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by abraininavat 13y ago
Mental disorders are caused in large part by lack of access to jobs and housing[ ]. Do you not think that a lack of access to jobs and housing contribute to a lack of access to sanitation and hygiene? http://www.nationalhomele
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Crazy talk. Clearly they have housing and jobs, they just like living on the bus!
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by abraininavat 13y ago
My own analysis of my local (mid-sized city) transit data from the National Transit Database, using actual gallons of fuel spent, and comparing CO2 emissions of the average passenger car, the buses are net adding CO2 to the environment. In
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Usage of energy isn't the only metric by which something can be considered green, as you probably realize but fail to cite. What percentage of buses are powered by natural gas or ultra-low-sulfer diesel compared to cars, for example?
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Perhaps because he likes the idea of poverty being a pit that's progressively harder to dig your way out of. Don't have the money to pay for the road access which will get you to your job? Should've thought about that and b
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Not controversial? Obama certainly characterizes it as controversial when he talks about China conducting cyber-attacks on the US.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
It's comical to me that everyone in this forum all of a sudden is an expert on Chinese-US cyber-espionage. Could you tell us how exactly you know that Snowden almost certainly couldn't have had access to intelligence that China wo
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by abraininavat 13y ago
He understands you. He just disagrees and thinks your metaphor is wrong. First of all, let him speak for himself. Or do you claim to read his thoughts? Secondly, no he doesn't seem to understand. The statement he disagreed with was: We
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by abraininavat 13y ago
While I agree with you for the most part, the context and nature of the debate is important. In a casual conversation that happens to be an argument, there's (usually) some semblance of a logical argument that can be teased out from a larg
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by abraininavat 13y ago
the world’s most celebrated sushi chef turns to his son, who is leaving to start his own restaurant, and says: ‘You have no home to come back to.’ Which, when you think about it, isn’t harsh or discouraging but is in fact the very best thi
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Stamping out software is what your Windows/OSX/linux installation CD/DVD is. Microsoft is making a lot of money stamping out (figuratively nowadays) copies of Windows. I think you misunderstood. The product a software engineer makes is n
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by abraininavat 13y ago
True. I was using you as a proxy for Brooks and his ilk, I suppose. Sorry about that.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
If you accept that the number of people Wall Street employs is bounded, and if you accept that someone else would have this kids' job and probably do comparably at it, then he is not taking from workers pension funds. He's taking from Wall
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Nevermind the fact that this whole pseudo-utilitarian premise is just a nice way to ignore the harm I'm curious why you claim that. It seems to me the goal is to redress the harm, not ignore it. You can't claim to know Jason Trigg's t
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by abraininavat 13y ago
This is a thinly veiled censure of the kid for being too weak. In Brooks' opinion it is apparently a weakness to sacrifice one's self for the sake of others. A huge portion of the US would agree, which seems extremely confusing to me given
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Don't bother. There's a significant segment of the population who can't escape the egocentric mindset others grow out of. They can't (not won't, can't) understand that others think and feel differently from them. They can't imagine other
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I'm curious. Do you only say "stop complaining" when it's an issue you don't personally have a problem with? Or do you legitimately believe that no one should ever complain about anything? If you don't think an injustice exists, wonderful
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by abraininavat 13y ago
But that's fundamentally because of the stupidity and laziness of the shareholders Absolutely, I agree 100%. Our Democracy as a whole suffers from the same problem. That doesn't imply, however, that the problem can't or shouldn't be fix
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I guess I'm not getting what you're not understanding, Ixiaus. If you accept the premise that an injustice exists, of what use is it to argue repetitively that one should "get on top", if one has a problem with it? You seem to assume that
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by abraininavat 13y ago
One could argue that the system is currently set up to benefit executives (who often end up winning, regardless of whether the company loses) at the expense of shareholders and/or the general public. One could argue that this is a problem
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Jaron Lanier Got Everything Wrong(readwrite.com)
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Why would Amazon or Google adopt such a system I could imagine laws requiring that personal data be controlled by the subjects. it would likely be difficult to use, insecure... Who says? How can you assume this? and offer no clear ben
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I don't think so. Documentation is for people. Discoverability is for machines. Notice I suggested it's the scientists' routine which does the discovery, not the scientists themselves.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I'm no expert, but it occurs to me that a mountain of data coming in from disparate sources needs the concept of discoverability to be adequately used. That is, there has to be a way for a machine to find occurrences of data that it cares
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Blah blah blah. Knowing about logical fallacies can be instructive for the skeptical among us, but often bringing them in every-day discussions is pedantic. Regardless of whether the statement was an appeal to authority, regardless of wheth
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Because when you make a bunch of rude and unfounded accusations against not 'an' authority in the field but 'the' authority in the field you come across as not having done your homework But why? In the same situation but talking to a non
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I was about to dismiss this but have thought about it a bit more, and there's something interesting here. There are already APIs built on top of you. There are the ones you know about, like Facebook and Twitter. There are the ones we know
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Even with your operator fixed, this is still bull. This only only instructive if you have zero external knowledge regarding the context. Since we can read Joe Armstrong's words, and since we can read arianvanp's objection, and since most
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Why has this comment not been voted out of existence? If arianvanp is wrong it's because he's wrong. If his way of phrasing things is uncalled for or downright rude, then it's uncalled for or downright rude. But it doesn't matter if it w
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I think you missed the point. I wasn't offering confirmation bias+cherry-picking as an interesting phenomenon alongside "expert intuition." I was suggesting that the latter is nothing more than a manifestation of the former.

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