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by philh 10y ago
And to be clear, "showing interest" is all they apparently did. They didn't expose themselves to any actual risk. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they sent off those emails to get a foot in the door, expecting it to no
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> saying we should act the same way in either case is just an auxiliary way to shut those people up. I am not convinced that "making obviously terrible arguments" is an effective way to shut up one's political opponents.
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Another thing people say is: "the science is fraudulent, any competing evidence gets buried for disagreeing with the establishment". You are not helping with that.
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You're not wrong, but I hope we can all agree that "let millions of people die to slightly reduce global warming" is very far down on our list of things to try.
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You seem to be arguing that climate change is real and human-caused. I do not understand why you're arguing this, when I have repeatedly said that I am not arguing against it. I'm merely arguing that we want to know , contra the
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Again, this is not a reply to me. You don't wait until you've proven it beyond doubt. But you say "this is our best model, we're pretty confident it's right in the essentials, and we're going to act on it but r
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When preparing for a change, it's good to know whether or not you're leaning on a button that makes the change happen faster. If you are, you can try to lean less hard on that button, and buy more time to prepare. If you're n
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I want to be clear that this is not a reply to what I said. I argued that if climate change weren't real, we'd want to know about it, and I made it perfectly clear that I was not saying climate change is not real. You replied that
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Opportunity costs. For example, we're currently devoting a lot of money and attention to climate change that could instead be devoted to things like malaria and malnutrition. (It should be obvious, but this is not an argument that clim
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> You are exhibiting the Just World fallacy. It makes you uncomfortable to believe... so you shield yourself... This is bulverism. You haven't presented evidence that tw04 is wrong. You've just assumed they're wrong, and p
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A thing I haven't seen mentioned is that there are two thresholds of compensation. There's the amount you pay them so that they'll stop prosecuting. Having been hurt, they'd rather take the money than pursue justice, but
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> You're highly agitated and not thinking clearly it seems. Try and do whatever helps you calm down normally. This was unnecessary and condescending, and there's no call for it.
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If your generalization is an accident of population samples, and doesn't apply when you control for that, I'm not sure how you think it's useful. If you think that anti-PC people are simply scared of being called assholes, yo
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Also, > a very specific hack, that required someone to have said "fuck /u/spez" to be changed This is untrue. E.g. he edited https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/5ee6gs/anno
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> It's doubly hilarious that the people getting so riled up are the same people who rant about "PC culture" and people being too sensitive. What are you basing this on? This happened on /r/The_Donald, and that su
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You have to factor in that a lot of people might not want a meal. If there's a large group of which only about half are eating, I'd be more comfortable taking them to a bar than a restaurant. Though if the restaurant is fine with
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Note that there are already laws that punish false information in some contexts, such as perjury, fraud and libel.
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I'm not treating global warming as a joke. I'm treating the environmental impact of javascript-driven webpages as not worth taking seriously. If you want to take it seriously, I recommend quantifying the impact as a first step. If
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I agree that the environment could in principle be a tie-breaker. But it's such a weak argument that in practice, whenever all other things are not equal, the environment is not going to tip the scales from one side to the other. And a
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The interviewer here rubbed me the wrong way. I felt like he had his own ideas about the things Chiang explores, and used much of the interview as a way to try to get Chiang to talk about those ideas, rather than talking about Chiang's
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This is a far stronger argument against JS-driven websites than the environmental argument. Would you ever make the argument: "this website would be so much easier to use with a little Javascript, but Javascript is bad for the environm
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> On the other hand, why do you think it would be impossible that there might be someone who might not feel certain emotions? I think gr3yh47 meant "not feeling an emotion that you're experiencing" rather than "not fe
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> there's issues which need to be solved Yes, and some people think that pro-employee laws make these issues worse. Again, you don't need to agree with them, but you don't get to dismiss them as simply not caring.
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Some people think that pro-employee laws are not in fact good for employees. Regardless of whether or not you agree with them, it's super uncharitable to dismiss them in this way.
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I think that partly depends on the alternative. If it's a choice between "take photos including people who don't want to be photographed" and "don't take photos", I think a lot of people will take the firs
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Sure. People have been doing something for a hundred years, and they do it more now that it's easier, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll keep doing it at the increased rate. But I think we're at the point where
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I think the empirical evidence is quite clear that people want to have cameras and use them to take photos of their surroundings. They've been doing it for over a hundred years (Kodak founded in 1888), since well before they could add
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One thing people want is to be able to carry camera phones and take pictures of their surroundings.
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I think it very much applies to presidents. There are vastly more important considerations for a president than "has never said anything regrettable".
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Yes. When I write for my github pages blog, my edit-compile-debug cycle includes pushing to github and seeing how my post is rendered. I often get several minor edit pushes in a row. If I had jekyll set up on my home environment, I could av

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