Udik

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by Udik 6y ago
> Asians are still the highest-earning racial group in the US Hm hm. What happened to the Jews?
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by Udik 6y ago
So satisfying! :)
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by Udik 6y ago
That "correctly" needs an extra pair of scare quotes. The spelling bee competition is, essentially, the "guess the mispronounced foreign word" competition. Pejerrey? "Pay-ray". Lol.
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by Udik 6y ago
> There's no such thing as "science says" This. Whoever knows and respects science knows it's a process, it's slow, it's full of contradictory results, hesitations, contrarians and cliques. It's the bes
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by Udik 6y ago
> elected Republicans have actively fought in the political arena against climate issues being taken seriously. Climate science ended mixing up entirely with left wing ideology: de-growth movements, anti-nuclearists, anti-capitalist, etc
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by Udik 6y ago
Ok. But then instead of trying to excuse Stallman by mentioning a possible cognitive disorder, it would make more sense to try to excuse the cancellers- after all they are those who misinterpret, assign motives without reason, and ultimatel
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by Udik 6y ago
I think they speak as they do for the same reasons of everyone else, i.e. because they believe it's right and relevant. If anything (my entirely intuitive, anecdotal take, for what it's worth) people with Asperger tend to be less
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by Udik 6y ago
If that were the case, the "pedantic quibbling" would be exactly of the same sort that takes place every day in courts of justice- and it's at the base of our judicial system, as the right to defense from accusations. Stallma
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by Udik 6y ago
> He also criticizes people who raise children with Down's syndrome No, he criticises people who decide to give birth to children with Down's syndrome, when they have the option of terminating the pregnancy. And while every l
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by Udik 6y ago
From your link: > Stallman’s nasty comments last week drew attention to some even more appalling stuff he said back in the mid-2000s. In one 2003 post, the famed coder even wrote that “everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex,
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by Udik 6y ago
I agree with the rest of your comment, but > pedantic quibbling over definitions that are typical of an individual suffering from Asperger's syndrome I don't get why expressing (however unpopular) opinions based on rational arg
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by Udik 6y ago
> are there unambiguously African-American names? The part you quoted seems to say exactly that: there are unambiguously African-American names, but they are associated with low-class, low education backgrounds. Which might confuse the s
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by Udik 6y ago
Can you elaborate what is stupid about it? Seems perfectly reasonable to me.
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The Netherlands has a substantial wealth tax though. About 1.6% of all assets, anywhere in the world.
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by Udik 6y ago
Beautiful, almost every frame is a perfectly plausible and very tasteful abstract painting. But it seems a bit obsessed with cars, not a very meaningful image. Would it be possible to nudge the net to other concepts?
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by Udik 6y ago
I read them and they definitely proved an attitude very far from that of the dispassionate scientific enquiry. Had the scientists been involved in any other less politically charged research (say, Alzheimer's research) nobody would hav
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by Udik 6y ago
I am not sure what should Tesla do exactly? Make Autopilot less capable? Rename it to "not-an-Autopilot"?
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by Udik 6y ago
Can the police officers know for sure before an investigation?
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by Udik 6y ago
And what does the politics fashionable at the moment ("We’ve passed through a racial uprising and a reckoning with sexism") has to do with art?
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by Udik 6y ago
Please re-read: "We’ve passed through a racial uprising and a reckoning with sexism, and the cultural project of the moment is… innovating new ways to worship decade-old, BroBible-level brain farts? During a time of immiseration, inves
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by Udik 6y ago
> It is not, in any way, calling for the artist to be canceled. Not explicitly, no. But it seems to me to follow the well known pattern of "hey, look, I've found something damning buried among X's old stuff". Yes, art
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by Udik 6y ago
This critique is clearly singling out a few of the 5000 images for lack of adherence to the current standard of PC. The headline is in line with this- who does seriously think that art should be "pretty"? What "is not so pr
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by Udik 6y ago
> What is the article author trying to point out there? That the artist is not PC enough, so his art must be valueless and he should probably be cancelled.
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by Udik 6y ago
Well, the alternative is that a lot of people around her are misogynistic for no reason, so your empathy for her means you're assuming a lot of other people are unreasonable assholes. How far does this get you in life?
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by Udik 6y ago
> However you need to realize that _that question_ has been used, probably verbatim, in bad ways against her or her peers... And how do you know? You have direct knowledge of it or are you just pulling out a factoid?
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by Udik 6y ago
The GP clearly wrote: "What would be wrong though is to blindly take that probability for the fact." And it's right: your algorithms can use all sorts of indicators to flag suspicious cases, but in the end the evaluation ne
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> Take the case of one woman in India. KnowTheChain found that she had left her rural village in search of a job in Bangalore, a major city in South India. [...] Six months into the job, she still hadn’t received a single wage slip. And
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by Udik 6y ago
Maybe their free pass has finally expired?
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Described by Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt as "the leader of a party akin to the German Nazi party". https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-1948-n-y-times-lette...
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The significance of the disengagement plan [from Gaza] is the freezing of the peace process, and when you freeze that process, you prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, and you prevent a discussion on the refugees, the borders

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