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by cristianpascu 9y ago
If the inequality is artificial, it might be that an artificial intervention will reverse it. If it's not, than so God help us. A democratically "elected" Robin Hood will probably just take a lot from the rich and give a litt
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
No, I am not suggesting that. Some, not few, women speak up and take action. What's then the difference between women who do and those who don't? Especially if they have the same background. What about the women that, in the same
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
That question is one step away from reading into my statements something like 'women should pay to work in IT'. Knock yourself out!
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
Although that's not a good example, I agree that there are cases where you need some "inside knowledge" from the group you're targeting. By products I don't mean only software. It could be a social project, or anyth
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
Diversity seems to be just a slogan these days. There's few contexts where gender, ethnicity or race really matter as specific traits to bring to the table. And I wonder if human empathy is not sufficiently capable of overcoming those
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Elon Musk gets personal about his 'terrible lows' and 'unrelenting stress'(cnbc.com)
7 points by cristianpascu 9y ago|1 comments
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
Not only the children don't get to see you, but neither your partner. American nightmare, I'd say. Relationships break, and all the grass in the world will not make up for it.
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
The title! It's not only about science, but anything taught in classrooms. As a parent myself, I don't want to live in a world where public education is compulsory and I, as a parent, have nothing to say about what the public scho
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
ID movement uses information theory to correlate the complexity of such mechanisms (each part having specific components and being in the right place at the right time) with their probability of realization. The amount of information presen
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
He says he's sorry about thinking that free speech automatically makes the world a better place. He aknowleges a personal mistake about the human nature. Good for him, this moments are rare. But perhaps we should do more reading of thi
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
It's not the general wisdom, it's a fact. But not a simple one. There's an experiment (heard of it from an philosopher women talking about women in philosophy) showing that girls perform as good as boys in math, BUT, if asked
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
Christianity might be the best example of a religion created with a simplistic motto writen on an restaurant napkin. Learned that from judaism which used two napkins.
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
Just today I heard a little girl crying to her father (in romanian): "You are giving!" when she actually meant (by the situation and raised hands) "Give me the toy!".
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
The problem raised by the article is one of necessesity and contingency. Why is there something? Why this? A necessary being and a contingent being demand very different questions. That's why the article then goes into probabilities, w
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
Who put the wagon in front of the horses? The horses did. :)
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
"starfish larvae evolved a mechanism" What's wrong with evolution journalism in few misplaced words. It sounds like it was intentional. It also sounds like, while the mechanism was not yet functional, the starfish larvae did
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The long and winding road from design to code(medium.com)
2 points by cristianpascu 10y ago|0 comments
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
Information is a mental concept. That is, it's based on the someone knowing the range of possibilities of a certain state of affairs involving things/entities. For instance the top face of a dice. You know there are 6 possibilitie
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
I too agree wholeheartedly. It took me many years (35yo now) to learn this, the very hard way, on internet and specially in life. A MD in Philosophy helped a lot, or it's been actually essential for my life path. Interesting, given tha
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by cristianpascu 10y ago
The day before this article appeared, I participated to a talk about consciousness, and the presented dismissed the functional approaches to explaining consciousness. That is, if consciousness processes information, it is not a information
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Biased against what? Science? How long until we get rid of the 'religion is against science' narrative?
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
So a porn website (by far, the most effective mean to objectify women) is protesting a law that adds a new layer of social pressure towards women and girls. I don't see men having a problem with women entering mens room. But I do see w
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Very good points! c) goes hand in hand with two other things: many managers are former programmers with little or no appreciation for good product and good UX. And second, romanian designers are still pretty much artists, drawing candy stuf
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I have large project built with Grunt and at one point I have tried to move it to Gulp. Gulp, as far as I can tell, requires much less code to do the same stuff. However, two things forced me to stick with Grunt. 1) The build scripts were w
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Being build in HTML and being a webapp are very different things. I don't think rendering HTML is significantly worse than rendering some "native" UI kit. If it's not loading pages from the internet, which I'm sure
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Or the Universe is neither infinite or as old as it's assumed to be. Although there's strong evidence for it being as old as we (me included as a figure of speech) currently believe it, our belief is based on some fundamental assu
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
Indeed, thinking doesn't require speaking. >> But there's also a tendency for us to picture ourselves as special I get this a lot. First, there is no reason to exclude the possibility that we are indeed special. There are ar
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I have a cat and I grew with animals around my house. We should refrain from ethical judgements before having a clear understanding of what we're talking about. To understand requires a clear definition for every term we're using,
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
I only read half of the article, but it seems to me that the language used is philosophically naive. Although it's a popularising article, it should still have a certain standard. Animals feel, communicate, imitate, take decisions, act
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by cristianpascu 11y ago
It seems that you get BOTH science and religion wrong. People are free and influence each other. That's a basic assumption we should take into account when understanding social phenomena. Start of story.

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