FloorEgg

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by FloorEgg 2y ago
1. Yes. I don't know, but there is lots of geological evidence that 12-13,000 years ago there were several cataclysmic meteor strikes, and the earths temperature swung up and down wildly, eventually settling at a much higher temperatur
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Apologies for coming off as bossy! Thank you for the respectful response. Keep in mind my goal here isn't to prove the theory - my stance is that the theory is falsifiable and hasn't yet been proven or disproven. My response below
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
> I think OP mentions this due to your mention of meteor impacts I thought I was pretty clear about the strikes being in North America, but ill emphasize that point again. The formation is natural and the theory is that human settled in
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
"I would say Atlantis is like a slightly more falsifiable and slightly more plaudible version of Russell's Teapot." Falsifying a vague hand-wavy theory of Atlantis, I agree with you. But the specific theory that Richat struct
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
The relevant (unvalidated) theory is that Atlantis was an empire that covered north western Africa (Morocco, sharah, etc) - at least, and which had a port city around where Tangier is today, and a capital city at the richat structure (pre-y
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
"The Richat Structure is the result of natural geological processes." - this is irrelevant "Other than having concentric circles, it doesn't match Plato's description of Atlantis" - in what way? Be specific. &q
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
I could take this article more seriously if it were to credibly refute the possibility that the capital of Atlantis was the richat structure, and that the empire of Atlantis covered the saharah, with a port of entry just outside the straigh
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Google bought firebase, so my guess is they are aiming for an Amazon or Microsoft acquisition.
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There's been pretty substantial research done into the most effective ways to deliver feedback to students to maximize their development rate. However when it's not a student but a senior employee, manager or executive that did so
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Most startups fail, and most startups are run by founders driven by ego and vision rather than by disciplined market research or curiosity or understanding of the market. The successful ones will either have gotten very lucky, or know lots
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
There are many legitimate reasons to criticize Elon, but I think you are mistaken about this one. After years of implementing no new functionality at twitter, Elon cut 75% of the workforce and in a relatively short time that followed they i
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Yes, I understand my mistake now. Thankfully a couple other people explained it with a bit more nuance than you have here, but regardless I appreciate you taking a moment to offer me feedback instead of just downvoting me. I had never heard
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Thank you for explaining this. I don't have much experience discussing politics on the internet and so I have some catching up to do in my understanding of the etiquette. I can now see how my question came off as disrespectful, but it&
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Longitudinal studies show a steady increase in liberal-identifying faculty: A 2005 paper by Daniel Klein and Charlotta Stern found that in humanities and social sciences, Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 10:1. A 2016 study by Mitchell L
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Your First Comment: "That's true. Universities no longer present the viewpoint that black people are inferior to whites and deserve to be slaves." Your Later Comment: "You also know that I'm not suggesting outlawing
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Thank you for the benefit of the doubt. I am not attempting to align with anyone, only explore what's true. I certainly don't condone any attempt to shield ideas from criticism, or dismantling the right to free association. It doe
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
You stated: "I don't understand why "rightward" viewpoints need affirmative action in the form of government regulations?" And I attempted to explain (steelman) why some people may feel that this is necessary. For t
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
I am not arguing that ideas should be free from criticism. Not at all. Not sure how you got that idea. I'm arguing that we shouldn't censor bad ideas, or exclude them entirely from the relevant discussions. And more to the point,
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
The reality is definitely not that simple. There are many ideas that are good in one context and bad in others, but have been adopted (and imposed) far beyond the context they are good. I've seen first hand many examples where leadersh
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
That's very reasonable. Viewpoints are essentially grounded in actions, and actions are grounded in values or ways of being. Values are acted out by individuals and groups through a relative hierarchy, and generally guide which actions
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Indulging in your blatant straw man argument for a moment, what if discussing these ideas and the downsides of them to society helped the world transition away from them faster and minimized the chance of backslide? There is nothing wrong w
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
There is no disparate impact language in the civil rights title VI itself, but the language does appear in the enforcement regulatory frameworks issued by the federal agencies, including the department of education. Title VI gives agencies
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Thank you, never heard of that concept before. I don't think I was doing that but I can see how it could appear that way. I can't figure out how to get back to the parent comment to see what I was responding to, but I think I aske
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
I initially engaged in these comments by asking questions in good faith in an attempt to better understand what was going on. I was trying to address my own ignorance by asking questions, and I was mostly attacked for it (mass downvoting).
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Yes it does sound authoritarian. Thank you for answering my question in good faith. I am noticing a pattern; whenever I ask clarifying questions on hacker news threads regarding politically charged topics, most people assume least-respectfu
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Thank you, Let me start by saying that I am not American and I am not your enemy. Also, I am genuinely trying to understand the truth about these matters, with an open mind to the possibility that it's messy and complicated and I might
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
You made several good points. While I am struggling to validate "Student groups must be vetted so that they don't violate orthodoxy", it may be because I am unfamiliar with the actions of the student bodies listed at the end
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by FloorEgg 2y ago
Genuinely curious: what part of the federal government's letter to Harvard seems fascist to you? Is the government asking a university to shift their bias away from skin color diversity to viewpoint diversity fascist? Is there a histor
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Did you read the letter sent from the government to Harvard?
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Its not something an LLM would do with simple chatGPT type prompts, but it's something I can imagine building an agentic system to do. It's not trivial but seems feasible with current day LLMs. If you design the system to have thi

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