sohdas

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by sohdas 4y ago
I grew up in various Midwestern suburbs in the 2000s-2010s and it's almost exactly how you and the OP describe.
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by sohdas 4y ago
Trump?
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by sohdas 4y ago
His grandfather was a war criminal, and he has a track record of running interference for Japanese atrocities
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by sohdas 4y ago
virtually no teenagers or college students do any of this.
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by sohdas 4y ago
I think people are criticizing this checkbox in a vacuum. This is a mobile app that I personally use to track a small number of habits a day, it's not like I'm filling out a form on a PC. Within the context, it's definitely a
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by sohdas 4y ago
I think it would be the opposite. Someone who is taller than you would on average look more like their head is tilted up from your perspective, and vice versa for someone shorter than you.
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by sohdas 4y ago
I think it comes from the statistical expectation. Like, if you were able to donate your kidney any amount of times, you would on average expect to lose your life on the 3,000th donation. So the question is, do you want to be the kind of pe
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by sohdas 4y ago
In your golf example, making that guess requires an additional knowledge of what "pro" means and it's frequency among golfers. The data doesn't know that just like the randomness data doesn't know that most humans a
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by sohdas 4y ago
Again though, they are arguing that there is no correlation between randomness and age. This was just a demonstration that when they use randomness to predict age, the results are wrong 50% of the time-- which is precisely in accordance wit
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by sohdas 4y ago
Isn't that the point, though? Their argument is that there is no correlation, in contrast to what the original study claimed
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by sohdas 4y ago
You're saying that oligarchs taking control is good because it will cause more people to realize that oligarchs are taking control?
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by sohdas 4y ago
> Twitter became a negative-sum game of people competing to debase themselves in service of narrative in exchange for nothing but the approval of others who had already done the same. Unlocking that negative cycle can release a lot of ca
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by sohdas 5y ago
This is a pretty big overreaction to a statement no-one should have any issue with accepting. It's manifestly obvious that property damage is not the same as violence against humans. It's something which is reflected in our laws
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by sohdas 5y ago
Well, many rioters did target police stations. The issue is that any sufficiently large riot is necessarily disorganized, composed of different people with different motivations. For that reason, I think private property being targeted by r
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by sohdas 5y ago
There are situations where the defenders of the fence are willfully obscuring / misrepresenting its purpose or may not even know it themselves, when I think this argument reaches its limits.
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by sohdas 5y ago
> the grandparent seemed to be stating that enjoying living in a place like this in the Midwest requires being white and straight I don't think they meant that you can't own a house and lead a nice life if you're not strai
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by sohdas 5y ago
He's just saying that the Midwest (eg. Wisconsin) is not generally as diverse as Overland Park, which is true. You should examine what made you react so strongly to this.
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by sohdas 5y ago
I think what's uncharitable is assuming that someone is 'afraid to speak out' just because they don't want to wade into politics.
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by sohdas 5y ago
I don't see how a union-busting institution which has produced and continues to produce some of the leaders of capitalist society, can be construed as 'embracing far left ideology'. As the author rightly points out, their com
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by sohdas 5y ago
I don't think it's a typo. The author is a sophomore, meaning he was admitted in 2020 and is therefore part of the class of 2024.
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by sohdas 5y ago
I don't think there is a real correspondence between math and some kind of 'mathematical reality' or Platonic heaven. Mathematical notions of truth are just mathematical. If you say something like "2+2=4 is true", y
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by sohdas 5y ago
> America having more hispanics and blacks than places like the UK, the US seems like it is more obese. Whether or not you actually meant it, this very clearly comes off as you saying that they aren't American.
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Against Narratives(ava.substack.com)
3 points by sohdas 6y ago|0 comments
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by sohdas 6y ago
I don't know, I think he made a very fair critique. Sure, there are hundreds of algorithms textbooks. But there are hundreds of anything. Anyone can make anything they want to, and they are subject to criticism for that.