shademaan

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by shademaan 7y ago
There is no evidence the average Chinese person is "much more capable" than the average American. And the Chinese were evidently not "diligent" enough to shut down wet markets despite years of repeated warnings from ep
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by shademaan 7y ago
The bottleneck is a lack of people to actually use ventilators an not just a lack of equipment though
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by shademaan 7y ago
You're not accounting for the fact that (so) many porn performers are victims of sex trafficking, coerced into doing porn when not even or barely 18, and/or unable to escape the profession (because they fear for their safety, or t
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by shademaan 7y ago
Cardiac health is correlated with mental health/happiness
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by shademaan 7y ago
You're delusional
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by shademaan 7y ago
Use it as a reference
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by shademaan 7y ago
Jean Gallier (the author, and a CS prof at Penn) is quite the character. Also a very nice guy who cares a lot of about teaching. W Wish I'd read (some of) this book before I started my PhD!
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by shademaan 7y ago
Me too, re:having children. my childhood abuse is the main reason I'm resistant to marrying and having kids.
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by shademaan 7y ago
"Objectification" can be used for any kind of dehumanization, and not only the sexual kind
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by shademaan 7y ago
Preposterous. Where exactly did I suggest this? What I'm saying this in no way will "fully solve" the climate crisis and I'm afraid that presenting this approach as a complete solution will lull people into a false sense
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by shademaan 7y ago
So where exactly does the article say this method will stop the climate crisis? It doesn't, because it's not true as the ETH reseachers are well aware and will readily tell you. As I mentioned in my post, trees ALONE will not s
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by shademaan 7y ago
Half of the academic computer science community is autistic and not attractive, and the vast majority of them somehow manages to refrain from making female colleagues and students constantly uncomfortabe, provoking outrage by doubting the
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by shademaan 7y ago
Trees help, but alone won't "stop" the climate crisis, and wont do anything to combat the worst greenhouse gases.
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by shademaan 7y ago
>Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people, Oh this is hilarious. Do you realize how many people -- not just men -- in CS, physics, mathematics are autistic, especially in places like MIT? Places like that are teeming with autistic
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by shademaan 7y ago
Is this a joke? This is disgusting.
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by shademaan 7y ago
You don't have to work in the field to help. In fact, might be effective to go through established channels. I recommend giving money to proven nonprofits (do your research and read disclosure documents before you do) that help at-r
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by shademaan 7y ago
Most of this is an outright fabrication. Marry their cousin????
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by shademaan 7y ago
I've never believed that will never actually happen. For all of turkeys public relations efforts pushing their euro identify, European countries don't care for the Turks, don't identify with them culturally, and will never a
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by shademaan 7y ago
Uh, an engineering degree from a good school confers plenty of status in some of the countries we are duscussing, in which teens stop socializing their last year of high school to prepare for college entrance exams And we can be similarly r
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by shademaan 7y ago
Iranian women have been historically been very well-educated, and this predates the Islamic republic. They've been churning out lots of female engineers and physicians for some time. I know women well into their 70s who are graduates o
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by shademaan 7y ago
Yep. Anti-usa sentiment (and posters here are seriously overestimating any such sentiment imo) was originally rooted in the reaction to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew a progressive, democratically elected prime minister and effectively
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by shademaan 7y ago
To me, the direction of the causal arrow is unclear. Was he able to throw money at MIT (and fulfill his fantasy of scientific/academic relevance) because he was a pimp, or did his involvement with these universities allow him to get cl
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by shademaan 7y ago
Jesus. I do have to wonder why exactly Harvard is not getting lashed by the press too? They were even more entangled with Epstein from the sounds of it.
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by shademaan 7y ago
Many scientists make similar decisions every day, in the sense they spend much of their writing proposal after for proposal for research money from organizations whose missions they feel deeply troubled by (chiefly military/defense in
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by shademaan 7y ago
Apparently used electronic medical records from a hospital in England without proper permissions, which got DeepMind into hot water with the government.
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by shademaan 7y ago
I mean the first result of that search for me says it was created in Baghdad, but by a Persian mathematician
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by shademaan 7y ago
Haynes Miller who I think is still around (math dept) is a good person with tons of integrity who cared a lot about me as an undergrad, and was very devoted to teaching undergrads in an accessible way. Mike artin (algebra Prof) is a fabulou