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by atlantic 4y ago
Your comment is a good illustration of why people are abandoning the humanities. Universities have become utterly politicized. If I enrol in English Lit, that's what I want to learn about - not gender theory, or the class struggle.
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by atlantic 4y ago
Assange? I'm surprised he has not been mentioned in the comments thus far.
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by atlantic 4y ago
It would be much easier to make the case for UBI for particle physicists than for the general population.
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by atlantic 4y ago
Outstanding method for commenting regexes. I had no idea about (?x). Thanks for this - I'll adopt it going forwards.
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by atlantic 4y ago
Being able to start a subreddit is meaningless, when right-leaning subreddits are systematically shut down, or restricted to the point of becoming inoperative, as soon as they pass a certain threshold popularity.
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by atlantic 4y ago
I work at a small software business run remotely and staffed mostly by older workers (50+), myself included. There are very few processes to speak of. We meet a couple of times a week, we have one application to hand out tickets, and anothe
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by atlantic 4y ago
No offence, but as someone who worked in construction, shovelling is actually not simple at all. And working with a pick is even more complex. There are all kinds of optimizations you can introduce to avoid back injury and to maintain a ste
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by atlantic 4y ago
Surely there is a vertical limit to US airspace??
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by atlantic 4y ago
Use Paypal for payments only, and keep your balance at zero, by connecting your account to a credit card. If you keep any funds in Paypal, they will steal them sooner or later. There is no recourse.
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by atlantic 4y ago
September is quite well done. The others could do with some polishing.
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by atlantic 4y ago
No, it's use of cheap labor in Africa.
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by atlantic 4y ago
From the Daily Mirror newspiece: "His death is being treated as unexplained but not suspicious."
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by atlantic 5y ago
Your argument is applicable to all white-collar crime. And it's emotionally-based, because she looks like one of us, not like a stereotypical thug. But in fact, she lied to take money from investors - theft on a grand scale - even if s
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by atlantic 5y ago
Another problem with the methodology of this survey is that it seems to assume that friends, or lack thereof, stem from the type of education children are receiving. In fact, the issue has been the Covid lockdown/distancing, plus the r
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by atlantic 5y ago
I occasionally suffer from arthritis in my right hand. I've found that regular use of Baoding balls keeps it at bay.
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by atlantic 5y ago
When was the last time you asked for a mortgage? This is fairly standard nowadays, and has little to do with the size of your income. Banks prefer a mortgage in multiple names because it reduces their risk. If you're over 40, in my cou
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by atlantic 5y ago
Iain M. Banks. One of the overarching themes of his Culture novels is the tension between human and artificial intelligences, which are considered citizens in their own right.
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by atlantic 5y ago
Is it fair to blame the British? The country has 56 years of independent existence. At what point do you stop blaming the former colonial power, and take responsibility for your situation?
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Wuhan scientists planned to release coronavirus particles into cave bats(web.archive.org)
13 points by atlantic 5y ago|1 comments
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by atlantic 5y ago
If it's just a question of numbers, we should prioritize the survival of ants over our own. Not a good argument.
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by atlantic 6y ago
Something I find very helpful, to maintain productivity when working alone at home, is this: - open Notepad - at the top of the page, briefly describe your development goal - a concrete project or task - below the first line, break it down
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by atlantic 8y ago
> The idea I'm putting forward is that the language in which you communicate (and think) actually shaped your world-view. That's not a particularly original view. It's called the linguistic relativity or Benjamin-Whorf hyp
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by atlantic 8y ago
I'm a very big user of Google Books. They've digitized a large chunk of the world's libraries and made them freely available. Despite the thousand and one ways in which they have betrayed their original principles, I am perso
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by atlantic 8y ago
With 6500 languages to choose from, I'm sure there are more than a few incorporating a world-view which aligns with yours. Rather than create something entirely new, wouldn't it be more reasonable to delve into what is already on
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by atlantic 8y ago
Either the issue is too technical for the electorate, and you don't hold a referendum in the first place, or it's not, and you do, and then you live with the results. What you don't do is try to cancel the referendum if you d
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by atlantic 8y ago
I agree that one of the main problems with current politics is the "experts know best" mentality, of which the reduction of political issues to their economic components is one example. Scientists, economists and others should con
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by atlantic 8y ago
Well, microeconomic theory is not that complicated either. If you take a particular labour market, and increase the supply, the point of equilibrium for wages shifts downwards. The magnitude of the shift depends on the elasticity of demand.
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by atlantic 8y ago
Which begs the question: how do you identify unfair data? If the data is not false or inaccurate, you shouldn't tamper with it. On the other hand, if you already know at the outset the result that you would like your algorithm to produ
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by atlantic 8y ago
How do posts become dead? Is it because of downvotes, or due rather to some form of editorial intervention?
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by atlantic 8y ago
> Speech is like a weapon. They're not prohibited, and you're free to use them any way you see fit but you have to bear the consequences of misuse. Agreed. And there are laws on the books for this; there always have been. The m

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