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by Stupulous 6y ago
So you have a comparison between unrest in Chinese people who are starting families and those that are not? You keep trying to push this analogy into a territory where the evidence is a lot stronger than what you've given. You compared
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by Stupulous 6y ago
Say you went to a city with no air pollution, a high rate of exercise, great diets with antioxidants and omega-3s, no asbestos or radon, and no genetic predisposition to lung cancer. And you find that, in this city, heavy smokers have a low
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by Stupulous 6y ago
Are the plethora of cases where cigarettes did not cause cancer compelling proof that they don't? Perhaps these counterexamples are evidence of additional factors, in cancer or in unrest, but they do not prove that a causal relationshi
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by Stupulous 6y ago
It's not clear to me how this protest attempts to solve racism, even if that is a goal of participants. Demands I've seen have exclusively been for changes to policing. The words Black Lives Matter refer to police violence. I defi
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by Stupulous 6y ago
But steam engines and hydraulics and gear mechanisms are all Turing complete. There is nothing wrong with those models. You could build a brain out of any of them, unless the brain computes something that is not computable. If the brain doe
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by Stupulous 6y ago
That's a good point, and I agree. But I do think it would be more pragmatic to justify why the outgroup isn't stupid than it is to go after the people who are saying so. The anger response you'll get for saying someone is arr
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by Stupulous 6y ago
From this thread it would appear that one is either a hypocrite for complaining about something they participate in or arrogant for complaining about something they don't. Here, both. It seems like a needless exercise to classify which
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by Stupulous 6y ago
This is long, and I apologize for that. I think I've said some important things though, and I'll ask you to do me the kindness of reading it. Thanks. There's a notion in improv that when you respond only to the last thing tha
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by Stupulous 6y ago
Dev-hours, suggested below, also sounds harmonious. Employee hours sounds okay; it's cumbersome but it seems to project the concept of hourly pay directly into my mind. Hu-years and hu-hours are physically uncomfortable. Is there anyth
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by Stupulous 7y ago
(I am asking for elaboration on what physicists and engineers have to say about imaginary temperatures if they didn't flatly dismiss the concept. I recognize it may read as snarky, but I really was just aiming for clever.)
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by Stupulous 7y ago
Did you get a no or something more interesting?
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by Stupulous 7y ago
The US left is about on par with European left. The US right is more right than the average European right, which shifts the average.
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by Stupulous 7y ago
I don't know if you meant to reply to the other response to my comment, but my point is a little broader than that. Hunting be damned, you could fill up wyoming with automatic weapons granted with no background checks and not see a ser
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by Stupulous 7y ago
I think there are a lot of issues where the republican/democrat divide is very directly influenced by rural/urban environments. (please do not assume any of the following takes a stance on these issues. Also don't imagine I k
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by Stupulous 7y ago
Sorry if I'm just missing it, but isn't that exactly what they're recommending there, if not more?
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by Stupulous 7y ago
>I never see these types of arguments made for traditions that are neutral and innocuous, like the curious custom of decorating trees indoors in winter, or those that are obviously valid and beneficial. I expect this has more to do with
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by Stupulous 7y ago
I imagine the correct read is 'the innovations belonging to oracle', rather than 'the innovations performed by oracle'.
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by Stupulous 7y ago
An even more strategic position would be to assume the outcome was the intent even in spite of evidence to the contrary (which could be faked). And to assume that the worst potential outcome, rather than the actual outcome, was the intent.
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by Stupulous 7y ago
*Life expectancy has done nothing but go down year after year /after year/. Let's not undersell this, it has been 3 years.
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by Stupulous 7y ago
There is a sort of common knowledge definition of introversion that involves 'recharging' while alone, but it's not a dictionary definition, and it's not an academic definition. The dictionary will just say shyness, whil