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by eshvk 13y ago
Sure. I did use the phrase "other countries". I don't know enough about Saudi society to counter your narrative that it is only laws that mean that every single woman is clad in a burkha (which I find suspicious). So I took a
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by eshvk 13y ago
In other countries where there are no laws proscribing women to wear burkhas (e.g. India), there are plenty who do so.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> The most effective apology is often not as complicated as this. The crucial part is asking for forgiveness. I don't think I agree. The words, even when they come from someone you know, are just ultimately words. Those words need t
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by eshvk 13y ago
The sad thing of course is that even when your country solves the lowest requirements on Maslow's pyramid, it will have lost a lot of learning as a society that needs to happen. Learning on how to accept that democracy comes with free
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by eshvk 13y ago
What is your point? No one can be smart at everything. Just because one occasionally writes words that helps computers do things doesn't mean one's world view is not silly when it comes to other things.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Oh no, I am impressed. The guy is as close as one can come to be a modern renaissance man. The website is also a statement of art and I was curious how it came across from a usability perspective.
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by eshvk 13y ago
Edward Tufte says Bret Victor [1] is someone to watch out for. I am curious: can someone who is into usability look at the site and comment on whether this is considered usable? I mean his site is incredibly innovative and beautiful. Howeve
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by eshvk 13y ago
> If anything, Western people should buy products from poor countries. It's the best aid they can get. So given equivalent products built in Detroit and Somalia, you would go for the one built in Somalia?
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Because intelligence takes practice, and being interesting and social takes practice, and there are only so many hours in a day. That is not an excuse for anything though. No one has enough time. Everyone makes do. Heinlein's quot
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by eshvk 13y ago
> The trouble is that demonstrating social intelligence in real life requires a lot of dealing with ambiguity, situations where there is no one right answer, frustration, blurred lines, rejection, and other stuff I argue this is the natu
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by eshvk 13y ago
I don't completely agree with the author's premise. However, there are enough people who act like lab rats; they spend their life optimizing certain parameters: becoming really good coders, mathematicians, getting high scores on s
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Also won't help you get a date. The reasons are not uncorrelated. Depends on the girl. Depends on you also. The label "Intelligent" as it applies to tech is slightly correlated with other traits like social awkwardness,
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by eshvk 13y ago
> European friends would rather break international law, and try and stop an asylum request, than let him go. I am confused; I thought airspace was sovereign territory. As a country, are you not allowed to allow or deny access to anyone
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Big Data Analysis Adds to Guest Worker Debate(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by eshvk 13y ago|0 comments
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by eshvk 13y ago
There is a startup visa; I believe half a million or so is the minimum investment required.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I would argue your friend clearly still cares about his ex if it hurts him to be around her. So maybe learning to forgive and having her back in his life as a friend wouldn't be the worst thing. That is stretching the English lexi
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by eshvk 13y ago
Very true. It becomes harder especially if the breakup is messy. As a friend you are forced, like it or not, to choose sides. As a person in the relationship, you are in the awkward situation of knowing that some of your friends are going t
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by eshvk 13y ago
> I don't understand why people find it so hard to go from dating to freidship. You must not have a large sample set to work on then. A friend of mine came out of a two year relationship where his ex slept with a close friend. Sure
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by eshvk 13y ago
That is rather harsh and rather tangential. Sure, ultimately every personal relationship being destroyed has two parties at fault; one of whom is yourself. Fixing yourself doesn't mean that you magically become a mormon missionary like
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by eshvk 13y ago
Gladwell writes very well; the content involves carefully layering anecdotal evidence, oversimplification and over-generalisation of scientific theory (that is already brittle) -- bad science. I stand by the epithet.
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by eshvk 13y ago
> What happened to the 10,000 hour rule and all that saying that there are no real instant successes? Just because some moron creates a heuristic that crudely models reality doesn't mean that nature has to follow that heuristic.
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Why Don't We Just Kill All the Mosquitoes?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by eshvk 13y ago|1 comments
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Yeah, I finally got out of the existential crisis by doing the mundane; jogging, living, cooking. Things that I know cognitively have no meaning in answering the ultimate question. Later, I realized that Camus's sense of rebellion alth
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by eshvk 13y ago
Interesting; somehow reading someone like Camus didn't provide a convincing enough argument to get out of the existential crisis like depression. Do you have suggestions on any specific Murakami work to read?
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> I think this is a really pathetic reason to be depressed. Who the fuck are you to judge why people get depressed? Someone I know got depressed because she was 70 and her cat died. The only other social contact she had in her life withe
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by eshvk 13y ago
Apart from the fact that IQ as a measure of anything is completely bullshit, sure. We can make such a correlation.
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This is categorically racist. Think about what you are saying. You are saying that just because a person is Italian, they have a tendency to be superior; they are christian.
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by eshvk 13y ago
I think it is useless. It is about as meaningful as Bush standing in front of a banner that says "Mission accomplished". Yes, you are right. No one can change history. That is not my point. My point is to emphasize that the gestur
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> Yeah, also wondering if there are other correlations they didn't consider. That's the problem with these articles---all the evidence points to one answer, but is that causation or correlation? My stats professor refused to re
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by eshvk 13y ago
It is very easy to ruin a book even with manual translation. E.g. Albert Camus's The Stranger was first translated by some old English guy who brought in significant cultural aspects to the book that didn't exist in the french. G

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