bigbacaloa

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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Why do you jail fentanyl addicts and not alcoholics?
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Filtering is important. Remembering everything is an obstacle to remembering the key things. Too much data is as useless as no data.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
It's an incredibly dumb idea. Imposing living in the past because the older generation can't handle change.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
You don't have to drive
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
This is simply making the (lack of) ethics of engineers into policy.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
There are engineering ethics courses?
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
If you win consistently in a casino, then you are cheating, and the casino will not pay out. First claim is self evident to anyone who understands the odds on these games. Second is self evident to anyone who understands the gambling busine
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Casinos are spiritually in the same place as drug dealers and pimps. Profiting off weakness and vice. If you like spending all your dime on drugs, dice and so forth then fine, but let's not pretend the guys selling it are fine upstandi
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
No one manipulates stock offerings either. The SEC is just too good at it's job.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Unfortunately the consequences aren't silly. No more scihub will be a problem.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
I don't enjoy Metallica because their playing is sloppy and their rhythm is bad. It might be part of the cause is that they aren't as good musicians as their fans think. It might just be that I don't like them.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Nobody under the age of 30 learns from books anymore.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Poster was illustrating the point being made.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
I have a strong accent and when I call thebyoical government/bank phone that requires voice responses it typically is hopeless. This is a problem with all such automated systems, although it is often also a problem with people ...
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
"faithful recreation of human bullshitting" would be more accurate.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Glib answer is that Trump came and went.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Spain has been asking for this for decades
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Franco was in charge when this was allowed.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
In the US South when I was growing up it was common for white parents to whip their kids with a belt. However, in every culture where this kind of beating is common there are parents who do not engage in it, who recognize that violence is t
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Government should not usurp parental functions. Stay the hell out of my house.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Ethics has little importance in contemporary business activity.
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
Now you can give the NSA all your passwords at the click of a button!
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by bigbacaloa 3y ago
This is a trivial claim of limited interest mathematically.
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
The converse argument is far more plausible.
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
"Developers don’t come cheap, and until tax year 2022, these companies could fully expense those costs as R&D rather than having to amortize them over multiple years." Maybe stupidly high salaries shouldn't be considered
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
Marketing is institutionalization of the ethics and honesty of the proverbial used car salesman. It's sad to see how much of the population celebrates it.
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
"Fuck every math department. Every fucking math teacher, professor, and administrator who buys into this math reform shit can fuck right off." Essentially no mathematician buys into this stuff. In general professional mathematicia
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
Kids don't need "support at home from parents". Very few parents are competent to teach kids math properly (even those who think they are). Kids do better learning from someone else, better still if the someone else is a prof
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
Dumbing education down in the name of democracy is the best way possible to promote authoritarianism. Guarantee a uniformly uneducated populace with a small exception for the children of the rich and elite.
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by bigbacaloa 4y ago
This is the essence of NIMBY reasoning.

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