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by all_factz 5y ago
Perhaps. But another scenario is that the population, or some not insignificant part of it, is opposed to the war and doesn’t buy the party line. We’re certainly seeing more resistance within Russia than expected. At the very least, sanctio
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by all_factz 5y ago
Ha, now do Russia.
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by all_factz 5y ago
I think you’re still oversimplifying. NATO countries may have been involved in bloody wars, wars which were varying degrees of bad idea, but at least those wars were fought against regimes which were terrible - brutal and repressive towards
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by all_factz 5y ago
Many people in the US were very opposed to the Iraq war (the war in Afghanistan, though stupid, had a more real precedent). It would have been good had the US suffered sanctions for invading Iraq, but sadly the geopolitical reality didn’t s
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by all_factz 5y ago
No? There is over 99% certainly for many hypotheses - doesn’t mean they’re false.
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by all_factz 6y ago
I mean, as the paper says: > Second, most research questions are addressed by many teams, and it is misleading to emphasize the statistically significant findings of any single team. What matters is the totality of the evidence. I think
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by all_factz 6y ago
Yes, the left trusts “science”, broadly. That’s because when we see 99% of scientists in a field claiming something, we don’t pretend we know better than them. We respect science, we understand on some level the work that goes into good sci
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by all_factz 6y ago
But your own post makes clear the problem with your logic. This isn’t about convincing people. It’s about the fact that people’s political views are guided by gut, instinct and the bubbles they’re in instead of by critical thinking. These p
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by all_factz 6y ago
Yeah dude, the “Camp Auschwitz” guy has been deplatformed so many times he became a nazi. Got it.
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by all_factz 6y ago
If you agree with this argument, please explain why we shouldn’t extend it to non-remote work. Shouldn’t the same argument apply whether employees go into an office or work from a coffeeshop?
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by all_factz 6y ago
This is the first Haskell web development framework (granted, I haven’t looked at very many) that would actually make me interested in trying web dev in Haskell. Coming from a Django/PHP background, it seems it provides a lot of desira
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by all_factz 6y ago
I’d rather the sites themselves decide than the US government decide. You can always go to a different site. But once we have the government intervening and saying “this is what is acceptable speech online, this is what isn’t”, that’s a who
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by all_factz 6y ago
No. They're just suggesting that in 6 months the libraries they would create to support their frameworkless application would contain some non-trivial amount of bugs. That seems 100% reasonable to me. Of course, they could plug existin
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by all_factz 6y ago
I think you'd find plenty of smart and ambitious students at your local community and state colleges. Yes, it might be harder to find them, but they're definitely there. But yeah, not saying that there aren't major advantages
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by all_factz 6y ago
Oh for sure, I'm not arguing that you don't get better opportunities at those "name" schools. You very likely do. I'm just saying that that's in itself something of a problem. Like, I'm angry about the con
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by all_factz 6y ago
I agree with all this. Part of the problem, however, is the American college system. Why is it so important to go to a school like Cornell, CMU, or UPenn? I'm not saying you shouldn't want to go to a school like that -- they proba
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by all_factz 7y ago
So sexism has nothing to do with the pay gap?
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by all_factz 7y ago
I didn’t say they were limited to communication, I just said it’s an example. Of course there are differences which go beyond nurture.
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by all_factz 7y ago
Well, they seem to be better at communicating, so maybe they should be paid MORE. But regardless, even if there’s a difference, we have to consider nature vs. nurture. I think men could be brought up to be more communicative, but that’s jus
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by all_factz 7y ago
Absolutely shocking, women are better at communicating than men.
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by all_factz 7y ago
What’s the advantage of GCR over AWS Fargate/ECS? I’ve been running an app on ECS for a couple months now and have been pretty happy with the ease of set-up, load-balancing, auto-scaling etc, though there are still kinks I’m figuring o
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by all_factz 7y ago
I’m a software engineer, but I have a degree in English lit. I find I love technical writing. Maybe it’s because I’m often writing about systems I built, so I understand them well and the writing comes fluidly — it might be less fun to writ
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by all_factz 7y ago
Completely agree. As a boot-camper myself, I would have been an absolute disaster for the first 6 months (really, longer) of my career. It was exactly working with experienced people who had the time to provide rigorous code reviews, and my
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by all_factz 7y ago
Right, because all evidence points to him getting a fair trial if he came forward.
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by all_factz 7y ago
I don’t mean to dunk on you, and I’m sure you really aren’t a lucky person (as you say), but this just stands out to me as a reason people look at us tech workers and think we’re a touch entitled: anyone who can afford a new MacBook at any
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by all_factz 7y ago
I’ve lived in the SF Bay Area pretty much my whole life and I just want to say you hit the nail on the head. Do you know of any politicians who are working to make this happen? I’m pretty liberal, but I sometimes feel we live in such a bubb
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by all_factz 7y ago
This is exactly what I’d say if I was trying to make myself feel better about a messed-up status quo.
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by all_factz 7y ago
Is it? I think the concern is that the members of the group are paid to share a certain message. They’re not allowed to share how they really feel, since they’re tweeting on the clock.
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by all_factz 7y ago
Look at the gun death stats in other first world countries vs in the US.
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by all_factz 7y ago
Incredibly frustrating and horrible that this keeps happening and the US gov refuses to take any action towards curbing easy access to guns. It makes me want to leave this country.

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