Kednicma

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by Kednicma 6y ago
"Nowhere in nature" is pretty rich, considering that it happens every time we use dish soap to scrub grease off of pots and pans. Protocells [0] likely formed from basic fats which formed along the lines mentioned in the original
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Predictive policing is racist by either of your definitions, isn't it? What are you so animated about? There's a third, simpler definition, for what it's worth: Racism is the (erroneous, falsified) belief that there exist mul
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by Kednicma 6y ago
But Conway's Free Will Theorem certainly does! The superdeterminism cannot help, either; either the world is so superdetermined that falsifiability and the scientific method are totally meaningless, or the world is not sufficiently d
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by Kednicma 6y ago
This administration won't do it, simply because Russia has more leverage over Snowden's cultural influence while he's unpardoned and in exile. The next administration won't do it, because Biden was in Obama's admini
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by Kednicma 6y ago
My argument is the same one that Bell, Kochen, Specker, Conway, and so many others have covered before: If photons were locally real, then we'd see different measurements from what we actually do see. The video covers the basic idea of
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by Kednicma 6y ago
[0] is a 20min video which you can replicate for $20 at a convenience store. [1] has Conway explaining in detail, although it's not excruciating. I don't see why the burden of proof is on me; Bell's inequalities are not new.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Quantum mechanics demolishes the first two bullet points, so in some sense, science has marched on and progressed past that naive ontic naturalism, and exchanged it for a humbler epistemic naturalism. The points become rephrased: > that
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I understand the rhetorical dodges here, but as both a career SRE and a student of CS, I don't see anything here which invalidates the theoretical asymptotic behavior. All of the nuance added here is a complement, not a replacement,
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by Kednicma 6y ago
The color of gold is better explained by an ad-hoc combination of SR, GR, and QM, than by any one of them alone. SR and GR explain the planets' motion better than Newton and Kepler alone. QM explains pi bonds in molecules like benzene
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by Kednicma 6y ago
To expand on this, Pirsig tears apart "just" as a completely useless word which reaffirms the speaker's belief but also trivializes the listener's inability to understand. "just" comes from ancient Latin "
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It's kinda like phrenology but worse(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
32 points by Kednicma 6y ago|9 comments
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by Kednicma 6y ago
In addition to the entirety of the author's examples and experiences, we need to recall that the UK/British view of race is heavily influenced by the fact that skin color is not the only way in which folks in the UK experience rac
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by Kednicma 6y ago
The main import of pedigree collapse is that it affirms that humans are one single race.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Mostly, because we know that there were eras when women dominated programming, typing, debugging, documentation, etc. So we know that there's no biological or innate reason why women are unable/unwilling/unskilled at this lab
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Pedigree Collapse(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Kednicma 6y ago|1 comments
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Guess it's not only the Russians who plan international poisonings.
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US intelligence sources discussed poisoning Julian Assange, court told(theguardian.com)
12 points by Kednicma 6y ago|1 comments
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by Kednicma 6y ago
There is no contradiction in both believing that humans only form one single race, and also that some humans oppress other humans based on erroneous beliefs about skin color and heritage. The important part is to simultaneously understand t
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I understand what you're saying, but I can't find a way to save the opinions of the Bronze Age religions. They're so backwards compared to modern knowledge about medicine and other practical fields of science that a complete
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Well, yeah. Science shows that racism is bogus (humans are just one race), sexism is bogus (human chromosomes have more than two arrangements), and many religious beliefs are bogus (stories of the Bronze Age are mythic, lacking historical e
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I think that you're thinking of poisons; the central slogan of toxicology is "the dose makes the poison" [0]. Carcinogens, chemicals which aggravate the chance of cancer, follow different rules; usually DNA damage is occurrin
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by Kednicma 6y ago
On one hand, of course emotional palettes are cultural artifacts. On the other hand, though, by what logic does her choice of pop-science concepts lead to a deeper understanding of those cultural artifacts? The way she talks to her daughter
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by Kednicma 6y ago
The main problem with XML is that writing a safe XML parser is difficult. But writing, say, a safe JSON parser is not much easier; writing a safe ASN.1 parser is much harder. So it's not clear whether there's a better possible dec
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by Kednicma 6y ago
We should find ways to be better people.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
It's pretty scummy to claim to be peer-reviewed and scientific but simultaneously not have any studies published for the specific thing that they're selling. Between these earbuds and Neuralink, I'm unpleasantly surprised at
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by Kednicma 6y ago
"In the long run every program becomes rococo - then rubble." ~ Alan Perlis
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by Kednicma 6y ago
It's useful to read between the lines, because maybe YC-like things are not good for the world. In that case, it's worth studying PG and Jessica only in order to understand how to avoid being like them.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
No; when are you thinking of? [0] gives a good overview of the North Korean struggles over the past few decades, going back to the Korean War. You might be thinking of the famine in the 1990s, when the government took total control over foo
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by Kednicma 6y ago
That heatmap calendar was upside-down from the typical calendar UIs which I've used; it showed time flowing bottom-to-top rather than top-to-bottom. Is this the typical style for Haystack or related tooling?
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Needs a (2017). "It turns out talking about diversity, inclusion, and even just basic civil behavior can be controversial in technical spaces. I don’t think it should be, but I don’t get to make the rules." Yep. The three worst to

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