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by astine 10y ago
This is a common take on the issue but there is a lot wrong with it. The biggest reason that the Western understanding of Islamic history is so poor is because there was comparatively little contact between the West and Islam for hundreds o
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by astine 10y ago
"...Gibbon on how Justin the Apostate got himself..." Julian the Apostate.
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by astine 10y ago
'300' is an exaggeration based on Herodotus' account of the events thousands of years ago. Nearly our entire understanding of the Persian wars comes from ancient Greek propaganda. A big part of the reason that the Achaemanid
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by astine 10y ago
"Making an excuse for it is nice and all, but it simply is a case of charging a premium for old tech" This is a weird complaint to me. So what if the display hardware is dated if it is perfectly up to the task it's presented
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by astine 10y ago
The Battles of Manassas are known as the Battles of Bull Run outside of the South. They are both Southern victories and the first was the first major battle of the war.
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by astine 10y ago
Manassas (Bull Run); Fredericksburg; Anywhere in northern Virginia, really.
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by astine 10y ago
"Seems like authoritarian government, nationalization of industries, and general screwing about with market forces would be far more important." I'd agree, though I think you could describe land redistribution as a 'soci
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by astine 10y ago
"It's a bit of a straw man to present failed socialist-in-name-only states when critiquing socialism. If someone were to bring up the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea as an attempt to critique democracy you'd rightly scof
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by astine 10y ago
I don't think anyone in this thread is blaming it all on social programs. Even the opening post mentioned that corruption was largely to blame. If you want to get into discussions on socialism, one might ask the question whether nati
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by astine 10y ago
I was raised Catholic. There is a subset who have definitely gone for creationism. They know that they are not obliged by the Church to believe in the literal story of genesis, but they still prefer it for various reasons.
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by astine 10y ago
Ex post hoc ergo propter hoc.
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by astine 10y ago
Do you have any source for those particular photos and videos being from the other Andaman islands? I've seen the video before and it was labelled then as being of the Sentinelese. I feel that if it were of a different tribe, then you&
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by astine 10y ago
Even without this new system, a person setting a toy rocket off near a deployed military force is really asking for trouble.
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by astine 11y ago
Um, not really. The main feature that Clojure provides for concurrency is immutability, not just the possibility of using existing data structures in an immutable manner, but an entire suite of immutable data types and data structures. This
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by astine 11y ago
These are more than just some ancient manuscripts. These are scripts that somehow survived the most comprehensive cultural and intellectual cleansing in known history. The Qin emperor purged China of ideas he found distasteful and for over
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by astine 11y ago
"The alternative is consensus." That's still an appeal to authority. It's just the authority of a group rather than an individual.
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by astine 11y ago
The data looks as if it's being directly sourced from Wikipedia without filter. It might be that Wikipedia needs a bit of editing.
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by astine 11y ago
We considered a GitHub profile as gender neutral if all of the following conditions were met: - an identicon (rather than a profile image) was used, - the gender inference tool output a ’unknown’ for the user’s login name and
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by astine 11y ago
That's incorrect. The study identified the gender of the Github users twice. They got their 'canonical' gender for users using your method (and removed from their sample users who could not be identified with this method,) bu
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by astine 11y ago
Only 35% percent of the accounts have their gender listed in a linked Google+ account. Checking someone's social media profile is a relatively sure way of automatically determining the gender of a lot of people. The authors did use ano
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by astine 11y ago
" You have no control over what queries it writes " Huh? Just write a view or a stored procedure and point Tableau at that. There's no need to compose a query in the Tableau interface.
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by astine 11y ago
It's interesting that Yegge places Clojure into the 'conservative' camp whereas the author of this post places it into his equivalent of the 'liberal' camp. Personally, I think that says more about Yegge than the au
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by astine 11y ago
When I write Clojure I tend not to worry too much about this. Most of my variable names will be declared with `let` and will have a very limited scope. I can go ahead and clash some builtin function name and not worry about it unless I happ
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by astine 11y ago
"All of the western political ideology (Colonialism, Communism, Fascism, Democracy) that came to Korea (and China) came by way of Japan." This is demonstrably false. Chinese communism especially, was not just influenced but guided
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by astine 11y ago
No, it's an argument against using statistics without first considering the strength of your data.
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by astine 11y ago
"If my reasoning is shoddy, but I plug it into some math apparatus, then it'll likely make my problems obviously wrong." That's pretty clearly untrue. I remember reading a study recently where the p value was less than .
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by astine 11y ago
"Is using mathy concepts to dress up poor reasoning worse than not using anything to back up your reasoning?" I believe so. If your belief is baseless, or based on flimsy evidence or simple bias, it's best if that's obvi
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by astine 11y ago
Thanks. I don't speak Spanish. I had no idea that this was a common idiom.
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by astine 11y ago
I've had people seriously claim to me that using Bayes theorem to evaluate beliefs that one deals with in ones everyday life using evidence that one comes across in everyday life was likely a good idea and would reduce bias. I wish I&#
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by astine 11y ago
I think you're missing the broader argument, which is using 'mathy' concepts to dress up poor reasoning. Obviously priors matter, but what matters most of all is how good/complete your evidence is. Using a mathematical f

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