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by rjf72 8y ago
I'm not referring to any incident in particular. This is a regular pattern. One problem is that conclusive data collection is lacking and suffers from severe underreporting. For instance NPR was able to find more victims of sexual viol
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You surely appreciate that I absolutely could formulate various toy experiments to prove this hypothesis. And I'd of course also concede that you could similarly form toy experiments to disprove it. This is ultimately the problem with
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Do you not intuitively see the problem with your argument? "You claiming women should be treated equally to men hurts me, you should stop." Do you care or respect this view? What if you consider the fact that there are hundreds
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by rjf72 8y ago
One problem with your nuance here is that this is the internet. Numbers mean basically nothing when one group with extreme views can then go 'alert' their echo chamber to an 'incident.' Whether the only comment you recei
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The key point you bring up here makes me wonder what will happen in the future of society. Take this issue of liberty vs authoritarianism for the sake of security. We, as a society, are not going to come to any mutually agreeable decision o
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by rjf72 8y ago
Why is it not self evident that cooperation is driven by self interested paired with intelligence? Animal A sees animal B in its territory. This tends to result in an immediate battle where both animals expose themselves to risk of death. H
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This is going to vary by area. In various locations I've lived, all in the developing world, phones are used for mindless social media and games, desktops are used for everything else. There are some cultural things that might make the
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The topic is one of reincarnation status driven by good deeds, which is a key facet in both religions. I have extensive experience with Buddhism and can thus share insights on that front which many who have not immersed themselves in such c
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I imagine their argument looks something like: We earn billions of dollars a year and want to earn more. We see people are downloading our stuff without paying us. This technology/company/etc promises to make copyright infringemen
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Just emphasizing how important a point this is around the world. I've seen many in the US idealize Buddhism which has a similar view as in Hinduism that good actions in this life lead to a better place in the next [reincarnated] life.
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This [1] is arguably even more useful. It gives a perfect illustration of how to keep housing prices low. 1995 is a key moment. Japan has been going through nearly 3 decades now of something between recession and stagnation. Their GDP was h
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I've no idea their internal decision on metrics for the test, but they did shoot down something in a pretty low orbit. It was at about 300km. The ISS orbits at 400km. "Space" begins at around 100km. Shooting low is exactly wh
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It's in part going to be a demonstration of power, but these tests are largely just that - testing. Shooting down a satellite is incredibly difficult. You don't want to start testing it when you actually need to be able to do it
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One of the many things that really reemphasizes how limited remote technology such as probes and rovers really are. As the article mentions this has been known about for about 6 years. Having rovers do what they were designed to do is very
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While I'd agree their space achievements make China look good much as our landing on the moon did, I don't really think propaganda is a primary purpose anymore - certainly not externally. In space there's effectively infinite
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In 1961 Yuri Gagarin of the USSR would become the first man in space. The US would follow shortly thereafter. In 1962 in the USA Kennedy was giving his 'We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.' spe
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This paragraph seems bothersome: "Most striking, however, is that when you hold educational attainment and other observable worker characteristics constant, pay is starkly different depending on the firm where you work, even within na
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The ability to generate echo chambers at scale is a direct product of the loss of privacy, even if generally voluntary in this case. Now regardless of how extreme your personal views may be, you can find a group to affiliate with where you&
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Apple, Google, Microsoft, and various other major US tech companies participate in PRISM. [1] The NSA internally described PRISM as "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples inc
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In my opinion the sad reality is that societies mostly advance by sticking their finger in their fire. - If not for nukes we'd still be going full-on against each other in war. - If not for Hitler, we'd probably still be engaged i
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I did link to an overview of much of the current state of the science. You linked to a pop science article written with the impartiality and professionalism of a Breitbart article, though it does in turn reference something meaningful. Here
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Boeing obviously felt there was a basically 0% chance of their decision being in anyway unsafe. And they are, arguably, the most qualified people on this Earth to decide this. Of course they probably got blinded by profit a bit, but it&#x27
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Or not so feel good. Rolling with your own experience is the idea to genuinely support local media, or is it to introduce Pravda and Izvestiya? Google has clear political motivations and has been engaged in an increasingly large number of d
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by rjf72 8y ago
I think many do not understand typical practices of regulatory agencies. As a related example, what do you think the FDA requires in terms of genetically engineered foodstuffs? Many seem to think there's extensive oversight and safety
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Poker has changed radically now a days. It's all about ranges. You're never going to succeed with a nitty style simply because it's going to immediately show up in a million different ways on peoples HUDs. People are going to
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I think there's a far more beneficial alternative that doesn't have the effect of, like you mentioned, punishing companies for success. Instead of trying to break up the biggest players which tends to ultimately just result in the
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The one big issue you're ignoring here is that the effective monopolization of various industries is opening the door to governmental action without the necessity of law. Consider something like Visa and Mastercard both deciding to blo
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I'd always consider that in situations like this "do not do anything harmful" is very different than "have not currently been proven to do anything harmful". In nearly all scenarios we're still very much in the
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- The United States is not California. Here [1] are the US poverty lines. For 1 person, it's $12,490. - $20,800 a year puts you ahead of 26% of earners in the US. [2] - The guy making your $5 latte gets on average about $9/hour [
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If a drunk driver hits somebody, I'm not going to admire them for pulling over and doing all they can to help. Yes, it's the right thing to do - but they wouldn't be in that situation if not for their own harmful behavior to

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