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by abnry 9y ago
/r/politics does have quality comments that also get upvoted. However, you have to dig through 90% of bad comments. For instance, you get one article about Trump's nickname for Sessions being Mr. McGhee. The comments decide t
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by abnry 9y ago
Yes, and even places that are anti-racism, anti-sexism, and hate trump are often filled with emotionalism and thoughtless group think shouting. Comments decrying anything bad in a caustic way are near useless.
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by abnry 9y ago
I think there is a very important distinction that needs to be made. The popular reddit experience is vastly worse than the customized reddit. It took me a while to realize that my reddit experience was vastly improved once I was very picky
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by abnry 9y ago
"It’s that Facebook and other social media companies are feeding this epidemic of loneliness and social isolation." This is less about Facebook and more about people on the internet.
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by abnry 9y ago
The essence of how much you get compensated is that it relates to supply and demand. The smaller the supply of people with certain skills and the higher the demand, the overall greater compensation. There are two factors that influence the
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by abnry 9y ago
An example I was waiting for him to list was graphic designer/artist. It's a sort of meme to be asked to do things "for exposure". The reason that is a thing is because many people are willing to design for free because
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by abnry 9y ago
You raise a great point. I would add, however, that doing this explicitly and systematically is much worse. In the US we are far from systematically banning people from riding the subway if they don't share the correct political views.
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by abnry 9y ago
I follow only couple hundred accounts and the same problem exists for me with retweets.
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by abnry 9y ago
What utter rubbish. All this says is that "sociologists out there disagree hence you are wrong". The post is one giant appeal to authority. There is no discussion of why they disagree. Or that there is a consensus, or that differe
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by abnry 9y ago
Again, the question is whether or not there can be consent, not whether or not there is a power differential. The existence of a power differential doesn't necessarily mean there can't be consent. Citizens consent to, for instance
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by abnry 9y ago
There is a moral blame you have for asking Bob to punch me, but you aren't going to spend an evening in jail for assault, Bob is. In this entire scenario, you are assuming Bob has no agency.
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by abnry 9y ago
But what are rights to begin with? Take this as purely a devil's argument and not something I am advocating, please. Let's take a 30 year old and a 15 year old. We accept in a society that two 15 year olds can consent to sex to ea
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by abnry 9y ago
Advocating genocide is not violence. You can have someone on the internet yelling to kill all the muslims but if they never actually throw a punch, they are not committing violence.
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by abnry 9y ago
Advocacy =/= Violence. This is one of the worst ideas of our century, that the words themselves cause injury akin to bodily harm. There should be a power struggle at the implementation level of ideas. This is where violence may or may
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by abnry 9y ago
No, we don't base our morality on what politicians say. But if a mere 4 years ago leaders were 'opposed' to gay marriage, you cannot in good faith or in fairness to any conversation call a person who doesn't support it n
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by abnry 9y ago
I don't know if it is unreasonable. I don't have lawyers working for me, but even I know that you don't just use random images you find from Google image search for commercial purposes. Even for noncommercial but public use c
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by abnry 9y ago
What does "open a door to dialogue" even mean?
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by abnry 9y ago
We still need to remember that Google bills itself as a company open to new and challenging ideas. Leadership matters and even if the decision to fire was based purely on publicity and work environment concerns, Google showed it cares more
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by abnry 9y ago
It's not a specific problem as it is--aside from propaganda in general. But if the ads purchased by Russians are linked to a direct promise of aid to the Trump campaign then that is solid evidence in court of collusion.
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by abnry 9y ago
In general, I don't see a problem with targeted ads. For consumers, I think it is a positive. I want to be made aware of products that I will actually like. Even for political issues, I want to be put in touch with the candidates and o
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by abnry 9y ago
Thanks. I think the idea I had in my head was this: If p=t or p!=t is decidable in ZFC+AoC, then it must be that p=t because otherwise that contradicts that the continuum hypothesis is undecidable. So a better way to sum up this result is:
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by abnry 9y ago
If you take the power set of an infinite set, you /always/ get a cardinality bigger than the original set. So there are an infinite number of infinities.
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by abnry 9y ago
Oh, thank you. So the article just threw in Continuum Hypothesis because different infinities 'n stuff. But what is confusing to me is that the article suggested p and t are defined as collections of subsets of the natural numbers. The
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by abnry 9y ago
I am having trouble grasping the result. As far as I understand it, any proof of any result has to be with respect to some axiom system. The continuum hypothesis result is that you cannot prove a infinity exists between the naturals and the
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by abnry 9y ago
You are projecting by assuming Damore isn't saying what he means. I.e., you are assuming he is deep into the alt-right, which seems like a hidden smear, when there is no evidence that he is.
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Pichai is obligated to do so because he fired Damore for "perpetuating harmful stereotypes" while at the same time "affirming" that Google values open discussion about what is true. The notion that women may be biologica
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by abnry 9y ago
Unfortunately, as long as you have a bit of an open mind, it's not your fault. The media deliberately misrepresented what he wrote.
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by abnry 9y ago
Check out part of his conclusion here: https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/894768062682980353
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by abnry 9y ago
You are literally stereotyping a guy accused of stereotyping.
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by abnry 9y ago
If you read his essay he absolutely did not conflate group and individual variability.

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