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by etangent 6y ago
Ever done starch extraction experiment in middle school? Potatoes are almost pure starch.
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by etangent 6y ago
There are limits to diet. In Eastern Europe people just eat potatoes with tons of fat and occasional piece of chicken, arguably the worst diet, and obesity is far lower than in the US.
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by etangent 6y ago
Warning: very low-power study
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by etangent 6y ago
> Stated another way, you're saying the people who want change are troublemakers who should know their place. First, that's only the case if you assume that by "political" I mean bad. But "political" isn&#x2
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by etangent 6y ago
> The only things that seem apolitical are the things that are so widely agreed on that their true political nature is hard to discern The disagreement is what makes things political. There isn't an inherent "political"
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by etangent 6y ago
That you bring up a robbery example highlights that you don't understand what political is. Facilitating a robbery is illegal. Facilitating actions of a political group, as long as it is within the framework of a law, is called "l
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by etangent 6y ago
You are making it intentionally over-complicated. There isn't much to unpack at all. A company becomes political by making a political decision, not by consequence of someone else using its products to make political decisions.
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by etangent 6y ago
Curious in what country you live that sees its police force as equivalent of Stasi or even RUC.
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by etangent 6y ago
Curious in what country you live in that sees "Defund the Police" as mainstream.
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by etangent 6y ago
Did people previously not resell their cars?
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by etangent 6y ago
You are taking a "consequentialist" stance implying that if something has political consequences, then it is political. There are several problems with this. First, literally anything could have political consequences, from a sola
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by etangent 6y ago
You are taking a consequentialist stance, deciding that if something has political consequences, then it is political. But literally anything could have political consequences. A solar flare could have political consequences. A fly landing
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by etangent 6y ago
For an action to be "political" in a strong sense, its performer it needs to be consciously thinking about their political alignment. Majority of people are economically motivated and do not engage in in-depth analysis of their ac
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by etangent 6y ago
Random number generation powers many quantitative applications that perform expensive Monte Carlo experiments and like. Even minor speed ups here are very interesting IMO.
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by etangent 6y ago
> Did you ask the users of the system or you just assume they don't want one? I'm pretty sure the "users" of the system are mostly programmers who write batch jobs.
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by etangent 6y ago
Is there any reason to believe the spontaneous consensus that arises among the kind of people involved in government institutions can't also be biased, in an unsavory way, towards certain goals that benefit them as a class?
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by etangent 6y ago
So that's actually further away than the closest star systems. Got freaked out for a second, because having hard-to-see massive objects near your sun system is scary!
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by etangent 6y ago
I studied ecology for a while, and have published a paper in the field. It works exactly the same way as any complex system. If you can't pinpoint a single factor, you're probably failing somewhere. To blame everything on "it
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by etangent 6y ago
My best guess is some specific pesticide.
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by etangent 6y ago
Whenever I see someone claim a given problem is due to a combination of factors, I get a bit suspicious. First, this seems like a way to say "I don't really know the actual cause." Second, in the real world in situations like
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by etangent 6y ago
When I started out with Python, I was learning Haskell in parallel. As a result, my early Python code ended up being influenced by Haskell (I wrote many small functions that performed a single task). But it was somewhat frustrating. Later,
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by etangent 6y ago
This has always been the case, not sure why this is news.
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by etangent 6y ago
> Conspiracy theorists and unethical people with agendas use documents like this to support their beliefs, and it becomes impossible to refute them This should give you a very hard pause and rethink. If it becomes impossible to refute un
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by etangent 6y ago
I believe this is "bbut what if baad people cite my article?" defense for what is essentially a form of authoritarian groupthink.
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by etangent 6y ago
That evidence looks weak IMO, but it's frustrating that the current culture in science isn't "present the best argument for your position no matter how crazy it is" but rather "your arguments better agree with the e
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by etangent 6y ago
> They’re in a tough spot when people are opting for their Facebook feed over paying for articles from proper journalists. Indeed, because they are in such a tough spot, it suggests that they might be pushing towards doing unethical thin
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by etangent 6y ago
It's true that on the long end 35mm full-frame lenses are significantly larger and heavier than micro-four thirds lenses. However, most people don't shoot extremely long lenses most of the time (and when they do they can afford to
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by etangent 6y ago
> The Olympus cameras are extremely capable, yet small in size. That advantage evaporated after Sony released A7 in 2013, which was almost equal in size yet contained a vastly larger and more capable sensor. Olympus hung on while A7 line
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by etangent 6y ago
Just because something has a slightly vague definition and can touch upon most things in life doesn't mean its definition must be stretched to encompass literally everything.
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by etangent 6y ago
Are you implying there is only one side one must be allowed to take on climate change?

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