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by cowpig 5y ago
> I watch the Russia Today (RT) streams on YouTube. It's good to have a differing point of view. How does watching a state-controlled propaganda channel offer a "differing point of view"? Isn't the goal to be exposed
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by cowpig 5y ago
Someone close to me read this early in their career and it had a strong impact on him. I think its effect on his professional life was disastrous. He is a brilliant engineer whose work ethic is deplorable. He only gets things done if he&#x2
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by cowpig 5y ago
My rule of thumb is that the more people who are educated on a topic agree on something, the less likely it is they're wrong. It happens, but not very often. Additionally, it would be very surprising to learn that lockdowns are ineffec
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by cowpig 5y ago
If the authors are going to argue that the common conclusion among epidemiologists is wrong, I am going to be more skeptical of their paper. The fact that they discarded 83 of 117 possible studies, including large notable studies that disag
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by cowpig 5y ago
Monadical | Multiple Engineering roles | Full-time | Remote | monadical.com We're a fully-remote development consultancy that is growing quickly. Looking for developers with experience in Unity/gaming, Rust, frontend/React, a
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by cowpig 5y ago
I find it odd that a project to "standardize the NDA" doesn't let me view the template anywhere on the website directly, without giving them personal information
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by cowpig 5y ago
In my view this is an entire debate based on a ridiculous assumption, that a "liberal vs conservative" axis is something that usefully maps to real-world phenomena. I think the entire debate is just the politics of a first-past-th
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by cowpig 5y ago
Is this related to the author, or just something you personally think is interesting/worth reading?
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by cowpig 5y ago
> Education predicts liberal attitudes on issues such as immigration, Brexit and the death penalty, those with less education tending to adopt conservative positions. There is a crucial implication for universities. Because universities
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by cowpig 5y ago
> I recommend reading Tribe by Sebastian Junger I think there were some helpful ideas in that book, but also the author took a lot of liberty in the interpretation of data he cited. For example, he spends a lot of time discussing lower
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by cowpig 5y ago
> This is also an incentive for both parties to pursue a career lest you fall into poverty after divorce. Strikes me as a negative.. raising kids is a lot of work
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by cowpig 5y ago
I hope the practice of using non-adversarial processes spreads to spaces that really need it like the our legislative system.
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by cowpig 5y ago
What's the irony?
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by cowpig 5y ago
This seems like a thought process that can easily rationalize any kind of illegal or immoral activity as "rational," given what you can get away with. Seems that if society at large thinks this way then we are all much worse off.
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by cowpig 5y ago
I tried to look at his references but they are in small type in on slides that are non-copyable and non-linking. So in practice, at least for me, the author cited no references.
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by cowpig 5y ago
I see your definition of "legitimate" is "in their own best interest regardless of legal or moral legitimacy"
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by cowpig 5y ago
I agree in principle but I also feel like there needs to be a minimum threshold of effort or topical relevance in a comment or the discussion becomes a kind of Gish Gallop[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallo
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by cowpig 5y ago
And did you know that you need to add or remove hydrogen ions to change the pH of a solution? Anyway, back to the conversation we were having
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by cowpig 5y ago
What is the purpose of doing research? If the purpose is to push human knowledge forward, then it seems backwards not to publish everything. Personally, I've found it difficult in my various careers to date when I've been put in p
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by cowpig 5y ago
> There are fields where entire research groups routinely harvest preliminary ideas from graduate student publications, and then finish them and rush to publication before the student realizes what's happened. Can you provide a sour
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by cowpig 5y ago
What solution? The DeFi space is a lot worse than the traditional economy by just about any measure right now: inequality, theft, fraud, instability, market manipulation, etc are all way worse.
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by cowpig 5y ago
I immediately uninstall the media players that come on any linux distro and install vlc, which is a magnificent piece of software
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by cowpig 5y ago
This is an article full of interesting data, but the opening statement made me laugh: > At Rebel Fund, our job is to invest in the top 3–4% startups in each new Y Combinator (YC) batch
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by cowpig 5y ago
Unfortunately Amazon reviews, at least in my experience, mean very little any more. There are just too many marketing firms that specialize in messing with them. Anecdotal example: a few months ago I bought an electric shaver that was very
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by cowpig 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by cowpig 5y ago
Monadical | Multiple Engineering roles | Full-time | Remote | monadical.com We're a fully-remote development consultancy that is growing quickly. Looking for developers with experience in Unity/gaming, Rust, frontend/React, o
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by cowpig 5y ago
I believe that also your internal chemistry is out of whack and needs to rejigger itself back to the normal equilibrium edit: according to this page[1] there's a combination of things: - an inflammatory response - irritated stomach lin
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by cowpig 5y ago
> "All flight attendants, regardless of how you have obtained your pairing, will be receiving 200% pay for any pairing that touches Dec. 28 through Jan. 4," the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA said in a statement. I'm
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by cowpig 5y ago
I believe the opposite of what the author is saying: it's an important part of the way our society functions to shame people who make personal choices at the expense of everyone else. We're hard-wired to care about social status,
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by cowpig 5y ago
To be clear: I definitely think this kind of study is valuable , I don't think it should be in the news, unless the headline is something like "small study shows promise"

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