anamax

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by anamax 16y ago
> 2. Unions don't have to fit the rigid model you have in your head of the UAW. Maybe not, but let's see some examples that have been significantly better for over 10 years. (And no, teachers unions aren't better.) I agree that it isn'
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by anamax 16y ago
> But to criticize the social equality programs in colleges because they get students with lower SAT scores into colleges is a very imprecise argument to make. Is it? The SAT folks claim that SATs correlate somewhat with college achiev
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by anamax 16y ago
> Also if most company data is stored in a highly centralised way in cloud server farms then this becomes a very conspicuous target for "cyber warfare". Yes, AWS is a bigger target than Joe's Burgers, but the question is whether Joe wil
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by anamax 16y ago
> The cost of legislating net neutrality is quite low and the consequences of cartel pricing are quite damaging. Therefore it makes sense to regulate now rather than later. How about some supporting evidence? For example, is it necessa
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by anamax 16y ago
foo = 'lolsomestring' if foo: [code] > where a string is implicitly converted to a boolean (as opposed to using bool()). Umm, no. You're assuming that the condition of "if" is necessarily a boolean. It's not clear that
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by anamax 16y ago
> Do I really need to have been born in the USA to be able to read published statistical data about the population? I'm not disputing your ability to read. I'm pointing out that your conclusions were faulty. Was I wrong to assume that
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by anamax 16y ago
> That is way too high a price to pay for the freedom of mentally unstable people to have access to guns. The police had plenty of opportunities to do something about that, and decided not to. (It's unclear whether that was due to his
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by anamax 16y ago
> Sorry, my intent was not to belittle or enrage. I was merely pointing out the fact that, based upon provided data, you, as a developer, are quite far removed from the lower end of the income spectrum. Bite me. You don't know anything
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by anamax 16y ago
> Census estimates suggest 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty Which definition of poverty are we using? I have two. According to one, 90% of Americans live in poverty. According to the other, less than 1% do. Which one is correct? Note
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by anamax 16y ago
> Gratz makes clear that point systems are illegal, which was my claim. The original claim was "They said they didn't lower the "academic" criteria- i.e. test scores and GPA- for minority students." Grutter said that they could use race
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by anamax 16y ago
Huh? Gratz didn't overturn Grutter. (They were issued the same day.) Grutter says that some things are permissible while Graz says that some other things aren't.
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by anamax 16y ago
CA's sales tax is county/city dependent, starting from a 8.25% base. It's 9.25% in San Jose, 9.5% somewhere nearby, closer to 9.75% in SF, and less than 9% some places. see http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/pam71.htm .
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by anamax 16y ago
> I attempted to point out that skepticism is not enough; one must also apply skepticism consistently to all sources in order to free oneself from unconscious cognitive bias. As evidence, I use the author's treatment of global warming
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by anamax 16y ago
> They don't do that at any schools in the United States, actually ... at least not at any in compliance with Federal law. Actually, they do. The Supreme Court decision involving the University of Michigan Law School explicitly allowed
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by anamax 16y ago
> I believe that female sports should be given as much attention as male sports. Why should they be "given attention" and by whom? What about folks who don't provide said equal attention? (While the majority favor male sports, there a
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by anamax 16y ago
> It doesn't matter. The person who claimed otherwise disagrees - he said that it was a payable debt. > You get nothing directly, but that's not the point Except that it is. If the answer is "nothing", than a 20 euro note is nothin
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by anamax 16y ago
> And this is a problem, why? Why shouldn't there be a female equivalent of a fencing team? What's the definition of "female equivalent"? Doesn't the validity of your assumed "should" depend on the definition we're using? > However,
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by anamax 16y ago
> I think they mean $20 worth of value be it gold or some other bankable theoretical material. Originally us dollars were tied to physical gold assets. While dollars were originally tied to physical assets, I'm asking about what the cen
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by anamax 16y ago
> Irrelevant. Look at any standard of living study. Hmm. You don't think that people's preferences tell us anything? > They'll all have most of western Europe above the US for the average person. American poor people are stereotypi
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by anamax 16y ago
> We can only exist as human beings with rights if we respect our fellows' human rights. What are said rights? For example, do I have a right to food? If so, who is obligated to provide it? ("govt" isn't an answer.) How about a right
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by anamax 16y ago
> Actually currency is more a debt than an agreement. When you have a 20 € bill, the European Central bank "owns you 20 €". What does it mean for the central bank to owe me 20 euros? Specifically, what do I get when they pay me what I'
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by anamax 16y ago
> Throw a dart at western Europe. Any of those places will provide a better quality of living for most people. Which direction is the immigration pressure?
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by anamax 16y ago
> "Getting to the moon was a complex problem, and I'm sure it took lot more than 2000 pages to explain the process of getting there." Yes, but how many of those pages were written by congressional staffers? > "Complex problems have
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by anamax 16y ago
> What I add to the conversation is the observation that groupthinkers enforce conformity with downvotes. No, you didn't add that. What you added was "only meanies will disagree with me". And, even if you had added that, it's not all t
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by anamax 16y ago
Huh? Telling us how he could have satisfied you wrt a different argument is interesting but he question was "How much support should he have given for each of his arguments to satisfy you?" Note that he suggested skepticism wrt multiple thi
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by anamax 16y ago
> 1 + 2 - 3 * 4 than (+ 1 (- 2 (* 3 4))). Most humans think that, but no humans know what a << b | c ? a : 5 && j *k < z ^ r % u means. Until they learn differently, most humans also think that training wheels help.
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by anamax 16y ago
How can I make my code explain why it wasn't done some other way, or two other ways?
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by anamax 16y ago
> but is quick to dismiss global warming, apparently on the basis of a single webpage Actually, he didn't. FWIW, he provided more evidence in support of his global warming skepticism than he did in support of his other skepticism, skep
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by anamax 16y ago
> In the 50s, 60s, 70s children have dreamed of becoming astronauts, programmers, engineers, scientists. But nowadays the cool jobs are in sports, TV, finance. More dreamed of becoming cowboys, police, and firemen. Also, kids during the
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by anamax 16y ago
The means produce the ends.

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