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by pksebben 5y ago
I don't think that's better. I want failure modes to occur early and as loud as possible when it comes to this stuff; otherwise it's easy to get away with bombing the shit out of civilians for, oh, I dunno, seventy some aught
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by pksebben 5y ago
reading through this, and my tinfoil hat tells me this would make a more effective psyop than a manual. you create something like this, "lose" a copy where enemy decision makers can get a hold of it and bam, now the other guys are
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by pksebben 5y ago
I don't think anyone here is claiming that musk's space Tesla was anything other than frivolous.
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by pksebben 5y ago
Location: San Diego, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, Python, C++, Lisp, Ansible, Terraform, Unix, Postgres, SQLAlchemy, Django, Flask, bash, React, DevOps Resume/CV: https://github.com/pksebbe
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by pksebben 5y ago
> we even rely on organizations and parties to lobby for our interests. This may be some of the cultural divide that's flummoxing this conversation. In the US, many if not most of us have lost faith that this process is even remotel
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by pksebben 5y ago
I've always thought that the Unix philosophy could do well here; if you start by building the rawest version of your app to operate on the command line, and then make the UI an interface to that, you can trivially automate anything the
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by pksebben 5y ago
it's not about removing assessment, but not penalizing for an assessment that determines there's more learning to do; the point of assessing is to get a sense of what work the teacher needs to do to get the student up to speed.
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by pksebben 5y ago
In the scope of things, capitalist republics hardly qualify for long term survival either, having practically just showed up. It sure doesn't look like it's headed for stability, either.
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by pksebben 5y ago
I'm in my mid-30s, and I find this a little bit offensive. There is absolutely a difference in the action potential I need to buy a house vs what my parents dealt with - this is patently not just twentysomethings being upset.
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by pksebben 5y ago
Neither emissions / capita or emissions / country account for the interleaving of production and trade. On an atomic level (pardon the pun) we measure carbon by footprint - compare buying a new car vs buying a used car with worse
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by pksebben 5y ago
> That’s what happened in Portugal, after drug decriminalization — drug consumption there went up significantly (with exception of heroin, which went down, but it also went down in other European countries at the same time which did not
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by pksebben 5y ago
I know this might come off as adversarial, but might that say more about your metrics for trustworthiness than the party at question? Which bullets from the article would you consider untrustworthy?
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by pksebben 5y ago
I read this more as: "stupid is an important step in the process of fostering smart". It's someone's unwillingness to look dumb that stalls them at the gate. I think this is the impetus behind the whole 'crawl, w
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by pksebben 5y ago
It's this very awareness of one's own limitations that allows folks to overcome those limitations. If I might add my own (personal, biased, narrow) understanding; the whole concept of "stupid" is like a cognitive filt
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by pksebben 5y ago
In that case I would question the smarts of someone who spends too much time focused on things they do not intend to change. There comes a point where "raw" intelligence (if a real thing) must be tempered with the wisdom necessa
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by pksebben 5y ago
a - Put more precisely, I worry because this is Nida-funded b - thanks. It's too late to edit, so... http://www.ukcia.org/research/gettman.html edit redux: still 404-ing. rats.
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by pksebben 5y ago
listen, listen, listen. The biggest step I took towards being able to interface my ideas with others was to first listen to their ideas, problems, needs, whatever it is they wanted to talk about. You have to make what's important to t
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by pksebben 5y ago
... which leaves one to wonder how smart someone really is, for missing something so obvious.
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by pksebben 5y ago
I worry that this is NIDA-funded. That institution has history of commissioning nonsense studies to maintain prohibitions. [1] They're also probably responsible for a series of (failed) propaganda pieces focused on maintaining an arbit
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by pksebben 5y ago
So, there are a ton of resources out there on how unreliable IQ is, and whether it's a valid indicator of general cognitive ability. Instead of linking them, I'll just link to the place that has the most good links: https:/
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by pksebben 5y ago
I'm 35. I started learning to code 5 years ago. I have a job in the industry, and I advance my understanding of the space daily - I'm sorry, but that just doesn't gel with the actual, firsthand experience I have with this s
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by pksebben 5y ago
there are differences between any two people anywhere ever, though. Is there some reason that being over 20 means you're done developing?
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by pksebben 5y ago
Can you link to these? I'm interested in what they found out, if a little skeptical about how thinking can be precisely measured.
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by pksebben 5y ago
is it at all possible that practice and study are insufficient to create further growth? What I think faizshah is talking about is that there is enormous complexity that goes into creating skill. what sort of community do you leverage for t
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by pksebben 5y ago
Regarding this issue of "innate" talent, I want to ask, how do you know? there are just so many variables that go into human cognition. Belief. Drive. Focus. Grit. Exposure to ideas. Social support. Physical resources. Exercise. H
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by pksebben 5y ago
Thank you for posting this. I feel understood.
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by pksebben 5y ago
you have to poison the well. find a way to scramble enough of the data collected that they can trust none of it.
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by pksebben 5y ago
the vast majority of organisms are not as unary as human society has become. we are so tightly coupled, so well connected to each other, that a cancer in one place threatens the whole. Cancer is fine for an individual from the perspective o
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by pksebben 5y ago
Absolutely this. Carbon footprint is the measurement to use here, and that must take into account a holistic analysis of the outputs of production and logistics.
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by pksebben 5y ago
> Note: CO₂ emissions are measured on a production basis, meaning they do not correct for emissions embedded in traded goods. So, we're leaving all the carbon involved in the production inspired by our consumptive habits on China. T

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