dohnuts1919

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by dohnuts1919 4y ago
Since this runs on Elixir, what's the advantage of using it over Elixir's inbuilt ETS?
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Should You Become a “Digital Nomad”? Some Honest Reflections(blackshaw.substack.com)
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
> The current UK government has a blacklist of left wing journalists who they won’t respond to freedom of information act requests Source? Also, isn't it illegal to not respond to valid FOI requests? Otherwise wouldn't that def
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
While I don't think the NYT had a strong reason to reveal Scott's real name, it's absurd to say that newspapers shouldn't "reveal someone's real identity against that person's wishes" in the general c
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that it's extremely difficult to successfully sue someone for libel in the US, mainly due to all the First Amendment issues that come with letting the courts adjudicate what can and can't be said. Pr
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
Much of this behavior becomes a lot easier to understand when you realise that "wokeism" is a religion. I don't mean that ironically. John McWhorter is currently serialising a book on this topic on his own Substack, and he&#x
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
> No one is willing to pay for unbiased news http://Ground.news is a startup that's attempting to falsify that hypothesis. I hope they succeed.
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
I'm stealing this point from Twitter, but Africa is the most diverse continent on Earth - culturally, linguistically, even genetically. There are 250 ethnic groups within Nigeria alone, most of which have little in the way of shared la
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
You may find this philosophy bizarre, and I agree, but it's important to understand that it doesn't come from nowhere; it's been brewing in academia for decades and is spreading into the mainstream at alarming speed. I highl
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
> I'm skeptical it's an actual takeover per se, and not the older generation being completely blindsided by the force with which the younger generation(s) release their demands. This. The change is coming from the bottom up, an
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
It's worth noting that this Pinker-Epstein connection is about as meaningful as the anti-Scott NYT article's own guilt-by-assocation attempts. Here's Pinker's statement on the matter: https://whyevolutionistru
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
I'm not OP, but I find it easier to read a 50k word book than 10k blog article. The latter had better be really good (and many of Scott's are) if I'm going to make it to the end. It's probably something about the natur
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
> I don’t want to accuse the New York Times of lying about me, exactly, but if they were truthful, it was in the same way as that famous movie review which describes the Wizard of Oz as: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
Fun fact: the Pioneer space probes included a plaque with some information about Earth and humanity, for the benefit of any extraterrestrial being that might find it one day, but the drawings of a naked man and woman didn't include any
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
> What is the special thing we are missing because of this? At least where I live, the main thing we're missing is frostbite.
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
Someone once remarked to me that "you can understand a lot about the US by remembering it was founded by people whose religious beliefs were too crazy for 17th-century Europe."
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
To give one (admittedly not conclusive) datapoint: almost all US Presidents have been taller than the average American male, many of them exceptionally slow (Lincoln was 6'4"!), and the effect has become more pronounced in the mod
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
Wait, it's possible to look significantly more attractive through willpower alone? I dress okay and am not a total slob but I've never considered myself anything more than average-looking, and I've certainly never been told t
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by dohnuts1919 6y ago
Agreed. I can't remember the details but I was listening to a podcast lately (Sam Harris maybe?) where the guest was talking about an example of an ML-driven system that was being used to determine whether or not to approve mortgage ap