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by lopmotr 6y ago
The end result would be indistinguishable from excluding those others. They could even just do it with words on paper with a statement like "We're accepting 100 fewer students next year." followed the next day by "We&#x2
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They're obviously not interested in what's better or they would expand to accept them all! But if they grow, they'll dilute their elite status.
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It's only ridiculous if it's not good for their business. Maybe Microsoft is the one being ridiculous by leaving money on the table and not having a closed ecosystem. If your complaint is that it's bad for the app developers
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You disregard all US science? Really? Good luck knowing anything about the world at all.
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You'd better also reject any "one paper" that entirely agrees with your personal experience too. You do that, right?
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It agrees with you - "Some taxa and sites showed decreases in abundance and diversity" But rejecting science in favor of personal anecdote is ridiculous bad thinking when an anecdote doesn't disprove it.
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If it can be made right, then yea but if not, then it's probably better to imagine you weren't wronged. I have a personal experience with this. I suffered an injury that caused a permanent disability, but because I was also knocke
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by lopmotr 6y ago
We have to assume something about the accuracy otherwise there might as well not be any numbers at all! What if it was +/- 100 K ? Writing 2 extra decimal places is assuming the original values also have 2 decimal places with zeros in
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You really shouldn't put that 0.15 on the end. The numbers weren't that accurate to begin with so it gives the false impression that those digits mean something. I hope it doesn't feel like I'm picking on you but I can&#
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Collecting debts is a moral action though, isn't it? It's part of the system that keeps society working for everyone. I've had people owe me money. It's not pleasant when you know you've basically given money to the
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by lopmotr 6y ago
No sorry. I've created too embarrassing a trail of HN comments to want to link this identity to my livelihood. But it's not actually GIS, just a similar sort of product. It might be that an equally minimal GIS really too feature-p
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by lopmotr 6y ago
This Russia-Trump conspiracy theory is one of the left's intellectual failures. You might as well believe Obama is a Muslim spy or the Illuminati controls the world or whatever. You've just been worked up into a frenzy by the medi
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by lopmotr 6y ago
While I don't know about GIS specifically, I work in a similar field where the market leaders have an enormous feature set accumulated over many decades - some from the 1960's and never stopped growing. But I squeezed in with the
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Ignoring the science or knowing the science and deciding the best course of action is to carry on as usual? The science doesn't tell us what the best action to take on climate change is.
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Do you also put that much effort into arguing against climate exaggerationism? Claims like the world is on fire, civilization will end or humans will go extinct because of it? People who won't have children because they believe the wor
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You think that's bad? I've met more than 12 people who believe humans were created by an invisible space alien who reads our minds and will punish us if we think the wrong thoughts. When I was at school, we were encouraged to enga
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by lopmotr 6y ago
My personal fundamental axiom of floating point numbers is that they're like a physical measurement of a continuous quantity. Examples: 1 + 2^30 - 2^30 = 0 is like adding a drop of water to the ocean then removing an ocean's worth
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Surely you remember being a teenager and acutely aware of subtle signals like that. You could identify a "try-hard" who are often disliked for pretending to be part of a culture they're not in. It's a kind of dishonesty.
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We already have separate countries to contain conflicting cultures. Isn't that enough? They all want to impose their culture on each other but are held apart by the threat of war.
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> I prefer this formulation: what's moral is what minimizes overall human suffering, now and in the foreseeable future. Isn't that easier to find loopholes we wouldn't like, such as exterminating all humans to prevent any
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> create the worst outcomes we’ve seen in decades Do you really believe all that is worse than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars which caused millions of people to be killed? It sounds like you're just a nationalist who thinks their liv
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Why do you talk so much about these abstract problems while neglecting the real ones? Black people get shot every day and it's not by the KKK or the police, it's by other black people. They are the real danger, not some parade wit
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Some of the truly delusional have always had plenty of power and ability to spread their theories - religious people. Free information will hopefully reduce that rather than enhance it. Modern small-time delusions like anti-vax or white sup
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That's violent crime though, which is more obviously bad, even to a teenager. If you're 17 and intentionally kill someone then your brain is broken and you should be kept away from innocent people forever unless you really have so
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by lopmotr 6y ago
People have such weird attitudes to IQ. Either denial of it's significance or hope to improve it by applying the right life experiences. It all seems based around the fear of the possibility that some of us really are born inferior and
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No because it can't protect itself from water or run away from a lion. It's extremely limited in the range of environments it can adapt to.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> only the wealthy and privileged can afford to be less vocational in their thinking about college. Isn't that perfectly reasonable? If you have the means to study as a hobby, then you should be able to enjoy that. If you haven&#x27
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Is it really clear the fusion power, even if it's achieved, will actually be cheap enough to use? Sure, the fuel is almost free, but the fuel for solar, wind, and hydroelectric power is also free and that doesn't make them cheap.
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It's not necessary to reproduce all human abilities in recovering from emergencies because about half of crashes are caused by the human pilots in the first place. Just automating the routine things and letting it crash in exceptional
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People frequently try to say the right things to convince the "stupid sheep" people but nobody bothers to think of how to convince themselves. Activists typically believe what they believe for bad reasons so they aren't able

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