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by bbctol 10y ago
Man, I'm starting to hate elaborate fantasies about how Trump will finally go down almost as much as I actually hate Trump, and that's a pretty high bar.
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IIRC they've basically admitted Peter Gregory's hatred of college and general zen weirdness is based on Thiel.
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I would say the ACLU is by definition anti-government, though. Not in the sense that they want it destroyed, just in the sense that they'll always be the opposition to the executive branch. So they're "anti-Trump," but n
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They'd sue the police department. The ACLU sues police departments for violations of civil rights constantly.
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I don't think the argument is "people should do nothing today because they did nothing yesterday." I think the argument is "Just because you're doing something today, doesn't mean your organization doesn't
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Those three almost always go hand in hand in hand.
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If the goal is to test the extent that checks and balances can be circumvented/authoritarianism implemented, then showing up in protest is absolutely effective, especially when it pressured CBP officials to follow the court order. At a
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I worry about that as well... and don't think companies coming together is going to solve that issue.
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And she married the man who gave his name to the Voynich manuscript! What a strange, small world history can be.
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In general, I think the linking of good with heroism is a net negative for society. Articles like these are a reminder of how much space there is to redefine heroism, or abandon it altogether, and how important it is to remember the goo
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For people who doubt the effectiveness of calling: start small, and work your way up. Local politicians are far more easy to influence than people think. I've known a lot of people who've worked in the office's of state senat
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To what are you referring when you say "postmodernism"? Which postmodernists have you read?
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It's weird how people who claim to like exploring "edgy" ideas never doubt the concept of property. Rich students exist on the largesse of grad students, not the other way around; the institution they attend would not exist w
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At elite schools in the US, the money spent on college is not the significant gap between those from wealthy or poor families, but the money spent before college (i.e., the background experiences they come in with) and the money spent out
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Orwell's work beside 1984 is better (in the sense of more complex/relevant to our time, not as entertaining.) In particular, his writing on the Spanish Civil War has seemed relevant today: "I know it is the fashion to say tha
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I think a lot about the tension inherent in science; we do science because we have a desire for the truth, which for many scientists is a deeply emotional and visceral hunger, a need for knowledge and a joy of discovery... but we do science
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They updated their site for the acquisition... Meta's been around for years, it wasn't just created (it was named Sciencescape until last year). They curate papers for scientific researchers, use some NLP and more specialized algo
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Hopefully, this is just another step towards a better scientific publishing system. Beall's list had flaws, and people rightfully didn't trust a list made by a single guy without oversight, but it existed to fill an important need
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Probably. The question is whether or not the US can still negotiate a better trade deal on our terms, but China will definitely seize this chance to propose their own less-drama version for other Pacific countries.
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One thing a lot of people don't realize about the modern concept of the "social contract" is that it depends on the capacity to exit, which requires the existence of the frontier. John Locke's idea of government wasn&#
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Therein is part of the issue: Silicon Valley is built on software, and software development is very different from medicine. Not trying to say one is harder or easier, but one is a much more unconstrained space of creation in which a really
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Technology is also a force multiplier, removing the need to keep soldiers happy. The future is a couple billionaires with a drone army to keep the rest of us at bay while we thankfully starve.
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Yes, but the link isn't actually about that.
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Title might want to be altered: this is a description of a specific research paper analyzing Chinese online propaganda campaigns, not as general an analysis as the title indicates. Interesting stuff!
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I like this news; as someone coming from an abstract, non-programming background, Keras is gorgeous.
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How often is often? I've never seen that in my life.
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A lot more big picture/consumer-facing innovation comes out of the US, because that's bolstered by cultural influence, but South Korea's manufacturing innovation is insane. iPhones may be designed in America, but the componen
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I tell people to "read enough Taleb that you understand why you shouldn't always listen to Taleb"
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Science, by definition, makes no statements on way or another about what is unobservable. Some scientists may ridicule the concept, other scientists may revere that which they believe in, but science does not make claims about that entire f
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This whole journey has been so weird. Why does this guy care so much about Google? Did Google turn him down for prom? Was "Google" the last word of his dying grandfather? He's been on a years-long vision quest to... be an emp

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