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by astine 7y ago
The term for this is a "stipulative definition." [1] It's only a fallacy if one does not clarify that one is using a stipulative definition instead of a more common one. 1. https://www.thoughtco.com/stipulativ
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by astine 7y ago
" I don't know if Lila is Catholic, but a lot of her reasoning seems to fall under the "Principle of Double Effect." " She in fact is.
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by astine 7y ago
True, but the alternative is tungsten, which is not much better in terms of toxicity: https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/tp186.pdf The problem here is that armor piercing rounds need to be made of heavy metals in or
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by astine 7y ago
Because of the sequestration of carbon in the forest. If you burn the forest down, all of the carbon in the forest is released into the atmosphere in the form of smoke.
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by astine 7y ago
" Why does it matter who calls out the falsehood? " Because facts aren't usually discussed in isolation. If a climate change denialist were the one to point out the fact, they would frame it with something like: 'Lies th
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by astine 7y ago
I work for an MSP which supports Windows installs. The support teams apparently hate our LTSC customers because they require manual upgrades unlike the standard version.
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by astine 7y ago
I know that Elasticsearch does it natively. I'm not sure about Postgres. SQL Server is my main RDBMs currently.
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by astine 7y ago
I don't think that there is a way to index by levenshtein distance generally because there is a many-to-many mapping between search terms and keys to match and there is potentially an infinite number of either. What I've seen data
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by astine 7y ago
There's a difference between supporting law enforcement generally and supporting specific law enforcement efforts. I personally want my local law enforcement to be fast and effective because I want them to keep me safe from crime, but
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by astine 7y ago
" Again: the present situation isn't bombers. It's missiles. " Who's talking about the present situation? The OP was comparing the use of nuclear weapons against the Japanese to the use of conventional weapons again
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by astine 7y ago
This is a superficial comparison of these trends and also dodges the point. So what if the people complaining about excluded males are hypocrites. Are they correct? They can be wrong about black people and still correct about men.
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by astine 7y ago
I think that people tend to perceive HN as overwhelmingly believing whatever the opposite of their opinion is any time there is a significant debate on something. Unless there is overwhelming support for our own position, we feel that we ar
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by astine 7y ago
In the show this was limited to things that were both possible and that the target might realistically be able to do.
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by astine 7y ago
Or more likely to tyranny, as it's those in power that will do the circumvention and they will do that to remain in power. Dictators rewriting the constitution to remain in power is such recurrent event it's practically a cliche b
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by astine 7y ago
Most people can tell that the Onion is fake, but given that there are millions of people out there and even the smartest of us have our off days, you're going to see people falling for it all the time. It's as much a numbers game
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by astine 7y ago
Their sense of loyalty and identity is the reason. People are hesitant to absorb information that questions their identity and they're even more hesitant when they feel that that identity is being threatened. Their sense of identity in
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by astine 7y ago
"Information feather" isn't a typical expression in the English language. The author is using that as a hypothetical phrase that someone who had never heard of a quill might think up in order to describe a quill in the same w
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by astine 7y ago
" First, Twitter's UI changes have been big. They skip over incremental changes and go straight for gigantic overhauls. This requires people re-learn the language of the site completely every couple of years. " Honestly, I th
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by astine 7y ago
The OP is talking about bugs not complex system failures. These are not the same thing. It might take multiple bugs to cause a complex system to fail, because complex systems often have enormous amounts of complexity built in, but a singl
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by astine 7y ago
Did you read the article or just that line? Most of what you mention is addressed plus a number of other factors. " Technology factors are more convincing to me. They may have been necessary for bicycles to become practical and cheap e
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by astine 7y ago
Well if you're using Python, you're following an imperative/oop paradigm which goes back to the sixties, so I don't know why you'd criticize Excel for using a dataflow model. I can understand not wanting to use Exce
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by astine 7y ago
You seem to have taken this to mean that only weak or 'lesser' people go into therapy, but I think it's pretty clear what the OP meant: That this sort of institutional treatment is a sort of gaslighting. They convince you tha
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by astine 7y ago
This is pretty incredible. Do you have any links to these news stories?
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by astine 7y ago
Right. The font at least is a monospace font common in terminals. It's a clear conscious design decision that technical readers are likely to pick up on.
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by astine 7y ago
Manning was convicted. Pardons are not a statement of guilt or non-guilt but a political tool. Assange might yet be pardoned, but I'd be surprised.
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by astine 7y ago
Where has it been stated that Assange is being extradited for publishing the 'Collateral Murder' video? So far the only charges I've seen were for his assistance to Manning in cracking a password for an entirely different lea
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by astine 7y ago
Strictly speaking, he's been indicted for his part in assisting Chelsea Manning US diplomatic cables leak and not for exposing either the war crimes or gay Saudis. " The 17 counts were tacked on to a single count accusing Assange
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by astine 7y ago
" Stealing the land. If we built a shopping moll there, future generations could build something significant to their society. " They can still do that. Not tearing down a building today does not prevent future generations from do
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by astine 7y ago
" It's stealing from the future, locking up prime real estate to be a monument to the past. " Stealing what from the future? Are you assuming that people from the future would rather have a shopping mall or something on the Î
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by astine 7y ago
" The irony with software is that the most successful pieces of software need to be changed frequently, because of changing requirements. " I don't think that this is true. Some software doesn't need to change much at al

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