Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 4y ago
> You fight bias with real numbers and statistics, I really wish that was the case. Say that the research say that group A is slightly more intelligent than group B, but that the variation between each group is much larger than the small
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
There’s always some kind of bias that direct your research, be conscious of it or not. Thinking that there’s any kind of pure truth seeking in any research that has social implications is utterly naive.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Some of us really like our own company, our own streams of consciousness without interruptions.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Are you sure about that? I’m sure that you probably could find small but significant (in the statistical sense) differences of intelligence between races and genders if you tried hard enough. It would be strange otherwise. Would that knowle
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Because you don’t want yourself or the journal your are editor for to be used as a weapon by right wing extremists (i.e. so called conservatives). Even if the research would be true and we could use the knowledge to improve society, the rig
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Thank you for the reminder. As a 95 kg white male who only on a few very rare occasions felt even a bit nervous walking anywhere, it is good to get a reminder that different people experience our same world very differently.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
> If I can trust what make_pizza does >> You can't, unless it's in a standard library or a core dependency used by millions of people. You can if you have reasonably competent colleagues. And if you do make some wrong ass
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
But that is usually a problem with abstraction, rather than a problem with a method call. If I can trust what make_pizza does, that is much faster to read than any four lines of code. A functional style certainly helps. I get the pizza in m
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I don't think ever had been suggested as a source of energy, only as a form of storage.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
What is hard with storing hydrogen? I've heard that they plan to use tanks that currently are used to store natural gas.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
You don’t have to go back many decades to where pouring used motor oil on the ground was the common practice in the US.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
They didn’t miss the mark.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
While I agree that the main fault was with the pharmacies, they should certainly not send any patient information to anyone, I think you can at least partly blame Facebook since they had promised to filter out anything sensitive.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
No, people went to an online pharmacy, unrelated to Facebook. That pharmacy sent the information to Facebook, including information about what kind of medication that was purchased. Of course, the main fault was with the pharmacy, but that
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Of course there is something like expertise. But the really accomplished experts are winging it most of us all, because they are at the frontiers of human knowledge, trying things that no one has tried before, stepping where no one has step
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
It's rarely the cost of the house that is the problem. It's the cost of the property. And property within a certain distance from any attractive city center is limited, by its very nature.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
You say that you are anti-NIMBY, but you are concerned about people who want "to deregulate in ways that hurt residents"? You don't see the problem here?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Of course, but there are some themes and tropes that was rarely found outside American movies, and if you now find them in other western movies, it’s because of the disproportionate influence American culture have had since the end of WW2.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I prefer the quote from Vonnegut: > God damn it, you've got to be kind. Being kind to is not the exception you grant some special people, but what you are supposed to be by default.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
When you do this kind of estimates, in particular when the time scale is many decades, the outcome depends on way to many assumptions and other projections to even a little reliable. I still think it is useful exercises, but it is certainly
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
While I agree with most of what you say, I’m almost on a daily basis hit by how clueless many so called tech leads and architects in the field are. A lot of cargo cult programming and blind repetitions of what someone heard on the latest co
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
How was he a bad president?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
But those examples were built as temporary buildings until real Communism was established and everyone could live in nice houses.
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
The “employees” had other day jobs. Why is it less selfish to spend other people’s time and money on a company that you can’t see any way for it to succeed than cutting everyone’s losses as soon as possible?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I guess TFA doesn't stand for The Fucking Article?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Of course electric cars are a big improvement in many ways. But it’s not revolutionary in the same way as cars compared with horses. The usage pattern between ICE and electric cars are more or less he same, while a horse require care for si
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I'd like to argue against [quote]. [author] uses the [simile] to argue the [argument]. The obvious flaw in the [argument] is of course [counterargument]. [quote]: Curiously, while folks sometimes complain about breaking up a system int
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
And when you say "the west" you really mean US?
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
Plastic that is recycled or even incinerated to produce energy is often better than the alternatives. There are many environmental problems much bigger than plastic that ends up in landfills. I always thought that the problems with straws i
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by Ma8ee 4y ago
I have a 2 year and a 5 year old. Screaming tantrums are exceedingly rare, and when they happen it is usually because I have failed as a parent with basic things like forgetting snack time, or they didn't get enough sleep. Who in their

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