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by bnralt 4y ago
Some people are much more likely to engage in bad behavior than others. The thing is, people who engage in bad behavior are also much more likely to be "whales," excessive turboposters who have no life and spend all day on these s
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Indeed, I've seen several subs put in new rules where certain topics aren't allowed to be discussed at all, because the administrators told them that the sub would get banned if the users went against the beliefs held by the admin
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> ACX here is essentially describing some key attributes of reddit. Each sub-reddit has it's own moderation team that decides what's acceptable and then you opt-in. This is pretty close to what ACX is proposing. This is like sa
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You should check out videos from inside Skylab if you haven't[1]. You can see people jogging around the perimeter like in 2001. It was so big that they worried that people who ended up in the middle would get stuck and have a hard time
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That's a really strange portrayal of Lyndon Johnson. Under Johnson we had numerous efforts to improve society that went beyond GDP - the creation of Medicare, creation of Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, the Publi
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Indeed. Here's a case I happened across recently that go almost no media attention[1]. Got almost no media attention. Guy that stalked and assaulted a woman was released early on parole. Proceeds to stalk woman again, is arrested, pros
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Indeed, the IEEE credits David Wheeler with the creation of the first assembly language, for which they awarded him a computer pioneer award in 1985[1]: > Wheeler’s “initial orders” allowed Edsac instructions to be provided in a simple l
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> There is an often-repeated statement that different quantum mechanical theories are equivalent. Worse than that, I'd say that "physical collapse" is usually presented to the general public as established scientific fact,
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Another problem with "just providing housing" is that there are a good number of these people who need a lot of support and have a hard time functioning in society. Here, they tried giving homeless residents housing vouchers to ap
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Here you have the school closest to you that you have the right to attend, and then you have the option of being on a lottery for schools that a further away. Looking at this[1], it seems like San Francisco is similar, unless I'm misun
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I guess it depends on where in America you are. Around here (city), walking and biking to elementary school is pretty common. When you get towards middle school and high school, the distances get larger, so more students take public transpo
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The other thing about this transaction is that it, like all crypto, ends up being inflationary if they are able to be used as currency and don't end up collapsing. IE, there's $100 worth of currency in the system. Everyone gives i
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>So what can a malignant narcissist to do if they aren't truly a victim, that will confer on them the most prized status, that of victim? The answer is simple: Join a traditionally oppressed community by lying about your experience,
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> A brain could encode "pleasure", and respond appropriately to that and other complex stimuli without there being anyone actually feeling that pleasure. It could, but would that be a more efficient way to interact with the wor
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> Is that not sufficient? It's Descartes' "I think therefore I am". Qualia are just experiences, so if you experience something then they exist. If you experience something, some experience exists. It does not mean th
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> Nobody (that I'm aware of) suggests that there is an experience within the electronic circuit, despite the fact that it "senses" different frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. The circuit is qualia-free. Your tho
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Even foreigners living in a country among the locals people often miss a lot. That shouldn't be surprising, we miss a ton of stuff even in our own country while speaking the same language. Have you ever heard someone from your country
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The thing is, most people in most cities are living for themselves, not a global audience. Even a place like New York isn't all Broadway and haute couture, and there are a number of interesting neighborhoods that are generally overlook
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> For people unfamiliar with a subject (students) I think Wikipedia pages are misleading, poorly organized, and sometimes wrong. This is true even if you're reading works from experts in a field. For instance, Robert Hoyland, Fred D
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> Boris Johnson, playing the role of Henry Kissinger, killing an early peace deal and keeping this mess going. Putin might have been looking just to keep NATO out of Ukraine. This is odd revisionism. You can look back at articles that to
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I was just reading Sir Walter Scott's Waverley where he suggest that this is the main reason for a classical education as well: > Edward would throw himself with spirit upon any classical author of which his preceptor proposed the p
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The Russians were also attacking from other directions, resulting in Kyiv being partly surrounded for quite some time. And as close the Russians got, the fog of war made it seem like they were even closer. One the night of February 25th - o
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Story from a local school: Parents of the more advanced math students in the grade requested some sort of more advanced math opportunities for their kids. School didn't provide any. When several of the kids used a more advanced math co
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Questioning him at the tournament would have at least given Niemann a chance to prove his innocence.
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I saw a Twitter post the other day showing the orbit of planets in the solar system that included Ceres. There were tons of replies saying "What's Ceres? Did they discover a new planet?" People would probably have a better id
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If people wanted to see someone's skill at games like chess, it wouldn't be too difficult. There are plenty of historical pre-cursors to modern chess (like courier chess) or regional variations (Chinese chess). All of these are&#x
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Apparently Mercator wasn't the original projection they used[1]. But they found that it worked better for giving people directions because it preserved route angles in higher latitude regions (it's benefit for navigation is the re
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_Every_ map projection distorts reality in some way. There's simply no way to accurately portray a sphere as a two dimensional object without some trade-offs. The Mercator projection has some useful trade offs, which is why Google maps
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I think this overlooks the biggest issue. It's not just that Twitter (and most online forums) aren't representative of the public at large. It's that these sites are driven by a tiny number of hyper-online turbo posters, many
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> Like so many problems in the US, this one is entirely self-inflicted: you can get a liberal arts degree for virtually nothing in much of the rest of the developed world. Degree attainment is much lower than the U.S. for much of the res

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