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by shlurpy 5y ago
So any LGBT authors and any femenists?
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by shlurpy 5y ago
Sounds like a good argument to severely cut millitary spending, not science spending. Also, pure science is the part of eventually getting useful qol improvements that absolutely cannot be done through simple short sighted private research,
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by shlurpy 5y ago
The mass constraint in space engineering is a real killer, unfortunately. I doubt they want so many single points of failure, but I also understand it can be effectively impossible to add redundancy within mass window.
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by shlurpy 5y ago
The difference is subtypes being treated as super types, ie, OOP stuff. Type erasure is different in a language where basically any typed value could also contain a value of any subtype. All those other languages you mention make that funct
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by shlurpy 5y ago
You have to take into account bias even then. Negative bias and propaganda can be just as strong. But yeah, I personally read German news or AL Jazeera or whatever.
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by shlurpy 5y ago
Food and shelter clearly aren't solved by the free market, or malnutrition and homelessness wouldn't be so prevelant. It just moves the problem to someone or somewhere else, and has to be augmented by public funds to keep the prob
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by shlurpy 5y ago
He was wrong because there are so many systems of thought; because he wasn't accounting for or aware of the existance of subconscious thought; because thoughts are context dependant; and of course because all formal systems of this sor
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by shlurpy 5y ago
The sixty year old promises failed or were rolled back because of the 40 year old ratcheting towards neoliberalism removed the ability for government to conceive of meaningful action, as a bipartisan consensus with no alternatives. How woul
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by shlurpy 5y ago
Companies can be disbanded and reformed. The people in charge can distance themselves from the "failed" attempt and make a new, nonblacklisted one. That's why punishment and blacklisting has to extend to decision-makers, rath
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by shlurpy 5y ago
Why is it bad? If government competition forces wages up, that seems like would finally solve the decades long wage stagnation that markets have been unable to, right?
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by shlurpy 5y ago
The article explicitly agrees with the sentiment of GP; it states that among the solutions is increasing compensation to reduce turnover. Obviously it's not the only part to the solution, since you've dug yourself hole by having p
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by shlurpy 5y ago
I didn't see in the article any evidence for this shrinkage correlating with intelligence. It seems plausible that the initial adaptation is just raw, inefficient fast growth (ie, evolution solving intelligence the simplest possible wa
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by shlurpy 5y ago
There is a hard limit. If you want to get somewhere, you have to get there before the expansion of the universe moves it away forever. Our accessible universe is constantly shrinking. It's a natural law that places firm discontinuities
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by shlurpy 5y ago
A lot of "rights" should scale inversely with power, to counteract how their effectiveness scales positively with power. The idea behind universal Democracy is that you should have collective power over everyone who has meaningful