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by qrendel 11y ago
Except ancient philosophers weren't even working with scientific methodology. The issue is with how much empirical data you need to be able to form hypotheses about the world and falsify them, of which humans are almost certainly not d
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I highly doubt this is the way the majority of society views male vs female gender roles in this area. Your egalitarianism is, imo, not demonstrative of the social standard on this issue.
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Imo, the book is a much better and more clever story than the movie as well, not just the title. But opinions may very.
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by qrendel 11y ago
Seems mostly like a reflection on Bloomberg's target demographic - those who will think ctrl-f is fancy tech stuff.
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by qrendel 11y ago
Not that I want to stereotype, but you can find places that are skewed as heavily towards women: nursing, sociology classes, yoga and pilates, book clubs, feminism forums, dance lessons, etc. That's off the top of my head, there are li
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Tbf, the worst thing they probably could have done is run a scam business model then get exposed in one of the highest profile hacks in years. This is just icing on the cake.
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Would it even be possible to exfiltrate all that data? It's hard to imagine even storing all that they're generating in a single day. What's the most an attacker could likely get? Usernames & passwords for all users? Co
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I'm curious if you'd care to mention exactly what "more lethal martial arts" or "good schools" you're alluding too. I also specified "full-contact" previously, meaning live training - would be qu
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by qrendel 11y ago
Perhaps I should have left that part out, but as I replied below, the moral is supposed to be that eye gouges and groin shots won't help much if you can't control the fight already. The guy already winning hands down is in a lot b
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Same story. Trained for about two years. Loved the sport but had to deal with a lot of bad attitudes and unpleasant "alpha male" types, which is probably the biggest reason I've stopped. It wasn't just that one school; I
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I can certainly see why someone would find the entire story disgusting, and the point isn't to imply fights are fun tests of machoness. The point is not to escalate a fight if you're going to lose it anyway. To continue your examp
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Additionally to that, it's also not particularly useful in most situations even if it can be performed effectively. Unless you're truly in imminent danger for your life then killing someone will likely be a hugely disproportionate
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by qrendel 11y ago
There's a lot of vitriol between people who practice different styles, with a lot of guys from traditional styles (karate, tae kwon do, kung fu, etc.) claiming combat sports are worthless in a Real Fight (TM) because it's just com
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by qrendel 11y ago
Hope this is sarcasm. No one really wins from a recession. Sure you may make some money if you go short at the right time, but it's still better to have moderate wealth in a rich world than be among the richest in a poor one.
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by qrendel 11y ago
It appears a good portion of comments in this thread have been, many of them not obviously bad. HN seems to have developed a contingent of people who downvote anything they disagree with, without explaining why they disagree, and this threa
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A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops (2014)(journals.plos.org)
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I certainly didn't mean it as a "thinly veiled attack on minorities," and it does seem more likely linked to the economic history of various communities. Children of college graduates are more likely to go to college themselv
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by qrendel 11y ago
Meh, I'm not sure it's worth continuing the debate over, honestly. But yes, I've watched the clip before, and have now watched it again. While he does give an answer at around 5:30, it's a pretty small part of the respon
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Regarding MOOCs, part is that is likely cultural - some groups are more likely to have been enculturated in communities where independent learning and self-study is acceptable, if not actively encouraged, versus being discouraged by social
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by qrendel 11y ago
I always had the same impression of that response. The basic philosophical point he's making instead of explaining magnetism to a lay-audience is known as the Munchhausen trilemma[1], essentially answering a completely different and un
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Next up: government structured by genetic algorithm.
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I read Sapiens after seeing the same edge.org conversation, and while it was mostly good, I think it started off strong and then became less so as it went on. Especially towards the end it became almost a hot list of current events the au
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I frequently get to page 5, sometimes as far as 7 or 8.
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Not to mention those synthetic fabrics are a direct cause of microfiber pollution, so using them over something biodegradable, like ordinary cotton, is pretty much the opposite of environmentally friendly: http://www.theguardian.
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Or they would be engineered with huge advantages against an ecosystem which had never adapted defenses to them (typical of successful invasive species on Earth), and work on timescales much faster than typical evolutionary ones. These would
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To colonize or seed life you don't need to launch huge space vehicles with enough life support to maintain a breeding population, though. You can just launch some kind of self-replicating microbes capable of directing themselves into t
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I propose it's unlikely that any technological civilizations more advanced than our own have existed on this planet in the past few billion years, otherwise some subgroup of their species would likely have seeded the local universe wit
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By some accounts we should probably be desperately hoping we are alone in the universe (at least with regards to technological civilizations), since it would mean the Great Filter is behind us rather than ahead. The alternative being we&#x2
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The proposal in the paper is at least somewhat different: it wouldn't become fully self-sufficient until the later stages of about a seven stage process. The earlier stages just involve unmanned robots controlled from Earth, beginning
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A similar proposal from a while back was one on "Rapid Bootstrapping of Space Industry," essentially concluding we could have a robust space industry with an industrial output 1,000,000x that of US GDP within about four decades -

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