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by navigator01 9y ago
Everyone on Earth has a petty identity. If we allow secession just so every self-identifying group can 'rule' themselves then we encourage those petty identities when we should be discouraging them and instead encouraging universa
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by navigator01 9y ago
Good, we can't allow the dissolution of nations.
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by navigator01 9y ago
>"85% of tech jobs at the company were held by men, and women engineers at the company experienced a deeply unpleasant environment." But many women have come out to defend the company and say their experiences at Uber were posi
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by navigator01 9y ago
I dislike most insects. So long as this doesn't impact humanity's ability to thrive on the planet I don't mind. Since we're doing just fine in the face of such significant losses in biomass I don't really worry.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Maybe this is due to widespread use of insecticide? Even so, I'm shocked that the decline is so significant. In none of the major extinction events of the past have insect populations dipped so dramatically. But regardless, I dislike m
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by navigator01 9y ago
I'm glad this is the top comment, because I don't often see common sense critiques of UBI that acknowledge price adjustment. We can't just print money, that is obviously going to fail as it always does. So... Will we try to i
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by navigator01 9y ago
Well I think the US was more justified than Pol Pot, Stalin et. al. when it engaged in violence.
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by navigator01 9y ago
They should be understood in context. The US was engaged in a war against dictatorial USSR style communism for nearly 50 years. History has shown the US to be on the right side of that conflict. Is people being killed ever a good thing? Alm
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by navigator01 9y ago
Gentrification is really a non issue. When areas begin to attract wealthier people, they can begin to attract nicer businesses and infrastructure as a result. So the entire neighborhood becomes nicer. Should we keep things bad? Of course no
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by navigator01 9y ago
Survivorship bias is kind of bullshit, I mean luck does play a role in success, but the longer you work at something, as long as you have a good idea/plan of attack/all the other traits needed to succeed in a field, the less luck
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by navigator01 9y ago
I would disagree with that, creativity is a key part of general intelligence
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by navigator01 9y ago
Agreed. If you're really smart and a prick, well, then you're just a really smart prick. Intelligence and emotional mastery are divorced from one another.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Traditional procedures that balance due process and expedient justice are the solution here. Anyone who faces abuse needs to speak up to either HR in a corporate setting or the police, if appropriate.
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by navigator01 9y ago
The potential for anonymous slander is too high for a real system like this to be justified. Whispers turn to rumors which turn to falsehoods. Someone interpreted as being "creepy" in texts by one woman shouldn't have his lif
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by navigator01 9y ago
Good explanation here: "It’s because their products are index funds. They measure their performance by how well the track the relevant indexes, not their absolute return. If they have to not invest in stocks that make up an index, they
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by navigator01 9y ago
The answer is to allow all speech that does not have the intent of hurting others. I'm completely on board with limiting hate speech, but if I try to make a point that, say, illegal immigration is bad then I should not be silenced just
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by navigator01 9y ago
>“For at least 4000 years, there were settled communities but no evidence of state power” Well that doesn't mean state power isn't necessary for large scale communities. It just shows that in the thousands of years after the da
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by navigator01 9y ago
Seconded. Great book. The range of neural architecture that exists in nature is really fascinating and something that i think could help inform AI research.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Geat aticle, vey informative and helpful fo paents of gifted youth
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by navigator01 9y ago
Maybe you aren't using the accepted definition of stable? What fills the void when nations in the Middle East fall is chaos.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Ah yes, let's pull support from one of the most stable nations in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has their hands in some bad stuff but they are far preferable to ISIS or a prolonged civil war.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Yes Iran and Saudi Arabia are also exacerbating the conflict. The US has been providing support to Saudi long before the Yemen war began.
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by navigator01 9y ago
I'm thankful every day that I live in a developed nation that spares from this kind of suffering. We take so much for granted in the developed world, the cynicism with which many of us view our own nations is naive and shortsighted.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Huh? You're misrepresenting reality, which is that dogs love us and we love our dogs. It's not complicated. Now puppy mills and the like are not good, but the very concept of dog ownership is wholesome.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Take photos/videos of your entire home interior. For insurance.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Ok, interesting. I've just been trying to wrap my head around the novel value in blockchain technology.
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by navigator01 9y ago
Ok, sounds reasonable. Why can't you just create a database and give patients visibility? And create a simple app to allow them to dynamically set who has permission to use their data?
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by navigator01 9y ago
What does 'control of their own data' mean in concrete terms?
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by navigator01 9y ago
It has everything to do with home life and environment. No classroom within the expected margins of quality can overcome a negative home life that does not value education and encourage student achievement. Wealth and cultural/familial
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by navigator01 9y ago
Why does this have to be done on a blockchain? Or what is gained by building this service on a blockchain?

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