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by projektir 10y ago
You haven't exactly defined what you mean by "biological reality". I don't really see how what you're proposing is any different from naturalism. Resignation to intentions of nature, i.e., statements like these: &gt
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by projektir 10y ago
Diseases are very much a moral problem relative to biology. We're keeping the "weak" a live, prolonging life, disturbing the natural order of things. In our society, we consider it pretty immoral to leave someone to die of a
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by projektir 10y ago
I don't see why animals need to be smart or emotionally developed for our treatment of them to evoke disgust.
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by projektir 10y ago
> Do we, in practice? Can you go into more detail? Treating diseases, reducing violence, caring about the rights of the disenfranchised, sitting here on HN talking about how we treat animals. > There is no objective reason to consider
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by projektir 10y ago
> The idea that we should have moral compunctions about biological reality seems absurd to me Why? We seem to have plenty of moral compunctions about lots of other biological realities. Otherwise, why do anything at all? As humans, we ha
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by projektir 10y ago
My birthday of FB is both inaccurate and hidden.
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by projektir 10y ago
One thing worth noting is that, unfortunately, lacking a Facebook account doesn't truly shield you from it... people can still mention you, tag you in pictures, etc.
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by projektir 10y ago
I don't think that's a very useful analogy since the standard for professional athletes is an inflated moving target. Athletes are evaluated strictly in comparison to other athletes and only the best athletes at a given time are c
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by projektir 10y ago
Interesting. I tend to learn better when I don't perceive something as "hard", as that creates a mental block of sorts for me. Acquiring proficiency requires significant amounts of time investment + effort, but it would seem
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by projektir 10y ago
The statement "men have higher quantitative reasoning ability than women" seems to only take into account one side of the bell curve.
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by projektir 10y ago
Well, if someone says "the CFO", many people will automatically assume the CFO in question is male. The gender may be emphasized to avoid that assumption. The article, as it is written, doesn't do a very good job of presentin
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by projektir 10y ago
I've definitely seen people use terms like "the man!" and "this gentleman here", so "lady" doesn't seem all that special to me. Isn't the reason "the black CTO" sounds so bad is because
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by projektir 10y ago
The investor added an unnecessary qualification to her title, and now we have a discussion about the place of women in the industry, designated days, and a campaign about changing job titles. If you do not find that charged, then we have to
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by projektir 10y ago
I don't know about this. Perhaps it wasn't the best choice of words, but I doubt it was said out of malice. The reaction seems rather disproportionate. Such a charged atmosphere.
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by projektir 10y ago
Some of that may be true, but to affect the world, you nonetheless need to do things. And to do those things, you need to take something for granted, assume something, to complete the task. That set of things you're willing to take for
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by projektir 10y ago
Aren't Mission Impossible and Civil War both popular, accepted franchises? With fairly simple, clear-cut storylines? Warcraft is not really in the same bucket. It's closer to something like John Carter, where some people are in th
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by projektir 10y ago
They gave one of my favorite movies, The Thirteenth Floor, a score of 29% while it's rated decently in other places and is a pretty good film, definitely not garbage... I'm having a feeling some reviewers just don't know what
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by projektir 10y ago
I'd imagine people are not purposefully replacing real contact with virtual, as much as they have trouble finding real contact, so they go for the virtual?
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by projektir 10y ago
Can you link some papers or articles on this side of the debate?
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Does private messaging on HN require some amount of karma or is it simply not supported?
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The Sports Gene book spends some time on it, on the 10,000 rule in particular.
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by projektir 11y ago
I'm not sure how genetics are anything other than luck?
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by projektir 11y ago
I was more concerned about entering and staying in the country (I've always believed that Switzerland sounded like a great country to live in). My information may be out of date, but I thought that permanent immigration to Switzerland
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by projektir 11y ago
Are there opportunities for living there long term, or only for just working there?
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by projektir 11y ago
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown - discussion of shame culture, its effects on people, and how to combat it - pretty good book about a topic that doesn't get raised often enough, even if I don't agree with everything the author says.
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by projektir 11y ago
I think we need more data than that before we draw any conclusions. That's a rather small sample size. This reminds me of an excerpt from The Sports Gene about Met and Val alleles in the COMT[1] gene, though: "Cognitive testing an