Chris_Jay

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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Tribal societies have many stories of such individuals, think Coyote or Loki. Clever stupid people are constantly falling into elaborate traps of their own making.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I think the US response would be, "we don't want stupid people making laws the rest of us have to follow". At least in theory. In practice of course, stupid bandits make laws all the time.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
What alternative names would you propose?
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I'd ask you how.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
"I think of it as persistance bias" might fit the bill.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I made that as a roughneck straight out of high school. It's not that unusual.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
Has anyone tried to sue for lost profits over Dicamba use?
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
There seem to be two different phenomena that are both called PC - they might be glibly described as preoccupied with victims and preoccupied with persecutors. If you're not a member of a group associated with victimhood, it's a g
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
In children, reading fiction is supposed to be one thing that helps empathy. There's also something called 'decompression therapy' that supposedly helped youths with psychopathy become less psychopathic. The theory as I under
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
That a jury is made of common people who might have a wide range of beliefs seems rather the point of the system though doesn't it? Also, this is your weekly reminder that vaccines are homeopathy.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
All excellent points - I would opine though that education has a particular difficulty in that unless one trusts a standardized test every year, the experiment needs to run for a very long time by the standards of human trials.
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I believe the answer is quite simple - the two major US parties would like to maintain their duopoly and allocate a considerable fraction of their vast resources towards pushing that narrative and smearing anyone who tries to act outside it
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I would agree with the rejection of shame and guilt, they can certainly catalyze action but that action usually carries a strong element of self-sabotage along with it. I'm intrigued by your mention of eudaimonia - I've been inter
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
The accusative is mostly difficult for native English speakers because we only use the accusative for certain pronouns (he/him, she/her, who/whom). It does take some getting used to if one has never learned the concept in one
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
I disagree with your opening argument. Python is objectively easier to learn than c, no matter which one has learned first. In my own experience, I learned Esperanto at about 10X the rate at which I learned French (though this was also due
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by Chris_Jay 9y ago
That would depend on other factors. For a test flight, I'd suggest we volunteer a chimp. If the plan was to establish a colony, and it meant my descendants might be some of the first humans to explore the wider galaxy... Well, let me p
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by Chris_Jay 10y ago
A 'school ship' model might work - A ship large enough to go from country to country while carrying some cargo and passengers. One could set it up so one is able to buy 'shares' in the company which translate to cabin an