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by aaplok 4y ago
Hmm, no. Quoting Wikipedia [0], ad-hom "refers to a rhetorical strategy where the speaker attacks the character, motive, or some other attribute of the person making an argument rather than addressing the substance of the argument itse
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by aaplok 4y ago
> You're clearly not against it because of reproducibility; you are against it because it goes against your ideological worldview. Please avoid ad hominem arguments like this. They are unlikely to convince anyone, and on a topic as
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by aaplok 4y ago
Could it be that a combination of sense of community, willingness (or pressure) to volunteer gratuitously and encouragement to share increases the likelihood of people stepping up and contributing software (and other things)?
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by aaplok 4y ago
This is an interesting example. It would take a seriously deranged person to subject Auschwitz' commandant to what he subjected his prisoners. Unless you advocate applying all sorts of barbaric acts of torture on him, you are not reall
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by aaplok 4y ago
How would an accident like that be handled elsewhere, say, the US, or Western Europe? Would the federation own up to it?
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> The mustatils themselves look like efficient pens From the article: "initial theories suggested they were used as territorial markers for ancestral grazing grounds. Yet, as more and more were found, all dating to the same period,
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by aaplok 4y ago
> Either way it's the parents job to keep their kids safe until they're $legal_age. If someone sells alcohol to a minor they can be sued and will likely be in trouble if the child is harmed. It is the seller's responsibili
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by aaplok 4y ago
> if the work was politically motivated then it won't be reproducible. Why not? If indeed there is a bias ib social science then we could expect some conclusions to remain unpublished if they contradict the bias. But I don't
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> because in matters of principle leaving legal defense is as good as giving him to a kangaroo court. His penalty was obvious Actually it's very different from a kangaroo court. The defense lawyer is there to make sure that the tria
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by aaplok 4y ago
I remember reading an article back in 2015-16 where the author argued that Trump's election was exactly about Ros vs Wade. Specifically they explained that a number of SCOTUS judges were expected to be appointed during the term. Once e
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by aaplok 4y ago
From the article: > There are two counter-arguments. The first is that higher mathematics is central to a serious higher education. [snip] It is both unreasonable and unworkable to insist that all students get such training. Of course, s
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by aaplok 4y ago
Mathjax displays LaTeX equations within html documents. This processes entire LaTeX code (documents), including, it seems, packages and preamble. It is more similar to TeX4ht or hevea in this sense. I am not sure how it does this without
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by aaplok 4y ago
"A prime number is a number that is only divisible by one and by itself." becomes "A prime number is a number that is divisible by just one." I'd say, avoid.
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> Academia people live in "bubbles" and they assume everyone knew what a domain specific terms and greek letters Naming things by their English name is not more universal than using Greek letters. It's just serving amother
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That kind of arguments goes in favour of the CMS. If you assume that only a handful of geniuses can do maths then as a society it makes little sense to allocate resources toward something completely inaccessible to the masses. Designing the
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by aaplok 5y ago
That doesn't really address OP's question. There is still a point where the goal of the sanctions is not worth the harm they cause to people.
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by aaplok 5y ago
but isn't that the case with all instruction, not just maths? As a counterpoint to your example, I, too, learnt the basics of electronics when I was young - Ohm' laws, Kirchhoff's laws, etc. At the time I found it extremely
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by aaplok 5y ago
https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/smoke-free-melbourn... https://www.smokefree.org.nz/smokefree-in-action/smokefree-a... Less drastically, a lot of places are putting heavy restrictions on smoki
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by aaplok 5y ago
It means "kick", "hit". See one of the comments here: [0]. Also (if you speak French) this: [1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/vim/comments/1tdiap/kakoune_a_longd... [1] https:/&#
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> That actually harms the case that it DOES, since you would expect the odds of it causing issues would increase with amount ingested. Not necessarily? The correlation is observed, and there may be causation, in one, or both, directio
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by aaplok 5y ago
Null hypothesis testing was invented less than 100 years ago by Fisher, who completely arbitrarily picked 0.05 [0]. That value was not arrived at through wisdom of experience, and certainly not after hundreds of years of practice. Though
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by aaplok 5y ago
> The study gives you the actual numbers on how likely it's a coincidence or not. The study doesn't really do that. What it does is compare different methodologies for counting the number of incidences of (myo|peri)-carditis fo
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by aaplok 5y ago
> Leave the internet out of your politics, please. Your comment would have a lot more value without this cheap attack. The article and all the comments are about the politics of the internet. OP has the right to express their opinion, ho
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That page is not the same: it lists crimes of the same type, not by the (supposed(^*)) ideology they were committed under. There are a lot of ideologies in the name of which mass murders were committed: fascism, Christianity, Islam, other r
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by aaplok 5y ago
No, it's not. Enough people hold the opposite view to at least agree that it is not obvious. It is fine to have an opinion on the matter, but it is unwise to believe that opinion to be so obvious that arguing for it is unnecessary.
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by aaplok 5y ago
I may misunderstand you, but replace the lottery with a coin toss. Buying a ticket gets you a 50% chance of winning. This reduces the pool of possible outcomes by 1 for the next choice, so there is precisely one choice left. However buying
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by aaplok 6y ago
Historically mathematics was part of accounting, both in Ancient China where it was used to calculate taxes, in Egypt and in Babylon. People used numbers to keep count and then developed advanced techniques to do sophisticated things like s
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by aaplok 6y ago
I'm not in the US but you make a good point. They probably need to confirm parents' identities. An easy and well advertised low tech solution would be good for low tech parents though.
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16% of the US population is computer illiterate [0], mostly amongst the poor. If information is only accessible through a web portal you are de facto making it inaccessible to a significant minority. Sure the parents could take computer l
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From the article it looks like that information was delivered through a web portal. My kids' school has a similar system and unexplained absences are notified through the portal. School reports are delivered there too, though at leas

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