phantom_of_cato

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Antarctica Birth Tourism in the 70s(bowtiedmara.substack.com)
2 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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New Frontiers in American Philosophy (1977)(nytimes.com)
3 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer(privatdozent.co)
2 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense(theatlantic.com)
9 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|8 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
nvm
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> I am, however, very much not onboard with that journal's political project. Sure, you don't have to agree with every political belief of someone to enjoy reading what they have written/published. Just as you don't
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
This is, of course, a joke. But based on the FAQ, the creator seems to really think that we should really hire/select people because of their race, gender, or sexual preferences: > Seriously. It's not actually that hard to find
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
No, it's a finite-state machine. However, it becomes Turing complete if you provide the human with a virtually unlimited supply of pen and paper. Richard Feynman once said about his notebooks that "They aren’t a record of my think
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Middle Earth in the Content Economy(im1776.com)
2 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|4 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
This is a good opportunity to reflect on how irrelevant and vacuous is the omnipresent "It's a private company, they can do whatever they want." We also have a right to criticize them for whatever reason.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> he hasn't actually managed to engage with the argument for DEI Sure, it would have been a better article if they had done that. What are some good books covering that? I haven't really heard much of an argument for it, merely
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> Or... perhaps don't ascribe to malice that which may be adequately explained by incompetence. Hanlon's razor is a heuristic which doesn't work very well in this case. Clearly, there is a lot of social pressure to at leas
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> because HN's community has continually proven incapable of having discussions like this without it turning into a shouting match Maybe, but that itself (just like downvote brigading) is a technique used to suppress discussion. Bec
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Then read it the way you'd read a blog post by random person posted to HN. We live in an age in which social trust is declining, so we should probably be skeptical of even the more "reputable" sources.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> Regardless of whether you agree with this person's opinions or not I think it's safe to say Twitter has become an actual cancer on the world. The problem isn't Twitter, it's the goons. They have quite a bit of influ
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
The alternative: take the red pill, try to see the world as it really is, and resist the cult of positive thinking. We are all flawed, some of us more than the others. That's a reality we ought to accept, hopefully with stoic grace. Po
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> Mass transportation, which has mostly been neglected in the United States. Let’s make it possible to need a car a lot less often. That's not the American way of life. Americans love their cars. It's not just a necessity for m
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
And because public libraries sometimes buy uninteresting books to fill their quotas.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
I really don't like "fact-checking" articles like this which don't contain many useful facts, only pedantry. The first comment (by Kristen McLean from NPD BookScan) is much more interesting than the article itself: >&
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> That isn't censoring. Of course it is. It's just not government censorship. Corporate censorship is a widely recognized concept. [1] > I don't know why the obvious keeps having to be explained here. Your claim is neit
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
That shouldn't be permitted, otherwise everything can be submitted with any arbitrary title: you just submit the original with the title you used to link to it in your personal blog.
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Snap’s political data slip-up(axios.com)
3 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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Rumble Sets New Monthly Active User Record in August Citing Growth Among ‘Gen Z’(corp.rumble.com)
3 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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National Academy of Sciences sanctions White House climate official(upi.com)
1 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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Renewables currently supplying 13% of California’s energy grid demand(twitter.com)
6 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|2 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Cf. "California 100 percent powered by renewables for first time " ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31230349 )
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Dogs poop in alignment with Earth’s magnetic field, study finds (2014)(pbs.org)
63 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|44 comments
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One Party State(piratewires.com)
1 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> A group of anonymous internet "trolls" attacking and harassing an individual or the individual who can't do anything to stop it? The comparison isn't to the people who are being harassed randomly. It's between
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> without recognising that Kiwifarms themselves were a mob That's seems like a false equivalence to me. They don't have nearly as much as power and influence as the Twitter mobs. Which entire major websites do you think the KF

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