SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>There's no reason to possess these weapons any more than there's a reason to possess nuclear warheads. I've yet to see any valid reasons to possess drugs or alcohol. With guns, there is at least the justification of self
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
This would imply there is a political leaning to those treating it seriously and those who don't. From my personal experience, the people I know who are fans of him and the people I know who want nothing to do with him are both not tr
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>The fact that only a very few people in the world can be successful with the things that make a concert pianist successful does not mean that concert pianists have failed. Or does it mean they have failed at making a guide? If you have
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I thought they do, but they result in spawning new areas of mathematics. Though more often than disagreements, it is questions are are unanswered and either proven unanswerable, or have failed all attempts to achieve an answer. For exampl
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>If there were an incentive for the justices to produce "sound bites", it would already exist. I think it already does exist, as there have been plenty of quote mining of judges at all levels that gets fed into news reports, ma
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
That is perhaps my largest issue with science. On controversial topics, the level of criticism is not equally applied. It is even worse when we talk about what science filters down to the average voter, as even in cases where the scientist
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>I've found helpful to read the official opinion of opinions I disagree with. Start to finish, including the dissent. With respect to modern rulings, I have yet to walk away finding the arguments abysmal. In almost every case, I dis
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>That makes the court feel like a political body. Is it not? From the method that I've seen legal logic applied, it feels heavily political. What counts as a loophole that will be struck down and what counts as a loophole that wil
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Specifically, having a population lacking in critical reading skills makes everyone more susceptible to propaganda, and less able to critique and assess flawed arguments in writing. 1. Humanities does not teach any sort of critical thi
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Back when the loans could be discharged this was not at all common, so why would it be so now?
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>The reason they aren't dischargeable is because what bank in their right mind would give a loan to an 18 year old with no collateral? Why is that a bad thing? This pushes choosing a good degree from something entirely on the 18 ye
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>In math, when assuming the existence of something proved a contradiction, we conclude that the thing does not exist. Well only to the extent that you don't want to throw away any of the other axioms. Sometimes you do and there are
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Or is it? Say I'm a layman and I decide that in the system of math as I understand it, 0.000... is larger than 0. Yes, if I was going to be completely form with my own system of math I would eventually have to face the problems this
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
It does exist. The other poster just clearly showed that it exists by referring to it. The problem is that if we include such a number in our formal system of math, we quickly find contradictions and the whole system falls apart. So such
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Being a legitimate business does not mean I can feel no sympathy or empathy for those who fail in that business. I can think of some legitimate businesses where my feelings of hearing of hardship within that business borderlines on pleasur
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
A few other factors at play concerning losing children: (3) More experience. The rate young child died was much higher, so not only were you likely to have other families to lean on, you had a much higher chance of having experienced this
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
To what extent is democracy just re-branding of the concept of letting the popularity contest winner run things? Though at face value the unpopularity of winners (and near winners) makes this seem counter intuitive, but that may be explain
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
So for point 1, what counts as being of use in service of something else and of use directly? Take a game and an helper for that game. The helper is clearly of use in service to the game. But is the game of use directly, or is it in servi
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
So it is saying we haven't been able to isolate the extent of the social impact. But this applies to so many things. Do we have research that shows that most people are heterosexual that is consistent across culture and not confounde
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>I have literally never received a fake/clone/scam off amazon, and I can't explain that discrepancy. Shopping patterns? I buy a lot of things, not just for myself but as gifts for a large family. I have found some areas a
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
"One reason we could charge the price we did for the service is that we were treating the data we had access to as an investment. Thus the data we accessed was done so to ensure the service could be maintained." Would a judge acc
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>But if the answer is "to help workers keep their jobs", then the distinction might not be relevant. But this sets up a relationship where now the company can use the employee's employment as a form of hostage.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>It is "created" because there is no guarantee that our efforts correspond to reality. In that sense we are just playing in the sandbox of what we can conceive. But doesn't this dance kinda near the notion that I am a brai
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Assuming a species is intelligent enough to discover math, if they have some significantly different way of experiencing the world I think they would take a different path but would eventually reach the same destination we are heading towar
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
> However, there are businesses that will have closed permanently Businesses might close, but the demand will still return and new businesses will come back. Of little comfort to those who lose their business, but should let workers kno
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
I can't speak to specifically working memory, but there is a wide variety of research on sexual dimorphism in humans, including in cognitive function. I know there was some research showing males having better spatial memory than fema
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Paper: https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cdev.1... If I'm reading the results table in the linked paper correctly, it seems that household wealth was only a significant predictor of w
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>You can not make that conclusion from your method. I think you are missing the general idea and being stuck on the details which I highly simplified. The step after identifying the difference in logic is to work back from there and est
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>If you drop the context of someone using Python to process a moderate amount of text on a large, non-real-time system, then project your own context where it doesn't work, then sure python is not a good choice. If you can't ag
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
It can be but it seems to have a strong negative effect. I've tried it numerous times when I see something as clearly being A but someone else sees it as clearly being B. Once my initial attempts to explain why I see it as A fail, I s

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