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by rhelz 8mo ago
// I showed that to be incorrect. I followed the evidence, where you followed your gut. // Even the authors of the original article didn't claim this was evidence of conflict between the species. They only claimed
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by rhelz 9mo ago
Thanks for the reference, and I don't want to overstate my case. I'm certainly not claiming that there was no conflict between varieties of humans, after all, Homo Sapiens has plenty of conflict with itself. Oetzi, for example,
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by rhelz 9mo ago
Every part is unsubstantiated. For starters, for the vast majority of H. Sapiens existence on earth--from 300,000 years ago to about 45,000 years ago, we shared the world with 4 or 5 other hominids that we know about. (Neanderthal, Deniso
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by rhelz 9mo ago
Smaller salaries can lead to happier lives. Lower standards of living can lead to happier lives. Spending less on food can lead to happier lives. Less education can lead to happier lives. There's just so much valorization of povert
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by rhelz 9mo ago
Plucking a head of state and his wife out of a military compound and whisking them away to NY, without losing a single vehicle or soldier's life, is the opposite of incompetence. I am no fan of the current administration, but we just h
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by rhelz 9mo ago
I don't understand, can you expand/explain?
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by rhelz 10mo ago
:-( I really don't want to be negative here, but really, the essay gets off on the wrong foot almost immediately. Propositional knowledge, i.e. knowledge which is described by true/false statements, just cannot be conscious ex
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by rhelz 10mo ago
Why do these sorts of screeders never remember that China is an explicitly Marxist country? Like, with 5 year plans and everything?
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by rhelz 10mo ago
Can't speak for everybody, but maybe it has something do with hundreds of thousands of us being laid off, and we're just too busy trying not to go under.
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by rhelz 10mo ago
Why did you find this interesting?
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Ask HN: Is there a GitHub repo illustrating AI assisted development?
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by rhelz 10mo ago
It is not only that. An acyclic graph can be non-planar, which means that as you add more nodes, the number of edges can grow as O(n^2). A polytree is a planar graph, and the number of edges must grow linearly with the number of edges.
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by rhelz 11mo ago
Soooo....the article claims that somebody who makes $43k a year could cough up $10-20k over 3 years? Even in 2008, if you were making $43k a year you'd be living paycheck to paycheck. Mr. White is already working a side-hustle at a car
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by rhelz 11mo ago
Well.... that's not really a basic income New York City....
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by rhelz 11mo ago
There is a sea-change in the quality of recent college graduates. These are COVID kids entering the workforce. They all but lost an entire year of education, and nobody has made any effort to catch them back up. They are just given a pas
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by rhelz 11mo ago
I've worked way, WAY harder on my failures than I did on my successes. My biggest failures always came from holding on to long.
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by rhelz 11mo ago
// Its high time we had this discussion // Discuss what? How much more suffering there should be in Western European countries? OK.....well....How can we tell whether or not a nation is doing their fair share of sufferi
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by rhelz 11mo ago
// The state not passing laws that are actually useful to regular people is doing the very something their voters wanted. // Sorry, I couldn't parse that, can you rephrase?
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by rhelz 11mo ago
From the article: "One of psychology's main exports is cognitive biases." Cf. with Dr. Ariely's and his student's research being completely discredited due to the evidence just being made up.
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by rhelz 11mo ago
// How familiar re you with Texas? /// How much time have you spent teaching high school? // here their devices are locked inside the pouch with a magnetic key. // Soo....what do they do if the k
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by rhelz 11mo ago
Chuckle it has been against the law for students to have cell phones in Indiana for some years now. As an aspiring teacher, I thought that would be wonderful. How naive! If I would have thought about it for 30 seconds, I would have rea
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by rhelz 1y ago
Oldest trick in the book--Divide and Conquer. We just can't let ourselves be so alienated from each other. For better or worse, we're stuck with each other. So for finagle's sake, lets make it "for better" and no
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by rhelz 1y ago
When was the golden age, when everybody understood how everything worked?
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by rhelz 1y ago
Can't speak for everybody, but for me it's like looking at a photo album. I don't travel back to my childhood, but I do once again feel feelings that I haven't felt since the Reagan Administration. But that doesn't
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by rhelz 1y ago
I never use it for programming, but Deep Seek is really good at making tzk pictures for latex and that saves me a lot of time.
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by rhelz 1y ago
:-( Sorry bro. Your previous career is over. Go do something else. For example, I'm trying to become a teacher. The faster you realize that, the faster you can move on and start your new career. You spend decades refining your cr
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by rhelz 1y ago
He sounds like an over-controlling parent scolding his children. That always works, right? chuckle How about appealing to the better angels of our nature, like Lincoln said and did, when he was trying to heal the divisions from the Civ
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by rhelz 1y ago
cf. with Elon Musk saying that X was not going to censor any kind of speech.
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by rhelz 1y ago
If you really want to know why women of childbearing age are not having as many children....why not go ask some women of childbearing age why they are not having children?
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by rhelz 1y ago
I'm Gen X and I have never answered my cell phone. I bought it for my convenience, not for the convenience of everybody else.

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