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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
Paul Graham's essay indicates that (a) Paul Graham went to High School in a cartoon and (b) Nerds are unpopular because they care more about being smart than being tolerable to be around. I'm certain that this is true of Paul Grah
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> The good citizen in real life fights the planning applications for new adverts; they tell their local politicians about the damage badverts cause; they fund campaign groups to tell others the same. Make a conscious decision to avoid ad
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> There are real questions about what makes people want to change sex There is no widely-accepted empirical answer to this question, and even if there was, it wouldn't tell us how we should treat such people. Arguments on trans issu
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The author is not arguing that online life is better for kids/people than offline life. She's arguing that it's unhelpful to frame the problems of modern life as a result of a departure from an Edenic "offline" or &
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I've ran Linux on 6 different consumer laptops, and I've never had to configure a sound driver. I have had to choose a file system, but only on Arch and Debian, which are targeted toward advanced users.
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I would have liked to see this go back far enough to include Morphy, whom Fischer considered "the most accurate player who ever lived." I would be surprised if Stockfish agreed, but it would be interesting to see.
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In addition to developers, many web applications have users. If a website is available as a PWA, some Firefox users might want to install it.
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I would have thought most command-line users would be content to install with pip.
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> The only exceptions I know of are Illustrator and Inkscape. Aren't those the two most common vector graphics programs?
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People who aren't "nerds" don't know whether an application is using unnecessary resources. They just think their computer is slow and they need a new one.
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> Male genetics are just more varied. The average of mens lives, by rule, will therefore be worse for most and great for a few. I don't understand how this follows. If we accept for the sake of argument that men are more varied, the
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This is obviously correct, at least with respect to prisoners. It also does not require that male aggression be socialized—it holds equally well if it's innate.
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If you haven't already, I would start by learning the Greek alphabet and the sounds that the letters make. Conventions like Σ for sum and Δ for difference seem much less strange when you realize that they're basically just S and
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The reasoning given in the framework seems sensible enough: > Even for the highest-achieving students, pressures to use mathematics courses as social capital for advancement can often undercut efforts to promote learning with understandi
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Maybe deep down you know that it's wrong for humans to treat other sentient beings as products.
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And that was enough to ruin your entire ride?
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What are you talking about? Trans people? As far as I know, most trans people, including me, feel that they were born trans, or at least couldn't have chosen not to be trans. When someone transitions, they're not choosing to chang
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
I have a similar system to GP, and the answer is yes: I will duplicate files that are relevant to multiple projects, with the exception of research papers, which all live together in Zotero.
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> And what if people want to work at a job focused on their technical field, and not on diversity? Then companies that care about diversity would be right not to hire them.
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Promoting diversity is more than just counting the blue people and then the orange people and making sure the numbers are the same. It also involves making an environment that's inviting to different groups of people. They want you pla
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Men are also more likely to commit other forms of fraud—and crimes more generally. It seems like the simpler explanation is that men are just less likely to follow the rules than women. Note that this can also be a good thing: men were less
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by pgcj_poster 5y ago
The survey question was "Did you falsely claim to be a racial minority on your college application," so this can only be those who knowingly lied.
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> At the end of the 19th century, anarchist thinkers predicted with modern techniques we'd be down to 10h weekly work Similarly, John Maynard Keynes, who probably had access to better data, predicted that increased productivity woul
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> Things-oriented occupations are those that involve extensive work with machines, such as computer programming, repairing machines (e.g., cars), or tailoring Most computer programming jobs have very little to do with machines as such. C
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> Both sides have an unwarranted belief in a strong form of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. But new pronouns would not automatically lead to greater acceptance of non-binary people This gets the causation backwards. People started to accept
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> There are also social benefits to some degrees. The engineers who developed the iPhone probably captured only a small fraction of the social value they created. But it’s likely that degrees which generate large social benefits also com
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> the "the only free software license is GPL" congregation That's not the position of the FSF, or anyone I've ever encountered.
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> they will force every Asian kid to sit and listen why it is good that the state discriminates against them What gives you that idea? Also, isn't California the state where public universities aren't allowed to use affirmative
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I would also call attention to how this site talks about trans people, given that the original tweet author is trans.
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Saying "pregnant patient" instead of "pregnant woman" doesn't somehow stop us from learning about biological mechanisms related to sex. No one is denying that having XX chromosomes increases your risk of getting pre

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