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by qntty 8y ago
Weird that his "unpopular" advice that sounds exactly like every other advice article...
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by qntty 8y ago
> At which point do you take responsibility for yourself? Taking responsibility for yourself is about how you use your will. Criticizing facebook is about how you use your reason. I don't see how these need to be in conflict. It&#x2
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by qntty 8y ago
So they can put on their resume that they have experience with machine learning? I don't have any shame about overdoing things when I think it will improve my resume.
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by qntty 8y ago
Explain?
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by qntty 8y ago
How do you have democracy without popular will?
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by qntty 8y ago
Alternatively: meditation turns out to be harder than popularizers tend to let on
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by qntty 8y ago
The advantage of a smaller time period is obvious: if 7 days is secure, then 7 hours is more secure. But presumably there's a good reason they chose that number, I'm just wondering why that might be.
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by qntty 8y ago
Why not 7 hours or 7 minutes or immediately?
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by qntty 8y ago
If someone finds some feature of human existence troubling, what does it mean to say that it's 'not really' that feature that's causing them trouble? Sure, he might be happier if he was more stimulated, but that doesn&#x
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by qntty 8y ago
Cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F05U7x... Original link: http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-May/122922.htm...
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by qntty 8y ago
Dan Luu has a post about how permutation cycles come up in two algorithms https://danluu.com/sattolo/
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by qntty 8y ago
[Proof by contradiction doesn't have anything to do with the converse of a statement as andrewaylett incorrectly stated and EGreg is being a little bit difficult here.]
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by qntty 8y ago
Explain?
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by qntty 8y ago
Has anybody gotten into this kind of programming post-college? Are there communities outside of high school and college competitions for this sort of thing?
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by qntty 8y ago
People need to find a way to blame financial problems on the individuals involved without thinking too hard
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by qntty 8y ago
"Upper middle class"?
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by qntty 9y ago
I like math and I occasionally enjoy poems, but these poems did nothing for me either. I also find it somewhat difficult to get into poetry. I don't know why I've been so patient with it. Maybe it's because I was never in a p
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by qntty 9y ago
This reminds me of this quote by William James in a review of a book of essays by the mathematician and philosopher William Kingdon Clifford: But even the distant reader must allow that Clifford's mental personality belonged to the hi
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by qntty 9y ago
Should be titled "The particular implementations of UBI that I have in mind aren't feasible".
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by qntty 9y ago
The keyword being experience . The same behavior is experienced differently by different people, and being in a group who is more at risk for self-doubt tends to produce the experience of hostility more easily.
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by qntty 9y ago
I guess the reason that this is possible in a field like journalism is because it's no theory-light in comparison to a theory-heavy discipline like CS. The extreme of theory-lightness would be something like swimming where Michael Phel
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by qntty 9y ago
Seeing as Christianity is by far the most popular religion in western countries, I don't think that's an accurate way to portray how "westerners" view religion.
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by qntty 9y ago
Can you explain what you mean by cabin fever? Is it just boredom with being inside? And if so, how does it relate to being near the mountains?
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by qntty 9y ago
Maybe people don't like the idea of living in a world where someone can be asked by an employer to spend years developing specialized skills then be so easily thrown out onto a job market where those skills are useless?
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by qntty 9y ago
I suggest you read the article linked in another comment. It doesn't seem to be true that they were just getting rid of people with outdated skills. They were getting rid of people with relevant skills who also happened to be old. One
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by qntty 9y ago
No mention of tenure? Looks like Jarrar is probably tenured, meaning the bar is much higher than for a regular government employee.
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by qntty 9y ago
A word with just one meaning would be a boring word ;)
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by qntty 9y ago
I don't mean to antagonize, I'm just offering another perspective. There are no doubt many different kinds of rich intellectual traditions around the world. Should we call them philosophy? Philosophy is a category of intellectual
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by qntty 9y ago
This is like a textbook case of the Dunning-Kruger effect
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by qntty 9y ago
Much of the thinking that we call philosophy was created to make sense of the apparent conflict between particular western institution, like (western) science and religion. There are thinkers in other parts of the world who are interested i

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