danharaj

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by danharaj 8y ago
If you're leaving your core competency for a new challenge then you want to be working under people who will nurture and cultivate your abilities. If you know and trust who you will be working with and you know you can do it, you will
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by danharaj 8y ago
I'm not aware of another city in the USA with as useful a transit system. In terms of what it could be, it's atrocious. In terms of how it enables the city to function, it's essential.
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by danharaj 8y ago
So, in my examples, nothing forces you, in the strictest sense, to take the bus instead of walking. And in Chess nothing forces you in the strictest sense to not make a move that immediately loses. So perhaps loosen your grip and understand
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by danharaj 8y ago
Colloquially 'forced' is often used in a sense weaker than coercion. For example, a train delay might force you to take the bus. A move in Chess can be forced because all alternatives immediately lose. In this weaker sense, it mig
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by danharaj 8y ago
You hold conversations with people, not dictionaries.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Because the structure of Facebook encourages those kinds of pressures. No, facebook the company did not force them at gunpoint to add their parents. That's correct. There are degrees of pressure, yes? If someone found them too much to
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by danharaj 8y ago
I think it does.
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by danharaj 8y ago
> Elliot Peters, Swartz's attorney, told The Associated Press on Sunday that the case "was horribly overblown" because JSTOR itself believed that Swartz had "the right" to download from the site. Swartz was not f
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by danharaj 8y ago
Individuals can't do things like this without an organization.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Prosecutors gonna prosecute. A university should protect its members. Not anymore though. Universities are part of the behemoth now.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Never forgive MIT
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by danharaj 8y ago
Have you met programmers?
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by danharaj 8y ago
The article itself is written by a giant in the theory of the lambda calculus.
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by danharaj 8y ago
The bourgeoisie have false consciousness too.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Actually, a cosmological constant is derivable from the Standard Model. But it's off by a very remarkable amount. Dark energy is the observation that that the Standard Model mispredicts the cosmological constant, so there must be somet
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by danharaj 8y ago
All these trends are going to give me a seizure by the end of the decade.
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by danharaj 8y ago
The bad kind of populism is when an elite says they speak for the masses without actually consulting them. The public at large in such populism is a passive entity. The masses become a strawman used to pretend a majority support the autocra
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by danharaj 8y ago
> The rating of a comment has little to do with its validity as does your emotional attachment to its subjective value, or "favorite" as you call it. I don't understand what you're saying here. What exactly is a comme
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by danharaj 8y ago
> If taxes were increased to even more per polluting car, it would just drive even faster adoption to electric cars and a even more rapid car tax income decline. Sounds like a good way to lose tax revenue.
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by danharaj 8y ago
My favorite comments are those that swing wildly around 0. And I think it's not a big deal if people delete any of their comments. It's internet threads.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Mostly just tax their cars and consumer products.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Geography is the most obvious confounding factor ツ
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by danharaj 8y ago
> When scientists are behaving correctly authority is awarded on scientific merit irrespective of politics. I suppose then one can conclude that scientists have behaved incorrectly since Aristotle's time.
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by danharaj 8y ago
If you don't think Millikan's authority as a scientist was not a factor then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by danharaj 8y ago
Authority is always political.
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by danharaj 8y ago
Science has always been political, within itself and in relation to the rest of society. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment
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by danharaj 8y ago
> How do you determine if the grievance is valid or not? I can't give you an algorithm in advance that will let you decide every political and social issue ever. That's obviously not possible. There are heuristics, like. You ca
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by danharaj 8y ago
"Do you want to meet them?" "Do you want to meet the <noun>?" "Do you want to meet <name>?" "Do you want to meet ___" <prompt for autocomplete from set of pronouns> etc.
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by danharaj 8y ago
> There will always be people offended by something. That does not mean every instance of offense should be ignored or dismissed, does it? How about addressing specific grievances instead of this extremely vague proclamation?
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by danharaj 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League

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