ShannonAlther

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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
You didn't just add emphasis, you changed the original text from "leftist" to "leftists" and failed to indicate this, which is dishonest.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
'Page' argues that because Damore didn't mention that men score higher on aggression and lower on cooperation, this is evidence of motivated reasoning. Counterpoint: Damore only lists personality traits that lead to interest
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
As many people have pointed out before, making the hiring process blind doesn't do what you seem to think it'll do. There was a famous study (can't find it right this second on mobile) where researchers found that the ratio o
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
There was an awk/perl thread yesterday too.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Not at all. I'm just positing that to interact with someone means risking social interaction that you don't want – serial harassment, for example. The only surefire way to never be securely harassed is to never talk to anyone. You
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Unfortunately, potentially compromising situations are the best way to get things done. If you want to avoid other people, you're going to be spending a lot of time at home by yourself, so to speak.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The point wasn't about outdated morality. It could just as easily be a doctored video of Theresa May stabbing a man to death in cold blood. I think you've focused too much on the specific examples I gave. Consider a faked video of
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I strongly suspect that Europe would be spending more money on defense particularly against Russia and maybe China if America weren't backing them. America also contributes to international military endeavors more than any other countr
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
That power stems from military spending, though. Not only that, America spends so much on its military to compensate for the fact that most of its allies spend significantly less on theirs; without the so-called pax Americana the world wo
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The issue, unfortunately, is that if I were to generate a video of Mike Pence doing something X-rated with another man, there's no conceivable way the scientific method would help. I mean, if he were a closeted homosexual, would you re
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
One thing I've noticed about American culture, versus the other countries I've been/worked in, is that it's highly litigious. I suspect that one of the reasons people feel uncomfortable is the threat of lawsuit (or being
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
+1 for "architecture astronauts", you made my day.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Facebook is non-rivalrous but is is excludable (that is, one user of Facebook does not 'take up a slot' preventing any other users from using it, but you can be prevented from using it if you don't 'pay', i.e. follo
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The article even mentions that the utility provider ConEd in Brookyln offers green energy, so there's almost no point in LO3's services. Not that I'm an expert in electrical grids, but I'd rather the actual grid coordi
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I find Perl extremely useful for making prototypes really quickly, and never learned how to use Awk because I only started with Perl in the first place a year or two ago. I'm sure it's just a matter of preference.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
"Are you saying we should fix when people geek out about a topic and ramble?" "It may be uncomfortable, but it's the only way to make cultural progress." And you've really only explained what tacit rules are an
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Yes you did, but then you said that the solution is to reform society so that informal social rules are never broken. And I'm saying that unless you want to make those rules into laws, or something like laws, it's not doable.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
You're using a different definition of 'offensive' than I am. Also, note that no societies we regard highly have outlawed talking over people. Unless your plan is to modify institutions to reduce offensive behaviour you won&#
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
"Prevent all potentially offensive behaviour" is not a valid solution. What constitutes offense is subjective, and furthermore the topic at hand is sexism.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
But wealthy people DO have access to better internet (speed and quantity) and have more leisure time to enjoy media. Also you can do other neat things, like pay for your childrens' education. THAT is a list that goes on for a while. An
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
As of 5 June 2017, 5:00 pm UTC-4, there was no video. I predict this is going to be a unifying reviews/information tool for the Apple ecosystem. But I hope it's also a competitor for Slack.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Hyperbole about stress-induced medical problems aside, money is quantifiably good. A man who makes 10x your salary can take 10x more vacations to the south of France, justify taking more time off work to spend with his family, doesn't
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
For most systems the bar for meaningful contribution is too high - the average trucker who has trained to code cannot participate in automating transportation, for instance.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
The internet wasn't designed with a mechanism to force clients to pay hosts for server time, unfortunately.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Normally I don't like Sam Kriss' writing, and here it's because of the civil war comparison that just feels ham-fisted — that said, one can appreciate how "learn to code" is not the universal solution (especially wh
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Mozilla claims that Servo's parallelization will improve performance, and that Rust's features will improve security.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I'm skeptical that the robot will work as well as one might expect, but the real gem in this article is that Dubai is building a DNA bank. Let's see how that pans out.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
I'm not American, sadly. I'm from Ontario. You're right, it's not literally impossible but it's way more effort and time than it would be worth.
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
If I had the choice to go live in Manhattan and not have a car vs. live somewhere else and be obligated to own a car I would choose Manhattan in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I can't do that (and even if I could, most people cannot).
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by ShannonAlther 9y ago
Counterpoints: * Slowdowns, sure, but many drivers also exceed the limit, and the walking:driving ratio is still massively lopsided. * Pedestrians are not immune to red lights. * While there are certainly pedestrian shortcuts that are faste

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