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by qntty 8y ago
Seems like a matter of consistency more than anything. Google has already decided to make an app store that excludes things like overt racism. Seems like if you're going to exclude racism you should also exclude homophobia. Whether we
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by qntty 8y ago
Presumably some sort of pragmatic balance between protecting children from child labor and war on the one hand, and having enough young people in the society to keep the economy going and military staffed.
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by qntty 8y ago
You took the words right out of my mouth
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by qntty 8y ago
It's funny because this could be used as an argument for either side. People who are frustrated that buying a home is too expensive because investors want to buy them to rent would also want ownership of their home (that they rent).
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by qntty 8y ago
> And by doing that, by understanding how science advances, science really becomes a deeply spiritual conversation with the mysterious, about all the things we don’t know. Seems like this might be the central point. You may or may not be
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by qntty 8y ago
Seems tasteless, especially for a company that doesn't do anything related to social justice.
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by qntty 8y ago
I think the point is that we should preserve the tradition of young people living in large houses together even if fewer people end up going to college. Tax payers don't necessarily have to pay for it. BTW, if you spent time living in
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by qntty 8y ago
It's not obvious to me from the provided quote that he's a charlatan. I do think he is a charlatan, but not everyone who uses new-age-sounding language is necessarily a charlatan. It's possible to put many of the scientifical
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by qntty 8y ago
More likely, the smartest students in each country work on things that have landed older students good jobs. In US, that means preparing for interviews at big tech companies. In Russia and India, it means something different. Averages in a
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by qntty 8y ago
There may be reason to believe that depressed people are more realistic about certain things, but it doesn't follow that being realistic causes depression or that only depressed people are realistic.
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by qntty 8y ago
If it's not substantiated, then it's not.
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by qntty 8y ago
If you don't have anything worth saying, silence is fine.
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by qntty 8y ago
For those who missed it, I assume this was somewhat inspired by this project, which is building a small text editor without curses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046446
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by qntty 8y ago
Regular people have problems too. Maybe we could try to be more understanding towards all people so people don't feel the need to give their issues a special name so people will treat them kindly. Rather than trying to catch people in
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Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (2000)(doc.cat-v.org)
68 points by qntty 8y ago|43 comments
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by qntty 8y ago
Code on github: https://github.com/krig/LISP
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by qntty 8y ago
Looks like the people who made this are German, it's a common mistake for German speakers. They mean "Delta Chat doesn't have their own servers".
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by qntty 8y ago
I guess 20th Century Fox Uses Statistics to Predict a Movie Audience doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by qntty 8y ago
You have to mute while unplugged, then next time you unplug it will be muted.
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by qntty 8y ago
...because we paid only the lowest bidder, there was no incentive for people to overstate what they would have to be paid to stop using Facebook.
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by qntty 8y ago
I clicked hoping for some context but didn't find any. Can someone explain?
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by qntty 8y ago
I believe this paper is the first time that anyone thought to analyze electronics using logic at all. Nobody thought that techniques used to analyze philosophical and mathematical arguments could be used to understand electronic signals bef
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by qntty 8y ago
Jordan Peterson is a pseudo intellectual because he pretends to have a deep understanding of Marxism and postmodernism, but when pushed, he admits that he hasn't even read the people he criticizes. He uses his position as a professor t
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by qntty 8y ago
The sex redistribution guy?
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by qntty 8y ago
"Codependent" means two people are dependent on each other. The word you're looking for is "dependent".
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by qntty 8y ago
Sounds like publicfig is saying that it's not optimal for them.
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by qntty 8y ago
Not true, there are programs that transfer wealth from the rich to the poor, e.g. social security.
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by qntty 8y ago
My cat doesn't even know when he wants to go outside
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by qntty 8y ago
No sources cited in that article either and I'm not inclined to trust the Mises Institute on this one :/
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by qntty 8y ago
I'm curious to read a source to support this. Seems wrong to me.

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