Kednicma

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You're being disingenuous; if we call them not just Palestinians, but Philistines or the Peleset, then they are mentioned in multiple histories of the region. While the region passed through Roman, Turkish, and British control, the onl
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Well, for starters, Judaism never really left the Levant. When the rich were captured by the Babylonians and taken East, about 80% of the population stayed, and when the descendants of those captured returned, they called those who stayed S
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Portland protests draw thousands Thursday, no state, federal police in sight(oregonlive.com)
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I kept thinking about Google and its farm of compute, or Youtube and its farm of content. There are so many analogies to make.
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Here's a basic warmup question: How do you know that a person is conscious? There are basic medical tests, of course, but maybe they're faking it. You know, as a person, what it feels like to be a person; you feel when you're
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Suddenly this big-brain thread from two months ago looks like less of a joke: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23165866 > More assertively, Airbus’s boss, Guillaume Faury, does not rule out suing customers who renege
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Worry less about emotions; be pragmatic and focus on goals and outcomes.
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It's not just a Haskell problem, but I think that Haskellers would rather care about stuff like cryptocurrency, which is obviously unctuous graft, rather than fix the other social problems in their community, like sexism or overly-stri
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This is a good point. The major negative impact of Amazon is on labor rights. I had a sobering conversation with a canvasser who came to my door last week; they were gathering signatures for a local bill, but their other job was at the Amaz
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Presumably Microsoft, having been convicted once already, is not going to be given such benefit of the doubt as to be invited to a hearing; instead, folks may well decide to bring suit against them without bothering to drag them before Cong
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I feel that you don't know that police evolved from slave patrols. The police are the latest incarnation of a system designed to enforce racist class policy. For example, consider a policy that you haven't mentioned: Should police
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Tom is not pleased with himself for the scaffolding in the background, but I find it to be a delightful bit of flavor that accents the history.
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For 21 Years, No-One in Britain Knew How Long an Inch Was(youtube.com)
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On Portland's streets: Anger, fear, and a fence that divides(apnews.com)
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Hm, on the metadata page [0], the size is less than a mebibyte, and there's only about 18 bytes per row. Is this a compressed size, or have rows been redacted? I'd check myself, but honestly I'm not sure I could resist the te
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You're being too generous. Peters clearly hallucinates features; whenever he gets community acclaim, it's a failure of the community.
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Cool work. You should make it very loud and clear that your toolchain does not verify proofs, since otherwise folks may think that your computer-assisted proof layout system does just that; it's rare to see tooling in this subfield w
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Ideally, yes ! That would be the best outcome. I don't know why people always see dens of corruption and think that they ought to be protected, because of the jobs of the folks doing the corrupt work. Jobs are not the point of life,
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A Surprising Connection: Neural Networks and Polynomial Regression [pdf](heather.cs.ucdavis.edu)
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The police cover their faces, and make face coverings illegal. In the past, this has worked very well; the main change now is that we have a social expectation that law-abiding folks will wear face coverings, and in even more of an inversio
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Okay, could you show it? In particular, while you can point to something like the g-factor, can you show that the g-factor exists ? It is currently completely hypothetical that such differences exist. For a good example of evidence, look
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Are you really so certain that good is measurable? Or that good even exists? Good vs. bad is but the tip of the moral iceberg; we are not merely concerned with whether our actions will please some deity trapped on a cosmic battleground, but
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Sounds like bullshit. I've worked at Google, and I spoke up loudly while I was there. I've spoken up while at other employers, too. We can't simply let ourselves be muzzled by corporate accusations of thoughtcrime. When we sa
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Let me sharpen the dilemma: Are some people better than others, or not?
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It sounds like you are, like me, a former Catholic; however, you're not yet free. I'll try to help. First, note that the Bible's clearly neither historically correct nor even maximally historical. Books are ghostwritten and b
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It's true that pragmatism, as a philosophical orientation, is young; it's a 20th-century invention of the USA. Nonetheless it is only young because earlier philosophy gave so much special consideration to humans; as soon as we wan
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It's interesting that I can tell that three of these are obsequious, but Jobs' response of "please leave us alone" just begs for a no. Not just a no, but a followup investigation. Honestly, all four come across as snobby
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Sure. There's an old saying, "you're entitled to the effort, but not the outcome." You can plan to do something, but you cannot ensure that the effects of your actions are limited or constrained to merely what you in
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The author doesn't quite put it in one sentence, perhaps because they feel that it would commit them to a side, but I notice that they lay out all the ingredients for the thesis that one side of the culture wars is fueled by a desire t
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An alternative take from a journalist on the ground: https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1286158630161494016 I'm not sure where things are headed, but Wheeler has a modicum of power over the police, and both h

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