javert

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by javert 11y ago
> What is the reason for the hostility? Depression is a pretty touchy topic. People use their own beliefs about depression either as a buffer that helps them feel that they can handle their problems, or as an excuse for not being able to
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by javert 11y ago
I don't like working with people who are unpleasant to work with. Of course, if you are really good, he isn't unpleasant to you. I'm not that good, so I suppose the fact that I wouldn't want to work with Linus would be a
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by javert 11y ago
Drawing correct conclusions from correctly interpreted personal experience is a lot more important than clinical studies. People brandy about "clinical studies" and "show me the data" constantly, and yet such studies gen
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by javert 11y ago
Correct. You are clearly dealing rationally with a complicated topic, and for someone to just spit in your face about it (the Google link comment) is incredible. There is a sibling comment to your own addressing this.
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by javert 11y ago
That isn't correct, exactly, and your response to someone else who tried to point this out that only contained a link to a naive google search is really offensive. (Because it is patronizing, because it trivializes a complex issue, bec
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by javert 11y ago
As someone with clinical depression, I don't agree with you at all here. (I am tempted to say "Utter crap," but apparently your harshness prompted the other guy to delete his comment.) How you deal with your circumstances abs
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by javert 11y ago
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of
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by javert 11y ago
I hope so. I am a big fan of bitcoin and I see it as the way to do prediction markets. The problem is, people won't be able to use it seriously (i.e. with non-trivial amounts of money), because once you convert your earnings into fiat
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by javert 11y ago
Yeah, but prediction markets are basically illegal, because---again---government regulation. Prediction markets are so vastly powerful, both as a financial tool (hedging) and an information tool, that people would be screaming bloody murder
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by javert 11y ago
Regarding Chinese city names, in the 2008 Olympics, newscasters were trying to use the Chinese name for the location instead of the English name (which is Beijing). It was horrible. It was incorrect. It was "politically correct."
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by javert 11y ago
Legal documents are preceeded by "the" unless they are numbered. So: the Constitution, the Patriot Act, the Articles of Confederation, the Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Register. But: HB 289, Title IX, Proposition 8. Thi
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by javert 11y ago
For anyone wondering about why it's being called "Magna Carta" instead of "the Magna Carta"... From Wikipdia: > Magna Carta was given its name in Latin, a language which has no direct, consistent correlate of the
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by javert 11y ago
Yes, they do. Which serves to illustrate that we need separation of education and state, for the same reasons that we need separation of church and state.
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by javert 11y ago
"Corporatocracy" cannot be an appropriate name for a system where most corporations are the victim of a few corporations that have governmental powers. So, "corporatocracy" is not a valid word. It would be like calling a
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by javert 11y ago
You don't have to be a one-party dictatorship to have a free country. The US was originally designed to be a free country, and it was a constitutional republic (not a democracy). The reason the US strayed from that was because, basic
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by javert 11y ago
No, we really don't. We live in a mixed economy , which means freedom mixed with government controls, which always means there are government-chosen winners and losers. It's what the people want , though. It's what we'
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by javert 11y ago
Well, the US is not supposed to be a democracy, it's supposed to be a constitutional republic. Neither the people nor corporations are supposed to have any power. "Power," here, means the ability to weild force against ot
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by javert 11y ago
It can never be rational to violate other people, because if you have a rational system of values, doing so will make you feel bad. Drag down SourceForge all you want (I applaud that) but don't drag down rationality with it.
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by javert 11y ago
Just to back this up, the NYT has been incredibly biased over and over and over and should not be treated as a reliable source of news.
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by javert 11y ago
As far as I've seen, in CS academia, grad students are almost always funded through a government grant (or something similar). However, salary for tenured professors is guaranteed regardless. So, if you are a tenured professor, you can
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by javert 11y ago
Yes, but that is a moral indictment of the NSF et al, who will give away their entire budget even if there is no longer anybody qualified to receive the same amount those CMU guys did. And then ask for an even bigger budget the next year. I
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by javert 11y ago
> The only way that something like the Internet could have been created is if a 'third party' of industry created it That's not a justified conclusion. If government academics had created airplanes or the internal combusit
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by javert 11y ago
I don't believe that narrative. For every $10 million you let remain in the private economy (instead of shifting to academia), you will get the same or more innovation. IBM, Intel and Google have contributed far more to computer scienc
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by javert 11y ago
It lets you keep track of who has what bitcoins without having to trust a third party (bank, PayPal, etc.). That eliminates counterparty risk, which is a big deal. In particular, it creates an international payment system that is resilient
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by javert 11y ago
But.... but... but universities are sacred cows paved with good intentions....
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by javert 11y ago
Because paying people a lot more money and saving taxpayers millions of dollars (since we no longer have to pay for those scientists) is being assholish?
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by javert 11y ago
They'd probably spend twice that much that way. The academic system will siphon off a ton of money before it gets to the actual scientists.
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by javert 11y ago
> some mew - perhaps maybe with a lot of further innovation - blockchain inspired tech There is no other way to get a decentralized global ledger. Well, if there is, it would be a huge discovery, just like bitcoin was. > It's b
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by javert 11y ago
I meant what I said. Nobody can experience happiness by giving in to whims and random urges without considering the long term. However, the good for a human being does consist in enjoying life and experiencing good emotion. So, this was a
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by javert 11y ago
Microtransactions don't need to go on the blockchain.

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