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by cauch 3y ago
Another comment already reacted on that, but I want to bring it another example on how naive is the logic "being unbiased = reacting the same way when I swap element". If I say "women should not be allowed in this meeting&quo
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by cauch 3y ago
And the first one should be divided further into two categories: 1) committed deceiver that started working in this field for years and that somehow managed to not get caught (pretty rare). 2) fake science articles that get published but ha
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by cauch 3y ago
I have no sympathy for social science journals, but when you look at the details of this study, it's way less obvious that the rumor says it is. On the tens of articles they have proposed, the majority was rejected. The article "c
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by cauch 3y ago
Well, there is a difference between "fake science" and "tried to do correct science but ending being wrong". If the second is "fake science", then basically all that Newton has ever produced is "fake scien
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by cauch 3y ago
> Naturally, under market forces those socialists would pursue these more desirable arrangements. But why capitalists don't do so too? Why is there still capitalists living in countries with strong socialist policies like in Canada,
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by cauch 3y ago
Well, the comment you are answering to reacted to your comment saying "The conclusion is that most people simply prefer not to". I agree that the argument made in the article is a strawman argument: no wanting to live in a kibbutz
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by cauch 4y ago
Am I the only one that have the feeling of seeing the ridiculous argument more and more often: "We should not dismiss scientific research just because the findings don't align with YOUR politics and accuse the scientist to be obvi
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by cauch 4y ago
I 100% agree that NPR is biased by left-wing ideology. I don't really agree about "controlled by", that's like asking someone "who have you voted for" and after they said X, then saying "so you don't
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by cauch 4y ago
If the executive agencies are imposing their agenda rather than the "government agenda", then, they are not biased for being "government funded", they are being biased for being "funded". If the government has
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by cauch 4y ago
What you are saying is that NPR is left-wing, not "controlled by the government". "controlled by the government" means: left-wing when the government is left-wing, right-wing when the government is right-wing. Was NPR ri
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by cauch 4y ago
To get that out of the way, you can follow the smart process proposed by the person you answer to: If indeed the organization is biased because government funded, it means that they will never publish stories that the government is not happ
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by cauch 4y ago
> Not sure how to put it: if you built a model and simulation that has proven something that claims a certain approach might work - but fail to include a realistic plan of execution and “real life” into it It is not the case. The model s
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by cauch 4y ago
> Well, how should it be done then? You just explain what doesn’t work and explain that “nuclear for sure doesn’t work either”. You offer no viable path how to “go renewable”. I'm not sure I understand your question. You are saying
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by cauch 4y ago
If you want to "understand exactly how it works", then you need to build a realistic digital twin of the whole grid, and run tons of scenarios. Trying to conclude from such "high level" map is as ridiculous as trying to
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by cauch 4y ago
The German government did indeed messed up their transition. As has the French one (their nuclear park is in a dead end, while they are nowhere with new nuclear or new renewable). The French situation is in fact way dyer, but because they a
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by cauch 4y ago
I think that the point is that they don't pay any much more than people on the top left. There are people contributing in a real way to the livelihood of everyone else at the company. Some of them are in the bottom right. But, as point
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by cauch 4y ago
And the possibility that the author of this article has found himself surrounded by people like maerF0x0 ...
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by cauch 4y ago
Well, they are playing you as much as the folks on the bottom right: they are taking advantage of their technical competence to allow themselves of not playing by the social rules for their own selfish reasons. It is interesting that for so
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by cauch 4y ago
So, you are explaining that the person that says "they're a jerk" is, basically, a jerk. So you are saying "they're a jerk". So what you say should be apply to you?
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by cauch 4y ago
I agree and I think it's the point of this article: the ideal case is when the developer want to hear about the problems that need solving, aka need to understand people rather than focusing on understanding technology. I still feel th
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by cauch 4y ago
I think one problem is that it is a vicious circle: it is not always that the PM cannot involve devs early and trust them to make technical decisions, it's that sometimes, devs are not trustworthy because they are not understanding peo
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by cauch 4y ago
So from this definition, Richard Stallman is woke. Because his views on sexuality are the ones that are unusual, and when the debate arose, the people criticizing Stallman were denounced as morally bad people for "being against freedom
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by cauch 4y ago
they did not replaced Hemingway and Kipling BY A WOMAN. Sorry, I should have been clearer, but this sentence was completing the previous sentence. At the end, it's basically what I'm saying: they replace Conrad by Austen, and one
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by cauch 4y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying: you are _assuming_ because you want to find a "woke agenda". On the other hand, Steinbeck is also an author that a contemporary Mathilda-like kid would read, while they would not read Kipl
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by cauch 4y ago
But why did they choose the replace Conrad by Austen instead of replacing Hemingway or Kipling. Both Hemingway and Kipling are more controversial in certain circles (for Hemingway, cf. the Ken Burns' documentary, for Kipling, he is a j
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by cauch 4y ago
But they did not replace other reference to a male character by a female one. In particular, in the same paragraph, they did not replace Hemingway and Kipling (who are way worst in the "woke circle"). I feel that this is a good ex
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by cauch 4y ago
That sounds like Boris Johnson's defense (about the partygate) "yes, the investigation shown that people were hugging and partying right in front of my eyes, but you have no proof that my brain recorded these information, so you h
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by cauch 4y ago
What they have done is stupid and bad. But reducing it to "money or ideology" is a false dichotomy, there are other reasons that may have motivated their stupid choice, and it is probably a mix of all those. If it is ideology, how
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by cauch 4y ago
AFAIU, the Germany case is complicated: the non-Green government followed half of the Green parties plan (going out of nuclear) but half-assed the other half (compensate by expanding the required renewable sector) that was as important for
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by cauch 4y ago
There is a small methodology mistake. They ask people to self-evaluate and then call the people who evaluate themselves better than others as "top performers" and the people who evaluate themselves as not better than others as &qu

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