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by bambataa 7y ago
A screenshot would be great. I'm not sure what the output would look like and therefore if it's something worth trying. Though as you say it's only a one liner...
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by bambataa 7y ago
Isn’t the overwhelming scientific consensus on the harm we’re doing enough to justify collective action? It seems to be the only thing of sufficient scale to address the harm you’re concerned about. I am struggling bc to understand your pri
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by bambataa 7y ago
I guess that’s the downside of paying people as little as you can get away with.
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by bambataa 7y ago
Probably not less difficult but definitely similar. I tried TIS-100 but it just feels like it exercises the part of my mind that does programming. It’s not relaxing or unwinding (for me).
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by bambataa 7y ago
Oh no, not at all. I just mean questioning why he felt the need to be taller, rather than accepting the need and moving straight to the technical “how” part of what operation to get.
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by bambataa 7y ago
Well, putting aside your refusal to spell out what you actually think, in the 20th century the major social groups agitating for rights have been women, black people and LGBT people. I would hope and expect that they all come above short an
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by bambataa 7y ago
I want you to set out the “unwritten hierarchy” as you see it, and if possible why you think it’s in that form. “How do you see” is admittedly not that clear. I just want to know what it is.
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by bambataa 7y ago
How do you see this hierarchy? I’ll be frank - it seems to be the groups of people who have been most marginalised for centuries or longer, and the amount of time we’ve spent talking about them is far less than they’ve been oppressed.
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by bambataa 7y ago
So what was your intention?
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by bambataa 7y ago
“Cause d’jour” (du jour) is rather dismissive. Why do you say this? Do you think that there are too many groups clamouring for their rights? Why do you think this might be the case?
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by bambataa 7y ago
Where do you think his insecurity about his physical appearance might otherwise come from?
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by bambataa 7y ago
The writer touched on this point when she mentioned him analysing the physical world and her analysing social structures. It seemed that he approached this as merely a technical problem he needed to fix rather than analysing the underlying
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by bambataa 7y ago
I'm not sure that demonstrating that Major used prorogation to avoid scrutiny of a scandal really changes much. So we're agreed that PMs prorogue Parliament for abnormally long periods when they want to avoid awkward questions? Wh
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by bambataa 7y ago
This prorogation is significantly longer than usual (see: https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-parliament... ). It is usually for less than a week and this is for up to 34 days. The Government has fail
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by bambataa 7y ago
Can’t you just serve yourself less food rather than deliberately wasting a quarter of it?
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by bambataa 7y ago
Beorg works very nicely. I recommend it.
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by bambataa 7y ago
Something I’ve always wondered about corporate America: on Apple rumour sites and so on it’s often breathlessly reported that all staff leave has been cancelled for whatever dates. What happens if eg you’d promised to take your kids to Disn
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by bambataa 7y ago
Have you considered that, rather that having some kind of sinister intent, other people simply have a different opinion on whether a particular idea is new or just a reworking, whether a previous idea is applicable to a current context, etc
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by bambataa 7y ago
It's not clear to me how you can say that a new heuristic is "far inferior", nor how you can say that the academics lack a good framework but you presumably don't. How do you know what a good framework would look like? I
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by bambataa 7y ago
If you're smart and capable then you should also have sufficient social skills for people not to think you're a pain in the ass.
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by bambataa 8y ago
If by partying you mean clubbing, possibly with drugs, I think it’s fairly common for people to get super into it at first and then gradually pull back. But I suppose it’s usually presented as an underlying addiction to whatever drugs rathe
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by bambataa 8y ago
In my experience Dostoevsky novels can be a bit of a slog at the beginning because nothing much happens and it’s lots of character analysis. Then about halfway through some significant event happens and the rest is absolutely fascinating be
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by bambataa 8y ago
As someone else said, it's mostly a figleaf because in practice the government does everything an ID requires, just in roundabout ways. For tax stuff everyone has a National Insurance number (I think assigned at birth?) so in a sense e
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by bambataa 8y ago
[sweeping generalisations alert] I think that a lot of British people have a set of beliefs about their country that are mostly inaccurate and increasingly divergent from reality. One is that other countries look up to Britain and are keen
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by bambataa 8y ago
Well, to turn that around, what makes you sure that capitalism is working correctly here? With respect, you appear very reluctant to commit to any economic observation, yet also seem confident that basic Economics 101 applies to executive r
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by bambataa 8y ago
- I have no idea. It could be a rise in competence - it could be a rise in the size of businesses, bringing a commensurate rise in productivity (the average worker is also more productive, not sure if their salary reflects that though). Act
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by bambataa 8y ago
Do you believe that the rise in executive pay we've been over the last few decades reflects a rise in executive competence?
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by bambataa 8y ago
Honestly, I thought this was the weakest point of an otherwise very interesting interview. Where is the evidence that it is the baby boomers who are viewing climate change in dystopian terms? For most of their lives it has been a bad thing
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by bambataa 8y ago
That applies if you think of a soul as ‘just another mind’, but my understanding is that souls are usually seen as different. What I find problematic with them is that they can be defined to be whatever you need to get out of a logical fix
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by bambataa 8y ago
What is 'best' if not ideological?

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