batemanesque

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by batemanesque 13y ago
it's not a marketing problem. people outside a given field will, by virtue of their inexperience, be prone to more hubristic ideas they don't understand the impossibility of. combined w/ the tech scene's natural credulit
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by batemanesque 13y ago
yeah, if you want a clear, wide-ranging picture of what's happening in the world, this guy is definitely the source to turn to: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ-_BhM...
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by batemanesque 13y ago
most common figures on human trafficking are horrifically inaccurate, due to either A. grossly inaccurate sampling or B. efforts on behalf of parts of the evangelical & feminist communities to expand the definition, e.g. to define anyon
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by batemanesque 13y ago
except that he didn't leak only specific evidence of war crimes so much as a vast, unfiltered amount of secret (& potentially dangerous) information
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by batemanesque 13y ago
the US does have excessive sentencing in some cases but citing figures like 136 years isn't really evidence, as they represent a theoretical maximum sentence which isn't necessarily anywhere near what the suspect will actually rec
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by batemanesque 13y ago
on the subject: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple-fixes-threat-fr...
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by batemanesque 13y ago
why is everyone taking this thing so seriously? correct me if I'm wrong but it seems so vague as to not deserve the current hype, regardless of who Musk is
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by batemanesque 13y ago
this is interesting research but describing it as "a neurochemical amplifier of entrepreneurial behavior" is both premature & absurdly reductive - the equivalent of people referring to oxytocin as "the love hormone". and I don't see a s
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by batemanesque 13y ago
yeah, "rape" was a typo. but the "ghetto" is a creation of demographic changes imposed decades ago by systematically racist housing policy, not pop music
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by batemanesque 13y ago
thank you for mentioning this. "austrian economics", for all its flaws, has little to do w/ current austerity policies
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by batemanesque 13y ago
"ghetto culture"? "the gangsta rape craze"? seriously?
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by batemanesque 13y ago
do you have sources on "low dopamine responsivity", the ADD/ADHD connection, or the "nerd"/"creative" thing?
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by batemanesque 13y ago
very much doubt that only 5% of poor children don't get enough to eat. citation?
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by batemanesque 14y ago
here's something intended to serve roughly the same purpose for iOS/Mac: http://www.getbeamapp.com/
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by batemanesque 14y ago
that's true, but I think (could be wrong) that Axelrod presented his results as "definitive" given that no-one had simulated a comparable timescale before. it was certainly presented as such in the textbook I was reading from.
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by batemanesque 14y ago
according to Binmore ( http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/1/1/review1.html ) Axelrod didn't actually run his simulations for long enough - when they're repeated w/ a longer time horizon, tit-for-tat proves not to be the ideal strategy.
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by batemanesque 14y ago
this could channel money away from preventative care, which is far more cost-effective than funding later-stage individual treatments. $50 given for the purchase of malaria nets would save a lot more lives than a single operation.
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by batemanesque 14y ago
because there is a great deal of sexism across the whole culture; it's hardly an issue caused or presented by a single person.
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by batemanesque 14y ago
I agree but I myself cringed at the "true hacker" bit - it's not just "true hackers" (w/e that means) who cringe at Carnegie quotes so much as mature human beings in general.
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by batemanesque 14y ago
I don't think I've ever read anything purporting to offer insight that was quite as banal as this. "This was amazing to me, to realise that there are different ways things are done, and that the overlap of different methods and cultures can