drewcoo

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by drewcoo 2y ago
Did Foucault not, in _Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison_, talk about expulsion? In western Europe? There's a strange singling out of Russia in this piece as being the only ones to force the criminals and also the poor and th
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Those problems allow follow-up questions to better define things. In fact, as initially stated, the problems are usually so vague as to require follow-ups.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
The "golden abacus" instead of "golden handcuffs?" Or as my undergrad mathematics advisor described friends who left academics for finance, "they spend their days clipping (stock) coupons instead of solving math pro
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Why does the title here have a question mark?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Two gangs: the cribs and the Luvs.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I doubt any of the toddlers purchased a gun.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Umm.. this is a severe recency bias. Don't all "successful" prophecies have that?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Thoroughly agree. I've had many conversations with self-described "smart" "autodidacts" who claimed to understand entire fields better after essentially zero study than people who worked in those fields for a lifeti
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Telling other people how to live is not one of the "underrated ways to change the world."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Calling someone else's vocation "a simple thing?" Hmmm. why not just make software that works? That should be simple, right?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> war minister Due to an earlier generation's newspeak, that's "defense," not "war."
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> It's not really discussed why people have lost trust in scientists. We also don't talk about why people trusted scientists in the before time either. The egghead smears and distrust have been with us for a long, long time. He
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That narrative ignores the actual flip-flopping on masks. First we were told not to use them because they were ineffectual (probably an attempt to hoard PPE for health care workers) then we were told that we had to wear them. So do you beli
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> nobody would blame the parents for letting them play more basketball! Actually even now, without miracle child growth, there are claims that kids are playing too much basketball: https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports&#x
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> It does for office workers what a belt sander or a table saw does for carpenters. Jobsite table saws are a thing as are portable belt sanders, but those aren't the most common carpentry tools. Or is that what you meant?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Well I hear it's full of eternal September liberals . . . is there a better reason to avoid it?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
I just bought a new computer and was curious, so I thought I'd try Windows first, and . . . No. Chrome is not the new IE. I am constantly pushed to use Edge for everything, to "make it better" for myself. It's actually s
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Dealing with physical danger and triumphing can happen without punching a bully.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
That's their job, isn't it?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
We'd have to ask Dr. Demento.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Boardgame filk versions might make it worse.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Lower periodicity does not mean taking more time to say things. It means more rigid deadlines - more stories that are half-told to meet the deadlines and longer times to corrections.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> Do you think Jefferson consulted a more diverse group of media? Yes. We live in a new gilded age, a new age in need of anti-trust reforms. https://www.cabletv.com/entertainment/americas-favorite-news...
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> People want order rather than chaos No, people want safety. But it's easier to enforce "order," so there's a bit of a bait and switch.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
Having been to protests, the police are the threat to the people there. defunding them would improve safety.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> We truly are in the fuck you and it’s your fault I don’t have mine era Yes, but please don't blame people for feeling that way. People don't feel safe. When people are insecure, they look to authoritarians for simple solution
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by drewcoo 2y ago
one hand . . . invisible with liberty and justice for all?
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> "Disorder," at its most basic, simply describes a lack of order That's not what disorder means here, though. In the case of psychology, a "disorder" it's a difference from the status quo. "Normal&quot
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by drewcoo 2y ago
> They’re excellent when answering questions on topics you know nothing about, and somehow embarrassingly wrong when you actually know the answer yourself… Sounds like Gell-Mann Amnesia. Maybe LLMs should replace reporters.
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by drewcoo 2y ago
They're less common than they are newsworthy. So they get our attention and we think they're more common than they really are. The title is misleading. They're so uncommon that they have their own Wikipedia list: https:&#x2F

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