ericdykstra

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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Well, at least not about chess.
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It's the conclusion of Dawkins' The Selfish Gene and The Extended Phenotype . The Revolutionary Phenotype describes the transition of life from protein self-replicator (no known current ancestors), to protein-RNA tangos (no kno
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I think the fears might be underblown, not overblown. Not enough people are paying attention to the Revolutionary Phenotype hypothesis and how it relates to gene editing. The moral fears are less scary than the existential ones. There'
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Politics needs more skin in the game overall.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Thanks for posting these. I got the original information from another article, but it was full of ads so I chose a better source to link, which is where the discrepancy comes in.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
93% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from 10 rivers. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas... Yangtze - East China Sea (Asia) Indus - Arabian Sea (Asia) Yellow River - Yellow Se
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Other research has that covered https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4063065/
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
There are times to discuss facts and times to discuss moral preferences. There's something wrong when you can't discuss facts necessarily bringing in a moral side. And you seem reluctant to even acknowledge the facts to begin with
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
This is incorrect. The Republicans did it to Merrick Garland, and could, because they controlled enough Senate seats. The Democrats would have done the same to Brett Kavanaugh, but couldn't, because they didn't control enough Sena
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
This is a ridiculous premise. I made commentary without making a value judgement, and you're telling me it's impossible and that I need to. Then you respond to my question with a value judgement rather than actually answer my ques
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
A common suggestion is to just issue the ID free of charge. Considering the state of government invasion of liberty in America, this seems like a no-brainer step in the right direction at minimal cost.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
I'm not making a value judgement. edit: I'll also challenge you to find a policy around voting that is supported by a party that simultaneously hurts that party, just because they're principled.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
The parties support the policies that will help them win. Thinking this is an ideological position rather than a tactical one is wrong. If it turned out that Voter ID laws would benefit Democrats, they would support them in an instant.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
"Grit" is basically just Big 5 Personality Traits repackaged in a way that sounds good, but doesn't predict success better than established things like trait Conscientiousness or IQ. Here's one article that summarizes so
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
This is pretty fascinating. I can't add to a discussion, but I would certainly read more about this if you have produced it somewhere. I'm also curious, what made you leave your job as a mastering engineer?
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Indeed; it's unfortunate, really. I step in and out of engaging in political discourse online, but spend most of my time outside of it. I only come back to test my (hopefully) improved perspective to see how my worldview holds up again
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
No worries. I understand your position, but I think Twitter is vastly overreaching here. I can find no evidence that these accounts were actually trying to mislead people into not voting.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
You avoided my direct question. Most of the accounts in question did not spread the wrong election date.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Indeed. When ~journalists~ spend their whole day on Twitter, it means their resolution of the world is incredibly minute. Think about the most significant events from 2005. If you're looking back at that resolution, the small day-to-da
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Where do you draw the line? Do you think an account with... username: NPC #15253823 id: npc_15253823 avatar: generic gray NPC avatar with sunglasses posting #LetHerDecide memes is "clearly for the purpose of influencing an election,&qu
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
> Someone I follow posts something I think is intelligent and polite, and the replies are filled with people launching tangential attacks and making weird accusations. You can still curate this experience. There are accounts that I will
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
"Gamers" and "Gamergate" is a generic boogeyman that media outlets can use to direct their anger at. See "Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups" [1] for another example. The obvious answer
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
One thing I really like about Twitter is that you can choose to follow who you want. If you don't want to see memes making fun of you, just don't follow accounts that post/retweet these memes. It's sad that Twitter is ba
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
There may be standardized contracts for certain things, I don't know. If I'm wrong and there are no good use cases for smart contracts, they won't be used. It seems reasonable that they will find a use case, though.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
> Why would I ever agree to let software ALONE enforce a contract? And if there is a human process to override the outcome of the contract, what advantage does it have over a "dumb contract". The cost of enforcing and collectin
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Is there any evidence of GDPR having the desired effect for which it was put in place? Is citizens' data being protected more than before? The second-order effects that everyone predicted are already happening (big tech companies chang
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Lots of private torrent sites are alive and kicking, and lots of open communities die. I'd need more evidence that openness vs closedness is what kills them.
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Biographies can be interesting, but books that extrapolate directives from case studies of winners are totally useless. If 8 of the top 10 CEOs do x, you can be sure it will be reported in that kind of book, even if 999 of the bottom 1000 f
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
Callous in that my comment might be read as “the people who got fired with no severance deserved it.” I’m closer to “The people who got fired with no severance knew what they were getting into with this industry, and if they didn’t that ign
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by ericdykstra 8y ago
It would depend on that person’s moral preferences and perceived value of benefits/drawbacks a company offers. Your “harm” might be someone else’s “good” (see: other person in this thread condemning games).

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