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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>Science is simply the process of using of data to come to conclusions. Is there a better method for building a model of the world? If we go with such a case, then yes, there is a better model. Using data to come to a guess that have ye
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I find this is too simple, because it assumes the experiment is correct. Experiments can have errors and being able to doubt experiments, especially when you have disagreements between experiments, is a very important step in science. This
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>Sure the DNA says he murdered 3 children Does it? Enough labs have shown to be unreliable in handling evidence and being able to follow correct procedures. Remember back when the bite marks showed they were the murderer, or the skull
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Wouldn't any compression algorithm be a silly example when using such a small amount of data as the overheard to communicate information about the compression would take more data than was saved and potentially more data than the origi
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I think the claim is that anything clearly legal is allowed. The problem is how iffy 'clearly' legal is. First, which country's law are we using? Second, which court rulings are we applying? Anything controversial ceases
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
HR seems to, and that alone is enough to cause massive disruption for most people, even the 'relatively well off'. If you aren't rich enough to never need to work again to survive, then your livelihood is one Twitter mob awa
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
It is kinda funny how the Constitutionally protected right doesn't have laws ensuring fair treatment, but stock trading does. Why should they have to allow for equal access to investors? Sure, the law currently requires it, but if we
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
The moment the government started giving our licenses as to who can run a bar, meaning that not just anyone can open one and bars have to be pleasing enough to the state to be allowed is the moment when the separation between private busine
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>The #1 issue in the USA beyond simple conviction and incarceration is rehabilitation. At the federal level, where I have personal experience, it seems like it's entirely retribution instead of rehabilitation. Do people generally wa
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
They get paid so little because there isn't any other legal means to exchange a bug into money. A monopoly on the only legal way to sell goods means that you get bad prices. But I do wonder if it would be possible to set up a legal al
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Seems a bit reductionist of the concept of privilege because everything becomes privilege as there is someone who has experienced worse with few options. For an extreme example, dying with cancer becomes a privilege compared to someone who
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
3Blue1Brown on YouTube has a number of great videos into math that help give a visual understanding without needing to sit down and do the pure number crunching. I'm not sure he has one on the Riemann Hypothesis in particular, but he
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I recently tried out a game backed by a block chain. I had uninstalled it quite quickly because it was taking dozens of seconds to load a level because my previous actions had to be saved to the block chain. Maybe they picked a poor imple
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>Unions are intended for industries where a worker doesn't have a marketplace of options as there is a single or just a few employers (e.g. Hollywood, teachers, coal mining towns, hospital staff, etc.). Unionizing at Google makes no
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>When a human drives, the liability is on the human. When a car self-drives, the liability might be on the manufacturer. I think this is a point that needs more emphasis, especially on the word 'might'. Without both laws and a
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>It would be one thing to do this in the natsec context, where such an approach is understandable, but it is another for a private company to surveil and intimidate someone who has legally purchased hardware. Could we consider why it is
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
One thing I don't quite get is the extent that people who are against the idea that (violent) videos games cause violence seem seem to have a very significant about face in opinion when the topic switches away from strictly physical vi
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
The issue is there is entire areas of psychology studying when we get things wrong. If it works until it doesn't, is it really something you should be trusted? Let us not forget that confirmation bias would also apply to how we judge
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
No surprise. Even among scientists there is an issue where the level of critical review a paper gets is largely dependent upon how agreeable the findings are to the person reviewing it. This is a reason that even science isn't fully
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>None of us here has anything actually illegal to hide IMO. If they can break your encryption, they can add the illegal stuff that was clearly yours to begin with. Works great as a character assassination. And of course any questions
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
To what extent should the blame for any harm fall on Microsoft? They are the ones relying on effectively free labor to protect the innocent. In such a case blaming the free labor instead of blaming the ones relying on free labor seems to
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
For a counter point, look at how child abuse was treated pre 1900 before it become politicized. It really calls into question any notion of moral objectivity when you consider what society used to consider acceptable treatment of children
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Morals of meat treatment seems to be a vast whirlwind of inconsistency that I think largely stem from people know having a full understanding of how their meat gets on the table. I've grown up rural enough to have butchered a few anim
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
How is it less kill if all the male chicks are raised then used for meat? Same number of chickens being killed either way, some just get slightly longer to live.
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>The people contributing to WP - the editors - seem more concerned with coming up with Kafka-esque processes to introduce to the community than making the actual work of making an encyclopaedia. I wonder if this is natural. Those in the
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>No. We live a society of free will and choices. It's not reasonable for me to expect that _any_ job will allow me to live _any_ kind of lifestyle. I think reasonable can agree on this. The difficulty is deciding where to draw the
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>Do you disagree that a job should mean that someone is able to afford rent and pay your bills? Could we focus down on this question. Ignoring what led to this question being raised, I would like to better capture what is being asked he
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Couldn't government do it in two parts with 50%+1? First vote removes the requirement, second vote changes the law.
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I think an improvement to SQL would be for insert/update/delete clauses to require a where clause and allow for something like 1=1 if you really intend to hit all rows. A safe but even more invasive would be requiring an end to t
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Invert it and I think it works. Always prepare to stop at an intersection. Then point out it is green and call out you do not need to engage in stopping. It may seem silly, but if we asked people who drive 30+ minutes every day if they ha

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