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by new2628 6y ago
I think you understood the logic perfectly well, holistic admissions are more deliberate and less prone to those pesky objective outside factors.
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by new2628 6y ago
I fail to see the huge improvement once you automate all that. You'll have three fewer occasions per day to chat with real people.
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by new2628 6y ago
He has a point though.
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by new2628 6y ago
What about police officers who are from minorities. Would you kick them out too or you would spare them?
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by new2628 6y ago
Competence at designing and building large systems on schedule. At Nokia there was a saying around 2010 that in the time the Chinese produce a new phone model we can produce a new powerpoint slide.
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by new2628 6y ago
By this logic any great loss can be rationalized as the prelude to some even greater win. At the moment the best we have are the current numbers. By that measure, Sweden looks terrible. Comparisons between counties of similar population are
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by new2628 6y ago
Is Facebook needed for society to function, though?
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by new2628 6y ago
Thanks, but I won't admire anyone's moral stance who thought (until now) that working for Facebook is a fine idea.
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by new2628 6y ago
Countries where people don't listen to the experts and think for themselves have done much better: https://i.imgur.com/do9Zbvn.png
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by new2628 6y ago
I'd take that "little success" any day. From another comment below: Sweden vs Czech Republic (both 10M): New cases (7 day average): https://i.imgur.com/fciq4Ra.png Total deaths: https://i.imgur.com
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by new2628 6y ago
In some cases they did worse than nothing, like when advising people not to wear masks.
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by new2628 6y ago
They are very different though. One can be charismatic and charming, the other is bland and awkward.
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by new2628 6y ago
Being a sikh confused for a muslim is bad, but the implicit assumption that being a muslim is somehow worse is also bad.
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by new2628 6y ago
I meant that what is considered weird has shifted. What was weird before is easily accepted today. Some stuff that was accepted earlier has become a no-go.
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by new2628 6y ago
The stories are charming. I find the last sentence hopelessly naive.
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by new2628 6y ago
You should check Slavoj Zizek's take on this quote, where he completes the quadrant with the "unknown knowns", i.e. stuff that we know but we don't know that we know it, as in subconscious biases, ideology, etc.
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by new2628 6y ago
Even with math, there is much more "unwritten shared knowledge" than usually assumed. The corpus of current mathematics lives much more in the shared understanding of mathematicians than in the pages of articles. Math fields may i
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by new2628 6y ago
They don't necessarily get uglier, as many are insulated/painted/renovated/etc. and become quite presentable, especially if they become a bit more individualized. But one thing that is noticeable that blocks built earlie
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by new2628 6y ago
This may be true, but even in the cases that I mention the experience of those taking the medication was positive, it is just other people who noticed the shift in personality.
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by new2628 6y ago
Funnily, except for the pollution part, most of your items on the right seem more attractive from a quality-of-life point of view than those on the left. Flying to Disneyworld sounds like a nightmare I would never (willingly) do, but a trai
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by new2628 6y ago
Everyone I've known who took such medication have altered their personalities in noticeable (unpleasant) ways. It may be worth it for the person in question, but one should be aware of it.
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by new2628 6y ago
Most people I've met who solved their problem in this way seemed, as a side-effect, to have distorted their personalities in noticeable ways. (I am not claiming that this tradeoff is never worth it, but something rarely considered, and
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by new2628 6y ago
Seriously, the fact that this informative comment is downvoted for no good reason shows how toxic HN has become. It seems that many have become so bitter during lockdown that they either randomly downvote whatever they see or they leave com
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by new2628 6y ago
Exactly this type of articles raised my suspicion. It says that people have burned various towers in protest of 5G, and that there are crazy conspiracy theories linking 5G and covid, but it gives no evidence that the two are connected. What
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by new2628 6y ago
Again, it could be that being anti-5G is a reasonable stance, even if it is silly to claim that it is related to Covid. The linked article does exactly what I was suspecting: it conflates legitimate criticism with crazy criticism, trying to
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by new2628 6y ago
Honest question: does anyone really think that 5G is related to Covid, or is this a story planted in the media to also make legitimate criticism of 5G look like fringe lunacy?
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by new2628 6y ago
Yes, I do this frequently too, and what I meant to be "pretentious" was not having this problem, but writing a post about it and discussing it on a news site. This is like writing a news story about the lint in my pocket.
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by new2628 6y ago
It is amusing that someone thinking London means London, Canada should be fired for stupidity, but someone who cannot compute what is the time in another place by adding 7 (or 10 or whatever) hours to his current time and needs an elaborate
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by new2628 6y ago
Yes, "they drove the truck ..." may be a fact, but why they did it, what they wanted to achieve with it, what effect it actually had, are opinion-based, and are far more interesting than the underlying objective fact. Otherwise, y
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by new2628 6y ago
Apart from the aggressive nature of your comment, indeed, in most areas of interests to humans there is no objective truth or it is not as interesting as the motivations and interests of the involved parties.

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