danharaj

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by danharaj 7y ago
> The state pathologists keep getting paid no matter what their conclusions were. Naive.
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> that capitalism just allows people to realise their preferences That is by no means "just" what it does.
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Voter participation was 50%. Decisive indeed.
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Attributing something to human nature is about as much an argument as attributing it to God's plan.
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So our incentive structure- capitalism- is to blame.
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The very first sentence: > New York’s insurance regulator said it is launching an investigation into a UnitedHealth Group Inc. algorithm that a study found prioritized care for healthier white patients over sicker black patients. priori
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A poem about counter-revolutionary state repression leading to genocide was warning you about... revolutionaries. Got it.
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First they came for the socialists. Buddy please read the damn poem. It was about "modern society" purging itself of the kind of people you are criticizing.
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This philosophical approach to mathematics is still rooted in conceptions of mathematics from the beginning of the previous century, perhaps even earlier. This may very well be because professional philosophers have not really engaged with
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They had us in the first half I'm not gonna lie.
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"Haha feminists sure are dumb." Maybe you don't understand why they chose their symbolism the way they did. Maybe you've made an unwarranted assumption about their goals or how that symbolism was interpreted 100 fucking
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> Another one: women are paid less than men for the same work. If this were the case, companies would - because they could do an equivalent job to a man for less money - simply hire all women workforces which due to their lower wage bill
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> For fun, I'll throw you a specific plausible hypothetical. If an app has a gender identity field, and a user enters "Apache Helicopter", should this be treated as valid data or not? Depends on what the data is being used
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There are a great many things you can't debate about people. For example, you would be severely censured if you debated whether your colleague's chronic illness really was as bad as they claim it is. If the position is "I s
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How is it going too far to call someone "they" or even a neopronoun like "xie"? What cost is it to you that you need to vigorously debate it?
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He's a combinatorist. He's trolling mathematicians who are specialized in more abstract fields who often hold views of contempt for computational, concrete fields like combinatorics. One of the main themes of modern mathematics is
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Reaganomics
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Occuy Wallstreet was violently uprooted by police action. Your statement is ignorant and in poor taste.
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Colonial policy didn't stop.
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Did you demonstrate that your trick is sound and optimal? Optimal reduction is a tricky beast and you might need to use a very high order function to find a counterexample.
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Doron Zeilberger is a distinguished mathematician and you're taking his troll at face value. You needn't lecture him.
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omg I haven't read Doron in forever. thanks :)
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Yes. Driving is dangerous. Our society has just deemed its danger acceptable even though we know how many people die because we are so dependent on cars. This is the grim fact of the matter.
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> Framing it in the light of "They are blocking [all] recycling efforts" is dishonest. But that's not the title. That's a much stronger statement than the article. If you choose such creative ways to interpret people&
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Just because it's in Coca Cola's best interest to undermine effective plastic recycling policies does not mean it's dishonest to claim that Coca Cola is undermining effective plastic recycling policies. > Especially when t
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The way is the dust of the way.
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You can read their comment history to contextualize their angle.
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This is why you should be very skeptical of anyone who claims transparency between genetics and complex phenotypes.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Hey you. I'm pretty sure I know who you are :) I hope everything's going well! I definitely agree that there are many examples of ineffective Haskell culture. As a Haskell contractor I get to see how a lot of different shops do th
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Cute snark ayaya :^)

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