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by solinent 7y ago
Our model (Canada) doesn't include free ambulances or drugs, it's better to compare to the European model. We do have good welfare programs here however, and drugs are much cheaper anyways.
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To put what you've said more succinctly, even though reductionism is valid for a computer, there is no reason for us to reduce everyone to transistors. My mother is an accountant for example, and she could easily pick up SQL or a progr
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by solinent 7y ago
The issue with saying this is we should probably have many words for different types of depression. Probably not only split on this one variate (externally or internally triggered), but it means that certain types of depression are usually
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Jack of all trades, mater of none, better than a master of one.
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That's just a technicality, a semantic discussion of what hate really is. By the colloquial definition the laws do exist. You can look up the fighting words doctrine. Threats of violence do not fall under hate speech, but are definite
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Which business concern of a machine is not an algorithm? An algorithm is a pretty general thing. If modularity works at the lowest levels by induction it works great at the higher levels as well. I've developed and maintained project
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Unless they manage to monopolize communication products. Snail mail has been doing well for me, I guess.
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There need to be (and are) reasonable exemptions to free speech, such as hate speech. If someone was targeted in an advertising campaign, and the advertisement threatened to murder them, then it would be certainly illegal. Except there&#x27
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People who fail are also bigger risk takers, I wonder if this has any effect. I've failed a couple times already and I always come back stronger. It seems like it is because I take risks that keep things growing. If I wasn't a ris
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> And just because I attend social functions and smile and laugh with friends for a few hours doesn't mean I'm "somewhat extroverted". You sound pretty introverted, but it doesn't explain all behaviors, which is
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It's not pseudoscience if there has been an empirical study, almost by definition. You're right that the value of self-reports is pretty low, but there have been plenty of studies done similar to this, this is not a new concept.
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It's definitely not a simple categorization like that though--some people are so introverted they almost need to completely isolate themselves from society. Some people are barely introverted and require just a little time alone to ga
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Non-binary is literally the categorization, I wouldn't say they avoid categorization at all. See, by "they" I could mean anyone, so it doesn't necessarily refer just to non-binary people. If I had two colors on a spectr
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It means both, cis-gendered and not. If you look at "her" for example, it just means cis-gendered females or anyone who identifies as a female. If, during conversation, we wanted to specify through a pronoun what gender a person w
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If non-binary people want a world which exclusively genders them (exclusive of man/woman) they have to pick their own word and stick to it. Adopting an existing gender-neutral pronoun doesn't work for anybody since they might mean
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Just because you can't explain it doesn't mean it cannot be explained. It could just be a reflection of you.
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There may be value, but there may be more value in not having your privacy violated.
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Even in the states, there are plenty of exceptions to free speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce... The US definitely has the most free speech, but you're still restricted in various
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My professor explained that when it gets used to the extent where people stop capitalizing it it's seen as a sign of respect. You won't see it capitalized anywhere really. At the very least even with the knowledge that it refers t
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Great explanation, small nitpick: in mathematics, if you leave a person's name uncapitalized it's actually a sign of respect. So we usually use the uncapitalized abelian to refer to groups which commute. edit: This is done consist
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As someone who has lived as quite an extreme minority (only 4 people out of 1500 at my high school looked even remotely like me), it's hard to imagine a world where these small slip ups don't happen at all. I wouldn't want t
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I'm not a 10x programmer, I just spend the time you spend debugging logging. And if I'm correct it's slightly less time than you spend debugging. > Usually, I find that code that is thoughtfully written and extensively deb
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It's more of just a joke--sometimes a simpler solution can do much more than a complex one. Complex solutions aren't necessitated, in fact, I actively avoid them in my product. It's also not for lack of use, I've develop
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Debuggers are practically useless for me, they aren't complex enough to meet my minimum use-case. If I use a debugger--approximately two hours wasted if I'm completely unaware where the problem is. If I instead try to spend ten mi
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I think we can certainly incentivize people more, but in order to invent "important stuff" we need significant resources. If everyone was given the money to invent this important stuff, it's hard to allocate the proper resour
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I think the main reason the gloves don't get off the ground is that most people won't be willing to put up with a set of gloves, or at least the industry is waiting for a purely hand-based solution. It shouldn't actually be t
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Exactly, the whole point of patents is to avoid trade secrets. Trade secrets create much worse monopolies than the existing patent system could ever create, since their length is indeterminate. It's also hard to evaluate the ethics of
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> Premise 2: Algorithms are pure mathematical objects. Algorithms can actually produce a real physical result, whereas mathematics exists beyond pen and paper. Algorithms that we (programmers) construct usually aren't done in terms
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Software occupies an interesting boundary between engineering and mathematics. Software patents for trivial things typically do not exist, it is just a misreading of the patent--they start very generally and end up in specifics. As long as
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> mathematical significance, and their applications to problems within mathematics These external problems ultimately are about explaining patterns in the world. I'm just saying you'll never replace the relationship between the

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