Buldak

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by Buldak 8y ago
>Also, at least where I live, the walk light wouldn't be on at the same time as someone turning right on red that would be going into my path. What guarantees this exactly? I'm having a hard time seeing how this is possible.
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by Buldak 8y ago
Yes, see here [1], for example. [1] http://crookedtimber.org/2013/08/14/humanities-science-is-no...
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by Buldak 8y ago
There's a crosswalk I pass on my way to work that always makes me think of this. An elementary school is located there, and every weekday morning there is a crossing guard (someone with lights and a hand sign who stops traffic to help
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by Buldak 8y ago
Is that to say a kid likely wouldn't find the real explanation convincing? Maybe that's telling.
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by Buldak 8y ago
Lots of military shooters will kill you with one or two bullets. I've thought that what would really make a shooter "realistic" would be if players who get shot are maimed (rather than being able to run and jump just as well
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by Buldak 8y ago
The 80/20 problem may be real, but the way you describe it strikes me as circular. (Women are discriminating which induces men to be undiscriminating, which induces women to be discriminating.)
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by Buldak 8y ago
Yes, I think this is what people defending Elon and other would-be disruptors neglect. The criticism isn't just that certain attempts at innovation are stupid or likely to fail, but that they betray the privilege or insular perspective
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by Buldak 8y ago
In the video, Rober mentions that he previously brought his security camera footage to police (the camera monitoring his house, not the camera in the prank box), but that they said it wasn't worth their time to pursue such cases.
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by Buldak 8y ago
I don't know if the usual caveats about sample size should be salient when we're investigating something like self-awareness. If I found a fish who could talk, I wouldn't demur, " ... but it's a small sample."
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by Buldak 8y ago
I tend to view "science" as quintessentially a "success term." We call a discipline a science if we have a high degree of confidence in its results. In this sense, math is a science, and whether psychology or economics a
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by Buldak 8y ago
I'm the same way, but it has struck me that this is a kind of inverse brand fixation. If I were indifferent to brands, I wouldn't mind that my clothes happen to advertise them, but I do. I think on some level I view highly visible
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by Buldak 8y ago
That or the sort of person who tends to work in tech.
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by Buldak 8y ago
The culture wars have enveloped everything nowadays, from #MeToo to GamerGate to Trump. I wonder if gripes between boomers and millennial are just another facet of that upward trend in polarization.
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by Buldak 8y ago
Peter Thiel has made similar remarks. He said that IT has been only area to see major progress in recent decades, in contrast to e.g. transportation, because it is relatively unregulated. (Hence Twitter rather than flying cars.) Of course,
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by Buldak 8y ago
Am I reading this right, you think a plausible reason for suicide among whites is that they're not allowed to form white affinity groups?
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by Buldak 8y ago
>Anti-vaxxers tend to be described as middle/upper-class liberals. I've heard this, but it doesn't square with my own impressions, and a cursory Google search suggests that anti-vaxxers are not, in fact, predominantly libe
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by Buldak 8y ago
Presumably a good test case should involve a scientific consensus that the average person could reasonably be expected to be familiar with. What you're suggesting does not seem to fit (to be honest, I'm not even sure offhand what
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by Buldak 8y ago
What is a controversial scientific view that you wouldn't characterize as "conservative"? The article mentions aversion to GMO, does that count?
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by Buldak 8y ago
>Not participating in the bid would have been suicide for the politicians of any major city I find that pretty implausible. Foxconn didn't save Scott Walker (and I don't think that's because his would-be supporters later r
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by Buldak 8y ago
To me "breeding" means intentionally selecting for desired traits. That's not what's happening here. In a sense, it's the opposite--presumably, elephants without tusks is exactly what poachers don't want.
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by Buldak 8y ago
The article does mention, "They hemorrhaged high-paying jobs after technology and globalization hit manufacturing and mining." Many jobs staffed predominantly by men (as opposed to jobs like nursing, say, staffed predominantly by
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by Buldak 8y ago
I'm entirely sympathetic to the idea that intense focus on college admissions is bad for kids. But it's a little baffling to me to see the harm of this approach described as limiting of their "entrepreneurial spirit." Ma
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by Buldak 8y ago
Justifying a presumptive skepticism of reporting on Tesla with such a nebulous pronouncement as "but reporters often lie ..." is pretty much the opposite of "sophisticated."
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by Buldak 8y ago
So the complaint is just that Blizzard should have framed their announcement differently? The project is fine, but just don't present it at Blizzcon? That seems so feeble to me, and the sort of criticism you get when fans can't r
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by Buldak 8y ago
People harmed by peanuts generally aren't interested in eating peanuts and don't do it except by accident. That's not true for drugs.
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by Buldak 8y ago
I don't see a meaningful difference between personal and political spending here. If I can pay a politician to enact a policy I want, perhaps to the detriment of his constituency or society at large, what do I care if he goes on to sp
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by Buldak 8y ago
I'm confused as to why you think the article you cite supports your claim.
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by Buldak 8y ago
It's not clear to me what you find damning about the Cosby case. Are you suggesting that he should have been acquitted or found innocent, but was not due to overwhelming public opinion? The quite general remarks by Ginsberg that you ci
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by Buldak 8y ago
That would be bad enough, but I expect the salience of Khashoggi's murder has more to do with identity than numbers. It's not as if a singular dead Yemeni child would have dismayed anyone in the West. What made Khashoggi stand out
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by Buldak 8y ago
I'm kind of baffled by the number of people here defending this. I can only imagine that Americans have an emotional investment in their military that inclines them to overlook waste that they would never tolerate in any other area.

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