cs1717p

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by cs1717p 7y ago
I have experienced several instances where I dream that I am with some friend/colleague/etc e.h. helping him solve some problem. Upon waking up, I check my phone and then sure enough that same friend has in fact contacted with the
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by cs1717p 9y ago
Democratic != good.
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by cs1717p 9y ago
That's one way of looking at it -- another way is to look at something like the Mafia as being analogous to an early form of law and order (albeit arguably a tiny bit more openly violent, ruthless than your average developing world pol
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by cs1717p 9y ago
This. Surprisingly enough, a human is much more likely to find oneself alive in a world in which humanity was not nearly made extinct by nuclear war. Exponentially so, if we assume, reasonably, that even if humans survived (technically) a n
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by cs1717p 9y ago
Have had very much the same thought myself. If there were two opposing forces, always exponentially self improving towards maximum efficiency in two opposite sides: 1) ordered/creative/perfectionist/preservative/etc, 2)
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by cs1717p 9y ago
While, of course, it is technically possible, it seems very reasonable to infer that we may be in a small window in which we haven't connected to other intelligent life. In just 100 years we have gone from being barely able to fly at a
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by cs1717p 9y ago
I guess it would work if there is some kind of force that leads some timelines to go out of existence or converge back towards heavier nodes, something like a neural network structure.
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by cs1717p 9y ago
Somewhat off topic, but I have often wondered if this sort of phenomenon could also occur within 'timelines' (as in the multiverse concept): As the article mentions, initially our ancestry is basically linear -- one mother and fat
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by cs1717p 9y ago
Within a given group value is reasonably correlated to expertise. As much as I wouldn't give any time to sociologists valuing Alan Turings genius within mathematics, computer science, etc., I'd have equally little time for mathema
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by cs1717p 9y ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Can you clarify what you're trying to get at here?
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by cs1717p 9y ago
By which you mean he made a campaign donation.
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by cs1717p 9y ago
For each of the questions you have listed, there is opposite viewpoints of some (questionable) legitimacy: White supremacists would argue that it is multiculturalists who seek the abolition of the white race through introduction of millions
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by cs1717p 9y ago
No more relevant than a CEO of a company that hires people of all diets being a passionate vegan who believes eating meat is immoral. As long as his personal views don't impact his professional behaviour, the two are not connected.
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by cs1717p 9y ago
No, displaying those passions or emotions does not belong in any work environment. One should be able to hold whatever views they like, and even share them with others in other communities without it affecting their work life, or status i
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by cs1717p 9y ago
No, the only people you are making unwelcome are either: 1) those who don't know the time and place for their non community relevant outbursts ('meat is murder', 'homosexuality is a sin' are both irrelevant to 99% o
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by cs1717p 9y ago
Can a vegan work with someone with a non restricted diet? Can an atheist work with a muslim? In either case, the answer is the same: if the individuals behave professionally, yes. If the married gay couple are the ones freaking out at work
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by cs1717p 9y ago
This whole question really stems from a sad and pervasive tendency for 'intelligent' people to overestimate their general expertise, and then apply their value judgements to individuals in their social circle, regardless of its ut
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by cs1717p 10y ago
So much stupidity in this post I don't know where to begin. What does this analysis show? Nothing except that one of the Wikileaks.org servers is hosted in Russia. And another two are hosted in Western Europe. No single point of failur
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by cs1717p 10y ago
Two things: One, academia (for many reasons) tends toward liberal group think. Two, interestingly, many of the most intelligent and successful (especially self made) people tend to be libertarian or conservative.