupation with identifying fallacies, or with rhetorical classifications like "bulverism" or "steelmanning" with philosophy. At least, if you take a degree in philosoph
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by Buldak 6y ago
Maybe that fact is telling in itself. No one is preventing anyone from making r/RealFord, I assume.
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by Buldak 6y ago
The pandemic disrupted my fitness regimen because it disrupted my daily routine in general. Ironically, I found that I had more free time to run, but ran less and was somewhat listless in general. (It didn't help that all of my races
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by Buldak 6y ago
When I first read this headline, I thought it was referring to the social justice statements that NBA players now have the option to add to their jerseys in lieu of their names. Only after a double take did I realize that this is about the
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by Buldak 6y ago
Yeah, I understand that people get satisfaction from seeing a scientist dunk on a journalist, but it doesn't seem justified in this case. Feynman's digression about distinctions between proximate and ultimate causes is interesting
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by Buldak 6y ago
Well, in this case, the testimony of cops and politicians themselves
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by Buldak 6y ago
>online education is something you want other parents' children to do This is true of a lot of college alternatives, from online classes to state schools to vocational training. Everyone insists that we should view these as viable
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by Buldak 6y ago
To me segments and leaderboards are largely what have made Strava stand out. Take those away and I might not have much reason to prefer Strava to Garmin Connect or any number of similar apps.
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by Buldak 6y ago
I understand "meaning" here to signify reference, as in, "What is the object that Oscar and his twin refer to when they talk about 'water'?" The twins are psychologically identical, but it turns out that they r
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by Buldak 6y ago
It's unclear to me why you think this article is exculpatory.
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by Buldak 7y ago
Even setting aside the possibility that some generational resentments should perhaps be taken seriously, this op-ed is really thin. The author's evidence for "a degree of cruelty that is truly staggering" is two social media
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by Buldak 7y ago
I'm not sure that's really their problem. My impression that is that incels are really aggrieved about lack of status, not lack of sex. Getting sex by paying for it doesn't solve that.
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by Buldak 7y ago
Practically no one endorses "equality of outcome" in itself. It's a question of whether disparate outcomes evidence disparate opportunities (findings like those in question suggest that they may not).
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by Buldak 7y ago
GP's larger point is fair enough. But it would be telling, and germane to this discussion, if it turned out that many of their experiences were due to the fact that remarks they consider to be just "statements of fact" are mo
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by Buldak 7y ago
I don't think it's a tautology. The question is whether those "small steps" ever add up to anything "great." When many people think of scientific progress or "the scientific method," they imagine innu
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by Buldak 7y ago
I see this observation on HN pretty often, but I'm not sure I'm convinced. Do later generations know fewer things, or just different things?
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by Buldak 7y ago
This is like asking, "Why can't I decide to enjoy broccoli if I believe it's healthy to eat?" The evolutionary story behind curiosity notwithstanding, it seems to me that this is just a case of the more general observati
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by Buldak 7y ago
If 8chan is really committed to some kind of free speech absolutism, it makes me wonder why they removed the offending posts.
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by Buldak 7y ago
I'm not sure what you're complaining about. Would it be better if titles were more oblique?
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by Buldak 7y ago
I wonder how many people who subscribe to the "contagion" theory of mass shooters also think that 8chan is innocuous. These two lines of thought seem at odds, but I suspect what they have in common is a wish to deny the role of a
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by Buldak 7y ago
Without agreeing with the author's, your point about being limited to "discrete notes" strikes me as a non-sequitur. As if music had more "substance" the more notes it contained?
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by Buldak 7y ago
Stricter norms and racial homogeneity don't seem to have prevented high suicide rates in countries like Korea or Japan. At any rate, it's awfully easy to diagnose broad cultural problems as the result of one's personal bugbea
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by Buldak 7y ago
I have a similar attitude toward audio books. When someone claims that listening to an audio book is largely the same as reading it, it strikes me that this could only be true of books which aren't especially demanding in terms of comp
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by Buldak 7y ago
This reminds me of casinos, whose decline is also oft-reported nowadays. The financial difficulties of millennials notwithstanding, I expect that casinos just aren't as culturally appealing to today's youth as they were to their p
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by Buldak 7y ago
Part of me thinks that competing propaganda might actually be salutary.
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by Buldak 7y ago
I would say it's tacky so much as a deliberate euphemism.

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