druddha

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by druddha 4y ago
Given the voting divide based on education, people in the U.S. are getting something else out of college education. I have no issue with shoehorning more liberal education into primary education, but a liberal democracy cannot survive if bl
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by druddha 6y ago
Gobbledygook. > The duty and role of a government is to act in the best interest of their citizens which that government represents. Truism. The point of contention is around what constitutes "best interest." > The interest
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by druddha 6y ago
The use of EOs isn't new, and we're not even in the ballpark of high-water marks there: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/executive-or... .
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by druddha 6y ago
But in this case, the term "slave" isn't being used, right?
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by druddha 6y ago
Sounds like your experience is primarily with data stores then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master/slave_(technology) It's used correctly in several of the cases listed here. Also, Jenkins uses (or used?) t
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by druddha 6y ago
If they were going to "leap at the chance" to suspend Trump, then why haven't they already? He's been treading in the grey area of their ToS for years.
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by druddha 6y ago
Seems like a perfectly cromulent project to me.
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by druddha 7y ago
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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by druddha 7y ago
I agree that the DDG results, especially for software development related searches, are often worse than searching Google or StackOverflow directly. So here's my workflow: 1. Search DDG. If I find a decent result, I stop here. 2. Appen
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by druddha 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law
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by druddha 7y ago
JS and Python are not to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, though.
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by druddha 7y ago
> But should everyone even learn k8s? Of course not. Different orgs will approach this problem differently. At my company, someone on our infra/devops team made pretty good abstractions eight years ago, and now we're using thos
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by druddha 8y ago
> I think the argument is contrived because loop holes for murder don't exist for a reason, which is that the electoral connection -> legislative process essentially leaves zero room for there to be such a loophole. Loopholes do
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by druddha 8y ago
> Simplifying the tax code, regulations, and laws removes the opportunity for well-funded operations to exploit the existing complexity. I think most people would agree with this statement, but the devil is in the details. Republicans ha
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by druddha 8y ago
Can you explain why you think that analogy is contrived?
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by druddha 8y ago
I read it the same way. Headlines are typically present tense. I wonder what caused the editor to write this one in past tense.
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by druddha 10y ago
"...through conscious effort." Which is the aforementioned firing of neurons. Consciousness is not supernatural.
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by druddha 11y ago
The alternative is to pay teachers a higher salary in order to attract candidates who care enough to instill critical thought into their students.
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by druddha 11y ago
Because the same people who absorb this garbage have an influence on public policy. "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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by druddha 11y ago
Of course. But with all else being equal, would a manager be more likely to promote a scientist who believes in a higher power or a religiously agnostic scientist? The former implies anti-scientific thought.
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by druddha 11y ago
It's an obviously an analogy. In modern society, is knowing how to change a tire more practical than understanding the basis of argument? > You tend to be good at the things you work at, and work at the things you like. You work at
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by druddha 11y ago
I apologize for not being more clear. I'm speaking specifically of scientific skepticism [1]. Without practicing scientific skepticism, Galileo would not have been motivated to grind lenses in the first place. I also failed to differen
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by druddha 11y ago
No I didn't! The joke is valid. You must have been reading the King James version of my comment.
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by druddha 11y ago
Surprise is subjective and I think my analogy is apt. > Religious beliefs in general are not incompatible with skepticism on questions within the domain of science; I disagree. The Bible explicitly attempts to provide explanations for th
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by druddha 11y ago
>In the US, its generally should, since its pretty blatantly illegal in virtually every case A law that cannot be enforced isn't really a law. Making a case for religious discrimination is difficult. And the subject of this thread r
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by druddha 11y ago
I agree on all 3 points, none of which run contrary to what I said. Downvoting without commenting is cowardly, lazy, or both.
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by druddha 11y ago
Agreed all around.
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by druddha 11y ago
That was my comment, and I was speaking strictly about sciences (as the previous commenter said he works in a CS department at a university). Even so, your counterpoint still holds no water. Just because many of them turn to faith during di
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by druddha 11y ago
Being brilliant doesn't necessarily make you a good scientist. Skepticism is a core quality of being a scientist. Believing in something without proof is contrary to being skeptical. Thus, believing in god or Elvis are anti-scientific
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by druddha 11y ago
No reaction. That something provides you with comfort does not make it true.

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