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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Why is the Iliad's catalogue of ships a pleb filter? IIRC it was just a fairly boring instance of a primarily illiterate culture's historical record keeping, not unlike the "X begat Y" in the Hebrew Bible. Is TFA claimin
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I think this is a prodigious feat at any age. I remember trying to write Hello World in Malbolge as a teen, I think I was able to do "He".
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
> As a compliance person, SOC2 says that all change requests must have an associated ticket Does soc2 actually say this? IIRC their spec docs are proprietary so chumps like myself can’t actually read them. But a (imo great) SOC2 auditor
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Some good advice here, but the “don’t index boolean columns” needs an “it depends” caveat, since Postgres will sometime use multiple boolean indexes to perform a bitmap index scan, which can be advantageous.
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
The parent comment glosses Kant's distinction between noumena and phenomena as between perceived reality and "underlying reality", and while that is a common way of putting it, I think it's not quite accurate, and leads
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Yes, Kant explicitly says "I found it necessary to limit knowledge in order to make room for faith." Maybe I'm mistaken here, or giving him too much credit, but I never quite took him at his literal word here, as if he were s
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
- The superior/inferior characterize actually is part of the triune model, Maclean's book is replete with language like "advanced" vs "primitive". - The point of the criticism is not that the neocortex is not a
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I don’t believe I am ignoring the political realities. The way I see it, slavery was a hotly contested political issue in America at the time. In another comment of yours in this thread you mention “the exclusions that were made with defaul
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
It is hard to see this as anything other than pure American ideology. There is no critical thought in this essay, it's like a high school "why was the constitution cool and stuff" exercise. > The American founders put Cice
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I would be interested to read these stories, but the twitter links only show a single tweet ending in the phrase "A thread." Perhaps this is a new feature of X whereby only logged-in users can see a tweet and its replies.
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
The article seems to mostly equate emotional states with consciousness but doesn’t make the case for that equivalence. Paramecia also exhibit negative stimuli avoidance behavior but I don’t think that can plausibly be cited as evidence that
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
What do you make of Reinhart and Rogoff’s rebuttal to this criticism? They acknowledge the excel error but dispute the rest. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/26/opinion/reinhart-and-rogo...
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Very briefly, the idea of a natural kind term is that of a term that “carves nature at its joints” (Plato’s metaphor), ie is not just a convenient way of splitting the world up into entities but one that reflects the true structure of reali
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Sometimes I wish that when folks opined on such matters they would consider that there is a wealth of philosophical literature covering the same ground that generally has already anticipated your points, contradicted them, strengthened them
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Episode 719 of this podcast deals with SPD specifically from a parenting perspective https://brooklynparenttherapy.com/project-parenthood/
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Frankfurt is maybe best known outside academia for On Bullshit, but also did some accessible and thought-provoking work on free will and compatibilism that folks may find interesting. Unfortunately the key papers do not seem to be freely a
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Yes, the scientific consensus right now is that the prefrontal cortex does not generally finish developing until the mid to late 20s, and this is the main locus of executive functioning. Perhaps according to some very narrow definition of
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I wish the author had addressed the two translation choices that strike me as most unexpected: “strange” instead of “dear” wife, and “destiny” instead of “fate”.
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Strongly recommend the talk on which this answer is based: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43XaZEn2aLc
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I agree many of the criticisms in other comments here, but the author does make at least one good point that I have not come across elsewhere, around whether and how to factor "accidental complexity" (which is mostly a proxy for t
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I don’t think this is quite right: “debiting someone’s account at a different bank requires validation that they have permission to do so”. I believe the Nacha rules stipulate that the originator must have obtained authorization for the d
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
What do you mean "expensive to edit a scalar"? If we're thinking of the same Uber article on mysql -> postgres, IIRC it had to do with write amplification related to updates to indexed columns. I don't think postgres
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Yes, this claim along with "I am 100% objective, independent and neutral" are bombastic and serve only to undermine his argument. He seems like a smart and reasonable person, and some of his other writing that I've just come
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
> The tricky part of this proposal is that I’ve encountered many data modellers in my career who can offer the “denormalized” option, but few … nay, none who could tell me what the properly normalized data model was. We have a data model
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
There is a line in Wittgenstein’s Vienna (by Janik and Toulmin) that links W’s love of westerns up with his philosophical work (esp the Tractatus), roughly “W liked westerns because they showed ethical principles vs trying to demonstrate
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
It’s been a long time since I read it, but Social Construction of What? was a great book, philosophy at its best, in my opinion: lending clarity and rigor to concepts that reach into law, psychology, medicine, ethics, and the every day.
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
From folks making the correlation vs causation argument here, I would like to hear their rebuttal to the points the author already laid out in this article https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Having service A write to a table and service B read from that table in the same database is a perfectly suitable architecture for many applications.
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
I guess hn is known for “why don’t you just” comments but this one really takes the cake.
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by lukeasrodgers 3y ago
Yes but in very large datasets, isn't it the case that you end up finding correlations for many things at very low p values? That is (one of the reasons) why effect size matters. Still, the "odds ratios are below 3" requireme

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