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by atlantic 3y ago
You're conflating two kinds of bad students: the stupid ones and the poorly-behaved ones. Students with lower intellectual capacities should absolutely be helped; students who are disruptive, not so much. They may need to be sacrificed
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by atlantic 3y ago
Yes, typically, when people are depressed, they write things like "I ate my neighbours for breakfast" or "I massacred everyone in the mall". I get that too. My desk is covered with those notes.
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by atlantic 3y ago
There are absolute truths, but there is no impartial authority to decide what they are. The only way to reach truth is through discussion (ie, interaction between opposing viewpoints). Eliminating polarity also eliminates the possibility of
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by atlantic 3y ago
The point of much recent legislation isn't enforcement on a large scale. It's to give the state the right to spy on and arrest anyone at all, since they criminalize ordinary behaviour. It creates an atmosphere of fear and conformi
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by atlantic 3y ago
Congrats on standing up to the system. Don't forget to beat up a cashier or shoot a security guard on your way out - they are working for the man.
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by atlantic 3y ago
That definition is nonsense for a number of reasons. The first is that all human behaviour is discriminatory by design: every time you make a choice of any kind, you're discriminating against all the options you didn't select. And
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by atlantic 3y ago
I once had a job offer from a big company that developed exclusively in VB.NET, after transitioning away from VB6. Both for desktop and web. So it's still out there.
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by atlantic 3y ago
> Since Elon's acquisition, there has been a massive increase in hate speech on Twitter while Musk bans journalists. What's hate speech? Serious question. Most practical uses coincide with "opinions that hurt my feelings&q
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by atlantic 3y ago
Not really. Starting a family is a leap in the dark. Always was, always will be. The only difference today is that people (may) have a lower risk tolerance, and a tendency to plan everything in advance. I had my first son with no house and
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by atlantic 3y ago
I don't think the Mensagem is primarily a historical work. Rather, it describes a spiritual path, using symbols drawn from Portuguese history. The problem isn't so much the required cultural background; because it builds on the Po
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by atlantic 3y ago
Could you elaborate? Your statement seems to run against common sense.
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by atlantic 3y ago
The fact that your friends all drive SUVs kind of proves my point. Assuming you're in the US, the vast majority of the population is, to put it kindly, portly. If you've lived there all your life, it's something you may not b
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by atlantic 3y ago
Solar, wind, and tide are very dispersed forms of energy, so harvesting them on a significant scale has a massive environmental impact. Also there are issues relating to extracting the input materials, and to waste disposal after the device
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by atlantic 3y ago
Greece wildfires: 79 arsonists detained. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-66612781
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by atlantic 3y ago
These biologists seem impossibly naive. By putting this kind of information in the public domain, they are putting these creatures at risk of being commercially exploited in various ways. At the very least, the precise locations should not
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by atlantic 3y ago
This isn't simply a fashion. Part of the reason why cars are getting bigger is that people are getting fatter, and no longer fit into older models. That also explains why SUVs tend to appear first in countries where obesity is more pre
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by atlantic 3y ago
Both the Soviet apparatchiks running the gulags sincerely believed they were acting for the greater good. The same goes for the torturers at Guantanamo. Idealism doesn't preclude evil.
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by atlantic 3y ago
> Not all political viewpoints across all topics are equally valid. Why? Either value systems are objective, and somehow rooted in reality, and then some are better than others. Or, they are arbitrary opinions, and every set is as good a
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by atlantic 3y ago
While driving in a remote area of India late one night, I came across an entire family (from the Dalit caste) sleeping in the middle of the road. Either they had no home, or they were travelling. The location was warm (the asphalt held dayt
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by atlantic 3y ago
Not questioning your intelligence or your studies. But I wouldn't presume to understand a paper in, say, topology or number theory, without a degree in mathematics. Philosophy has the appearance of accessibility, because it uses ordina
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by atlantic 3y ago
Philosophical texts are not novels; they are more like scientific publications, requiring prior study. Unless you have a solid grounding in the history of philosophy, they are incomprehensible.
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by atlantic 3y ago
> Portugal did the same, but did not allow Jews to escape so they either converted or were executed. Yes, they did have the option of escaping. Portugal initially took in Jews expelled from Spain, in 1492, then in 1496 the Portuguese kin
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by atlantic 3y ago
No, "ideal" doesn't refer to optimization, because it's not a scientific term. The context is Platonic forms - something is ideal if it approaches its archetypal model. This is particularly applicable to beauty.
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by atlantic 3y ago
At the time, the UK couldn't just arrest him at the behest of the US, for exposing state crimes such as torture and extra-judicial killing. He was a popular and respected figure, so public opinion wouldn't allow it. The rape charg
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by atlantic 3y ago
He's not even accused of rape. Once he was safely in jail awaiting extradition, Swedish prosecutors dropped all charges.
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by atlantic 3y ago
Agreed. Reading is an active process, in interplay with your life experience, your worldview, and ideally, your character. You can go broad with extensive reading, and simply become well-read. But I find those who go deep, and eventually fo
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by atlantic 3y ago
If the furniture was still piled up, there'd be a folding table and chair for him, in an open space between the piles of boxes. He'd have his own milk and pot, coffee and filters, toaster, breadboard, breadknife, butterknife, teas
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by atlantic 3y ago
Ok, good question. He was uncritically supportive, as my mother found fault with each new apartment or neighbourhood, making up reasons to move again. He also accepted her reasons for moving us to yet another school. And he obviously financ
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by atlantic 3y ago
Thanks for that. My Mum was almost the exact opposite to yours, but there seems to be no name for her ailment. She would move house once a year, and she would throw away a large part of everything we owned with every move. In the new house,
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by atlantic 3y ago
Just speculation. But perhaps if certain conditions are met - in this case, a repetitive question - then GPT is allowed to raise the temperature setting, to avoid paraphrasing its previous answer.

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