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by jfaucett 10y ago
You're right. This is why I mentioned not liking the whole left/right terminology in the first place.
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Generaly, without going into great detail, in the same way being allowed to criticize the relationship between Christianity and the oppression of women, justification for slavery, anti-gay actions, etc. Has led to much more moderate and tol
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You make valid points. Still, what happens when someone brings up some of the most important issues of the moment i.e. Black Lives Matters or Islamic Terrorism? Surely, the Democratic Party should not refuse to listen or engage at all?
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Well, first Islam is a religion which has nothing to do with race. So if someone is criticizing Islam because perhaps it has some bad ideas how can that be racist? Are the societal critics of fundamentalist Christianity racists when they as
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The idea (which is now becoming law in some places such as Canada [1]) is that some people do not identify as male and female but rather as something inbetween. So if you refer to them using the words 'he' or 'she' then
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You might be right. I don't know. A better phrasing might have been "anti-left" or "left-critical" viewpoint.
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It sounds like you're genuinely interested in correcting mistakes made by the democratic party. To that end as an outsider looking in, it seems to me that the biggest problem the democratic party has right now is the ability to openly
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Absolutely, I mispoke there. Experiments must be repeatable and hypotheses falsifiable. Truth in science is essentially about minimizing the probability of errors in our models. For example, it could still be the case that the sun won'
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by jfaucett 10y ago
You said turning point so I'm going to list what I think caused the most significant change in society. 1. End of Cold War / The Fall of the Soviet Union / Berlin Wall - because of its massive impact on geopolitics, the ultim
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by jfaucett 10y ago
If you agree religion is based on faith i.e. belief in things not empirically testable or verifiable and that science is the attempt to understand the physical universe through logic, reason, experiment and empirical evidence then at the ve
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Upvote for correcting yourself. I always respect people who can do this. Too few can and too many should.
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yes, that link is rather biased, here's one from a little more the other side ( http://college.usatoday.com/2016/07/25/the-whole-leslie-jone... ), its almost impossible to find anything objective on it, bu
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This shouldn't be surprising to anyone envolved with social media. This type of thing has been going on for the last couple of years. The most recent high profile event was when Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos for bigoted comments whi
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The benefits she mentions are legitimate, even though two of them have nothing to do with Berlin and could be obtained by moving to any new city. (no distractions, and changing environment equals greater creativity) So it really boils down
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"could easily supply their power needs from solar with minimal impact." I would really like to see some data backing up that claim. I mean this. It would be amazing, if there were a cheap, reliable way to sustain all energy via so
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Which is not where the majority of solar energy is being deployed. The world leaders in solar energy production are the EU and China : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_by_country .
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"...some people want to keep making that worse so we can populate the world with even more sheeple who have even more iphones." That sentence is horrible. We're talking about living, breathing, thinking human beings not &quot
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"They can't rely 100% precisely because hydro is unreliable." True in an absolute sense but in comparison to solar and wind hydro is extremely reliable, and can be used to power the grid when all other energy sources fail [1,
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Notice this is because 80% of the energy obtained was from Hydroelectric power, which is a great energy source because it is reliable - unlike wind and solar which in this case provided 7% and 0.01% respectively and are not reliable. It fru
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by jfaucett 10y ago
For anyone interested in this topic I would recommend reading "The moral case for fossil fuels". It gives a big picture look of this problem in the context of human flourishing. As someone who had only ever been exposed to the glo
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Ok. Medical: chronic PVT, and pseudobraintumor due to tetracycline allergie. Financial History 40k per year from 2011-2015 , last year no income, master student CS. That sums it up, I should probably post the details on github soon, since t
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either all information is public or only those in the power elite circles, which control media and its mediums, will have access to all information. I would rather the power rest in the hands of a well informed many since this is an inheren
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This is true - externally i.e. outside the 100 million+ people German speaking market. If you need to do business with Swedes, you will do this is English, same for most other EU member states. My point was specific to startups though, once
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this. I think many German startups perceive it as hip to speak English (while 95℅ of the team speaks fluent if not natively German), and completely neglect the real world negative consequences this policy creates. IMHO the benefits are in m
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I worked 3 years in a Berlin startup. Here's some things I observed over that time. First the city itself. Berlin changed drastically and is still changing. Cost of living, especially housing sky-rocketed over that time (1). The city h
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yes it appears that way without reading the paper. Basically the main factor to me is speed which has a huge differential for untrained subjects "The model finds that identifiers written in the camel case style took 0.42 seconds more t
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I think this is rambling about things that are largely unimportant (spaces or tabs). At least that's what his "Perfect Code" definition seems to be to me. The important part is the flipside, not the presentation: Given a prob
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Thats really good detective work. I was not expecting this much attention to detail at all - even after season one seemingly surpassed every film/tv show in history on that account. I will definitely be screen pausing for the rest of t
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by jfaucett 10y ago
here's the problem. Photoshop blows gimp out of the water in every way that is important to designers. GIMP is quite adept at simpler tasks/flows i.e. the stuff most people might want to do to an image, crop, put some text, etc. r
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by jfaucett 10y ago
Finally! I tested on you :) The upvote is awesome, there have many times over the years I've mistakingly hit the up/down and wished for a redo.

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