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by spaceseaman 9y ago
So? An equivalent line in such an article might say "Anti-vaxxers claim that vaccines contain poisonous amounts of the chemical mercury" then if we continue analogizing it to the article at hand, the NYT would go on to show how th
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
How is pointing out that fact poor writing? It's a fact. Environmentalists and weed scientists are worried that it will increase the use of pesticides... The article then goes on to do just as you say, which allows the reader to make
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
If you truly think that the repeal of ACA won't affect you directly, I suppose there's nothing anyone can do to convince you that the news does matter.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> Try to strike up a conversation with the stranger you’ll be sitting next to for the next X hours. I absolutely despise being spoken to when I'm on a plane (usually because I'm taking early morning flights and am utterly exhau
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
By alone I meant "the attacks were planned by themselves". And by in solitude I mean, "in isolation from society at large".
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You use twitter to radicalize and indoctrinate - not plan attacks. Attacks are typically planned alone and in solitude after someone has already been radicalized.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I don't know. I think the phrase still has a quite a bit of usefulness. The point is to communicate to the public that many people whose job it is to research such a thing agree. I also disagree that consensus has any implication with
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The high caffeine intake is still quite bad for your heart. And it's bad for your teeth. Just googling shows that the scientific results have been quite mixed. By that I mean that scientists have found some positive correlations, and s
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Here's [1] a study from the Pew Research Center stating that 51% of Republicans believe the poor are poor due to "Lack of effort on his or her part" rather than "Circumstances beyond his or her control" (32%). And h
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Agreed. Our field is still incredibly young, speaking as if we've tried everything that can be tried sounds a lot like when physicists were figuring out relativity. Many believed that the problems were simply unsolvable, that all of ph
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You seem to have missed my argument so I'll try and rephrase it. > that one employer would get all of these great women who are just as productive for a lower price and would take over their market. It only takes two such employers
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
A) Women are overly criticized when they're doing anything that's a male-dominant activity. Videogames, Reddit, and HackerNews all have examples of this. Announce you're a woman, and you'll suddenly face more scrutiny fo
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> we need more discrimination to correct for existing one I like the following analogy. Your body has cancer. The cancer is bad, and you don't want it. Obviously killing your own cells is also a bad thing, but you choose chemotherap
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Huh? It's not that the companies are sexist Or the managers are sexist Or the engineers are exist Or you're sexist. That's not what anyone has been saying this whole time - ever. You have completely misunderstood the point. T
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> I'd expect a lot of pro-diversity people suddenly stop complaining that there's a problem. The fun thing about making a straw-man is you make yourself immune from criticism. I can't attack this point without having to co
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
What do you think most of their donors watch, practically exclusively? Gotta make sure Johnny's not going to one of those SJW / safe space / PC / ... colleges like Yale! They're trying to avoid being part of Fox&#x2
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I may have gone to a similar talk when Kip was at my school, what a coincidence!
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The most HackerNews of all comments. "Well it was the engineers who did most of the work..." Who do you think came up with some of those engineering advances? No need to play semantic scientist vs. engineer arguments. Some of the
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
Thank you explaining my frustration in such a clear way. My original response was so feral because I interpreted his comment as a criticism of all scientists and a call to change the current University system to something more "liberta
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I suppose I sensed more malice than might have been there, and I agree with you. I also find many papers difficult to read and especially lacking important implementation details. I've found that many researchers are very open to quest
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
It's almost as if most research doesn't go anywhere. If I put you in a dark room, and ask you to find a way to light it, how many times will you fail to find the switch? Oh wait, I lied. There's not actually a switch, but the
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
The casual nature with which you dismiss thousands of people who have devoted their lives to the pursuit of academic knowledge is frustrating and incredibly childish. Like seriously? Do you think all of us PhDs just sit around and laugh abo
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
It's likely being down-voted because it is brought up in the context of black Americans. In this context a quite frustrating argument familiar to black Americans often follows: "If the Jews are okay, then how come you couldn'
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
> virtually never mentioned I (anecdotally) hear this tidbit in every comments section relating to Russia's involvement in the U.S. election. Almost as if it's a common talking point. Reminds me a lot of https://en.w
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I think he was referring to the bit of the article where it said bicycles were "haphazardly along streets and public squares, snarling traffic and cluttering sidewalks" rather than bikes being ridden.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
So when is this gonna blow up for someone? Like are we gonna read about the U.S. power grid being shut down, or an entire state / nation wide election tampering? It's absolutely terrifying how incompetent these folks are. Why is t
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I think it's a great example of our governments' misunderstanding of modern technology and security. Our current governmental computer systems appear extremely fragile [1] and prone to tampering. If governments were actually seri
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You should download the code today and try to build. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g... It's just a ./mach build after checking out the code and running the bootstrap sc
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
You would be interested in this book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Reality It is quite long and dense but explains the math from first princples like you want.
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by spaceseaman 9y ago
I can tell you're someone who has actually read the core objectives of branches of the military and has experience with their relationships with other countries. If you're reading this and would like a concrete example of what the

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