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by brenschluss 8y ago
Not pragmatists in general. More like: resisting social change in the name of “pragmatism” is a very old pattern. Imagine a dialogue like this before 1967: “Hey friend, I’m just being a pragmatist — interracial marriage is illegal. You coul
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by brenschluss 8y ago
As a “pragmatist”, you support the status quo. You place agency not on society’s need to change, but on the individual within that society. This means that you seem incapable of being rational and critical of societal norms. Your independen
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They exist in NYC. https://projects.newyorker.com/story/nyc-dollar-vans/
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Prediction: this will shut down in 2.75 years.
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2) is just absolutely incorrect. Buildings are renovated and incoming services changed all the time. Clearly you know very little about physical infrastructure other than its translation into $.
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This is a great idea. However - how would you define a partial cure? Or reward improvements to a cure? A cancer drug that works 60% of the time? 80% of the time? Etc.
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Yeah, if you’ve never pushed Photoshop and think it’s just a photo editing software then it’s understandable that you’d feel this way.
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Also see: Finnagans Wake, which is a loop of a story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegans_Wake
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Architect here. I also have a background in computer science. What made you switch from architecture to software development?
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I thought that technically the LL then owes the IRS in imputed income? (Income based on market-rate rental values)?
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by brenschluss 8y ago
> Also, if my frame of discussion isn't relevant to you then why did you respond in the first place? You know, you’re so right. Why waste my time with someone who clearly doesn’t care about the core issue at hand?
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Looks like we have a category mismatch. You seem to care about the classification and definitions of questions present in the survey. I care about finding ways for men (myself included) to understand and think about their blind spots regard
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Even if there are a few number of offenders, there’s a system that supports those offenders/distrusts those who reports incidents. Otherwise, how would you explain why this happens? Logically, the women to whom something happened would
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Let’s I do something to you and you really don’t like it, but I think it’s okay. Imagine I say, “Why are you misperceiving my actions as harassment? You seem to have an epistemological problem.” What’s your response?
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The fact that a legalistic definition is required for you to understand how an unprofessional gesture is perceived by women is striking. Do you think it would be helpful to have a rule book for men that exactly stipulates what kind of inter
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The only people who don’t like race bring “brought into” a topic are white. For the rest of us, race is already here.
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by brenschluss 8y ago
I don't trust your anecdote; I think you just made it up, since you have not presented any proof. I think you are trying to prove a point by making up stories. Therefore I distrust your conclusions and arguments, not only because I dis
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Which places, and is this personal experience? Every place around the world I've been to has been incredibly hospitable -- and the more besieged by war, or poverty, the more hospitable places tend to be. More so than your average stree
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Here’s an experiment proving this idea: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607841/a-single-autonomou...
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What do you think about this article? https://www.technologyreview.com/s/607841/a-single-autonomou...
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> This paper is arguing that in addition to sexual selection's first order directional effect, there's an overlaid second order effect on variability, and the argument makes sense. Male reproductive success is already highly va
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by brenschluss 8y ago
I agree with you that there is a difference in variability between generations. I agree with you that the variability has been reduced in the second generation. It seems that we both disagree with the original paper, then, as it states &quo
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by brenschluss 8y ago
> The desirability of an individual is often strongly influenced by heritable traits. I don't disagree with you, but that is not what the paper states, and that is not how the paper defines desirability. I am not saying that the pap
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by brenschluss 8y ago
Actually, I change my statement upon rereading the paper: If offspring is "distributed the same way as the parent subpopulation", then B12 would only produce B12. In other words, if subpopulation B11 is chosen by A, then B11 would
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by brenschluss 8y ago
This is helpful, thank you. > If B2 ever got to reproduce, it would have B2 offspring, while B12 would produce B11 or B12. Okay, this is clear regarding the paper’s assumption of heritability of variability. Assuming that variability is
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by brenschluss 8y ago
I'd understand your assumption but think that it is incorrect, since the paper defines desirability not as genetic healthiness but as a mechanism for sex A to select sex B: "The actual magnitudes of these desirability values are a
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by brenschluss 8y ago
I am examining the paper and attempting to understand it based on its arguments. You are critiquing my argument based on what I am saying, not my method. I argue that you are attempting to frame my critique of the paper based on the desired
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>The effect doesn't apply to female children, since a female mammal cannot have 200 offspring in her lifetime, but a male mammal certainly can. From the paper: "Note that this theory makes no assumptions about differences in me
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However, that's not how the paper defines variability. I did think for a second that your definition was the case, and variability was a function of phenotypical expression, but it (as defined in the paper) is strictly about the statis
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by brenschluss 8y ago
> You will have much less variability of fruit type in bag 2 because you used color selection to fill it Yes, I completely agree with you! You will have much less variability. However, that's not what the paper argues. The paper arg

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