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by lopmotr 7y ago
These arguments about who's more important than who are usually pretty pointless. You should begin with a measure of importance and then use it in an unbiased way to evaluate people. It should give results you agree with no matter who
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Unless you're really having cognitive decline, you can probably pick it up again if you need it much more easily than the first time. We forget stuff we don't use, so forgetting maths probably means you've been doing somethin
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> The justice system shouldn't label a person a criminal after the rehabilitation. Except it doesn't usually provide rehabilitation. If it did, that would be great. But as it is, somebody released from prison really is at high
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If that's true for some criminals, then isn't it true for all of them? If not, how would you distinguish the ones who used free will from the automatons? It sounds ripe for unfairness. "Oh, my poor client was abused as a chil
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I don't see the harm in just reading what politicians promise. My city recently had a local election. Each candidate got to write a paragraph about themselves. I read them all looking for a few key points that I felt were important, an
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If your aim is to vote responsibly, then the news is a poor place to get information to help you decide. Not just because of the obvious political biases, but choice of stories they lead you to believe are important. Sex scandals, he-said-s
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I've had this exact concern for the past decade and a half. Climate change activists really aren't using logic because they completely neglect 3 and just pull an answer to 4 out of a hat. Then when people instinctively feel their
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Who doesn't think climate change is happening? Even the hardest skeptic acknowledges natural longer term climate change. Others acknowledge recent history as shown in these graphs but doubt the causation. Causation is very difficult to
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Absolute sea level (from the bottom of the ocean?) is meaningless for people concerned about coastal flooding. Absolute temperature is also meaningless in deg C because the zero is arbitrary anyway. Even if they used kelvin, nobody cares ho
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why can't people just make honest graphs? If you're trying to convince a skeptical person, the last thing you should do is use known dirty tricks for deceiving them. CO2 and arctic sea ice graphs' vertical axes don't sta
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I wouldn't consider those to be matters affecting your life, career or business. They're really just interacting the news, like a hobby. Without the news, you wouldn't be interested in those things, and as a bonus, you wouldn
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by lopmotr 7y ago
In America, do truck operators not have to pay for use of roads? Or are you talking about illegal activity?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Probably not, but that's not important because it's research, not a commercial product. The question to be asking to evaluate how exciting it is is "Could this do anything better than normal communication if it were developed
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Then you'd be doing a "violation" and get a warning. Presumably some in-school punishment for repeat violations.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
There's no way Firefox can protect itself from a 3rd party that can write to the disk. It's only making it more difficult. Viruses will still manage OK.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
> differentiate functions of the form 1/x, x^2...etc. To test proficiency, well we give pen & paper tests and forbid most notes, Maybe it's a US thing, but that sounds horrible. When I was a teacher, we usually allowed note
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I used to be a math teacher, but somehow I don't know what the use of a graphing calculator is. Why do students need them compared to a basic scientific calculator? In one school system I taught in, you didn't even need any calcul
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by lopmotr 7y ago
So much "research" is just people doing normal mundane work but they happen to be familiar with the process of publishing research papers so they do that for whatever they can think of. This particular work is more like a hobby or
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If the population is worried at all, they'll probably want to stop private companies using it anyway. Governments usually gets exemptions from privacy laws, so in a way that's more worrying - government access is less likely to be
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Older opportunities only looked easy because they'd be easy for us in our more powerful position of knowledge and resources. It wasn't easy for an uneducated medieval peasant to discover the laws of electromagnetism. Even the most
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Reducing waste can only go so far - zero waste - and worse, it has diminishing returns. Improving technology, on the other hand, has no upper bound and builds on itself to enable even more improvements. Imagine if people had just reduced fo
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The lack of exposure to role models for girls is a load of carefully crafted dishonesty. It gives the impression that role models are the reason for gender differences in inventing without actually saying that. Instead, it uses the same wea
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Who people voted for is, but not really the other stuff. In my country, name, address and occupation on the electoral role are public-ish information that anybody can look up in the local library. The law requires it to be made public, thou
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think terrorism is killing random members of a population to scare the others into some political or ideological change. It wouldn't count if it was targeted at fighters and civilians got killed by accident.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It sounds like you judge people by the consequences of their actions rather than their intentions. I tend to agree with that way of thinking but many people do the opposite and believe intentions are the morally superior way of judging good
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I feel like an outsider but: VB.net, Winforms and DirectX 9. Also the odd bit of C++ for interfacing with some 3rd party libraries where performance is important. My customers are engineers (of the traditional type) and Windows is very popu
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I'd say so too. I somehow tuned out religious fear of ideas, perhaps because I didn't really think of those people as even pretending to pretending to be intellectually honest. But now non-religious people from my own generation a
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by lopmotr 7y ago
You do realize you're describing quite a lot of popular books such as the Quran and the Communist Manifesto, right? You want to quarantine them to research labs only? How is the world now so filled with people who are afraid of ideas?
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's actually easy to change the climate or geography for a person by moving that person out of the place with the bad environment. Unfortunately, the bad environments are also the cheapest so some other person will move in to enjoy th
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by lopmotr 7y ago
They probably do for intelligence. It's fairly well accepted that the Jewish high intelligence is genetic. It's not much of a stretch to consider that similar differences affect other ethnic groups too. There's no strong evid

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