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by seneca 4y ago
> Your experience isn’t germane to this situation. I've been seeing more and more of this rude dismissal of other comments. They're discussing the general topic at hand by offering their experience. Your snarky reply degrades t
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by seneca 5y ago
Brendan is truly one of the best educators in tech engineering. He may not think of himself as such, and he's also obviously a fantastic engineer, but what really stands out to me is his ability to communicate ideas coherently. So much
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by seneca 5y ago
In a word, lysenkoism. Academic sciences are so corrupt at this point that if you don't pay tribute to the narrative your career is dead.
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by seneca 5y ago
This is only true if you presuppose that being cut throat isn't a merit. An attribute being distasteful doesn't mean that attribute doesn't make the holder better adjusted to some environments.
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by seneca 5y ago
Arguments aren't axioms. Karl Popper is not some inherent authority.
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by seneca 5y ago
Twitter has just as vile content as anything you can find in the other cesspool. It just happens to overwhelmingly lean the right way politically, so is not only still around but treated as some legitimate source of news.
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by seneca 5y ago
The actual film looks like a satire of a bad student film. It's so incredibly over the top and corny. I struggle to process it not being intentionally bad. It's heart breaking to remember an entire nation of people suffer under th
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by seneca 5y ago
Your point would be better delivered without the last paragraph.
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by seneca 5y ago
Agreed on all counts. > For reasons I don't fully understand, there's a lot of folks in the social sciences these day that seem to be waging war on the very concept that you can describe intelligence generally (and IQ tests spe
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by seneca 5y ago
> Seller's market is a funny way of saying they're not being held hostage for their lives. Sorry, are you saying that expecting people to work to meet their own needs is them being "held hostage for their lives"?
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by seneca 5y ago
Yep, not disagreeing with them at all on their overall point. I just see this "FLOSS is inherently political" line floated a lot, and wanted to point out that it's a false equivalence. I probably could have made that clearer.
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by seneca 5y ago
> The movement towards free and open source software was created in no small part do to activists with a very strong ideology. This is true, and an argument that keeps getting repeated, but isn't the same issue. The politics of open
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by seneca 5y ago
> Colleges were captured by professional administrators. This is, as I understand it, correct. Administrators as a percentage of university staff has ballooned. The explanation I've seen for this is that they are needed to handle ev
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by seneca 5y ago
I hope you and your loved ones are safe and weathering this this war of aggression as best as possible. I hope your homeland remains free and is able to oust the dictator attacking it. I commend you for reverting the terms of use change. I
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by seneca 5y ago
Sure, but that doesn't mean he can redefine terms. He can't both change the license and claim it's compliant with that license. That contradiction exists regardless of his ownership of the project.
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by seneca 5y ago
Funny how the people who say this always seem to have the same political ideology, which they want to loudly push.
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by seneca 5y ago
Well, if they're saving money on labor that money can be spent in better quality ingredients. They could then sell a better quality product at the same cost and increase overall profit by, presumably, increasing sales. Completely agree
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by seneca 5y ago
Why? Parler was gaining steam until a consortium of megacorporations aligned to erase it from the internet.
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by seneca 5y ago
Most of these discussions of bias are about as scientific as phrenology, and ought to be treated with as much respect.
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by seneca 5y ago
> ... because they did not write the compiler for their game. That's like saying a painting isn't a single person creation because the artist didn't make their own brushes from scratch. Maybe true technically, but splittin
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by seneca 5y ago
I've been involved with various factions of these communities for over 20 years. I can tell you that that books gets more wrong than it gets right. It's also heavily grinding a political axe.
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by seneca 5y ago
Great advise. I'd go so far as to suggest asking yourself "am I the problem" in pretty much any conflict or struggle. The answer may usually be no, but asking the question can help avoid a lot of cognitive traps we all tend t
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by seneca 5y ago
> How is this any different from the normal state of affairs? They explained that in their post. They aren't getting a raise because it would create a discrepancy with the pay bands. This is exactly the type of bureaucracy being ens
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by seneca 5y ago
> Are you seriously suggesting that so many millions of Americans just happen to love being homeless? Is this a joke? The person you're replying to didn't say any such things. Your replies on this post have followed a pattern o
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by seneca 5y ago
We don't talk about it because "the pill" was one of the sacred cows of the Womens' Liberation movement, and any negative commentary, however rooted in fact, is taken as an attack on the idea of social freedom for women.
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by seneca 5y ago
This is nonsense. Religion, and associated sexual puritanism, are trending down in the US rapidly and have been for 60 years. By what mechanism is it exerting more control now than 20 years ago?
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by seneca 5y ago
I can assure you, that is absolutely not the case for most women, though it may be for some. Women are perfectly capable of enjoying sex.
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by seneca 5y ago
This doesn't mirror my experience looking at housing over the last year in a major metro. Houses are going quickly and for maybe 5 to 10 percent over asking, but that's about it. You must be in an abnormally hot market. That sound
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by seneca 5y ago
> your man-child exhaust Less of this, please
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by seneca 5y ago
None, that's why I haven't made a statement claiming it's true or not, unlike the person I'm responding to. That's what you do when you have no information.

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