Kednicma

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by Kednicma 6y ago
Maybe genetics aren't a very important part of mortality risk.
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Let's peel this apart a bit. Some of what you've listed has come to pass. In particular, statues are being taken down, and streets and buildings are being renamed. Let's look first at the former. Statues are historical only i
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Yes. I really like the metallurgy version: An alloy can be denser than pure elements.
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Modern critical thinking definitely owes a lot to critical theory. The ability to look at statements from the government and think about the ways in which the statement might mislead or outright lie is directly tied to the original climate
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This has been kind of a content-free thread. Could you explain more? Critical theory itself is almost a century old, in terms of who originally talked about it, and today the idea of critical thinking and critical reading is not just mainst
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by Kednicma 6y ago
You're not wrong, but the connection's already explored well; we call it "chemistry". Cook a piece of chalk and it'll crumble into powdery lime; mix it with water and air and it'll heat up and set back into har
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Actually, I recognize this problem! I know it as Pirsig's Chemistry Professor. Here's the quote from Pirsig's "Lila": "The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all energy systems run down like a clock and n
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I mention oil because it's a genuine part of the political window today (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Tom Steyer all supported banning oil exports, but I'm having trouble finding primary sources; Biden also may limit oil
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For simple organic reactions, the shape of benzene [0] matters. Benzene has its quirky ring shape thanks to pi bonds [1], which only make sense in a 3D orbital model. The planetary model already has trouble with benzene formation and reacti
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Probably at least one part of our current electrochemical model will be considered hilariously wrong, on the same level of wrongness as the planetary model of the atom is considered today. Perhaps our hopes of the island of stability [0] wi
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Let's pick one real-world example: Organ transplants. Do we select candidate recipients based on their life experience and/or accomplishments? Nope, we consider [0]: * Blood type * Immune system mismatch * Organ size * Distance do
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by Kednicma 6y ago
No, RPython doesn't support type annotations; it's a subset of Python 2.7. You basically have to write Java or Haskell but your types are globally checked and you have to guess at what will compile.
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By what specific evidence do you suggest that one person is "better" than another, or the "best [person] for the job"? Keep in mind that, historically, such lines of reasoning have not actually been used to seek merit, b
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Let's keep appealing to Wikipedia. In "Myth of meritocracy" [0]: > Rising wealth disparity increasingly undermines faith in the existence of meritocracy, as beliefs in equal opportunity and social equality lose credibility
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As explored in the original book [0], it is hypocritical to both succeed because of a meritocracy and also support the idea that the meritocracy is just. The underlying principle is that justice empathizes with everyone, not just those with
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Meritocracy is incompatible with justice. Either some people are better than others, and deserve more, or they aren't and they don't.
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The district attorney, being an elected prosecutorial position, can spend money during the election; I chose the candidate who did not have a political action committee funded by the police union. Yes, it's stressful being a vigilant v
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The main boon is that a judge can be removed democratically. Obviously there are better ways to do that, like having a recall process or a vote of no confidence, but the USA's states were mostly created during a time when being able to
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by Kednicma 6y ago
To think that only about 20 people might be responsible for insurgency is a remarkable claim, but it doesn't take many bad apples to create a real problem, it would seem. In the USA, the ongoing unmasking and cleanup of Atomwaffen [0]
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Glad to hear it. One nitpick: The contraposition of some claim P -> Q is not ~P -> ~Q, but ~Q -> ~P. I hope that you study some logic and biology in your newfound spare time. Best of luck.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'll take your second branch, and I'll take the contrapositive: Because there is such overwhelming evidence that all humans belong to a single genetic legacy, one single race, we therefore must reject the entire premise that s
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We need better protection for whitehats. Every government is anti-hacker at some level.
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In many cases, Wikipedia actually lists the analogy for classical probability theory. For several theorems, the proof for Hilbert spaces can be directly brought to the classical world. The main difference to keep in mind is that we have amp
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How much bigger do UBI experiments need to be before we can be confident that these positive small-scale outcomes will also replicate on the scale of a USA-sized country?
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And this tradeoff is implicit in every attempt to move away from Google. For example, watching Youtube means that Google knows which videos I watch; watching Peertube means that some folks in the swarm know which videos I watch. Google is t
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand the chain of causality. Are we over Christianity or not? Are we blaming the left for the morality plays of the right? > If we are vigilant against a return of fascism and not against murderous police office
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Reminds me of the nissan.com situation. If your brand is worth millions, why be so stingy with domain names? Just like with land, you're buying up common resources and depriving folks like Eric of their self-expression.
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I suspect that, in addition to the difficulty of communicating anything using words, there is often a situation where people are not actually listening; people can't be told anything.
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I recall working at a place which was transitioning from CFEngine to Puppet. None of the fancy "promise theory" was used; sysadmins did whatever was necessary to get things configured, and that was it. As a result, Puppet was a br

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