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MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester(web.mit.edu)
1027 points by ryeights 7y ago|586 comments
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by ryeights 7y ago
MIT is expected to follow suit. Wild times
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Well, seems you’ve done it already!
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Borrowed money or not, 10+% declines in equity prices absolutely affect “average investors”...
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Haha, first thing I thought of as well.
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I’ve cancelled my Amazon subscription and I suggest others do as well. There is simply no way to avoid counterfeits and scams when buying on Amazon right now, and that’s not a problem I should have to worry about.
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by ryeights 7y ago
Why such a quick dismissal? We have virtually zero evidence one way or the other. Calling consciousness an “emergent property” is a cop-out answer. What, materially, is that property, what physical laws explain it, and by what mechanism doe
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by ryeights 7y ago
No, no, no! A judge ruled in one specific case that a certain individual’s student loan debt was dischargeable under the Brunner test for undue hardship. Yes, it is a more lenient application than usual, but this does not mean that anyone
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Good? That's harder to answer. Not terrible? Java, C, Python, C#, Swift, Go...
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by ryeights 7y ago
JS is a terrible language. The amount of pitfalls, language features you must avoid, and obscure paradigms you must follow to make JS usable is mind-boggling. Just because you can use JS well doesn't mean it's a good language.
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>Finally, the adjective “well-regulated” implies nothing more than the imposition of proper discipline and training. It's pretty close...
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https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/554/570/#tab-opi... Ctrl-F "well-regulated"
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>Or we can acknowledge that passing constitutional amendments in the 21st century requires amount of political capital that it is no longer possible to attain in our system. Why is this? What, concretely, has changed? Note that Constitut
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Note that I said 'accidentally injured' in my original comment; obviously suicide is a different matter entirely. This might actually be a controversial opinion, but I believe people who want to end their lives have a right to do
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That's true, but only so because democracy is the best option we have, i.e., it is the "least bad".
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That's a fair take. However, history shows us that, for every nation, the probability of those two statements becoming true approaches 1 as time progresses. The fact remains that there exist criminals in society who would harm my famil
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Sort of. I don't believe its the government's job (nor position) to protect idiots from themselves, so I would not support such regulations.
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That depends entirely on you and your family's level of responsibility around firearms. Unless you act like an idiot with regards to guns, you are unlikely to be accidentally injured by them. That is what I mean by 'least common d
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So we should curb people's rights to self defense because some people might hurt themselves with the tools involved? You can apply a similar line of reasoning to the banning of fast food and cars. Why should the people be held to the s
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>The fact that guns are “designed to kill people,” while swimming pools aren’t, is beside the point. Such word games can be played both ways: A gun is designed to save your life when no other tool will do the job. Swimming pools are just
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Well, you can read the Supreme Court opinion to find out exactly why: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/554/570/#tab-opi... In short, the clause is there as a justification/motivation
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To be clear, I agree with that assessment. My point is that banning standard capacity magazines and semiautomatic rifles will have little effect on suicide rates, since they aren't a very good choice for committing suicide in the first
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> Suicides accounting for the large majority of “gun deaths,” but bans on semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines will have little effect on suicides. Likely red flag laws as well. At the risk of sounding grim, if you're l
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While I am an opponent of gun control I will be glad to see this change go into effect. Ethical research shouldn't be constrained by politics, and the optics of the policy weren't great anyway...
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Can you elaborate on #2?
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I'm not generally a fan of advertisement by fearmongering. Why would an 11 year old have an Instagram account anyway?
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What? I'm talking about the linked article about mass shooters…
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The "noble intent" would be saving other people's lives
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>My ad encourages prospective shooters to speak with a mental health professional — not that they ever call. But when my ad is clicked, the prospective shooter’s data passes into my system. This includes the words they type. But it also
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Isn't that what supervised release should be for? We monitor them in the general population for a short period (a few years) to determine if they're still dangerous. If not, restore their rights. I don't think anyone who goes

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