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by javert 11y ago
As a grad student, he's right and I'm glad he's saying it. (I'm in CS, though, not biology.)
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by javert 11y ago
You can say that. But, he's still right.
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by javert 11y ago
> catalyzed, I would argue, by tragic lack of funding No, you don't get it. There is tons of funding. But academia is a corrupt old-boys network. Those petty, conniving people rise to the top and ultimately control the system. - A
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by javert 11y ago
Not sure exactly what you meant, but an app that does sentiment analysis on your text conversations on your phone would be pretty cool. It wouldn't just detect potential betrayal; it could show all kinds of cool (but useless) stuff.
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by javert 11y ago
Obviously the other main culprit (for putting carbon into the air) is China, and it's not worth it for the US to try to exercise power over them. As to the list of stuff you're complaining about, you can only blame Australia (i.e.
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by javert 11y ago
Humans have been adapting to nature and vice versa for all of history. Those things I mentioned are not enough to stangle the economy. I mean, if you are going to impoverish people, what's the point? Isn't preventing global warmin
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by javert 11y ago
Since you mention it... I recently lost 11 points in the span of a few minutes (while writing a comment), apparently because someone went and downvoted all my recent comments. I've seen other suspicious behavior for months, but it&#x27
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by javert 11y ago
I wouldn't blame this on governments/corporations. I would blame it on people choosing to have children they can't necessarily support. I think people should have the right to do that, but they should have to face the consequ
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by javert 11y ago
> Climate change over +2C will hit the U.S. hard, and the fact that other places are worse off won't be consolation. Care to elaborate? I don't see how that would be a problem. Agricultural areas would shift, and maybe we'
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by javert 11y ago
> stop eating 12 hours before breakfast in your destination's time zone > If I'm up against a deadline and need to put in a couple extra hours or pull an all-nighter, I'll skip two or three meals. What is the underlying
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by javert 11y ago
> boil everything down to categories like "individualism" or "collectivism" that only make sense within your own ideology - as if your ideology was built into reality rather than something you impose upon your percept
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by javert 11y ago
By the way, to clarify the other comment I just made, the Democrats really are collectivist, because they favor socialized medicine, education, high redistribution of wealth, and arbitrary amounts of regulation. Yes, it's true that the
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by javert 11y ago
> A true socialist favors workers owning enterprises. > To repeat and sum-up the core point: socialism does not really care about taxation or regulation except as tools, it cares about workers owning their own tools, work-sites, mater
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by javert 11y ago
What exactly is different between the ideology underpinning Democrats, and socialism? I'm genuinely asking what you think the difference is. The Democrats obviously support socialized medicine, socialized education, wealth redistributi
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by javert 11y ago
That may be true---actually, I think it probably is. But that has nothing to do with the extremely bleak and cynical statement you made: > Most of America is for the ACA, but against Obamacare, it all depends on how you phrase the quest
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by javert 11y ago
Thanks, though this clearly does not support the claim that was made. If this is the source of the claim---and it appears that it probably was---the claim is a serious mis-statement.
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by javert 11y ago
> Most of America is for the ACA, but against Obamacare, it all depends on how you phrase the question. Citation needed. I can't believe that without some kind of evidence. I can believe that the wording of the question matters, bu
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by javert 11y ago
> Not even most of the Democratic base will vote for a white male socialist in his 70's over Hillary Why do you say that? I could perhaps be convinced, but at this point I don't see any reason to think that.
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by javert 11y ago
But Sanders is not ahead, technically, Hilary is. I think. Sanders is still a dark horse candidate. So by your logic, I think Sanders should have a great shot.
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by javert 11y ago
Not an expert, but I don't see why he wouldn't have a chance. He represents what the left really wants, so he can win the primary, at least.
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by javert 11y ago
It doesn't, because that article (the one you link to) is hopelessly confused.
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by javert 11y ago
Here is the take-away of that: > In reality, a majority of prison growth has come from locking up violent offenders And also: > a large majority of those admitted to prison never serve time for a drug charge
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by javert 11y ago
Trespassing is not the same as going somewhere you weren't invited. It is always wrong for journalists to trespass (i.e. on private propery), but it's not wrong for them to show up uninvited.
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by javert 11y ago
That license plate is just awesome.
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by javert 11y ago
Except nobody is saying that. Every computer scientist acknowledges that we have not proven P!=NP. I would be delighted to see either P!=NP or P=NP proven. I have devoted 0% of my career to this question, so it does not stand to embarass me
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by javert 11y ago
This article contains no new reporting. It just contains moralizing. Incorrect moralizing, at that. Total garbage.
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by javert 11y ago
Thanks for the correction, I assumed from context that BER was something different when the exact opposite is the case.
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by javert 11y ago
Put the Germans in charge of that. I think we can all agree on that.
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by javert 11y ago
> If the IOC died, the worldwide championships of each sport would gain importance. The idea there (in this comment thread) is to replace the IOC with something else and continue the Olympics, not to eliminate the Olympics altogether.
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by javert 11y ago
This piece is 99% hot air. A bunch of backhanded attacks on Amazon before we hear the real problem, which is obviously that some automated system mis-classified the customer. Even the author acknowledges this. I would assume a quick email o

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