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by partdavid 7y ago
I'd be pretty interested in reading about this work. Do you have a blog post or any code you can share around this case study?
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by partdavid 7y ago
At this point Bel doesn't even have numbers. A character is axiomatically a character, not some other thing (like a number in a character set encoding). Isn't it premature to talk about character set encoding or even representatio
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by partdavid 7y ago
It's a pittance that's comparable to the price of one of the planes that went down. Not even both. No amount of money is justice, but considering that the average wrongful death settlement is much more, this is pretty ridiculous
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by partdavid 18y ago
It seems like Graham here is talking about one specific kind of credential--a university degree--and making conclusions about all kinds of credentials. It's impractical and inadvisable to "just measure performance" for all kinds of medical
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by partdavid 18y ago
I'm not the one who compared leaving your wife to rape and genocide. It's preposterous to do that and then to say that you're not equating "blame" with "moral condemnation." And since you reiterate your consistency, I can only assume that w
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by partdavid 18y ago
Sure it is. Unless you define heaven or other claims of paranormal phenomena so trivially ("that which cannot be perceived and has no effect") of course it can be falsified. If the soul is a thing, and heaven a place for it, then of course
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by partdavid 18y ago
I don't think it's a question of harm. As for what I'd do, that would depend on the situation. If I answered the question, I would offer what I think, making it clear that that's what I think. But if the child were young enough, and were as
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by partdavid 18y ago
"Blame should be placed always with the actor." I wouldn't have put it the way the GP did, but yeah, "blame," if we have to assign it, probably does always land at least partly on both partners in a relationship. PG was proposing a hypothet
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by partdavid 18y ago
So then what is the response when someone else's child asks those example questions? If a child asks you if there is a God, do you try to convert them to whatever you believe?