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by onos 4y ago
I think this is a good challenge. But also nobody here really proves or argued that millennials are uniquely nihilistic either.
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by onos 4y ago
I see this as a confusing explanation of the algorithm for calculating coefficients, not as a line that explains what the Fourier transform is. As for a single line on intuition, can you beat: “method of decomposing a function into a sun of
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Konstantine Kisin on Climate Change(twitter.com)
7 points by onos 4y ago|1 comments
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by onos 4y ago
You point out that it’s hard to measure merit at times. OK, but you haven’t argued that means our noisy signals of merit should be ignored. Whatever it’s flaws, here is what I like about meritocracy: it says we should honor and reward tho
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by onos 4y ago
The argument here is that society holds the humanities in contempt because their students aren't held to any meaningful standards --> aren't taught to do anything useful. I think that is dated, but was the sense ~10 years ago.
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by onos 4y ago
To be clear: I think these policies favoring certain groups and those requiring academics to swear fidelity to these preferences is entirely immoral. The people doing this are wrong and society should course correct.
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How DEI Is Supplanting Truth as the Mission of American Universities(thefp.com)
12 points by onos 4y ago|1 comments
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by onos 4y ago
That’s true. Another reality is that there are bad actors on the customer side too. A single person who gets off on being awful to people can leave an unwarranted bad review and materially harm an Airbnb host’s business.
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by onos 4y ago
Definitely agree, but want to highlight one good reason to work hard for young’ns: If you can make a good impression with your colleagues they may be able to help you land a good job down the road.
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by onos 4y ago
It’s definitely annoying but I wonder if it’s also not entirely bad: We have a built in debate system for any issue that catches people’s attention.
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by onos 4y ago
I wonder if Tesla drivers simply use autopilot more than ford’s do.
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by onos 4y ago
Ah the old ad hominem argument.
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by onos 4y ago
Historians sometimes also argue that the constant wars between France and Britain played a role in the industrial revolution occurring there. Among other things, to finance the war Britain had to borrow money, and to get it they had to sig
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by onos 4y ago
FWIW I thought the “lede” was far too buried and stopped reading before I got to it… so this style doesn’t work for everyone.
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by onos 4y ago
Agree on the first part. If correct, it is a wonderful achievement, apparently built upon the work of at least two others.
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by onos 4y ago
Impressed no discussion here of his large donations to the Democratic Party. That’s the main talking point in conservative circles, whether accurate or not.
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by onos 4y ago
Here’s the formula: “you thought X was true … but it’s not!”
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by onos 4y ago
Computation is not theory. Theorists use paper and pencil and sometimes mathematica, not simulation. As for not being able to rebuild a computer, that’s truly ridiculous.
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by onos 4y ago
Thanks for the link. Yeah the world is complicated. I assume the plots above are driven by globalization. Fwiw I’m pro reshoring and isolationist. Below is a link to single motherhood rates by year. The lift off precedes the drug war so
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by onos 4y ago
Plenty of people on the right do not support walker et al. The right isn’t any more of a monolith than the left. Absolutely they’d support tax incentives for married couples. As for stronger social safety nets decreasing crime, sounds good
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by onos 4y ago
The drug war argument is compelling. If this is the main driver we have a pretty unpleasant trade off to consider: accept drug addiction which ruins lives or send people to jail which also ruins lives. Some drugs aren’t so bad so the tra
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by onos 4y ago
Don’t agree.. The rights main argument to reduce crime is to promote stable family units as stats consistently show that controlling for single motherhood, children of all races show similar rates of criminal activity. This is not popular
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by onos 4y ago
I just read the Wikipedia link in the parent of this thread and it covers it in very interesting detail. Lots of moving parts, and I can’t give a synthesis. But this includes: nationalization of the oil fields that broke prior agreements
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by onos 4y ago
It has changed dramatically: we went from teachers doing their own thing to having strict top down curricula taught towards tests + dramatic drop in expectations.
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by onos 4y ago
It sounds like they are saying no need to take one now for many groups. Does this mean they suggest taking one later in the year? Annually? Or are they just blanketly saying they don’t recommend getting a booster for these groups from th
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by onos 4y ago
I’m not against this a priori but I’d expect this to also generate new levels of inequality. As the rich get access to larger playing fields their wealth can grow that much more. Even if true, whether this is bad or not is probably subjec
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by onos 4y ago
I would accept the theme if you used “many of those claiming to follow EA”. But you don’t, you say “EA”. It’s on you to make your statements accurate.
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by onos 4y ago
Great point. In other words, we are experiencing the usual failure mode to liberalism: it can be taken advantage of by non liberal actors. Not sure what the restoring force is to prevent this.
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by onos 4y ago
What would you say have been the achievements of the woke to date?
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by onos 4y ago
The main point seems to me to be anti western. They aren’t calling for the dirty laundry of the colonies to be aired.

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