Erik816

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by Erik816 7y ago
If you struggle with a teacher who respectfully challenges your views, you don't belong at any college.
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by Erik816 8y ago
True, but couldn't they just have their assistant do it? I doubt Zuckerberg is the one sorting through his trash and taking it to the curb anyway. Why not instruct your employees to try to re-use things rather than toss them in a landf
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by Erik816 8y ago
That is what's funny about DNA. It seems like the most private and personal thing there is, but you got all of it from other people. As you said, your Mom can test and share her DNA without your permission, even though you share half o
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by Erik816 8y ago
The correct quote is "a foolish consistency." And the context of the quote has nothing to do with self-discipline. It is a call to boldly speak the truth today, and then boldly do the same tomorrow. If you contradict yourself, the
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by Erik816 8y ago
Yes that's all the poster can think about. If you refuse to read the next sentence.
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by Erik816 8y ago
Just being bigger doesn't make it more fragile. Yes we have more people to feed, but there's a lot more people who can grow food now (and of course we have leveraged technology to an incredible degree to reduce the number of peopl
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by Erik816 8y ago
Our culture is obsessed with talking about or thinking about losing weight, preferably with no discomfort or sacrifices involved. So the exact opposite of actually doing something really hard that will result in losing weight. That doesn&#x
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by Erik816 8y ago
In trying to figure out what word you were looking for, I realized the word his migrated from philosophy to computer science and changed meaning a bit. So maybe it works in that context. Sorry.
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by Erik816 8y ago
I'm not sure what exact word you're looking for, but it's not ontology
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Facebook’s Conservatives Find Their Courage(nationalreview.com)
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by Erik816 8y ago
I don't have stats, but if you think about the number of phone users in places like India, China, most of Africa who probably had very little access to computers before it makes intuitive sense to me.
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by Erik816 8y ago
If you're old enough to be reading Kant, you're old enough to no longer need a parental warning.
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by Erik816 8y ago
And the big issue with trying to codify broad moral statements is that you either devolve into restrictive legalism or you get ever better at interpreting specific rules to meet your desired outcomes. It's almost like the problem of hu
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by Erik816 8y ago
It also gives you some way to try to grasp the transcendent and provide meaning to your life. Those things are hard to replace with better science for the hard problems and better ethics/government for the behavior issues.
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by Erik816 8y ago
You're giving them content they can monetize, so it's no wonder they will let you give it to them for free.
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by Erik816 8y ago
Open and polyamorous relationships work out great if you are a high status male. It's not so clear it works out very well for anyone else. Which is probably why culture spent so much time and effort building the institution of marriage
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by Erik816 8y ago
Often true, but this is a percentage increase so presumably it is fairly independent from raw population size.
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by Erik816 8y ago
That's an interesting point, but I only think it's true under the correct assumptions. If we assume that all bodies are more or less interchangeable, then yes. You'd want to look at large scale, repeatable studies that tie di
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by Erik816 8y ago
I haven't locked myself out of my house since I was about 12, and the dumb lock on my house has had 100% uptime for the 10 years since we've moved in. So I don't totally get the appeal of a "smart" lock.
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by Erik816 8y ago
It's actually an amazingly good reason to think an idea has merit. Unless you think all your ancestors were just idiots.
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by Erik816 8y ago
That would be a great way to subject yourself to double taxation.
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by Erik816 8y ago
If literally everyone you know is cheating on their taxes, you need better friends.
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by Erik816 9y ago
Are you saying that because you cheated and didn't get caught the company running the game is shady? That seems backward.
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by Erik816 9y ago
I'm guessing this 48 hour timeout was as much about discipline as restoring any possible hearing loss.
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by Erik816 9y ago
Or maybe actually rethink it, and question whether diversity is a universal good or one value among many that comes with trade offs.
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by Erik816 9y ago
I would be careful to not confuse the news with the underlying reality of the situation. There are plenty of great things happening in America you don't hear about, and plenty of horrible things in China you don't hear about. Long
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by Erik816 9y ago
I am constantly checking my speed. But I guess that explains my frustration at other people who seem to swing wildly +-5 MPH for no clear reason.
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by Erik816 9y ago
Try Taste of the Wild, may be what you are looking for.
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by Erik816 9y ago
That is not a naive understanding of American antitrust law; it's perfectly accurate. It's not illegal to have a monopoly, it's illegal to abuse your monopoly position to harm consumers. This is in contrast to EU antitrust la
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by Erik816 9y ago
Unless you are talking about any decision that upholds the individual rights of citizens against the government, i.e., the Bill of Rights. Your cynical take doesn't map very well to reality.

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