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by philh 11y ago
You're addressing a line of argument about which I said "that's not what I want to get at". And you're ignoring the actual thing that I've been talking about. The thing about which I said "it makes me pret
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by philh 11y ago
Let's be clear. You're saying it's okay to fire people for saying "it's not okay to fire people for bigotry". Yes? If you're not okay with that, if you think Josh Olin should not have been fired, please sa
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by philh 11y ago
Again, you've turned "someone shouldn't be fired for bigotry" into "bigotry is okay". You've turned "someone shouldn't be fired for saying someone shouldn't be fired for bigotry" into &
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by philh 11y ago
I've said that someone shouldn't have been fired for what they said, and you've said they can get another job. That is not reassuring. You've also turned a defense of a person into a defense of their views. You've t
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by philh 11y ago
People aren't just scared of being forbidden from making racist jokes. People are scared of being forbidden to express opinions. Like, here's someone who was fired for saying someone else shouldn't have been fired: http:&#x2
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by philh 11y ago
> An altar call is supposed to make you feel bad. It is supposed to make you feel guilty. Maybe that's not quite "you're a bad person". But I feel like your reading is missing the "you should feel bad" aspec
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by philh 11y ago
This seems to be thrusting in two directions. One about trigger warnings and safe spaces and so on, and one about sermons and guilt. One common narrative re safe spaces seems to be: "if something makes you uncomfortable, you should suc
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by philh 11y ago
> turning up in a suit is a very reliable indicator that a person cares about dress. or that they expect to be around people who (act as if they) care about dress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
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by philh 11y ago
Of course, people do both. Perhaps the question should have been how many took pride, and how many just felt pressured.
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by philh 11y ago
Sounds like your impression is that Americans underdress compared to France, and golergka's impression is that Americans overdress compared to some other culture.
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by philh 11y ago
Did they take pride in it, or did they just feel pressured to look like they took pride in it?
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by philh 11y ago
I haven't created the loop, I'm just gesticulating towards it. The loop exists, I don't know exactly what form it takes, and I don't know what to do about it. Focusing on the consequences seems like one way out, but... I
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by philh 11y ago
Epistemic status: attempting to point at a thing that I can't fully articulate Whenever one side is totally in the right and the other side is totally in the wrong, you'll get people calling for moderation. "There are two s
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by philh 11y ago
It sounds like you've decided I'm wrong, and now you're trying to tell me what mistake I've made, without attempting to understand what I actually believe or why I believe it. AKA https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by philh 11y ago
If so, then his passionate, persistent curiousity should be counted as a special talent. The fact is that not many people could have done what Einstein did. Whether it was genius or curiousity or stubbornness, the puzzle pieces were known t
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by philh 11y ago
lmm said conscious, not sentient, and (regardless of the specific definitions of those words) was almost certainly talking about something more than the ability to suffer. I subscribe to a train of thought that says it's wrong to kill
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by philh 11y ago
That tuna says it was "fished by pole and line" though, which a) is really surprising - someone above said that made tuna much more expensive, which is also what I'd intuitively expect; b) seems to put it ethically around the
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by philh 11y ago
> If you do the math on this (and you don’t have to because the Environmental Justice Foundation already did), you find that one saved dolphin costs 25,824 small tuna, 382 mahi-mahi, 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 27 shar
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by philh 11y ago
vonklaus is talking about consumer response to the label, not government response. What had an effect was that the US forbade tuna that didn't fulfill the dolphin-safe requirements. The label itself is incidental to that.
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by philh 11y ago
[1] suggests that this can be used for code signing, but not to MITM network requests, which makes it bad in a different way to superfish. [1] https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3twmfv/dell_ship.
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by philh 11y ago
The people taking DNA samples agree with you. It's not like they just really want a sample of rhino DNA. They're keeping them so that maybe some day we'll be able to use that sample to bring back actual rhinos.
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by philh 11y ago
(This is completely beside the point.) > comparing two of them is conceptually pretty sensible. Well, there are a bunch of sensible ways to do it, depending what the angle represents. You might not want to privilege any of them over the
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by philh 11y ago
I count backtracking as mechanical; but I was also using it in a perhaps overly-broad sense, which includes that solver.
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by philh 11y ago
> For Sudoku puzzles generated for humans I agree that there's a significant difficulty jump, when that algorithm fails to suffice, and I think it's fair to say that's the "hard" jump. But I think a lot of puzzle
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by philh 11y ago
> in as optimal a fashion one can deterministically solve it in I'm curious what you mean by this? Sudoku is mechanically solvable, but not all sudoku puzzles feel that way, to me. Uh, I haven't actually done sudoku in a long
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by philh 11y ago
> if it didn't it would be for different reasons Unless you're quite confident that those would be reasons that don't also apply to Beirut - that's exactly what I was getting at. There is no "the difference"
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by philh 11y ago
That might be a relevant difference, but it's definitely not the difference. If the Paris bombings had happened in, say, Bhutan, do you think they would have attracted the same coverage? (AFAIK Bhutan doesn't have strong popul
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by philh 11y ago
I'd be curious what the media coverage was like outside of the west. What was it like in Lebanon itself? In Japan? In Israel and in Palestine? India? Morocco? South Africa? Argentina?
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by philh 11y ago
> The default grey background with white lines was just pulled from one of Tufts's books without a second of thought b/c these grey backgrounds are horrible waste of ink when printing I don't follow. If it's a waste o
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by philh 11y ago
In this case, that was deliberate. I was using it to show the exact decimal value of the floating point approximations to decimal numbers, not to do decimal arithmetic.

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