baked_ziti

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by baked_ziti 7y ago
I totally agree. I actually find this whole discussion encouraging because it indicates to me that people are trying to find that middle ground by talking the whole thing out.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
On the other hand, the inability to be blunt is a serious deficiency and indicates you're sacrificing honesty somewhere.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
> "you're just plain wrong" can be "I don't think that's correct" or "I feel this may be mistaken". I read these sorts of communications as passive-aggressive and patronizing 100% of the time.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
> the philosophy and sociology of science are a VERY different thing from "the humanities". I'm not sure that they are. But my point is simply that accusing scientists of not being self-reflective is silly, accusing them o
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
> tried to raise some more philosophical questions with them. Like what? Genuinely interested, not seeking to argue.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
> They do not think about which hypotheses are promising because their education has not taught them to do so. Such self-reflection would require knowledge of the philosophy and sociology of science, and those are subjects physicists mer
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
> I think this gets to perhaps a main confusion that is happening. I often see emotional labor referred to as the management of other people’s emotions, or doing things so that other people stay happy and stay comfortable. This strikes m
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
It would be reasonable I think, to extend to the woman who devised the concept enough charity of interpretation to believe that she is capable of understanding the nuance involved in discussions and arguments of this sort.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
One out of every four people on earth is Muslim. I don't think they're in any danger of losing their cultural relevance or influence.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
It's not a gap, it's an absence, and the deficiencies incurred by eating zero fruits and vegetables are not analogous to a b-12 deficiency (which most meat eaters also suffer, just to a lesser extent than vegans). These deficie
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
This is a one hundred year old study which literally states on the first page: > These studies were supported in part by a research grant from the Institute of American Meat Packers. Inuit populations suffering lower incidence of heart d
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
> "losing the ability to process sugar" seems really sketchy, because those are all critical cellular processes that don't just go away. I have no idea as to the validity of this anecdote but the idea isn't unpreceden
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
Eliminating carbohydrates from your diet means eliminating vegetables from your diet. I'm highly skeptical of the claim that any such diet can ever be healthy in the medium to long term. I fail to see how malnourishment isn't
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
Housing is perfectly reasonably priced in all sorts of places. Because demand is lower. Because jobs are fewer and the salaries for those jobs are lower. This isn't a coastal elites vs. working-class midwesterners issue, either.
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
I'm very pleased to have antibiotics, indoor plumbing, and climate control, but that isn't relevant. Being priced out of the housing market, or having difficulty finding an affordable rental are life-diminishing prospects. It&#x
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
Decades of stagnant wage growth combined with decades of the "charge what the market will bear" mantra ensuring you're paying the absolute maximum you can possibly tolerate have resulted in people earning less with which to b
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
Pardon me if you're being sardonic and I'm not detecting it, but you're pointing out the flaw is this form of criticism yes?
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
In addition, this kind of project is emblematic of the hobbyist nature (and origin) of linux. When that's no longer possible, the fun and interest, for me at least, is dead. And when I get gently pushed into some kind of software sta
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by baked_ziti 7y ago
Is this appropriate behavior for managers? It seems not to me, but my experience is limited. It seems to me that "convincing someone to change" is inappropriate in just about, if not every, context and that being a manager doesn