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by abnry 8y ago
This seems like government working well. An overzealous governmental employee denies a valid document, for whatever confused or malicious reason. Denied person contacts their congress representative. The congress rep gets the issue fixed. Y
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by abnry 8y ago
So clearly there will be some delay in between when brand inertia is still going and competitors haven't caught up, but it does look like Walmart is stepping up its online retail business, so I have hope that Amazon won't maintain
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by abnry 8y ago
I really wish I agreed with your characterization, but I don't. What I see as prototypical identity politics is something like the Why Can't We Hate Men article the Washington Post published ( https://www.washingtonpost.
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Correct. As a study stands flawed, there is no real takeaway. However, a flawed study does not mean the original conclusion is false. Merely that the evidence the study provides for it cannot bolster it. But now the study is part of the soc
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What do we do when the 1 out of 100th conspiracy theory turns out to be true? Just months ago there were massive conspiracy theorizing about the first lady's absence over a period of days. Should that discussion have just been shut dow
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by abnry 8y ago
It is because on twitter, your favorite tech person can mostly tweet boring tech stuff, but will be unable to resist, like the rest of us on twitter, retweeting the inflammatory extremist tweets when they show up in their own feed. I am mor
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by abnry 8y ago
I think it's the retweets that are to blame for this. When you can act on your impulse with the simple click of a button, which in effect spreads misinformation or a negative attitude, then you have problem. Twitter became successful b
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by abnry 8y ago
Zhang is an outlier. From what I followed when his proof came out, there were actually very similar ideas being developed by Terry Tao at UCLA and by a PhD student at Oxford. The sort of places you'd expect. And IIRC, Zhang actually co
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I think we have 50 years worth of data, at the very, in the modern era to give at least some sort of evaluation of the usefulness of the money we are spending on math research. Yeah, it's hard to quantify the value of research. I want
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It very well could be. I just dislike vague justifications that it actually is worth the cost. Give me numbers and details.
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Something like the Fast Fourier Transform has had a much significant impact on society than a proof of the incomputability of the Busy Beaver function. Saying that Turing and Church "invented computing" is too vague of a justifica
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by abnry 8y ago
Exactly. Modern pure math is extremely abstract. I want careful, level-headed arguments justifying research in swath of pure math fields. Give me numbers, give me details. Not just vague anecdotes. It may be worth the cost, but I don't
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by abnry 8y ago
Meritocracy. The mathematicians at Princeton University are going to be producing potentially more valuable pure math research than a professor at name state university 145. I don't know what the exact figure is, but it wouldn't s
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by abnry 8y ago
I used to be in a math PhD program. Probably would still be if not for some life circumstance. I think it is worth taking a hard look at the value all of this mathematical research actually produces. I understand how number theory has been
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The mainstream media yells fire every. single. day.
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Sounds like a gap in the market.
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That really stinks. I am curious, do you see as cultural restrictions on the N-word as a way to make a sort of verbal "black space?" Do you think it is appropriate to counter white spaces by making black spaces or do you think it
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by abnry 8y ago
To me, if you want reparations, economic ones would be more helpful. As strict as the current cultural enforcement of the word is, I see it as only a way to divide and not a way for black culture to be part of all America.
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by abnry 8y ago
Thank you for sharing. I accept the first half of his argument, which is why I don't use certain words. However, Coates gives himself the freedom to use certain words he would not himself use in situ. The news article posted appears th
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by abnry 8y ago
Obviously the guy should have been fired if the intent was to offend or demean. Personally, I would never in any circumstances use the word. But do we or don't we want black culture to shape all of american culture? The word shows up i
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by abnry 8y ago
For the tax cuts, that's on the local government. They set the rates to attract businesses and that's what they got. Residents should blame their representatives.
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You make fair points. The biggest issue here is YouTube's recurrent communication problem. Blender and MIT Open Courseware, I am almost sure, were blindsided by this change. They would have worked out a plan ahead of time otherwise. Ju
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by abnry 8y ago
I can't believe this has been going on for three days. YouTube seems like it is actively sabotaging its independent content creator's channels. But in this case it's not just some random kid living with their parent's.
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To be fair, the USA is the only country with America in it's name. And what would you call people who live in the United States other than Americans? Hop, skip and a jump to calling the place Americans live America.
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by abnry 8y ago
That may be, but legislation didn't pass in one of the houses, and he doesn't deserve death threats. Nobody who isn't actively being violent deserves them.
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by abnry 8y ago
No mention of abortion in this article. Particularly relevant because Iceland has no kids with down syndrome because of it, and European countries are following their pattern.
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by abnry 8y ago
Particle physics is just crazy land to me. I understand Newton's equations. I understand Maxwell's equations. Hey, I even understand Schroedinger's equation. But all these particles!?
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Solving a problem gives you a rush. When I majored in math, I think this was the biggest motivating factor in continuing on. It helps I was good at it, even though it wasn't always smooth sailing.
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A good rule for using social media responsibly: When you wish to express yourself, consider if your self-expression is of value to the people who hear it. If you are encouraging other people to be angry, it probably isn't.
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Yeah, I wonder what the people who started the business even had in mind. Did they decide to just wing it long term?

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