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by FFRefresh 4y ago
> But jeez, his politics are pretty insane Are you able to do a steelman of Thiel's politics, where Thiel himself would agree with your characterization? What are his views that you agree with most? What don't you have any dire
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
If you follow that question through and think through the implications, it paints potentially a dark future for digital communication. The 'tricks' AI uses are also 'tricks' that humans use in everyday conversation, we j
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Depends on your views around having consistent meanings for words to help with communication. Recession has a definition, and it is not synonymous with a certain inflation rate. A lot of financially/economically aware people know this
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
The content of my comments is highly context-dependent. The poster who replied that it may not be the journalist's bias which led to the formulation, was right. It may or may not be due to bias. I'm willing to cede that I do not k
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Totally, but why do a MAX(Walmart) > MIN(Amazon) comparison to bolster that point at all? Why not exclude the comparison, since it doesn't really communicate what the actual wage options are for prospective new warehouse workers or
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
My comment was rhetorical in response to your prior comment on saying you can't use certain data points because of uncertainty. It was about that principle. The citation of the source of data here is okay, I'm not suggesting they
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Yours is a broad epistemic question. How can you be sure of anything? How can you be sure what the Amazon exec stated in a Reuters article last year is accurate? We're dealing with uncertainty in all regards. My position is that it&#x2
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
There are plenty of websites where employees share their wages/salaries, which enable direct comparisons between companies. A simple google search reveals such data. Also, for a lot of these jobs, the companies post the pay ranges on t
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Totally fair on the implying bias strictly on the journalist (which may or may not be there). Regardless of the awareness/intent of the given journalist, I do hope that we can find leaders (whether people/orgs/software) that
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
>Walmart is offering some workers with past warehouse experience as much as $25 an hour. An Amazon executive told Reuters in late 2021 that the company was bumping the average starting wage for new hires in the US to more than $18 an hou
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Also not an employee or shareholder, but a Coinbase user. I don't know that Brian's set of tweets does anything to my confidence in Coinbase as a company. These tweets are trivial. The biggest threat to my confidence about Coinbas
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I have a somewhat similar question. Don't get me wrong, I don't think moving more of teen social life onto the internet and less in the physical world is going to lead to happiness, so I agree on principle. But this obsession with
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Thanks for sharing more sources to help provide light on the potential reality of the student population. Here's more data I was able to find, from Harvard itself [1]. This enrollment data breaks out by College vs Graduate/Profess
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
[1] was my source, which looks like it's combining both undergraduate and graduate population demographics for the year 2020-2021. I would certainly trust the number you are sharing for the incoming class, but the graduate population m
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
You are obviously not the ACLU, but the invocation of 'protecting the vulnerable' to support the reduction of individual liberties is a slippery rationale. You could get rid of nearly all civil liberties with that reasoning.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Couple isolated data points upon further investigation/thought: - This $100 million represents 0.19% of their endowment fund - African-Americans made up 8.5% of the student population in 2021 There are certainly other factors that I&#x
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I just read through the study you linked, and it seems like you are mischaracterizing it. Here's a direct quote from the study you linked: > Stimulant drugs do improve the ability (even without ADHD) to focus and pay attention.
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
While some of this certainly feels like virtue signaling and riding the cultural winds of the last couple years, you have to give some credit that they're putting their money where their mouth is, with the 100 million dollar commitme
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
> Absolutely no one I have met believes 1 and 2 Admittedly I am a little confused by your comment. You made the above statement, and then follow up with this statement: > As for 3, "average observable differences" in mental
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Yes, that would be, as that would align with my fuzzy idea of someone being a 'puppet' for someone else. To repeat my question one last time of how you determine the 'Putin puppetness' of someone: > I'm assumin
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I'm not even sure what 'puppets for Putin' means? Or puppets for anything would really mean. Are they having zoom chats with Putin, and he's telling them what to tweet/say, and then they are doing exactly as he dire
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
He appears to have went off the grid over the last 2 months. I imagine it's a very tumultuous time for him. Russia knows the US really wants to extradite him, and there will inevitably be rounds of negotiations as time moves forward. H
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
> Not only does the earlier version of the framework explicitly reject this view Can you share that explicit rejection of the idea that there are not innate differences in ability, in the CMF? I have not seen it myself, thank you ahead o
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I don't doubt that the people crafting these proposals care. I think they truly believe they are doing the right thing. I personally think it's just increasingly popular, mistaken moral beliefs that inform these types of proposals
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Why did you ask for evidence in the first place of the claim that BLM held a position against the nuclear family if you wouldn't accept any evidence? If your position is just a flavor of the 'No true scotsman' fallacy, why ev
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
How do you currently measure the amount of disinformation and hate speech on Twitter's platform? And how do you define those terms currently? I can promise you, no matter what he does, people/sites you follow will likely extol how
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
I'm finding media coverage and opinions on trending news topics to be increasingly superficial and partisan. It has certainly always been the case to some degree, but as someone who does truly want to understand how things work and are
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
The post I was responding to was attempting to use an empirical study to support a given sociological position for a given group (which from reading the study didn't actually support that position). Now you are responding to me and say
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
Thanks for sharing the links to data/studies. However, I don't think they support the idea that the nuclear family is harmful to african-americans. A few points: 1. Logically, if certain behaviors/social arrangements are co
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by FFRefresh 4y ago
My comment didn't feature an interpretation, it was directly quoting the BLM site... but now I will offer an interpretation based on your comment: I'm not in favor of requiring hiking or certain family structures either. Serious q

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