carapat_virulat

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Primordial Abstraction(jacobitemag.com)
1 points by carapat_virulat 8y ago|0 comments
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by carapat_virulat 8y ago
If you choose to switch the track to kill 1 innocent to save 5, you open the door to things like a society where 1 innocent healthy person is killed to harvest the organs and save 5 innocents. The calculation is the same.
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by carapat_virulat 8y ago
The Knife Media usually does analysis about how much spin different newspapers add to current news stories: https://www.theknifemedia.com/world-news/pompeo-kim-jong-un-...
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
I am sure scientists creating a half-chimp half-human monster will make the general population trust them more and stop doubting their sanity and just put all other decision in their hands /s.
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
But the point of the original "manifesto" was that google makes the claim that uneven distribution of men and women is due to discrimination, and the "manifesto" explains how a 100% fair and non-discriminatory selection
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
As far as I understood the original manifesto was about the average population characteristics of currently existing men and women, so those studies shouldn't have anything to do with Evo-psych, I mean they would be valid even if evolu
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
That's because she was dead and posthumous Nobel Prizes are not awarded. Not because she was a woman.
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
Women aren't a minority.
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
>Are there any countries that could serve as an counter-example? That is, has numerical parity between men and women in tech ever been achieved without implementing targeted diversity policies? As far as I know in poor unequal societies
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
People deserve politeness, not respect.
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
Yes, women are in average higher in trait agreeableness[1][2]. This is well studied cross-culturally. There's still a huge overlap between men and women in most traits so it's not useful as a rule of thumb of how people as individ
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
I have to say, I am impressed at how journalists are able to find new ingenious ways to write whole articles about the attacks without mentioning Islam or why it was perpetrated even once. On a more serious note, we westerners are probably
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by carapat_virulat 9y ago
I don't think there is. I've been trying to move from vim to Emacs for a few weeks unsuccessfully, mostly for org-mode and all the agenda stuff. I still use emacs for org-mode but I don't feel comfortable using it for normal
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Mindfulness meditation helps women but not men, first study suggests(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by carapat_virulat 9y ago|0 comments
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
Reddit doesn't really work like a traditional forum. In a traditional forum everybody has the same visibility, in reddit it's very easy to create like-minded communities because anything controversial gets out of view very fast.
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
Well that depends, are you a singer? Then it's probably a good idea to communicate with other singers beyond the local bar where you sing now and then. Not saying that everybody should start a blog or that most blogs are not garbage wr
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
After all, communists are the best managers of capitalism.
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
Nice article but parts of it can be misleading. The article mentions the "fake news" polemic but the example presented are targeted ads with no fake information.
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
Was it the problem calling wolf? Or was the problem calling wolf and then devouring all the hens as soon as you got in power? People are just confused with of all the rhetoric against war while the games continue in the Middle East. The war
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
> - The decline of trades unions. That's directly linked to globalization. When you can easily move your factory to Mexico or China trade unions lost all power.
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by carapat_virulat 10y ago
I think those kinds of plots only make sense when you lay more or less in the middle. A political position is not just how you position yourself in an objective predeterminate political space but also how you define that political space.
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I guess once we have thrown away universal empathy we may as well throw away the natural numbers, the concept of a line or using categories to designate things we have never seen. I mean what's the point of calling a table a table if I
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
The middle ground doesn't exist in itself. To have a middle ground you need to have a previous political position from which you can measure it, the illusion is believing that you can find a universal ideological space from which you c
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Everything is possible, except any small change in capitalism. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0vRYWtcOU
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Is this really relevant in any way? If celebrities want to play the internet game where everybody can answer they should get used to people complaining about insubstantial stuff. All these mainstream culture wars are getting more and more b
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
I can't take seriously any Mars project that sends people without robots paving our way there first. It sounds like romantic marketing with no real long-term expectation. As the article says one of the main reasons is to inspire people
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
It seems very hard to get people involved in a project like that in the current world, there is no common enemy to unite us and even if it's possible most people feel that they won't be a part of it in any meaningful sense. And I
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Many of the seminal writers of what the author calls The American cult of political correctness in universities, like Derrida, Foucault, de Bevoir, Butler, Adorno have all been influenced by Nietzsche. I haven't read any of those autho
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Everybody is eating from the trashcan all the time [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18qD9hmU9xg
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by carapat_virulat 11y ago
Because western Buddhism has no moral commitments and that makes it a good fit for postmodern mentality, as in you can do whatever you want as long as you keep the necessary distance. It's a way to get inner peace without having to cha

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