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by new2628 6y ago
They are not the real problem. The all-or-nothing exaggerations that remove all nuance are (a major part of) the real problem.
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by new2628 6y ago
You probably didn't miss anything -- smart people working on questionable projects has a long history.
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by new2628 6y ago
> Forgiveness starts with an apology. This is often claimed, but I'm not sure I agree. Why can't I forgive someone who wronged me even if they didn't apologize? Or perhaps even if they don't see that they wronged me.
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by new2628 6y ago
I'm not indian, so I only see the surface of all the socio-economic issues, some of which go way back -- as far as I know, the reservation issue is highly charged and sensitive (similarly to gender/race issues in the US), and I ha
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by new2628 6y ago
The quality of your peers is an important feature of any educational system (if not the most important) -- by that measure alone the top institutes in India are excellent. The top researchers/professors at those institutes are also a p
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by new2628 6y ago
OK, I'll bite. The top academic institutions in the exact sciences and engineering (old IITs, IISc) are excellent by any standard, and the students are top notch, due to the large pool from which they are selected and the brutally toug
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by new2628 6y ago
More so in Eastern Europe -- the other day there was an article about an entire bootleg helicopter factory in Moldova.
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by new2628 6y ago
Having lived all over Europe and US for varying amounts of time, this is true. Yet, the subjective quality of life is higher in most of Europe than in most of the US. Funnily, this is true within Europe as well. Most of Northern Europe is r
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by new2628 6y ago
What will be more effective in the end is if walking (also: eating, sitting at a table, etc.) while immersed in a phone finally becomes uncool with young people. So far it doesn't seem to happen (unfortunately).
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by new2628 6y ago
I know that this data is used in good ways. It just points at the greater problem that wildlife is about to exist only in a "managed", semi-wild way. In my mind "left alone and given sufficient space" is better than &quo
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by new2628 6y ago
"Proofs from the book" is very neat.
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by new2628 6y ago
I think I read about it here first: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/07/26/a-big-little-idea-call... There are further links in the post.
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by new2628 6y ago
Aside from the fact that nobody is trying to use that name for anything, you shifted from "not go well" to "obviously harm" quite quickly. Whether it is one or the other makes all the difference.
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by new2628 6y ago
There are all these technical solutions, but the following may lead to a better experience and more fun trip overall: Make a rough plan in advance, then as you get there, start asking around and follow the advice of locals: truck drivers, g
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by new2628 6y ago
I think it was spot on. Bureaucracies start with a good intention, then become self-serving, and then become viewed as the goal itself. The problem is not that these people are not mapped, the problem is that you cannot participate in healt
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by new2628 6y ago
There are some nice essays on this concept called "legibility" -- where modern societies hate those systems that are "illegible" in the sense of not being fully mapped, characterized, understood. In most developed countr
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by new2628 6y ago
There are some widely agreed upon truths that need no citation :)
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by new2628 6y ago
So if you were the richest person in the world you'd donate your wealth to the second richest.. I kid, I kid...
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by new2628 6y ago
Yes, it's a sham that members of an organization are exercising their voting rights. Why not take away these rights in the name of democracy when they are not voting in the proper way.
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by new2628 6y ago
Anti-democratic may also not be the best term when a majority of the people more or less support what you do. Illiberal, populist, protectionist, sure, but these do not sound nearly as bad.
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by new2628 6y ago
This kind of exaggeration surely doesn't help the cause either.
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by new2628 6y ago
Can you say something _for_ Trump or the government though? Your posts will not be deleted, but likely downvoted into invisibility.
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by new2628 6y ago
I guess the underlying point is that in the same time period CPU speed has increased thousandfold, so you'd expect that to compensate for the few extra features that were added.
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by new2628 6y ago
No, only by Google.
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by new2628 6y ago
You forgot the step where left-wing intellectual elites ridiculed people for wearing masks as it "doesn't protect anyway and creates a false sense of security". If anything, I would imagine masks to be a prepper thing, so I w
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by new2628 6y ago
The web interface also went downhill from its initial simplicity. Hitting the download button for a pdf file in my own dropbox folder (99.99% of my use case) has become a whack-a-mole, with a constant danger of accidentally connecting some
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by new2628 6y ago
"holistic approach to moral evaluation" I'm not holding my breath for that one.
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by new2628 6y ago
Really, no one? that's a bold claim.
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by new2628 6y ago
This analogy would work if it weren't for the immigrants who arrive with no connections and resources, and successfully make it through hardships within one or two generations. A more apt analogy may be a marathon where there are bysta
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by new2628 6y ago
I don't think Harvard is oblivious to these effects.

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