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by cgiles 7y ago
You are right about how change comes about. It is just that there is a time and place for it. I said that the role of the ideologue is to introduce new ideas to society, not to harp on them constantly when and where they want without restri
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by cgiles 7y ago
Of course. Every old idea was new once, and that is the role of the activist and ideologue: to introduce new ideas for public assessment. But these people would do well to remember that the bulk of the public they are trying to convince are
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by cgiles 7y ago
All true. But additionally, it is not quite right to say that morality and legality have nothing to do with each other. Legality, generally speaking, is the subset of morality that a sustainable majority has codified into objective laws. In
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by cgiles 7y ago
> it’s unfortunate that these type of issues are so divisive. The reason they are so divisive is because the loud people fall into two categories: 1) people who loudly and constantly complain about these issues and for whom no amount of
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by cgiles 7y ago
> I agree with the progressive arguments - that you can't just say "no politics in X", that politics are inherent to what you do. I would push back on this. In a trivial sense, politics is in everything, because everything
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by cgiles 7y ago
I love how many people in the UK talk about fundamental changes of the voting system like PR. In the US such a thing would require a constitutional amendment and would therefore be utterly impossible, particularly since the Republicans and
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by cgiles 7y ago
> the part where Labor has said they will end freedom of movement Yes, and it is still in their manifesto, live today. That is completely incompatible with the SM. In fact, that is precisely the issue that led TM to the WA that is curren
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by cgiles 7y ago
> "Jeremy Corbyn generally voted for more EU integration". If you're wondering who gave you the impression that the exact opposite of the truth was true To get a neutral source on this before I posted my last post, I went
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Cameron originally offered and called the referendum expecting a win for remain, to put the Tory lunatic fringe back in the box for a generation. They campaigned terribly, remain lost... All true, but even then there was the opportunit
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by cgiles 7y ago
> They made it perfectly clear that they wanted a deal with the customs union and single market. I see. How does this square with whipping against the SM and CU in 2017? How is declaring an intention to "keep the benefits" of S
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by cgiles 7y ago
> People being convinced by reasoned argument, and perhaps by skilled oratory is how the political process works. In utopia. But in reality, it is possible to simultaneously hold that many people vote for very stupid reasons, and that th
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by cgiles 7y ago
OK, I confess that no one really knows what is going on in the mind of Jeremy Corbyn, possibly not even the man himself. What is unquestioned fact is that the party is split on Brexit. Known facts about Corbyn are: - He has opposed expansio
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by cgiles 7y ago
Yes, I've seen that slide. In fact, it was exactly what I had in mind when I said to pytester below that "Barnier has been crystal clear about what is required of the UK and what the options are". Certainly you are right abou
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by cgiles 7y ago
> What do they actually want from the deal? The conventional wisdom is that the party is split between Remainers and Leavers, and that Corbyn himself is a closet Leaver who wants to leave so he can get out from under EU rules on state ai
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Their position is to negotiate another deal (if possible) and put it to a public vote, and put the existing deal to a vote if not. Yes, but even this very unclear proposition is a recent invention (last 3 months IIRC). Before that they
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by cgiles 7y ago
I have found the best source of information about Brexit, although it certainly has its own bias, to be eureferendum.com . They have long advocated for Efta/EEA membership as the first move for the UK before gradually disentangling fro
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by cgiles 7y ago
I have watched Brexit avidly but comfortably from across the pond for the last two years. Every PMQs Corbyn has got up and, in the earlier days, ignored Brexit entirely, and now, he complains about lack of clarity and progress by the Govern
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by cgiles 7y ago
I appreciate this explanation and will try to meet you halfway although I don't agree with all your conclusions. > Frankly, I value my safety over your convenience. That's what it comes down to. That is quite natural, although
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by cgiles 7y ago
I am not saying this applies to you and GP, but there are those of us who absolutely hate cyclists on the road at all (bike lanes are fine) because many of them have an entitled mentality and indeed, don't seem to care about their own
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by cgiles 7y ago
The easy way around this is to find out what journal the article was published in and look at its impact factor. If the impact factor is below 2, ignore it. If it is between 3 and 10, it is probably legit although it may not be the majority
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by cgiles 7y ago
> if you can find a correlation, it's at least worth a try to treat that as causation. It's much better than picking a random answer. No, it isn't. Or if it is, it's barely better, not much better. See my lengthier re
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Review articles are good, but I still recommend starting with textbooks before moving on to reviews. We are agreed on that. I shouldn't have said "out of date", which suggests what is in those books is invalid. What I sh
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by cgiles 7y ago
This is not bad advice, especially for people lacking the fundamentals, but these books are often way out of date and only cover topics that have been solidly established 20 years ago. I would suggest, especially for people interested in a
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Am I the only one wondering if this person is confusing cause and effect? No you are not. I work in this field and confusions of cause and effect are a daily occurrence. It is as dumfoundedd said, the reality is that aging is a complex
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by cgiles 7y ago
If the premise is that being a nice, team-oriented person and being a good programmer are not mutually exclusive, then of course I agree. And "Zuck was successful because he's an asshole" is something that seems like an obvio
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by cgiles 7y ago
Assuming that behavioral targeting does not work, which I do not know, several possible reasons: 1. They started tracking when behavioral targeting seemed like a reasonable hypothesis, and keep doing it now to build a dataset in case it mig
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by cgiles 7y ago
Speaking as a PhD, I can assure you that just because PhDs research ways to make a thing work does not mean it does. Nor are they, or those hiring them, immune to presenting their results in the most optimistic possible way. I am personally
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by cgiles 7y ago
What is wrong with what he said? I admit some parts were kind of silly, like the "worn out keys", but the overall theme was that he was basically just describing a somewhat romanticized version of a "Commando" from Atwoo
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by cgiles 7y ago
> Each developer should be replaceable. This attitude makes perfect sense from a managerial perspective. If workers are easily replaceable, they don't have negotiating leverage and you can pay them less, and you don't have to w
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by cgiles 7y ago
> we would need to: Determine how to measure real-world productivity [1] I submit to you that we would be having the same arguments no matter what study was done, because it could always be argued that whatever small-scale thing would be

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