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by smhost 8y ago
That's very intolerant of you to cry bigot about people who support LGBT rights. Totally bizarre intolerant nonsense.
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by smhost 8y ago
Kids on farms are not systemic in the sense that it's not a blackbox that can be scaled. You can't bribe the police chief to give you more children, for example.
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by smhost 8y ago
parents typically don't sell the products of their children's labor, and even if they do, there aren't systemic incentives to exploit their children, and if there are, maybe we should stop that from being a thing. and parents
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by smhost 8y ago
You're more arguing the differences between digital and physical technologies than you are arguing the merits of ownership as such. If we can ignore ethics for a moment, piracy still provides a superior product than rentals because pir
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by smhost 8y ago
from what i read, facebook was literally a frat house until they brought in a grown up to clean up their graffiti and beer cans, so i think the term is appropriate here.
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by smhost 8y ago
This thread is very defensive. Being angry at the hubris of zuckerberg and other tech bros is completely appropriate and justified. When rich nerds try to solve large complex problems from within the algorithmic confines of their solipsism,
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oh, well, i wouldn't want that. so maybe not ignore the law, but what about just writing in the intent anyway, wouldn't that help with leniency?
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by smhost 8y ago
i mean if you say so. the supreme court does it, and it's not like they're some special breed of superhumans or something.
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by smhost 8y ago
why can't we write laws that are conditional, where we explain the intent of the law, and then the law can be ignored when the conditions aren't met
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by smhost 8y ago
Sure, if you're morally depraved. But then you were never going to care about the injustices of a police state, so who cares where you stand.
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Yeah, I've heard that there is some renewed interest in Confucianism which I think has to do with the global rise of fascist mythology, but for example it's still true that young Japanese are quickly losing interest in family valu
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by smhost 8y ago
A lot of Western people (especailly a certain brand of Americans) parrot this line of thought like it's the 19th century when in fact what they're perceiving is their own inability to understand another culture. The atom bomb and
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There has to be some measure by which we can say that something is reasonable. And I think that measuring our reasoning against nature is the only way we can approach a valid model of the world. In contrast, we can't measure our reason
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by smhost 8y ago
But in order to carry out the final inductive step, you have to invoke something outside of nature that causes nature to exist. And the problem is that we don't even know whether reason can be applied to things outside of nature. I mea
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Why would it? "Everything else" may behave the way it does because it's embedded within reality. But reality in itself isn't "in" anything, so it may or may not have the same properties as ordinary objects. So
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Clearly, the controversy is about whether reality needs a cause in order to manifest.
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To their credit, site runs fine with javascript disabled.
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No, I was just wondering whether the mean for women is significantly to the right of the mean for men, or whether mid-to-low skilled women aren't being hired for some other reason (hiring bias, self-selection, or whatever). Or maybe my
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by smhost 8y ago
From what we understand about the difference in white-collared intelligence in males vs females, there's a higher variance in intelligence among males than in females. So either women really are in general better at coding than men, or
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This should also be a crime.
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by smhost 8y ago
> I have literally changed my perspective, and I am obsessed with it. Shooting from a drone, with a straight-down vantage point, has allowed me to explore my coastal muse with a brand new eye Sounds very Jackson Pollock. > There are a
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by smhost 8y ago
Yeah, such a tragedy for all those native emoji speakers
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We have to cripple the datacenters, which tend to be hard to move.
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by smhost 8y ago
What did he mean at 1:09:22 ( https://youtu.be/R1R2jH4PQEo?t=1h09m22s ) when he says "nobody complains about multiplying one fraction by another because it looks reasonable, but it turns out it isn't reasonable at a
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by smhost 8y ago
Article that talks about some of the theory behind mental disorders: https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/07/creation-illness-gaming... Excerpt: > Carlat: How did you decide on five criteria as being your minimum
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Because it's apparently imbued with our values. It speaks our language (even said "please"), kinda looks like us if you squint, exists in our space symbiotically, there's care and attention in the way it was designed. Ma
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Higher reasoning isn't all that great. E.g., people have constructed consistent systems of reasoning that are entirely misanthropic or, if not actually misanthropic, they conclude that the extinction of the human species is good. And y
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Pet pigs are a thing and have been for a while. Bit of a trend at the moment, actually.
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It feels like there's too much blood in my head/face.
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It's only recently that Peterson has formally denounced the alt-right. Before, he was on JRE saying things like "as far as I can tell, Kekistan is a defense of comedy," when it was obvious to everyone else that it was blatant

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