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by Perceval 12y ago
Empiricism (especially in its behavioralist variety) is premised on the ability to collect data and draw inductive conclusions from the data. Epistemology is the study of how things can be known, what can be known, or what the limits to kno
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by Perceval 12y ago
Isaiah Berlin, "A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli" (1971) http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1971/nov/04/a-speci... > If you object to the political methods recomm
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by Perceval 12y ago
I use Weblock on iOS: http://www.weblockapp.com/
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by Perceval 12y ago
Hopefully they can fix the embarrassing typo: "Monte Hall problem" should be "Monty." Not sure how that could have escaped notice. Maybe they were thinking about Monte Carlo simulations when writing that bit, but someo
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by Perceval 12y ago
Isn't Hacker News written in Lisp?
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Adam Smith too: "Their [those who live by profit] superiority over the country gentleman is, not so much in their knowledge of the public interest, as in their having a better knowledge of their own interest than he has of his. It is
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by Perceval 12y ago
I feel a little gratified, because the /r/circlebroke post you linked to has a link at the bottom to my /r/ideasfortheadmins post. In general, the problem of path dependency based on highly-weighted initial changes can b
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by Perceval 12y ago
Very few people live there: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/grump-v1/gru...
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by Perceval 12y ago
Copying is an excellent way to memorize, but memorization is different from learning. I suspect that learning and mastering a programming language is going to require doing more than memorizing.
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by Perceval 12y ago
> You see, orthodox Islam, from the very beginning, espoused equality for all races. In fact, race in Islam is an inconsequential matter. Oh, is this why Muslim Arabs engaged in the enslaving, transportation, and sale of 10–18 million bl
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by Perceval 12y ago
Seeing that route map gave me a pang of nostalgia, since it was the route I walked every day for a year when I was studying at the LSE—back and forth from the Southwark dorm (across the street from the Tate Modern) across the Millennium Bri
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> It's sick if Orwell knew this and yet agreed to his anti-Communist political writings being disguised in a story and used to destabilize the farms on other states. Orwell was not anti-communist, he was anti-Stalinist. Orwell hims
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by Perceval 12y ago
> Propaganda tends to be the tool of Stalin-esque dictators. Not even close to true. Anti-authoritarian revolutionaries utilize propaganda to further their causes just as much as authoritarians do to solidify their positions. For examp
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by Perceval 12y ago
> In a sick twist of irony Operation Mockingbird funded and arranged for the Hollywood production of the book "Animal Farm". How is this ironic? Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a critique of Stalinism.
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> The Cadillac ad is clearly trying to sell to an affluent, white, conservative audience which still believes their hard work and no vacation pays off. For that segment of the population, it's true. Educated, rich, old men work mor
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by Perceval 12y ago
Gruber seems to think that they have been developing an in-house font called Apple Sans: http://daringfireball.net/2014/06/wwdc_2014_prelude
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by Perceval 13y ago
> I often feel like always telling the truth is the result of privilege. Maybe, but the converse seems to also be supported: that ease in lying is the result of privilege: http://mors.haas.berkeley.edu/papers/Carney.
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by Perceval 13y ago
Price and value are not the same thing. Lots of labor can make something valued, usefulness can make something valued, but as early liberal and Marxist political economists found out the hard way, it's nearly impossible to derive a the
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by Perceval 13y ago
I had whale "bacon" sashimi in Japan a few years ago, and it was better than I expected.
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by Perceval 13y ago
If you want to be even more advanced in your Hemingway analysis of text, you will want to have a feature that highlights long Latinate-root words and suggests short Germanic-root synonyms as replacements.
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by Perceval 13y ago
How about Faulkner? 20 of 20 sentences were too easy to read. Try combining all of your sentences into one page-long complex-compound sentence by overusing comma run-ons and semicolons and em-dashes and ellipses and strings of conjunction
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by Perceval 13y ago
Someone already did: http://www.amazon.com/The-Fall-Faculty-Benjamin-Ginsberg/dp/...
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by Perceval 13y ago
Full-time but non-tenured is different than adjunct. Adjuncts are not full time and can be terminated after any given semester. Full-time non-tenured professors have a full-time job teaching and an office. You could expand junior faculty
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by Perceval 13y ago
Texas is about 15% bigger (because everything is bigger in Texas).
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A little bigger than Montana + Idaho.
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I would have titled it with something more descriptive and less inflammatory, but IIRC that's against HN's rules.
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I don't have the money to lose if the stock goes up.
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by Perceval 13y ago
Not to mention that before the iPhone Apple's P/E never dropped below 20 and was usually hovering around 40.
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by Perceval 13y ago
This happens every single time Apple gives an earnings report. AAPL rises before the report and falls after the report. If I had the money I would short the stock every single time.
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Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy(medium.com)
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