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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Please stop trying to police language.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Right: either the coup loses quickly or Turkey enters an extended civil war, with the military divided against itself. There's still enough military support for the coup to bomb the parliament building into dust as I write this comment
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Stereotypes are accurate, though. People are good pattern-recognizers, and the characteristics that we use to form stereotype do convey useful information. Pretending that stereotypes are factually bogus is wrong. It creates resentment. I
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> I should ignore results from the fields of psychology or sociology for the foreseeable future Yes, you should. The problem is that some of these bad results have become key political tenets. Try voicing skepticism about the reality of
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
It's obvious what narrative the media is trying to push. If the media succeeds, it'll set back the progress of technology that will save numerous lives. Maybe humans don't deserve this fucking planet.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Do you agree that taxation is a legitimate lever with which to effect economic and social policy? Vice taxes, for example, are much saner than outright bans for everyone involves, and tax incentives can drive the adoption of things like sol
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> Why should.... merchant [] share the details of the purchase beyond the total amount paid Because the government has a legitimate interest in taxing different goods at different rates.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
This proposal is moot. Whether or not it's a good idea, the EU is technically unable to effectively regulate bitcoin. Sure, you can place rules on exchanges, but since anyone with bitcoin can send it to any other person, identified onl
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
If you define legitimacy so that it perfectly coincides with the law, there is little legitimate reason to use Bitcoin. But do you really think the law has always been just?
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
A Tesla Model S is about the furthest possible thing from a "crappy car".
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Your small-group drug study would have reported zero incidents in this instance.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
First of all, given the number of miles Teslas have driven before this incident, any study would have seen zero accidents. Second, drug studies are also too cautious, and many useful drugs are denied to the public on the basis of rare and
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> Since when is caring about Engineering standards became Luddite? Since you impose unrealistic standards on progress in an attempt to bolster your own moral position
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I prefer to talk about real utilitarian tradeoffs instead of putting I imaginary, arbitrarily virtuous angels against computers. Every day you delay automation of automobile traffic is another batch of lives lost. Are you more interested in
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
You didn't answer the question.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> hey do the check frequency is low. why can't it be high?! Because that makes it less useful. I am a Tesla owner. I am an adult capable of monitoring the car and taking control when autopilot gets confused. My hand being on the whe
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> replace an attentive driver It's unrealistic to assume that human drivers are attentive all the time. Autopilot never gets tired, never eats, never applies makeup, never sneezes, and never gets distracted by screaming children. Y
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Exactly what standard do you hold beta features before release? For the sake of the future of humanity, we can't get into a situation where nothing new is allowed so long as someone, somewhere might get hurt.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I'm really not looking forward to the moralistic haranguing that's going to happen over the next few days. One commentator complained that the tech community is adapting an "acceptable losses" posture. I don't see a
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
So what? Linux, today, has a full bytecode interpreter
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Where the set of "bad things" gets bigger and bigger, and increasingly detached from reality, every year.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
You have to express leftist sentiment, at least in public, because expressing other views is very bad for your career. And you'd be surprised how big the "public" space is for people who'd like to ruin you for thinking t
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
When you read a sector from your hard drive and expect to get back what you wrote, you're citing a statistical prediction as fact.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Logically right, but emotionally wrong. I don't think you've appreciated the extent to which people publically oppose EU migration because it's politically incorrect to oppose Muslim migration, whether or not this UI indirect
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I suggest reading through the blog I linked; Haidt is serious and well-respected. Alternatively, you can look at various impartially- (and usually government-) collected statistics that demonstrate group differences. Most of these differenc
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I don't have that much confidence in my analysis. I'm an amateur.
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
I think that arguments for leaving the EU based on concerns about immigration are implicit calls for a rethinking of the EU social contract with respect to freedom of movement. It's exactly this idea that discussions predicated on grou
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
It's possible to understand the nature and purpose of the European project and still, resignedly, vote "leave". People voting "leave" aren't opposed to peace and prosperity. They're saying that the EU is s
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
Well, since we have much more information about presidential elections (which happen regularly) than we have about brexit (which is mostly without precedent), you could argue that election 2016 forecasts are probably more accurate. I don&#x
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by fdsaaf 10y ago
> You say that as if it's assumed, but I don't agree and neither do very many others. It turns out that stereotypes, however distasteful, usually do have a certain degree of accuracy: http://heterodoxacademy.org&#x2F

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