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Especially strange because the concept of white as he uses it didn't exist in many of the times and places he's talking about.
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I built my first computer when I was in middle school so I could play video games. I thought the people who hung out on Slashdot were pretty cool, so I decided to learn Perl so I could build my own website, because that's what people t
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Looks like this was recently re-written for RISC-V. Maybe it should be called Rv6 now.
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Just adding to the related links on this topic, here's a talk by Guy Steele that I was reminded of http://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html
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The state numbers are self reported, see my other comment.
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It seems that both numbers are from the same report. Here's an excerpt from the report: > How is it that only 12 states have adult obesity rates exceeding 35 percent, yet the national obesity rate is 42.4 percent? It’s because state
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by qntty 6y ago
It's not that I don't trust my employer, I just don't have a reason to install stuff. If I miss a notification, then whatever.
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I don't have a work phone and don't install work software on my phone.
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I'm no expert on this, but here's an essay from an American Buddhist monk that might explain the context a little better. In short, Buddhism is meant to be practiced and the idea of "no self" isn't supposed to be a
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> The industry didn't even have to convince anyone. It's genuinely consumer-led. And yet they spent millions doing just that when research showed that people had no interest in buying it: https://priceonomics.com&#x2
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I hear people say this a lot, but I've done plenty of fasting and rarely experienced this, and when I did, it was very mild. I don't know if I'm significantly outside the norm. The noticeable difference is that I feel pretty
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python 2
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You could say the same about ethical theories too. They all have a way of explaining what they would do when confronted with a runaway trolley or some silly thing like that. The fact that all political ideologies have a way of explaining wh
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You assumption that being (the traditional kind of) conservative is the opposite of being an anarchist would be strange to many anarchists. Noam Chomsky has said that he considers himself a conservative in the traditional sense. Also see th
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The tensions with the USSR that prefigured the Cold War had already began before the end of WWII.
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The first step to being an authoritarian is separating the in-group from the out-group so you can deal out harsh punishment to one and be forgiving to the other.
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Different how? They are both ways of making abstract descriptions of an object more concrete, which is analogous to the job of a programmer designing a data structure to concretely describe an abstractly specified computational object. My p
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The department used to be sometimes involved in national defense, so they called it the Department of War. When they started using it to exclusively create unnecessary wars, they had to change the name to the Department of Defense.
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It seems to me that mathematical objects are often more abstract than data structures are required to be. For example, you can reason about a triangle without specifying how you would represent it. You could represent a triangle as a list o
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Black and white hat symbolism in film(en.wikipedia.org)
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The expression cosmic irony or "irony of fate" stems from the notion that the gods (or the Fates) are amusing themselves by toying with the minds of mortals with deliberate ironic intent. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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I'm not saying that there isn't a causal mechanism. I'm saying that you can't infer anything at all about the effect size from the proportion of people who die who are obese.
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Correlation not causation. No doubt it would have an effect but it's ridiculous to say that it would have a greater effect than masks without data.
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It's also possible to pass laws that protect employees
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The best book on education that I've ever read references Summerhill several times (Compulsory Miseducation by Paul Goodman).
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What I mean is that negative income tax is just a way of implementing a particular kind of UBI. It's not a distinct thing. In what way are the incentives different? You must be referring to a particular kind of UBI which is distinct fr
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In principle there's no difference between a negative income tax and UBI funded with progressive taxation. Either way, some people pay more than they get, and some people get more than they pay. The net cost as a function of income can
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Focusing on who "wins" and who "loses" and what role luck plays has an important ideological function. It makes it seem like the outcomes of the game are unquestionable. Like, of course it's reasonable that we'
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by qntty 6y ago
Yes, for OP they seem to have some kind of motivation to work. I was criticizing framing of the issue as not "doing right by your company", not the idea that working harder might be useful for OP. I think we've all been in th
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So what if it's done out of laziness? There's no law that says that a lazy person can't participate in the economy without giving up their laziness. There are jobs out there that are well suited for lazy people. Maybe OP has

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