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by mihaic 4y ago
Yeah, you get more information the more data point you explicitly define. The challenge is reaching a compromise between "easy to explain" and "captures a lot of information". Depending on your audience, you probably wan
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> Art, by its very nature, can't be conformist. So they hate it and have no use for it, and it's easy to rally them against "liberal arts" long-hairs. This places the blame entirely on the masses, while ignoring the h
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I feel it's ironic to say this for The Sandman, but for me the standard woke changes to the source material hurt the story, as they forced Dream to be a much weaker character. Johanna Constantine for instance starts off rude and dismis
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Fully agree. Most people use life expectancy at birth to believe that everyone died in their 30s in ancient times, even though these numbers are skewed because of huge infant mortality. Introducing something like life-expectancy at birth, 5
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I get a bit annoyed on these claims of "the first zero", since it never bothers to be very explicit about defining what first "zero" they're talking about. Is it the first symbol for no quantity? If you're only
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Right now there is an exception for violence committed in self-defense for instance. You still can't claim self-defense if you murder someone that shoved you. That's why I think things would get worse, you'd still be on the h
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Interesting that you're ok with some system of social credits. Even in the ideal scenario, I see two major issues with it: 1. People often don't perceive purely numerical losses properly, just like credit cards make people overspe
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It sounds as if you lived in a place where the rule of law was also absent, and you are right that violence can often spiral. Could you say where this was? What is was envisioning was a decriminalization of minor violence as long as we can&
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I agree that it's a potentially slippery slope, which would need to be carefully addressed and constantly balanced. Not all laws need to be eternal, some just apply to the current social status. I think your principles also come from u
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Punishment is actually not my intented point, it's having negative repercussion for a large class of antisocial behaviour. Being rude and verbally abusive in many situations for instance gives you a stricly positive outcome, from a gam
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Sure, that's exactly my point: capital punishment is over the top, and prevention would have been achieved with much less. If light corporal punishment were shown to be just as efficient at prevention as a 1-year in jail sentence, woul
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Yeah, or imagine what effect adding 50 lashed to the CEO on those $100 million fines that get easily paid.
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I know it's almost always taboo whenever I bring it up, but in recent years I've become convinced that a moderate level of retaliatory violence could lead to a better society. There seems to no longer be any negative consequences
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Ah, thank you, this is actually the argument, not what the article said. Unfortunately I've become a bit disillusioned that we can reclaim the conversation to be about the optimal level of quality, and what tradeoffs are acceptable. Of
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This seems to be only a part of the reason. Tolstoy was born into wealth, and it might be that his simultaneous exposure to the highlight of European culture, combined with the harsh reality of the lives of his serfs produced his insights i
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Living in Eastern Europe, I have to say that I've always felt that there was something brutal and thuggish about both Russian and Ukrainian culture (they are more similar than Ukrainians want to admit). The article merely hints at this
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To not assume complete stupidity, I'd imagine the Saudi's are looking at Dubai's success in locking in foreign capital into real-estate speculation, and want to imitate that. I'm sure they're hoping to stir up inter
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Yes, the big difference is in the decay of small towns. There are far fewer middle class jobs than before, what can you really make in small towns that's competitive in the global economy?
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While you're right in part, I think you're missing how today everyone want to move in only a few cities and small town economies are dying in many countries. This doesn't address in this global ponzi scheme how banks are fuel
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Obligatory quote: "All models are wrong, but some are useful". I realized about myself that I became better at decision-making the easier I could switch to the "appropriate model" for a give situation. Not even physics c
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Sorry to see you downvoted friend. I've been lamenting for a while the sole metric that is being used for environmental impact is "carbon footprint", just so that bureaucrats and companies can have something to measure while
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Then why not be consistent with "let" and "var", and actually use the vowel? I also am sometimes not fun at parties.
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Just a lot of small things stand out: - function and variable types are harder to visually parse for me. The keyword to declare a variable and the type put the varible name in the middle for instance. - the "fn" keyword is terribl
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Am I the only one that doesn't like this direction for the syntax? This was the main reason why I never got into Rust, it was just too different without any obvious reason. It's strange that I actually enjoy working with type anno
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If laws apply equally even to foreigners, then what's the purpose of the concept of citizenship? All people I know will treat their childred differently than random children on the playground, I'd imagine some analogy to this situ
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I'm completely against this surveilance capitalism that's pursued by big tech, but asking the US gov to use the same rules "for everyone" seems naive and bad for the world economy. All countries have primarily a duty to
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Arguably for 1-on-1 relationships, but even then it would mean losing some not so close friends, that I still enjoy seeing once every 1-2 years. But at times it's impossible in practice: my friends will create Whatsapp groups for insta
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I use mostly Duckduckgo for search, Google when in desperation (once per week probably).
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One thing I don't see the article mentioning is how rigid Egyptian culture and society was from 3000 BC up to the time of Alexander the Great. The Narmer palette is the classic example of how the artistic style sprung up almost fully f
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I would love to stop using Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp, but I would really need to criple my social life if I'd give up on any of these. And I'm not even a very active person, it's just that so many people I want to engag

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