danharaj

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by danharaj 7y ago
Considering the replication crises and the utter failure of, for example, supersymmetry in theoretical high energy physics, maybe the criticism was warranted. Ignoring the ideological forces that drive science as it actually exists doesn&#x
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by danharaj 7y ago
Don't compare decent people to sexual predators, tho?
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by danharaj 7y ago
I know at least a dozen RCers. Very smart people all getting together in one spot to hack on things and learn, and then it's an extensive support network for your career for life. Pretty nice. If I take a long break from full time work
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by danharaj 7y ago
> It's perplexing how similar essays on natural world, not taking into account any research on physics in the last 100 years or more, would not be nearly as appreciated. I mean there's the "sequences" on Quantum Mecha
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by danharaj 7y ago
"Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte."
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by danharaj 7y ago
I think you're taking for granted how twitter is used as a global cafe by communities that would otherwise be disjointed and isolated. For every controversial tweet or tweet of drama, theres thousands of enriching conversations happeni
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by danharaj 7y ago
How many people do you think are involved in raising the average child? Two? I had a veritable village of people raising me. I can assure you that only one of them nursed me. For some reason, though, most of them were women. It was even mor
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by danharaj 7y ago
This might surprise you but a lot of feminists are also strongly in favor of workers' rights and prison abolition. For example, bell hooks and Angela Davis. I have never met people more passionately invested in the wellbeing of men tha
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by danharaj 7y ago
What do you mean by external forces? These are all interactions between human beings. We behave that we do in large part based on our interactions with others. Would you say that it is "external forces" that cause us two to commun
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by danharaj 7y ago
What does? I made a few claims.
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by danharaj 7y ago
The fact that women shoulder the primary economic burden of raising children is structural sexism. Sexism is not merely about personal conduct but also how we structure society. For millenia across many cultures women have had their partici
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by danharaj 7y ago
Why do you think it's tough to believe?
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by danharaj 7y ago
How do you define an illusion without first positing a being that can experience (hence conscious) an illusion? What does it mean that consciousness is a 'lie our brain tells us', who are we? Are you assuming some form of cartesia
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by danharaj 7y ago
By which mechanism do neutrinos gain their mass?
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by danharaj 7y ago
It's not general and vague if you're a practicing physicist and know what those inconsistencies are. For example, the Standard Model assumes neutrinos don't have mass, but they do.
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by danharaj 7y ago
A program that takes an integer n and outputs the n'th digit of the number it represents is a finite representation of an infinite stream of digits.
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by danharaj 7y ago
There was a fad where posh victorians were really into eating mummies.
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by danharaj 7y ago
For the vast majority of people, there is no downside to getting the flu vaccine. A gamble implies there's something to lose.
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by danharaj 7y ago
EA liquidated Westwood and I'm still salty about it.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Computation is a rabbit hole, there is no end to its depth. Comparing the definition of C++ to Haskell, one will see that there's orders of magnitude more incidental complexity in the former than the latter. Every professional Haskelle
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by danharaj 7y ago
If you think you have it better than a monarch because you have things and other people are dissatisfied and you dont know why maybe it isn't more stuff that people want. The point of being a monarch wasn't to have the shiniest
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by danharaj 7y ago
Decentralized industrialism is the crux of a large swathe of left libertarian ideology, such as anarchosyndicalism.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Not reject international assistance.
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by danharaj 7y ago
There is a very vibrant SMW hacking community with very functional GUI editor that can act as a springboard for getting into assembly patches ranging from simple changes to sprite behavior to whole new game modes. If you love the game, it&#
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by danharaj 7y ago
Ask them to double major?
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by danharaj 7y ago
> I have no desire to expend scarce brain cycles trying to keep up with who wants to be addressed in what manner. This is disrespectful. You might think that this disrespect is warranted- that's fine; one must make judgment calls ab
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by danharaj 7y ago
I'ma be real with you chief. That's hella shallow and pedantic. I think it would be hurtful and disrespectful to die on such a mole hill instead of just accommodating people over something so simple.
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by danharaj 7y ago
Can you use a concrete example to illustrate your claim?
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> Is everyone really required to learn all these new words / triggers / etc. in order to appease a tiny tiny fraction of the population? Every person you meet is a minority of 1 in 7 billion. Is it so hard for you to learn how
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by danharaj 7y ago
P=NP? is such a difficult problem that it is more likely than not that a proof either way will necessitate extremely powerful new tools in complexity theory. It's hard to say what the impact on algorithm design and analysis would be.

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