hallole

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by hallole 5mo ago
You put words in my mouth. I don't claim that the smartest are clustered in the USA.
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by hallole 5mo ago
The smartest aren't uniformly distributed across the Earth.
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by hallole 5mo ago
Our lead does not come from immigrants. The American people, who are a distinct people, have shown time and again a potential for great things. Even if it were true, there are wider effects of immigration that you must consider. The purpose
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by hallole 5mo ago
Good point, but the article does say > "ideological imbalance occurs regardless of a user’s initial political interests" But yeah, even in the absence of any kind of algorithmic bias, I'd still expect there to be an imbala
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by hallole 5mo ago
And for that reason, we'll never discover the soul. It will perpetually be that "something" that we are missing in our understanding of things. Assume for a minute that we have the basic picture correct, that there is no non-
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by hallole 5mo ago
I'm willing to bet most burglars aren't motivated to do crime due to suffering from starvation-level poverty; there is hardly ever a "need" to do crime -- i.e., a scenario wherein doing something criminal is the only way
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by hallole 5mo ago
The same is true of all political movements when described dishonestly and over-simplistically, yes.
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by hallole 5mo ago
By "bad behavior," I mean robbing and murdering and the like, so no need for scare-quotes. Framing the average criminal as the victim of their own circumstances -- which seems to really be in vogue -- is entirely unconvincing to m
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by hallole 5mo ago
When I recognize this pattern (reducing one's beliefs to a line of common sense) in someone's writing, I usually take that to be evidence that they're not a quality thinker. I've skimmed the rest of the article you linke
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by hallole 5mo ago
Even under our decidedly non-anarchic regime, people STILL find reasons to behave poorly. I can't imagine removing the disincentive of state punishment would benefit society very much.
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by hallole 5mo ago
That's one of those definitions that's so broad as to make the word being defined meaningless. It's always silly when one re-phrases their position into something trivial that no one would disagree with.
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by hallole 5mo ago
LMAO, good catch. And I was about to look into it further!
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by hallole 5mo ago
In what way have we "eliminated them systematically"? Maybe I haven't paid close enough attention, but it feels like those activities have (unfortunately) disappeared largely naturally.
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by hallole 5mo ago
> "Traditional marriage was primarily an economic contract." I don't buy this. You can, for the purposes of your argument, reduce marriage to being something like an economic contract, that's fine; but, in reality, th
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by hallole 6mo ago
I've wanted to do something like this for The Encyclopédie, a hugely relevant text to the Enlightenment. If you ever get around to adding a rough "How I (generally) Made This" section, that'd be appreciated! Site looks g
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by hallole 6mo ago
This was a good read. I'm obsessed with undersea cables. I consider them one of the wonders of the modern world. Wikipedia says 99% of all internet traffic gets delivered via these ocean-spanning wires, just sitting along the sea floor
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by hallole 6mo ago
I'm not sure I understand, as every word in the title is true. One of the "requirements" you refer to is possessing an active subscription. The age-cutoff is 16, but Roblox has historically been based around kids making games
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Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely(devforum.roblox.com)
71 points by hallole 6mo ago|73 comments
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by hallole 6mo ago
I've encountered AI contributions on Wikipedia, and, although I wonder how they'll enforce such a rule, I think this is the proper stance to take. I think readers take for granted how concise Wikipedia's prose tends to be. AI
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by hallole 7mo ago
I don't think I'd have the wherewithal to jump in and do something if I were a bystander. I'm not the sort to throw hands, I don't carry, and these disruptive types are already a bit feral. I'm not sure it's co
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by hallole 8mo ago
> Rural states and colonies become the new Indias and Philippines for outsourcing companies, depressing labor costs. Depressing labor costs, but only to a point, no? They would be subject to American minimum wages; and, presumably, Ameri
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by hallole 8mo ago
> we write the color associated with a spectral distribution as C[S] where C is the function that takes a distribution and outputs the corresponding color. Unrelated, but can anyone tell me the purpose of using the square bracket notatio
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by hallole 8mo ago
It still looks like a big computer screen, I'm afraid. Although, making it seamless with the dash is a step up, you're right. That tiny paddle gear shift looks horrendous, though. I would really like to have analog features back,
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by hallole 9mo ago
Yeah essentially this. In my mental model, tariffs give an advantage to domestic suppliers / penalize foreign suppliers, and thus encourage domestic production by making it more viable. And bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. has b
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Ask HN: Do you think college is/was worth it?
9 points by hallole 9mo ago|17 comments
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by hallole 9mo ago
I think the freemasons are still around. Kinda awesome that it shares continuity with the freemasonry of some prominent figures, like Washington. Can't imagine joining now without it feeling like a massive larp, though.
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by hallole 9mo ago
Huh, that's neat. I've suspected that our political fervor is one of those things that we take to be uniquely NOW, of the present moment, but has actually been a staple. (Like how every generation believes its successors to be dum
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by hallole 9mo ago
> Jimmy Wales has been poked at with the question of whether he should call himself a founder or specifically co-founder Not surprising! Are we setting aside how deceitful his answer his? Claiming all credit for a collaborative accomplis
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by hallole 9mo ago
"So, who are you?" "Stupid question." What an interview! I had never seen this clip before, it's really something. Facts and context are important for sure, but as someone who isn't clued in on the Sanger drama
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by hallole 9mo ago
Vegan D3 is derived from algae, I believe. My vegan diet involves a lot of beans, rice, ..., which all require considerably less input than meat does. A bag of beans costs so very little, lasts so long, and is healthy. Meat and dairy are lu

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