alentist

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by alentist 6y ago
> Way to make up strawman's argument. Please explain what you think I’m strawmanning. If you demand that certain topics be banned from discussion, you must explain, as a matter of implementation, who gets to decide what is banned.
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by alentist 6y ago
> A private company stopping people spewing misinformation to huge numbers of people using their private platform isn't "censorship". How does this relate to Twitter blocking private messages between two people for includi
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by alentist 6y ago
> People are stupid. But not people like you, of course. > They're easily mislead. That’s right. They need to be led by someone like you, instead. > Those decisions effect me. And your “stupid decisions” affect me. Which of us
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by alentist 6y ago
> They should be cancelled if they are proven to be dangerous to the society “Proven” by who? You? No thanks.
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by alentist 6y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24797040
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by alentist 6y ago
Are you taking issue with this sentence? > BLM/ANTIFA's demand is clear too: abolish police. Because that sentence is literally correct. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday&#x2F
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by alentist 6y ago
> You cannot protect your family with a gun Why make such an obviously false claim? It already has in the past. > it doesn't give your family a bullet proof shield Non-sequitur.
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by alentist 6y ago
> I'm imagining someone who messes up badly enough to get banned from all those places and still somehow blames the stores rather than their own actions. That’s exactly what antisemites say of Jewish expulsions.
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by alentist 6y ago
Equality of computable reals is undecidable. https://mathoverflow.net/questions/40618/uncomputability-of-...
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by alentist 6y ago
If I understand correctly, condition 4 (see page 104) no longer holds. The new theory, in contrast to the old theory (see bottom of page 100), seems to be a multiway system.
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by alentist 6y ago
> Einstein's Theories forbid as fast as light, but say nothing about faster than light travel. Yes it does. This is a basic consequence of the underlying pseudo-Riemannian geometry. In terms of PDEs, the field value at any point is
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by alentist 6y ago
What specifically do you find “disappointing”?
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by alentist 6y ago
Can you be more specific? Backlash from who? The Reddit/Twitter bubble?
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by alentist 6y ago
That’s not what externality means. That you don’t like something doesn’t make it an externality.
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by alentist 6y ago
> who then use that data to coerce you into buying products and services that you might never have purchased if left to your own devices. That’s not what coercion means. coerce: persuade (an unwilling person) to do something by using fo
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by alentist 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)#Cogni...
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by alentist 6y ago
Note: Income inequality [0] and poverty rate [1] are in-distribution relative measures, not absolute measures. You could “improve” these measures by making everyone worse off (i.e. a Pareto worsening). [0] https://data.oecd.org
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by alentist 6y ago
Their comment history, in conjunction with recent comments like this one [0], makes me wonder why this individual hasn’t been banned already. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190744
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by alentist 6y ago
> that's one of the MOST conservative media outlets in the world That is far from true. https://www.allsides.com/news-source/financial-times-media-b... https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/financial
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by alentist 6y ago
The “Dark Ages” does not mean what most laypeople think it means. Most historians don’t use the term anymore, because it’s too difficult to shake off the misleading connotations it has to the public.
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by alentist 6y ago
There’s the Autonomous Vehicle Computing Consortium (AVCC): https://www.avcconsortium.org/aboutus
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by alentist 6y ago
> If you are tweeting about programming in a robotic manner... What do you mean by “in a robotic manner”? > ...you do have a hidden agenda. What agenda? Why is it hidden? > Pretending that you can talk about the programming in a &#
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by alentist 6y ago
This comment would be more informative if you briefly explained why you abhor it and hate almost everything about it.
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by alentist 6y ago
What makes you think central planning within a single corporation is comparable to central planning for an entire society? I recommend reading about the theory of the firm to understand why they emerge and what makes them efficient.
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by alentist 6y ago
This is not an isolated incident, unfortunately. He also praised Mao’s policies shortly after they caused the worst famine in human history. https://newcriterion.com/issues/2003/5/the-hypocrisy-of-noam...
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by alentist 6y ago
> it is (in some sense) arbitrary that X^Y means Y -> X or its size (cardinal exponentiation) Are you referring to the notation? I don’t think notation is what’s being contested. > in analysis may mean exp(y log x) Doesn’t work wit
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by alentist 6y ago
Somalia, Congo, and North Korea produce very little. Is this what you had in mind? If not, could you clarify?
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by alentist 6y ago
It IS semantically correct. The number of functions from a set of 0 elements to a set of 0 elements is exactly 1. No parallel argument exists for division by zero. The two situations are not analogous at all.
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by alentist 6y ago
Interesting speculation. On the other hand, there is an association between strongly opposing principles of free markets and problematic ethics.
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by alentist 6y ago
I’m a victim of sexual assault as well, and what you said is not true.

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