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How to Talk to a Science Denier Without Arguing(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
3 points by agarden 9y ago|0 comments
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by agarden 9y ago
If you want to be an accepting person, you have to first decide who it is you are wanting to accept. If you are simply wanting to be as accepting and tolerant as you can possibly be, then it would seem that you would want to accept as many
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by agarden 9y ago
That makes everything make so much more sense. I was a paraplegic for a short period. In my case, I had virtually zero feeling below my chest (T5) and no ability to move any of it. I, too, thought quadriplegic meant no function in any limbs
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by agarden 9y ago
Previous discussion on paper itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15858197
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DeepMind’s AI became a superhuman chess player in a few hours, just for fun(theverge.com)
4 points by agarden 9y ago|1 comments
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by agarden 9y ago
That's fascinating. Reminds me of Daniel Kish, who is totally blind but navigates freely by echo location. It seems that is something humans -- at least blind ones -- are generally capable of if they work at it. https://en.w
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by agarden 9y ago
Even if the suspect had not confessed to this particular crime in the confessional booth, the priest would presumably have a good idea of the character of each of the people in his care, allowing him to make a pretty good guess as to the gu
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by agarden 9y ago
This, too, is not unique to Russia. Joseph Nacchio was CEO of Qwest[1] when he refused to hand things over to the NSA. Lucrative government contracts were then dropped, Qwest's earnings took a hit, and Nacchio was subsequently prosecut
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by agarden 9y ago
One can easily imagine reading an article like this published on a Russian site, with 'Kaspersky' replaced with 'Symantec' and 'FSB' with 'NSA'.
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by agarden 9y ago
Interesting. I've ordered a BenQ monitor on the theory that it may be the backlight flicker (PWM) that is the cause of that. I'll let you know if it helps. I have also considered trying to rig some kind of eInk device up as an ext
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by agarden 9y ago
I have a question: do you feel like you can think okay until you sit down and look at a screen? Sometimes, for me, it feels like the physical properties of looking at a screen destroy my ability to think.
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by agarden 9y ago
Fascinating. In a comment elsewhere on this page capncrunch suggests downdrafts[1]. Seems like the kind of thing that could randomly strike novices and experts alike. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15114380
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by agarden 9y ago
> Also, don't trust airsoft to give you tactical skills you can apply in actual combat. Those are two games that progress completely differently. That depends on how you do it. I have a friend in the AirSoft industry. He has describ
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by agarden 9y ago
Isn't that just survivor bias? Those people who survived when most people died were the ones who didn't do what most people did. But most of the time in life, most of the people survive and it is the few who don't.
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by agarden 9y ago
She clarified in a comment that she fired men as well as women for "lacking the energy to put us into overdrive." She says: "Yes, we invest in mentoring and training all our team members and we did with the women we hired as
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by agarden 9y ago
I am unsure what working with "things" means, but when the OP got out of tech, she went into policy journalism. "So I went to business school, and eventually I landed myself in the kind of career that I was happy to do on wee
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by agarden 9y ago
"At that moment I realized that fundamentally, these are not my people. I liked the work. But I was never going to like it enough to blow a weekend doing more of it for free. Which meant that I was never going to be as good at that job
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by agarden 9y ago
Interesting. Do you have any insights into how the way you talk about it is different?
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by agarden 9y ago
> For what it's worth: your thanks might be intellectually honest, but your summary of my argument is not. I am very open to being corrected. When you said, "Damore is smart enough not to come out and say directly that he belie
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by agarden 9y ago
Oh, so you know what he is actually thinking even though he doesn't say it and says things that are contrary to it. I see. This, too, helps me understand the outrage. Thank you for being honest. (I do hope the 'thank you' abo
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by agarden 9y ago
> It's simply false that the memo makes no connection between supposed preference and aptitude, as it builds to a section about the "harms of diversity" that includes a direct claim that women in Google's workforce a
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He has already filed a complain with the NLRB and is intending to sue. http://fortune.com/2017/08/08/google-memo-legal/
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by agarden 9y ago
> Sexism is taking a random male and a random female, and claiming that despite all the facts presented to you, the male is taller than the female. It doesn't matter that in a specific case a female is taller than a male. Upvoted fo
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by agarden 9y ago
> It's not personal by definition. In my own experience, when one tries to talk with a woman in an impersonal way about something that is personal to her, she will tend to find that very offensive. Infuriating even, because one is i
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by agarden 9y ago
I think the idea you are advocating, that they should change the nature of the job to make it more accommodating to a more diverse talent pool, is the kind of thing the memo was advocating. See the section titled "Non-discriminatory wa
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To those downvoting, this is relevant because it means that CNN is taking its wording from Pichai. It would have been more accurate to say, "Google CEO cuts vacation short to address controversial memo he says argued women aren'
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by agarden 9y ago
Sometimes I think Conor Friedersdorf is my hero. He regularly turns out articles on prickly topics with a cool, compassionate tone.
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by agarden 9y ago
According to professor of economics at Harvard, Claudia Goldin, the gender pay-gap is mostly explained by women self-selecting into lower-paying professions and by choosing to work jobs with more flexibility in hours and time off. If I am u
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Interesting reading. Here's a relevant snippet from that page: "I was extremely egalitarian prior to my transition I staunchly didn't want to think there were any neurological differences between men and women, it became obvi
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by agarden 9y ago
I did not get "status driven = good, empathy = bad" from the article. In his section titled "Men's Higher Drive for Status", the author suggests that status-driven is bad: "We always ask why we don’t see women

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