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by lsd5you 9y ago
Optimism! When will social progress stop though, when is it complete? There are perhaps a lot of things wrong in the world but it's not clear to me that people can any longer fall back onto blaming various institutions (for opression .
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by lsd5you 9y ago
When the replacement of bash comes it will seem like a complete 'no-brainer'. In my opinion what should be happening is they should completely decouple the engineering from the interactive shell. The shell should just be a series
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Unselfish? In the article the term unselfish was used instead of altruistic. Unselfish views and concerns of course don't actually help anyone. Being concerned for something and not doing anything about it is a going to be depressive.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Whatever the truth, that section is poorly and contradictory. 'A strong link between cognitive ability and the risk of death.' 'A 15-point increase in intelligence was associated with a decreased risk of mortality of 32%.&#x2
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by lsd5you 9y ago
The premise of this article is flawed (to put it kindly). Surely no rigorous statistical study would fail to take age into account. So why is it even an issue (beyond a measuring technicality) being raised in a 'science' journal?
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by lsd5you 9y ago
The most likely explanation is the prior to perhaps 200 years ago the differentials were different. (Also having lots of children may not result in a lot of descendents, so is an insufficient measure). This would be due to the fact that in
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by lsd5you 9y ago
So really it's a branding problem?
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Yes, but I am speaking as someone who did just break up with someone. Amazing how noone can actually read that part and just jumps to long ranty insults. Confirmation bias is going to be especially common if you delete words when as you rea
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Yes, that is what I am saying (conditionally). I realise this is a contrarian thing to say. Again the level of trust is going to vary between relationships, and what has happened in the relationship and the character of the individuals invo
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by lsd5you 9y ago
You see I dispute this. If you just break up with someone and tell them it's just no good (or even all those things you did are too much to take) then that can leave them feeling even worse. Again we are all talking in massive generali
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by lsd5you 9y ago
It 'can be worse' if there is no cheating. My position to the extent that it is sexist is that it may even be worse for them on average. You just seem to be deliberately misconstruing my position because you would rather shut it d
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I'm sorry, it is conditionally worded and is grounded in my personal experiences. You can have your view, but don't sling ignorant insults. Perhaps try to show me why it is wrong? Or perhaps open your mind as to why someone might
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by lsd5you 9y ago
If so, it is a form of moral extremism that I think would result in everyone being less happy (and with general confusion as to why people are unhappy). Possibility, even unacted on, is an important thing.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
So affairs are 'wrong', but who would want to live in a world where there are no affairs? We excessively police and punish our partners, our friends' partners and our parents, but often hypocritically, when it comes to oursel
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Solving the energy costs of launches (even including environmental impact) seems more tractable than solving manufacturing in space.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Strictness and nurture are hardly in diametric opposition, but they may be difficult for some people to balance. Some parents have more self discipline, set a better example and better compartmentalise and in doing so are able to have it al
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Have a copy myself somewhere. Larry Paulson was a well liked lecturer. Famous for his terrible jumpers! Standard ML always seemed like a great teaching language, but it was never clear to me how it would work for general programming. So the
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I'd argue you are anti-strawmanning. As with all these debates, there is a spectrum of opinions, but plenty of high profile (if not entirely serious) people do have implicit (and even explicit) beliefs closer to the strawman than what
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Good point and saying they 'worship money' was an unintended pejorative. Still it is a bit more than that. Flowers are merely a gesture/ritual whereas burning money is an attempt to send money to the afterlife (if my understa
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by lsd5you 9y ago
People will see the authoritarian aspect of this, but in my view the Chinese are particularly vulnerable to financial scams for cultural reasons. - They have recent communist history/lack experience of crashes/associated fraud
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Sorry, this comes across as ... really ignorant. Of course there is a need. Some people have to make the decision whether to breast feed or not (e.g. because of medication the mother is taking) and ideally they need this kind of information
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by lsd5you 9y ago
He is hardly the first person to make that observation - or even the first noteworthy person. This is a debate as old as economics.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Not convinced. He seems to be preying on willing believers like an MLM salesperson. Mixing truth with omission.
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I am well aware that the climate is well against this position, but you cannot just dismiss the 'Damore' view out of hand. He is not just 'wrong'. The Damore view is at the very least plausible and tarring a whole indust
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I always wondered why we didn't see the term crypto-fascism come up more in the last few years. Perhaps because it is too honest and gives room for manoeuvre (although equally it is going to be hard to disprove). Hence people shouting
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Ok, but to me it is as plain as day that there is a double standard here and taking the debate on to that kinda territory is the only way to convince the other side about what they are doing... i.e. shutting down people who don't share
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by lsd5you 9y ago
Now extend your attitude to religous belief. All the parallels are there, including believing others are inferior (certainly islam). Should they be done as well? You are infact imposing a moral belief system. Once upon a time it used to be
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by lsd5you 9y ago
I would say, surely the author realises this and has decided to go for 'valueless' for dramatic effect. As a fellow somewhat pedant I totally agree, it's not intellectually consistent and would probably change me into a more
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by lsd5you 9y ago
This is a distinction I first learned about working in france years ago. Without any real basis I wondered whether it is their general more precise use of language which made it a more obvious distinction for a french person to make. At the
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by lsd5you 9y ago
A relic of 90s programming. Perhaps we can take a moment to realise we are not just doomed to reinvent things that were done properly in the 70s. Looking back there were plenty of things that were just poorly thought out and this was one of

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