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by epgui 2y ago
> It's also sophisticated to have the ego required to believe you should inherently have dominion over the entire planet and all animals on it. Is that really "sophisticated", or is that just what happens when an entity ou
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by epgui 2y ago
That's for the most part nonsense / a distorted perspective on what happens in science... and I say this as someone who used to be a biochemist.
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by epgui 2y ago
> the origin of that attitude I suspect the attitude is the default / most primitive one, because any other attitude requires higher-order cognitive processes that can abstract one's own experiences (which is the only real inpu
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by epgui 2y ago
I have a few nits to pick here... > scientific understanding of the nature of animals was based on folklore Popular, pre- or proto- scientific understanding perhaps, but not scientific understanding per se. > despite a couple centurie
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by epgui 2y ago
To prove this would require being able to very clearly define consciousness, but we know that consciousness is not “a thing”— it’s rather “a collection of things”, and it’s not either there or not; rather it’s largely a question of degree.
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by epgui 2y ago
This is a bit of a nonsense question. The CO2 diffuses away rather quickly and there is no reason to worry about this.
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by epgui 2y ago
This. I studied for like 12 years in the biomedical field and I don’t really understand why OP is worried about this.
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by epgui 2y ago
Anyone else finding this very difficult to read? I’d really recommend feeding this through a grammar checker, because poor grammar betrays unclear thinking.
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by epgui 2y ago
Define “known”…
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by epgui 2y ago
> If you build a robust budget and spend within that, you will have an 800 score. I don't think that's how credit scores work, at all.
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by epgui 2y ago
> Credit scores aren't a black box. Please show me the calculation methodology of any major credit scoring agency. Rough guidelines aren't cutting it.
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by epgui 2y ago
> Generic language criticism in 2024 Research on PL design is alive and well in 2024, and Python is nowhere near the cutting edge. I never said it didn't get the job done, or that people shouldn't learn or use it. It's jus
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by epgui 2y ago
> Languages aren't just good or bad in the abstract. I don't know about that. There's certainly no "perfect" language, but to claim that python is brilliant or elegant language design is to not know a whole log a
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by epgui 2y ago
You’d be surprised, R is huge in many niches.
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by epgui 2y ago
Agreed— But also both are really terrible languages, so I’d encourage people to broaden their horizons even more fearlessly.
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by epgui 2y ago
> I have never paid a credit card in any way other than "in full" and "before the due date" and have a score of around 800. There are a lot of very specific assumptions in there about the mechanism. How do you know wh
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by epgui 2y ago
> making minimum payments has a negative impact because then you're carrying a debt I think it would depend on your credit utilization %. If your credit utilization is too low, it may hurt your score. Of course if your credit util
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by epgui 2y ago
Paying in full does not adversely impact your credit score, but it is generally believed that not utilizing your available credit at all can adversely impact your score. Of course, who really knows? And the fact that we can't really
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by epgui 2y ago
I'm not at all trying to make it sound nefarious. I'm saying that credit scores being a black box is inherently not a good idea. There can never be any accountability, because there is no visibility. In general, it's impossib
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by epgui 2y ago
Yes, but living within your means does absolutely nothing to shed light on the black box that is credit scoring. It's an irrelevant comment. If you're trying to say that you should avoid credit altogether, that's a terrible i
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by epgui 2y ago
I hope this right gets applied to credit scoring agencies as well, which don't publish the methodology in the calculation of credit scores. God knows what the exact mechanics of these calculations are (beyond the well-known but very ha
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by epgui 2y ago
That’s true… and it’s perfectly compatible with what I wrote.
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by epgui 2y ago
Opinions don't need to be supported by facts or based on facts. They do need to be compatible with factual reality, otherwise they're called delusions.
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by epgui 2y ago
It’s not fake news. They’re telling you exactly what they did. It’s called a caveat. Edit: kudos for being reasonable and changing your mind! :)
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by epgui 2y ago
> Effectively instead of object.method() you have method(object) This reflects a very deep misunderstanding of the distinctive characteristics of each paradigm. It's so far off that it's "not even wrong". Functional p
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by epgui 2y ago
What nonsense that is… The idea that intentional mathematical design / correct, well-specified behaviour doesn’t apply to games is absurd.
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by epgui 2y ago
IMO, Clojure is superficially/syntactically much more elegant and beautiful than Common Lisp or Scheme. I find this really helps you focus on what matters most.
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by epgui 2y ago
Congratulations, you’ve identified a misleading statement that has nothing to do with the present situation.
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by epgui 2y ago
What you say is true, but does not really apply here.
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by epgui 2y ago
The current title is fine. It’s a 50% increase (unambiguously), or a 0.5 percentage point increase (also unambiguously).

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