chimpanzee

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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> A lot of gang violence is at parties and (sadly) funerals Nice just-so argument. Any basis in fact? Stats maybe?
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
- Gang-related homicides are less than 20% of all homicides in the US. - Gang-related homicides includes the homicides of innocent bystanders of gang-related shootings. - Over half of all homicide victims are non-white. These three facts ma
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Now it’s impressive.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> we understand God’s design The confidence is concerning.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Yes, that whole page you cited is simply tutorialism. And Mithril supports jsx. (Not to mention the advantages gained by avoiding JSX in favor of hyperscript) Might be best to actually use it in a small (or large) application of your own de
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Care to be specific? Is it the documentation you don’t like? Is it the example application’s design you don’t like? Or is it something about Mithril itself?
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
No argument there. But “better at” implies something inherent to React’s design rather than to its community.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> React is better at anything else at making [a web application] Mithril.js beats it in my opinion. I’m sure many developers would argue in favor of other libraries over React. React is simply the most popular.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
I did not.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> You emphasized systemic racism as being a major cause, but group differences can be both non-biologic and NOT related to systemic racism Firstly, I did not. I simply pointed out that racism can be systemic without individual contributi
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Why are you replying to my comment with this? It has no relevance to anything I wrote. But since you did, I’d suggest you consider not only the value system of the victims but also that of the perpetrators and the system itself. And also co
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Perhaps. I didn’t really read that much into GGP’s comment. I just wanted to point out that the comment does (minimally) rebut scientific racism. And by selectively omitting that rebuttal in the quote, GP makes it appear as if the denial of
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
you missed this relevant (albeit, unspecific) fragment when you extracted the quote: > with a millennia of discredited science to back it up
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
>> There’s little doubt that racism played a role in identifying children as gifted even though the label was based on supposedly objective criteria > Why has the LA Times settled on racist teachers as the only reason… Noti
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> In what way is losing income from quitting different in at-will vs the article? This question isn’t relevant to the claim that I am responding to. > Losing the income is a consequence, but it's the same consequence in both case
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
While your comment may shed some light on the nuances, gp’s point shouldn’t be disregarded. Losing income and health insurance is in fact amongst the most practical of repercussions one can experience upon losing a job.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> knowledge of good and evil This translation shouldn't necessarily be taken to mean solely awareness of morality . The knowledge of good and evil, being opposites, would in fact include the knowledge of everything . It's a
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
>> The reason the mail looks funny is that it predates the Internet; some of what you see is Arpanet mail, and some (like the first one) is internal ITS mail. Two more curiosities: - The sender’s address uses two at-signs, like NAME@@
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> it's because we have a "majority" (unless democracy is cheated) who voted for such things > other people still voted against that for their own reasons You are describing a direct democracy, not the representative dem
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
This saying is a virus.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> Old growth plateaus from a ton/acre of carbon perspective pretty quickly, and old growth forests aren’t meaningfully sequestering much new carbon in their soil. It reaches a steady state, with excess rotting. Almost no forests do,
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
If the building would be built anyways using more destructive processes or materials, then perhaps . There’s no guarantee that the building would have been built though. Sure most would probably be built anyways, but at some point the di
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> One could measure the tonnage of tree farm wood extracted per day against the estimated tonnage of the trees in a non-farm environment pretty easily I would think. Old growth has a far deeper and broader root system which is a relative
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> Once your post gets good attention, someone from OpenAI may close this loophole They’ve intentionally made this available as per the README found in /home/sandbox: “Thanks for using the code interpreter plugin! Please note th
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
If we are going to reduce philosophy to “subjective opinions”, then human knowledge actually includes “subjective opinions”. Being able to form and communicate clear, coherent, logical, consistent “subjective opinions” about the real world,
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Excellent. Thank you for the thoughtful response
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
Same. It reads like a podcast.
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
They are aware it is not a complete solution. As the article quotes him: > “The measures we have taken will not change the situation in one day. These things take time. But with these measures we are reaching a turning point” While some
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
> most customers don't care enough about the service or the cause for this to translate into more dollars. This is an important point as it reinforces the hierarchical structure. In an economy composed of these hierarchies, a custom
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by chimpanzee 2y ago
This is a wonderful summary, very informative. Thank you. Is there a book or other source you’d recommend on the subject of organizational roles and/or dysfunction?…ideally one written with similar clarity. One thing stood out to me: Y

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