isoskeles

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by isoskeles 5y ago
I know that 95% of the time I see a Gish gallop of identity politics, it's not an argument to engage in at all because even when you do, you're called racist yourself unless you subserviently agree with every aspect of the argumen
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by isoskeles 5y ago
I don’t have to. Using a Gish gallop of bad arguments doesn’t impose some moral imperative on me to prove every single one wrong.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Yes, mistakes are required to learn from them, but making mistakes does not imply that a person will learn from their mistakes.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
I couldn't disagree more with this comment. No amount of getting your hands dirty and making mistakes teaches you how to learn from your mistakes, nor changes the impact of the mistakes. You also progress much faster by learning from o
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Is there a difference between white paper and design doc? My impression is that a white paper is more academic, and so I'm not sure what it ends up looking like. At one of my jobs, we wrote design docs for most major changes (we had a
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by isoskeles 5y ago
I stopped reading at the mention of vaccines, so it makes up about 95% of the article.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Happy birthday, Vim! Thanks to everyone who has worked on that project. I've used vim for a while now, although not a power user I'm certainly capable. One of my favorite experiences with vim was remote pairing about a decade ago
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Why do you think I'm obligated to defend the position that "massive systemic voter fraud" is the only valid reason for asking people to identify themselves when voting? It's interesting considering I never brought up mas
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by isoskeles 5y ago
I’m trivializing the use of the victim of an event as justification to say we can’t have voter id. It’s a strange argument, coming off as if voter id laws and protecting people from spousal abuse must be at odds, so anyone who supports vote
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by isoskeles 5y ago
You changed your question by paraphrasing. Surely, you know how the original question could be inferred to be more about the specific thing we're discussing. But I'll placate you and answer your clarified question: Yes. I live in
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Appreciative to see we've all moved on from, 'voter id is inherently racist,' to, 'what if my dog ate my voter id?' (Aside, today is having fun with quotes day.)
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Thank you for scare quotes around something I never said. What will you accuse me of next? I don't think any of this is "worth it," I just don't agree with coming up with sob stories as a counterexample. It's not th
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by isoskeles 5y ago
It's his mother's fault for losing the documentation of his name change. Am I prepared? Yes. I have all my important identity documents locked in a fire safe. If something should happen to them, I'm willing to pay the $250, e
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Pretty clear not an illegal poll tax since this man is an edge case who uses a name with no proof. It’s sad that this is ultimately his mother’s fault, and he can’t ask her for the $250 to fix this.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
> You can kill the bad jerk, but then his chest opens up and a God flies out and the God is the new bad jerk and you beat it up too. (Also known as the JRPG option.) Looks like they covered FF7.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
They think it’s better because interest earned on their deposit is much higher than in a bank. Of course, that doesn’t account for this sort of risk.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Thank you for the link. Kind of awesome there's an hour long podcast on this concept.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Maybe they'll try to make it so you can spend time with AI, VR avatars of your dead loved ones (like in Caprica, the prequel to the remake of Battlestar Galactica).
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by isoskeles 5y ago
What a tragic end to this man’s life. The “personal alarm clock” gets me more than a lot of the other behaviors, as it would be quite alienating and disrespectful to have a friend make such an absurd offer to you.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
I’m not sure where the distinction between “natural” or “artificial” selection is, or if it matters. But it seems clear that humans and our technology are capable of creating far more pressure for other species to either evolve or die if we
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by isoskeles 5y ago
I posted a BBC article and a quote to directly answer someone's question about why this may have been important during the campaign, specifically how the laptop story would relate back to Joe Biden. I posted this because a lot of peo
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by isoskeles 5y ago
"You should've been filthy rich like Bill Gates!" Really?
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by isoskeles 5y ago
That makes sense. Guess they think Intelligent Design or whatever they call it now is due for another challenge since the SCOTUS leans more conservative.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Optimistically, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with a law like this because when engaged with lies, kids should be able to figure this stuff out. It’s not like they’re incapable of critical thinking. They can look up if the claims are tr
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Hah, reminds me that we have some utility boxes out here that have been painted to make them more interesting / less of an eyesore. Just another strategy to make them less... adversarial. https://www.waymarking.com/waym
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by isoskeles 5y ago
> Honestly, I think that my peers without kids who work crazy hours are, simply put, suckers. I've seen these people get much more work done than their peers (sometimes) and get compensated with higher salary and promotions. They mi
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Since you asked, I don't care about his personal ideas.
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Did that IT manager ever apologize for accusing you of being the problem?
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by isoskeles 5y ago
Why didn’t you post this reply one comment up?
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by isoskeles 5y ago
> This is close to a straw man argument. Nobody claims users will abandon Facebook. I find this comment so strange because the comment you're addressing never claimed that anyone else claimed users will abandon Facebook. You are act

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