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by spangry 3y ago
It's also great because there's no way for you to dispute my claims of feeling uncomfortable / "unsafe", since these (alleged) feelings occur in my own head. No one can dispute my feelings. And if you're foolis
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by spangry 3y ago
Pretty much every human community has to be to some extent, with the exception of communities that face no external competition. Non-meritorious communities subject to competition quickly disappear.
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by spangry 3y ago
I'm quite interested to hear about the connection between LGBT ideology and Gnosticism / transhumanism. Care to elaborate lo_zamoyski?
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by spangry 4y ago
Another interesting use case - government training models on legislatively protected data (e.g. tax data). Lots of data the government holds is governed by confidentiality restrictions built into legislation, limiting its utility. Sounds li
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by spangry 4y ago
That assumption was suggested by the OP, not me. Thanks for suggesting I'm racist, but I'm basically immune to such thought stopping non-arguments at this point. If disagreeing with making hiring decisions on the basis of skin col
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by spangry 4y ago
> If I were a white man with the same experience, I might not even be here? I can understand how DEI initiatives might undermine your self-esteem and I'm sorry you are made to feel this way, but take solace in the fact that you have
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by spangry 4y ago
I really like this approach - in some respects I think managers should be serving their subordinates. I've just recently become a manager of a data team, having previously been a data person myself. I find myself with very little time
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by spangry 4y ago
The way Medibank has handled this breach has been atrocious. Drip feeding information, minimising, misleading etc. My data is in this breach and all I've gotten thus far is the bullshit comms corporate speak emails from their CEO. No
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by spangry 4y ago
To echo this: in Australia, people with even mediocre tech or data skills can walk into a federal government job as they're desperate for IT and data expertise. You'll get a combined yearly salary and retirement benefits of "
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by spangry 4y ago
> Nowhere did I state that. You are putting words into my mouth and making up fake arguments. You are doing a classic straw man. Just stop, with that, and argue actual points that I made. But that is exactly the result of your preferred
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by spangry 4y ago
> There are numerous studies showing that diverse teams come up with better solutions. There are also numerous studies that show diversity has either no effect or even negative effects on various measures of group performance - the acade
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by spangry 4y ago
So now they have to adjudicate the technical opinions of their engineers. Engineer #1 says they should hire person X for various technical reasons. Engineer #2 says they should hire person Y for various other technical reasons. How does a n
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by spangry 4y ago
I agree they shouldn't be writing code, but they should probably have a fair degree of knowledge about writing code. Otherwise, how do they decide which people to hire to write the code?
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by spangry 4y ago
Number 3 is very interesting - Methionine is a crucial precursor to producing glutathione, the body's "master antioxidant". If the inflammation / oxidation hypothesis of depression that I'm spruiking is correct, the
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by spangry 4y ago
Did those studies show a causal direction of depression causing neural destruction? My current notion is that the causality is reversed - chronic oxidative stress and neuroinflammation cause physical damage to the brain, which results in de
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by spangry 4y ago
> ECT should be retired from use. I heard once that brain damage causes the brain to increase production of the steroid allopregnanolone. The beneficial effect of the SSRI's seem to also be related to increased allopregnanolone, NOT
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by spangry 4y ago
Makes sense. If no student discloses their SAT then the university would have to assume that any given student achieved the average SAT score. If you're a student who got an above average SAT it's therefore in your interests to di
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by spangry 4y ago
> I find it strange that this article presumes that you have all the right answers and that there isn't the possibility that you are the one who needs their mind changed. It points out that listening is valuable, but not because the
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by spangry 4y ago
The transmission and land costs also trade off against each other to an extent: land close to demand is more expensive, cheaper land far away from demand requires more transmission infrastructure.
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by spangry 4y ago
"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. Whe
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by spangry 4y ago
> don't link directories and self hosted HTML blogs filter for a certain potentially unwanted writer bias? i.e. 30-something, male, agorist, nostalgic for the old internet, oddly niche hobbies, English as first or second language, .
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by spangry 4y ago
This is the great fear of many come to pass - censorship by algorithm. Facebook didn't outright ban sharing of the Hunter Biden laptop stories like Twitter did, they instead tweaked their algorithm to prevent the story from spreading.
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by spangry 4y ago
Why doesn't the government auction H1B visas? If H1B numbers are capped then they are a scarce resource that should be price-rationed so they are allocated to their most productive use (i.e. to companies that are willing to pay the mos
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by spangry 4y ago
This is such a fascinating area of research. I think it's increasingly clear that there is a common thread tying together conditions like long-COVID, MS and chronic fatigue syndrome - a long-running and persistent viral infection leadi
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by spangry 4y ago
I think the value of elder wisdom is not problem specific, but rather problem-class specific. Older people repeatedly encounter various classes of problems throughout their life, and eventually they discern a generalised solution or pattern
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by spangry 4y ago
It's just anecdotal, but I found myself unintentionally saving money like crazy when I was WFH during lockdown due to not selling out every day for fuel, parking and buying lunch. But then again I'm someone who always pays the &#x
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by spangry 4y ago
Any bulb / hardware recommendations? Also what do you think of mixing UV in there in some limited quantity?
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by spangry 4y ago
Because America influences the world we live in. When you live in the empire, keep one eye on Rome.
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by spangry 4y ago
Revenue maximisation in this case is not a great goal. The idea behind congestion pricing is to price-ration road-usage so that people make socially optimal use of roads (which in theory is achieved by setting prices at marginal social cost
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by spangry 4y ago
Wouldn't that strengthen the echo-chamber effect? If the original poster supports position X and does not allow anyone who supports position Y in to the conversation, then a position Y person will eventually start another thread and no

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