GPerson

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by GPerson 5y ago
This Twitter thread strongly suggests the motivation was largely due to bullying from the Kiwi Farms forum, in addition to the owner’s refusal to do anything about the thread. https://mobile.twitter.com/near_koukai/stat
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by GPerson 5y ago
The original thread seems to exhibit gray area stalking. Look at post #84. https://kiwifarms.net/threads/byuu-byuu_nyan-setsunakun0.430... Looking through that thread, I wouldn’t be surprised if a cyberbullying case co
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by GPerson 5y ago
Is being cruel and flippantly celebrating a suicide not condemnable enough?
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If the result of banning unhealthy fast food is the saving of millions lives and massive healthcare cost reduction then I would support it. I assume different, necessarily healthier, restaurants would fill the void, so they wouldn’t be miss
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What part of your source are we supposed to look at?
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If it’s not surprising why do you seem so confident that legalizing prostitution is the best idea? It sounds like in the less than ideal world we live in it’s likely to lead to more human trafficking, and more negative situations for women
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by GPerson 5y ago
What if legalizing prostitution has the secondary effect of greatly increasing the amount human trafficking, which the previous poster seems to be suggesting is the case in Germany? Wouldn’t making prostitution legal be the opposite of work
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For #1, did people really believe this? In hindsight, granted, it just sounds obvious that the doubling would have to slow down pretty quickly. Was there some magical feeling in the culture that’s no longer present?
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Damn. Sorry Noah. I don’t know if you’re reading this page but if you are I just want to thank you for the resources you’ve put out.
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Hi Kevin, Yes, I was responding to the person who said “we're closer to this than people realize” hoping to learn what they had in mind.
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Why do you say this?
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I assumed you were wrong that wealthier people would be more at risk for committing suicide, because this sounds like an interesting but believable bit of folklore trivia, but this study suggests you are right. https://www.ncbi.n
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by GPerson 5y ago
I’m having a hard time believing you’ve met worse than a 10:1 ratio, with respect to interest in vaccines, of “bad actors” to “good actors”. Here are some links to polls about American views on vaccines. It seems unlikely you’re running int
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by GPerson 5y ago
This sounds like a personal hunch. Is there actually an observable pattern here? Can you give a source for this claim?
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What are your hard to find skills?
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by GPerson 5y ago
This is a fair point and changes my mind.
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by GPerson 5y ago
Power in what context? Both sides seem to have power. I think it’s fair to assume that there is a political bias in university administrations. Here’s an opinion piece where the author states that in their survey of political leanings in un
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by GPerson 5y ago
Ah there’s a simple explanation. When I read the original post I missed the word “a”, which changes the meaning. When I read the post it sounded like a talk criticizing previous protests as riots, not an advertisement for a future protest.
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Hello, Respectfully, I believe you’ve missed the point of my post, which is not to assert the validity or invalidity of either perspective (I agree both should be protected by the first amendment), but to question why the audience of this w
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by GPerson 5y ago
I’m interested in a neutral explanation of why this post is widely downvoted. What is the significant difference between a satirical flyer titled “Black Lives Matter — Mostly Peaceful Arson and Riot” and a satirical flyer titled “The Origi
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by GPerson 5y ago
Let’s not respect the gusto. Just going to quote a brilliant observation shared on hn yesterday by wolverine876. “There's a 'hot' subculture in our society that says 'if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying&#x2
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Where did you move to?
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In your view, what would it mean to be special?
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“I felt I was learning the keys to the universe in college.” I am currently pursuing a PhD in mathematics and studied computer science and mathematics in college, so I certainly don’t intend to disparage science majors, but I have a vague s
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I guess I long to work on teams where the outcome and the actual activity of working on the project are the primary motivators for the people involved, and not the associated status or credit gain. So when I said it seems to imply the work
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I feel palpable despair about this. For me it has tended to imply that the work itself is not valuable, for otherwise the incentive system would be corrected quickly.
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This is an interesting theory but I think it is too cynical. Dan Markovits has written on this topic for the last several years.
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The people who voted for him don’t see him as an elite in the same way as other elites. They view him as someone who attained his status by operating outside of their corrupt system; this is what they believe, I’m not saying it’s true.
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Respectfully, this is not the crux of the article. The article is an examination of American cultural beliefs about meritocracy, our systems of meritocracy, and relevant societal effects. In my opinion this quote is more representative of t
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by GPerson 6y ago
You can at least guess the answer must be 1 instantly based on the idea that tan(x) and sin(x) equal x up to first order, and so therefore their inverses do too. (So the limit is essentially (x - x)/(x - x) ) To make this rigorous do a

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