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by dnissley 6y ago
> the exact kind of stuff that people from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds don't know and don't care about This attitude is condescending towards those that come from diverse and non-traditional backgrounds, most of w
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by dnissley 6y ago
This is a big stretch, but I do wonder with Thiel's Christian background and his interest in Girard's mimetic theory that he sees himself as acting in a Christ-like manner -- strategically sacrificing himself again and again in or
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by dnissley 6y ago
My understanding is that Bernie Sanders is not woke -- he's mainly progressive, even socialist, but that's different than woke which is a contingent that focuses on issues of identity excluding (or at least de-emphasizing) class.
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by dnissley 6y ago
It's been a while since China's admission to the WTO, and things have changed rapidly just in the past 5 years or so -- I think it's probably fair to say that the woke crowd would not oppose such a thing today. In my experien
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by dnissley 6y ago
Unlike a couple replies to this comment, I don't believe that Thiel is all that concerned about making money -- IIRC he would be far richer today if he had simply left his share of facebook in the market compared to the mix of investme
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by dnissley 6y ago
Lest we forget, there are a lot of people out there who don't belong to the so-called chattering classes. And that's ok.
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https://archive.is/pVMAZ
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What about organizing different topics? I like the remarkable because it's like an infinite subject notebook. E.g. I can take notes in a separate notebook for each book I read and can easily refer back to old notes on other books.
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by dnissley 6y ago
I think this is an unappreciated explanation, and is the biggest reason why I want to work towards some level of financial independence. I have no real desire to retire early, so I could take or leave that part. But being able to make decis
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by dnissley 6y ago
Why are the last two pure wastes of time? It seems to me that they could be productive lines of inquiry. Also, let's not be coy -- it's pretty obvious what their agenda is. At the very least you and I both know. I've seen you
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by dnissley 6y ago
I generally agree with you here, but all opponents of cancel culture are not on the right. E.g. me. I can count on one hand the number of republicans I've voted for -- none of which were at the federal level. It's wrong when peopl
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by dnissley 6y ago
I've got lots of small tweaks I'd love to incorporate into a Twitter client. Unfortunately, I think many of them would violate the developer TOS. For example: hiding avatars completely or generating replacement avatars using the u
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by dnissley 6y ago
Can you explain why the emails make him horrifyingly racist? It didn't come off that way to me.
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It would be interesting to see the stats of a country like India though, where you don't have confounders like vegetarianism often being a class signal like in the developed world. Although the more I look into it, the more I find that
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by dnissley 6y ago
The linked blog post contains a couple dozen citations, fwiw.
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by dnissley 6y ago
Looking it up now I'm surprised to find that the only country with more than 15% of it's population being vegetarian is India. So now I'm somewhat skeptical of this claim. Will definitely need to do more research, but do you
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I think you missed the point -- that if you tried to replace meat with plants providing the same nutritional profile, then the impact is far less than anticipated by most calculations.
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by dnissley 6y ago
> I think I'm a high functioning Aspie. Learning not to do exactly this kind of shit was something I needed to do manually. I don't feel he's done that. Me too. I wouldn't want or expect the world to change to fit m
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by dnissley 6y ago
Perhaps useless in the sense that those who need them the most will either refuse to use them or misuse them. Going further... I think it might be fair to say that those tools just don't scale.
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There's not only the issue of incomplete information, there's the issue of salience. There are an infinite number of true statements. Which ones do you focus on? Which ones are the right ones to focus on? You can detect bias in re
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by dnissley 6y ago
They're not partisan, no, but as you kind of allude to ("many folks don't do so") a prerequisite for using them properly is a certain ideological flexibility that is... less common these days. If someone is ideologically
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What measures?
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by dnissley 6y ago
There is always the option to let the issue sort itself out. To allow space and time for a solution to emerge. We should be careful not to fall into action bias. E.g. the thought that we need to do something, anything, since that can lead t
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by dnissley 6y ago
Precisely -- and let's be clear here: the disinformation being discussed here breaks down along partisan lines. We can barely get republicans and democrats to agree on a budget, what makes anyone think that they could reasonably come t
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by dnissley 6y ago
> But it is a problem that has to be solved. Do you think the solution should come from the government? It seems implied here but just checking.
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Are you not able to see the implicit threat in this letter?
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Supposedly that's no longer the case: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
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No billionaires here, interestingly enough.
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I think there's a misunderstanding here -- the social justice folks were/are still a core part of Scott's audience. Without them, you're right, the conversation would be pretty one sided. Or at least, incomplete. The dif
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I'm confused by this argument re: credentialism because I can't think of a high paying career with less credentialism than being a software engineer. And yet the gender imbalance is larger here than in way more credentialist caree

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