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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I agree. But can you explain why this is? For me, it's just a hunch.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
One of the reasons it is difficult to produce useful sociological work is because sociology itself has questionable foundations.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Perhaps some non-naturalists are - deep down - motivated by a fear of the unknown. I myself (from all that I can gather) and many other non-naturalists I know, aren't so motivated. The majority of my close friends over the years have b
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Agreed. I don't want to be a reductionist, but it seems like a lot of this comes down to policy makers (and really, just people in general) not having the courage or integrity to follow through on their beliefs. Keynsians say, "we
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
This worked for me up until Algebra 2. Up through Algebra 1 I'd just do everything in my head, never show my work, and thus solved a lot of problems using non-standard/creative methods on the fly. Ended up hurting myself a lot. I
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I feel that. And I understand that sentiment. The only thing I'd say is that we treat should treat the claim about it's self-destructiveness as possible, and remove the certainty (some conservatives think progressive economic poli
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Underrated comment. This is deeply true, but points to something ominous. There isn't really a way that this political vortex ends except through ever more extreme policies/pendulum swings.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
A lot of what you say is true, but also applies to the likes of MSNBC and (even) CNN. Raving, frothing at the mouth, 'journalism'. I grew up in a commumity much like the family life you described. Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, etc etc
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
How many times have we said something similar about the promises of technological advancement, and yet the panacea never actualizes?
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
There is a difference between 'resistance' (whatever that even means) against your own company versus against fellow employees. In what universe should a company let workers organize against fellow employees apart from simply havi
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I agree that irrational fear, extreme aversion, discrimination not rooted in sincere religious/moral beliefs, and dislike simply for the sake of dislike should be incomprehensible. This, however, is compatible with the uncontroversiall
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Maybe this is as good a place as any to mention a weird and confused use of the term 'homophobic'. I don't understand its use in certain places, so that's why I'm bringing it up. It will often be used to describe as
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
These are dark times when the wealthiest, most pampered, and (importantly) bored people on the planet are frustrated about 'microaggressions' while China does what it does. I mean, I never took the people who complained about micr
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
The traditional banking system is about 150 years old by now. Increasingly, it seems to serve a smaller segment of society, regardless of its half-hearted attempts at innovation. I have a number of friends working in finance. Lovely people.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I have a macbook (purchased this summer) as well as a dell inspiron running linux (for the past couple years). Coming from Windows, Linux felt like a relief from many headaches. No bloat (I can't overstate this), no weird UI that could
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I don't. My philosophy of language prof in undergrad relayed it to me. She said the conference had been held in Israel. I'd start there in your search. My guess, though, is that a transcript doesn't exist. Analytical philosop
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
This. I went to a small rural high school in the MidWest, attended an elite college, and thereafter lived in L.A. and Chicago. Typically, whenever someone talks about 'fly over' country I don't take them seriously. Reality is
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
This is interesting. I hadn't heard of this dispute. I just read the Marcus paper from 1961 that is essential to Smith's thesis. I also read the back-and-forth rebuttals between Smith and Soames. I read the Marcus paper before rea
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
My guess is that each relatively difficult field (fields that require substantial thought... I guess you know it when you see it) has its freaks of nature: genetic anomalies that, for at least a brief moment, seem to transcend the other par
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I once needed to get my own health insurance plan for three months. I googled "short term health insurance" and went to one of the first websites I found. I put in my contact info ONCE. For the next six weeks I had maybe 75+ healt
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I think a better way for him to make the argument is that we should all try and push ourselves a little bit. I share your sentiment. I use enough mental energy during the day that often it's hard to choose something that isn't pas
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Memento. That one hit me right in the gut on a first viewing. Why don't we have more movies like this today? It's sad.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Yeah, I think we might be talking about different things. What I have in mind is a culture where personal boundaries are a bit relaxed, people are abnormally loud when communicating, etc. There is a sort of shallow resemblance to general sp
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
That's a rather strong claim. What's the causal relationship here? All frat bro cultures necessarily create lawbreaking and unethical behavior? From my perspective, that would be prima facie wrong. I've witnessed frat bro cul
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I'm not oppossed to frat bro culture tout court. As long as employees aren't being harmed and productivity is high, then the choice to work at a place with just such a culture is like the decision to choose to work anywhere. Prett
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Travis was removed for (among other reasons) being a rather massive legal liability.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
A key problem is the dearth of actual journalism today. The Economist being one of the few exceptions, along with Reuters (not sure how to classify them though).
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
A literal, and not uncharitable reading of your argument is that you arguing this point, on this forum, on the internet, is merely a participation and destabilization of truth. Some of the details around how best to protect freedom of speec
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Solid comment. It'd be interesting to see how much of an effect DG stores in areas with few to no businesses have on mega retailers like Wal-Mart. My parents are 15 mins. from a Wal-Mart, but 4-5 mins. from a DG that opened two years a
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I mean, at this point I'm of the mind that either some breakthrough in ML/A.I. will cushion the blow in the future or terrible times are inevitably ahead. My interpretation of the research is that the time to have reversed our tra

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