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by oska 7y ago
Frankly, it's pathetic that you play games with the words I use - 'hanging', 'rises' - which everyone understands are not actual descriptions of reality and don't engage with the argument at all, which is abo
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by oska 7y ago
Coca-Cola is an almost wholly evil company. By 'evil' I mean they poison people's quality of life and harm the environment and they do it knowingly . They are in exactly the same category as tobacco companies.
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by oska 7y ago
> Your just using your preferred frame of reference. No I am not. What I said was that they should have left it as just that the Earth rotates from West to East (no frame of reference). I only talked about how it would look like from ab
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by oska 7y ago
We're not talking about a map here, we're talking about the real thing, the Earth, hanging in space. (But yes, there are many maps that don't have north at the top).
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by oska 7y ago
> The Earth rotates around its axis from west to east, or, when seen from above, counter-clockwise. North is not up. When seen from above the South Pole, the Earth is rotating clockwise. But really doesn't make much sense to talk
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by oska 7y ago
Agree about the obnoxiousness of academia.edu. I used the 'download with email' option with a throwaway email account from mailinator.
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by oska 7y ago
In case you didn't see it, this video was re-submitted and a much longer discussion thread ensued: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21280429
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by oska 7y ago
Nothing 'requires' Facebook. Absolutely nothing. Anything that you can do through Facebook can be done through another channel, including direct contact with the other party.
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by oska 7y ago
> Everybody reads Facebook. No they don't. Far from it. > Those newspapers are disappearing, and people pay little attention where they do. Local newspapers are coming back. There are at least three glossy free newspapers where I
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by oska 7y ago
> invited her to a pub called the Fuggle & Firkin Fuggle is a classic English aroma hop, released in 1875 by Mr Richard Fuggle. [1] Firkin is an English brewery cask unit, specifically one fourth of a barrel or half a kilderkin.
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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by oska 7y ago|2 comments
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by oska 7y ago
> I guess I'm just curious why you think IQ is bunk. I could not put it better or more rigorously than Nassim Taleb, so if you are curious I really do recommend a good read of the piece I linked above (and the technical paper he lin
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by oska 7y ago
> But if you're going to take that stance, let me ask you: are you willing to throw out the rest of the social sciences? Because that's the only logical result. IQ research is the gold standard of the social sciences. IQ is fra
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Japan is reinventing itself as China surges and American power declines(palladiummag.com)
3 points by oska 7y ago|0 comments
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by oska 7y ago
I understand the point you're making but you risk giving IQ credibility by comparing it to height. Height is a real, physical uni-dimensional measure that has a Gaussian distribution. IQ is a made-up measure that pretends to fit a mult
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by oska 7y ago
Thank you for mentioning the Sissela Bok book, it looks interesting.
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by oska 7y ago
Respect to Finnish and Russian winter swimmers but I think most are swimming in fresh water that is still a few degrees above freezing (under the ice), not sub-zero ocean water.
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by oska 7y ago
With the breathing during exposure to cold water I find focusing on slow and controlled exhalation is the most important thing. People tend to go the other way and do lots of shallow, gasping in-takes.
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by oska 7y ago
> I've been in water only slightly warmer. I think your water would have been significantly warmer. Pond water with a thin veneer of ice on top would still be quite a bit warmer than -3˚C ocean water. People very regularly swim in l
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by oska 7y ago
I agree with your contempt for IQ. On this matter: > In the case of IQ people seem to have forgotten whatever it was that they were trying to model in the first place IQ was originally designed to determine mental development issues, i.e
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by oska 7y ago
The family of a controversial public figure would do better not to expose themselves to public discussion of that person soon after their death but to grieve privately. And if people are speaking ill of the dead it's highly likely that
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by oska 7y ago
> it is a decent heuristic to not speak ill of the dead I take somewhat the opposite view: once someone is dead they can no longer be hurt by anything bad said about them. Defamation law also follows the same principle. Not that I want t
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by oska 7y ago
Also the mis-use of obscure vocabulary: > In other words, it’s a data center—a columbarium for thousands of servers that store data for access and processing from virtually anywhere in the world. I didn't know the word columbarium
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by oska 7y ago
> Singapore banned the ads, not the actual consumption. I think it's a very important distinction, and well made by you.
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by oska 7y ago
I recently found the Macmillian audiobook of Dune through my local library service and have been listening to it. It's an 'acted' audiobook in that there is a narrator but also different voices for speech by the different c
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by oska 7y ago
Not that I'm aware of. (And it's at position 135 now).
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by oska 7y ago
So I think what's happening is that it gets heavily flagged and, because of that, demoted; then gets reviewed by the admins and the flags wiped; then gets heavily flagged again and demoted again. p.s. It's now at 120 and about to
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by oska 7y ago
Maybe we're seeing different story sorts then, because I just rechecked and, for me at least, it's now at 114 and on the 4th page.
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by oska 7y ago
Just as one data point, I personally hate the Apple logo and am heartily sick of seeing it everywhere and I loathe the way they feature it so prominently on their laptop lids so that I do keep seeing it continually. So yeah, these thing
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by oska 7y ago
Your thinking is all over the place. You've changed your criticism of capitalism into one of monopolies. Everyone understands that monopolies tend towards abuse of customers/consumers, including capitalists.

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