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by _dps 9y ago
> eggshell skull doctrine would rather be used to exculpate Tyler This is the opposite of how the doctrine works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull "the unexpected frailty of the injured person is no
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by _dps 9y ago
If you're just talking about how one word or another primes people's behavior I have no quibble; in fact I may even support such a substitution in some cases. But I think you are too harsh on the idea of winning as inherently bad.
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by _dps 9y ago
Could you elaborate on why you think the meaning of the word has changed? If I'm understanding you correctly, it sounds to me like you think the current use of the word in the USA is restricted to one narrow activity of debating societ
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by _dps 9y ago
There are many norms of civil discourse represented in debating traditions, but there is substantial variation. Still, two that are enforced in all formal debate I know are: 1) all participants have equal access to present their views, usua
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by _dps 9y ago
"Debate" has a long tradition of meaning a formalized presentation of opposing views, each represented by a person or team, for the purpose of evaluating relative merits. "Discourse" is a much broader term and does not i
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by _dps 9y ago
> But you could further optimize your communication by dropping the profanity. I have certainly been in stressful situations with people where I was confident they were struggling to say what they really meant because they were angry and
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by _dps 9y ago
At a minimum, I personally know of active school/university debate societies in the United Kingdom and Australia. And while it sounds like you've had some bad experiences, my personal sense is that the majority of people with form
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by _dps 9y ago
I haven't found any nationality to have exclusive rights to turning civil debate into a partisan shouting match. But I agree that some people do have that tendency. Still, such people seem even less likely to be productive if they ap
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by _dps 9y ago
> Is calling someone a moron the [most information optimized] ... Think of it not as "please be rude to me, that's optimal". Think of it as "I'd rather have the truth delivered rudely than a polite falsehood or s
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by _dps 9y ago
I think we must be interpreting the meaning of Crocker Rules differently. You say the example I gave is benign — so is it fair to assume you believe that this behavior is useful in at least some cases? You're right that I have the &quo
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by _dps 9y ago
This seems like an uncharitable read. The whole point of Crocker Rules is that you opt in. No one forces you to accept Crocker Rules (that would indeed be steamrolling). You declare "feel free to say things that might insult me",
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by _dps 9y ago
I really like the part about agreeing on words, and I'd riff on a bit more with two sub-patterns i've found useful 1) "I see when you say X you mean [specific definition]. Given that definition I agree with you, but I disagre
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by _dps 9y ago
No offense taken — and I think you bring up a good point about the study. Have a good day :)
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by _dps 9y ago
I'm not sure I should engage here, but since I submitted the article and you seem to have a big problem with it and consider it "spam" I'll just say: 1) I have no agenda to promote the NYT (feel free to check my submissi
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by _dps 9y ago
The article quotes studies claiming that people who grow up with conflict in their personal lives are more likely to be comfortable with differing opinions and certain forms of creative debate. Since there's seemingly some benefit of e
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Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting(nytimes.com)
171 points by _dps 9y ago|117 comments
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by _dps 9y ago
I'm confused by all the confusion about "western" here. It refers to a family of civilizations, cultures, and nations. Despite the geographic specifier, it is primarily about people and traditions, not a location. Pick up any
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by _dps 9y ago
I'd be curious to hear people's logic for concern about screen time as a general category, vs something like "unrewarding screen time". To me it seems like, as with all new media, we are going through a period of moral p
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by _dps 9y ago
In the past I would have agreed with your skepticism, but they just announced a huge human-powered review team: http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/google-youtube-hi... I don't know based on
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Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting(nytimes.com)
1 points by _dps 9y ago|0 comments
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by _dps 9y ago
As a fellow Greek who has occasionally been called "olive skinned" myself, I too find this pretty odd :)
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by _dps 9y ago
Taking the article's statistic of a genius of this level being roughly one in a few million, and with the global birth rate somewhere around 100 million per year, there are presumably something like 20-40 such people born per year -- o
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Promethea Unbound(magazine.atavist.com)
47 points by _dps 9y ago|6 comments
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by _dps 9y ago
I'm generally in favor of unions as private associations (i.e. without government-enshrined powers, or the ability to mandate participation) ... BUT I think we have to accept that there's a Principal-Agent problem with unions that
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by _dps 9y ago
> There cannot be a Bell Labs ... [today] Google's R+D arms are arguably in the same broad category as Bell Labs was when it started out. We just need to wait 50 years to see if we will view them the same way in hindsight.
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by _dps 9y ago
I think we're off on the wrong foot here. I agree with you that median cost to the employer and median income are not exactly the same thing. I asked if you thought that changed the substance of my argument, and you didn't reply.
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by _dps 9y ago
There's slack, sure. But "nonsensical" is obviously false -- the two must be correlated else profit margins would be detached from labor costs, which we know is false at a macro level. Do you think there could possibly be eno
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by _dps 9y ago
> Grad students essentially work as slaves for the Uni's & professors ... The typical cost to a professor's budget of employing a graduate student with tuition covered and a basic stipend is somewhere in the range of $50k t
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by _dps 9y ago
> Unless you're solving toy problems, it matters quite a bit. In mathematical optimization, constructing the problem tends to be just as expensive as solving the problem is – sometimes more so. With all due respect, this is just fal
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by _dps 9y ago
> Yes. So how about a workflow where you write dynamically typed code, and then use a tool to convert that code (with user input) to statically typed code. This describes how I do a lot of my work. I prototype quickly in Python or Lua, a

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