TruthAndDare

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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
This sounds simply like someone complaining about what prices the market has settled on for education, for the skills that this education provides, and for loans. Yes, I too would like to earn more and pay less.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Thanks! I can see it now, but I still can't comment on it. Is that because the author deleted it or something?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
What issue are you talking about? Surely not the same as Einstein, right?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Well, I can always flaunt some unique flaws.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Isn't it usually said that Einstein betrayed his wife? That's pretty horrible to me, no matter how "right" (in your opinion and mine) he was about other things.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I agree. I also think it's annoying that the comment now is deleted and can't be replied to. I had just written a reply where I responded to many points, explaining what I think is wrong with them, but I can't post it now...
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I guess what I'm asking is why we need the EU in the first place when it comes to issues like this one when we could make that kind of agreements anyway, without having to cede all power.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I don't see that this answers my question. Why can't, say, Great Britain make such an agreement with, say, Spain, and then make the same agreement (or choose not to) with Romania? Btw, non-EU countries in Europe are already in on
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
OK, but what does it have to do with my comment?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
The "deaf / hard of hearing" poster is weird. Several of the points seem to have nothing to do with hearing. https://github.com/UKHomeOffice/posters/blob/master/accessib...
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> the freedom of movement that the EU offered them If this is desirable, why can't it be had through agreements between pairs of countries without there having to be a European union that you hand over many other powers to? The same
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
That would mean that the rest of the people (i.e. not the fire fighting company) aren't rational. I'm not sure we can put the responsibility on a company to behave so as to save everyone else from their irrationality.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
That sounds like a different issue, really. Do you mean that it is an argument for classifying videos as "extremist" and disallowing them?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> predatory practices by private companies It does sound awful not to have access to fire service to someone like me who is used to it,* but then again, have the company done anything wrong by offering the service? Starting no company at
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> Shows how most CEOs of even large companies are human like everyone else Um, it doesn't really say anything about most CEOs, does it? Actually, I think it shows how this guy is different from others, because he seems more nutty
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
The point of the algorithm is simply to choose advertisements as successfully as possible.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I don't follow you. When do you start with biased data? Furthermore, wouldn't a advertisement system that somehow progresses to an increasingly erroneous view be broken anyway?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> It's bad enough that those with sufficient computing speed/power can already rip off the stock market Who is getting ripped off?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I guess it's the same think that makes any object with an interesting history appealing. People would rather have an original piece of art than a copy, cherish the pen that belonged to a deceased father more than an otherwise identical
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Not too appealing, honestly.
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> This would suggest that for most people suicide is merely a phase they can pass through. Strictly speaking, I don't think that necessarily means that these people are better off surviving. One could imagine that they are in pain t
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> Not sure humanity is progressing, though. What would constitute humanity progressing? Would evolution count? Would it count if it appeared in the shape of weeding out suicidal people?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> Derek de Solla Price is an interesting character. 50+ years ago while stacking and organizing scientific journals by year, he noticed the stacks grew in height in a logarithmic curve. From there, so much. I'm afraid I don't u
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> and their science and craft carried on And their gods too?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> They would look at us as moral degenerates. But despite this, our society manages to function quite well, roughly. Is that really how we should judge it? I can imagine a society full of slavery functioning well according to some measur
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
That wasn't what I was arguing. Regardless of whether or not we're documening sex, why document gender if it is only "a set of expectations about how the designated person will appear or behave"?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Really? That notion seems alive and well to me. Maybe it's not important to you .
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
I don't think you can do, or have time to do, a genetic test as an emergency responder, if that's what you mean. But is that really why we put it on documents anyway?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
> Emphasizing that being nonbinary is rare only serves to legitimize labelling it as other as something that's not normal Is it normal?
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by TruthAndDare 10y ago
Just a note: Having XXY chromosomes does not make you without sex. You'd be male, unless there is something else wrong.

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