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by aluren 8y ago
Where in the world are you getting the notion that violence is more accepted in Croatia or Turkey than in Germany?
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by aluren 8y ago
I don't see why internet strangers think their walls of text are owed eyeballs. Time is short, the amount of content on the internet is near-infinite, much of that content is just noise, and without a very serious assumption that a s
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by aluren 8y ago
Apologies - the points are supposed to address specific takes in the article and as such they may not appear very connected. To clarify: >We should count ourselves lucky that instead of violence, we get to use verbal personal attacks? I&
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by aluren 8y ago
That's a very long-winded way of rehashing the same old tropes of the 'reasonable centrist' using logic and reason to establish arguments as opposed to silly liberals who only rely on their feelings. It's almost cited ve
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by aluren 8y ago
I don't want to come off as blasé or anything, but I fail to see how this isn't just another (admittedly lyrical) description of the trance scene happening all over Europe, many instances of which (the Boom festival mentioned in t
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by aluren 8y ago
There are things like cost of living and social security nets that account for the difference, but even then there's still a gap, albeit smaller. It seems that you do have more purchasing power in the US than in Europe, if you're
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by aluren 8y ago
Some use-cases: -I'm in the middle of my codebase and trying to remember the exact parameter order of an outlandish matplotlib method or whether some of the numpy slicing magic I'm using does what I think it does. I can either ope
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by aluren 8y ago
I'm sorry, my heart was already stolen by VSCode. Too many hours spent fiddling with config files to get autocompletion with scientific packages (numpy/scipy/matplotlib/sklearn/biopython) and a non-buggy REPL, all
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by aluren 8y ago
I have always had issues with justifications of moral systems containing the word 'evolutionary', especially when it comes to things like homophobia. First, because it sounds incredibly simplistic. Time after time new findings s
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by aluren 8y ago
I don't get it. You can't "monopolize" anyone as far as casual encounters are concerned, since they're by definition 'casual', i.e. temporary, non-exclusive, short-term, etc. Or are you implying that each
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by aluren 8y ago
Link to the full paper (at Science Advances no less): http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/4/8/eaap9815... Fascinating stuff, and there is so much more to the paper than what the title sugge
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Historical medieval battles(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aluren 8y ago
>One definition of power that is sometimes given: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." I'm pointing this out because I see no one else did, but that quote is from Kevin Alfre
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by aluren 8y ago
> And it has been my experience that people who have politics "happen" to them from "the moment [they] wake up to the moment [they] sleep" in large part simply perceive that to be their existence. > 1000 people (0.
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by aluren 8y ago
That's a good point. I believe it's due to the fact that American-style conservative views are so fringe in Europe that no one takes them as a threat no matter outlandish they are. But in many European companies, signaling yoursel
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by aluren 8y ago
>Ireland only recently legalized abortion, which has been legal in the United States since 1972. The legal status of abortion in the United States is in some ways far more liberal than in many European countries, and in other ways less.
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by aluren 8y ago
I don't mean any offense, but it has been my experience that people who can afford to "put politics aside", so to speak, are people from demographics who didn't have politics "happen" to them. When you are gay
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by aluren 8y ago
It should be noted that many views espoused by what Americans call 'liberals' or 'left-leaning' people are in fact the mainstream in the EU (such as issues about abortion, gun control, death penalty, healthcare, and so o
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by aluren 8y ago
See a previous post of mine ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17840216 ) for my general (frustrating) experience with notebooks. I'll add positives notes, though: -They're excellent for beginner tutorials that
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by aluren 8y ago
I didn't downvote it, but there are a number of things that made me sigh, so this may partly clarify other people's sentiments if they happen to be similar: -The tone of the comment is very matter-of-fact and peremptory, as if tha
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by aluren 8y ago
>In my experience, kernels work just fine unless you are doing something you shouldn't. Here's the thing. I'm sure many of the complaints I voiced can be chalked up to lack of experience. But even if it weren't for th
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by aluren 8y ago
>certain patterns of behavior characterize 99,9 % of the animal species There is no such thing. Unless you mean very basic things like eating and sleeping, and that's not even certain. Also, every species has its own idiosyncracies
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by aluren 8y ago
It would seem that notebooks were specifically tailored for my use cases (being in academia and doing data analysis), in practice I found that I drift away from notebooks every time I try them and stick to a good old console (ipython or bas
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by aluren 8y ago
Retorts involving a country's homogeneity and ethnic make-up as a reason social policies work well in that country usually carry a more sinister unspoken subtext, i.e. that ethnic diversity makes an environment hostile to social polici
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by aluren 8y ago
Well no, I don't have 'evidence'. I just report what the expats in question tell me. I'm not singling them out, they just came to my mind due to recent conversations. I'm not trying to make a grander point or anythi
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by aluren 8y ago
The sensibilities of expats from these countries tend to be quite misaligned with that of their governments and a large chunk of their fellow countrymen. It is of course the case with almost every country but the divide can be markedly stro
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by aluren 8y ago
You're right, of course. I mostly complain because it feels cathartic to rant, but I am well aware that it's probably the same in the private sector, the government, etc. That's just human structures I guess. As for designing
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by aluren 8y ago
Source code for what, though? How about pre-natal influences in the womb, does this mean the womb is a sort of compiler? What about the structure of DNA itself, known to influence gene expression levels? What about the microbiota, which is
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by aluren 8y ago
Every time these kinds of articles pop up, I feel compelled to ask this question: how prevalent is online dating in America? Here in Europe it's of course a thing but the vast majority of people I know still find their partners in meat
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by aluren 8y ago
Yes, I believe we have it easier in Europe. I realize my other post sounds rantish but the reason I'm still in academia, beyond the very valid points you've mentioned, is that I don't believe the nepotism and dishonesty issue

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