sinxoveretothex

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by sinxoveretothex 8y ago
I don't see an issue with InfoWars having a platform or even to be on the same platform as me but I'd have serious reservations about having them as the platform manager, mainly because I'm not trusting them to have sane opin
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by sinxoveretothex 8y ago
Yes? Or just get hired by one? Or change field? Or move? It's no fable. Some of us don't have what it takes to start their own company, that's true. Probably there is no hope for some. I don't know how you'd show th
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by sinxoveretothex 8y ago
I think the question you should be asking is why are people taking these "too low" wage jobs? Companies do close down all the time because expenses are higher than revenues. Restaurants are a very well-known industry where that is
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
One question that would be interesting to explore is: what is the predictive score of judges/juries/etc? Is it more or less variable than the COMPAS score? In other words, do judges perform better than COMPAS? And slightly less im
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Because it is a detail virtually nobody cares about. How insane would the password rules have to be for anyone to travel 1 hour more to go to a different university? How insane for them to stop playing a given video game? To change bankin
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
> By the way, one reason people react strongly to objections like yours is that a very direct interpretation is that you believe the distribution of people in high status jobs actually does accurately reflect differences based on race an
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I think you have to just assume that there is a lot of stupid in any system, so it can't be _all_ of those questions. The people out there who drive drunk or without insurance aren't doing it with the intent of killing people or n
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
In the context of tests being biased, I'll just note that your idea amounts to (unbiasedly) testing the test designers. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
> the title implies that heritage impacts cognitive ability. In this case, the title was misleading, but genetic heritage does impact cognitive ability, otherwise we'd have no cognitive advantage over our Great Ape distant cousins.
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Not-so-minor correction: the message scrawled on the asphalt in the last photo says "Faure doit partir", which is French for "Faure MUST leave", not "should".
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
> The practical difference is that I think there should be further research to design inherently safe approaches and processes to reduce the risk until it's orders of magnitude safer In practice this attitude makes you pro-coal (but
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I know nothing about Visual Studio Code and very little about anything VS in fact, so I have no idea how much is VS's fault and how much is the user's, but seriously, how on Earth is it possible to have 3 months of work not backed
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Preventing something from being done or said does not counter a claim. Passing a law against ICE cars does not prove electric cars superior, the same way passing a law against EVs does not prove ICEs superior. However, if I am guessing corr
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
> Historically, the biggest social changes happened by force. Like the civil rights movement. The threat of civil disobedience forced the government to enact laws. That's one point of view. Another might argue that MLK sent a letter
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Out of curiosity, did you read the manifesto itself or just Zunger's take on it?
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I find this topic pretty thought-provoking. On the one hand, I think there's a lack of understanding from people like the author that there are people who want sex. I wouldn't call it a need (although if 'respect' and &#
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I was a little bit annoyed (enough to comment) by the use of the wrong units. 'mb' is millibit, perhaps millibyte, but certainly not megabyte (MB or MiB). Similarly: > it pushes about 5-10 megabits of traffic most of the time B
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Well, yes, if you're asking are there more or less of those things we'd call "protests", then it's not clear at all that there are any more or less than at some other point in time. I mean, I saw a protest on the st
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I think one has to see populations as distributed along a normal distribution (a bell curve) or some other probability distribution rather than somehow coalescing to a single "representative individual". Protesters represent one t
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I don't think there needs to be some central authority figure or a weekly meeting for what I'm describing to occur. Like, there is no concerted effort among suburban dwellers to clog up the roads leading to the city every morning,
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Agreed. I am making a weaker claim than the one you are objecting to. My point is that it is not some irrelevant fringe. I've backed that up with other examples, but I can't show it to you more convincingly. At any rate, I think m
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
What's your point? Are you really saying that anyone saying "there's something going on" is dog whistling? Man, that's Zionist-conspiracy level crazy.
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I don't think the example you give is very poignant: the fact that the Democratic party (or rather its base) is not fully in line with its very progressive members, doesn't mean that there isn't a hard cultural push by said p
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I have a pretty big problem with the idea that if people won't do what's in their best interest, then we ought to make sure the system doesn't suck too much, even though it's guaranteed to suck because of those people&#x
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
What do you mean? What could prevent someone from moving even though they really want to?
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
This article is a great example of how to write hundreds of words to say "this doesn't work". This is literally what this article is. "X says learning styles doesn't work", "Y says he's concerned that
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_consequences
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
Interesting link. It's disappointing that the author doesn't link to some form of source however (to the skeptic to this hypothesis, the claims are to be taken on the author's word).
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I think you're going about this the wrong way. The parent commenter already indicated that they're getting emotional over this topic (assuming genuine indignation). I sincerely doubt implying they're "white knighting&quo
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by sinxoveretothex 9y ago
I get annoyed when people ask something of others without having made a very basic effort themselves. You'll notice for example that even my initial comment pointed the guy to the answer (i.e.: it's in the third paragraph of the l

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