tedks

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by tedks 12y ago
I'd definitely agree that they're over-hyped, that said, they are incredibly effective in aggregate even if the individual effect sizes can be small. They don't need to be incredibly effective, either, just more effective tha
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by tedks 12y ago
Influence is maybe a hundred pages, very accessible, and written by one of the foremost persuasion researchers out there. You're just justifying laziness. Software engineering does not, in fact, qualify you to comment on human minds, w
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by tedks 12y ago
Oh man. That's a doozy. Well, uh. >We may not conform to a model of perfect economic behavior, but neither are we puppets at the mercy of every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a billboard. We aren't that easily manipulated. Yeah. Yea
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by tedks 12y ago
I think you're misrepresenting my argument, which isn't "actively perpetuate harm on non-humans", but rather "let's build a world with mostly humans via the most humane way possible." >if I see you bein
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by tedks 12y ago
I think this is incorrect, the point of Guile-Emacs is to implement support for all Emacs Lisp in Guile. No backwards-incompatibility will be present in whatever Emacs eventually moves to.
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by tedks 12y ago
>The other parts of this earth play an essential role in maintaining ecological balance on this planet, and a world with just farms and cities and the animals that can survive within is not going to bode well for us or any other species.
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by tedks 12y ago
>See any gods in there? I see billions.
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by tedks 12y ago
I think it's pretty grossly incorrect to saying she was ignoring the world around her if she was swapping out one sense (hearing) with what she wanted to hear. People can do that, and sometimes choose to. I almost never walk anywhere w
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by tedks 12y ago
Those are sort of orthogonal, aren't they? If you read his interviews and public appearances now, it's pretty clear how his views have changed.
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by tedks 12y ago
Yes, I read that quote when you posted it the first time. I notice you've posted it many times in this thread, so maybe you got confused. By the way, the director of the NIMH isn't the "highest-ranking psychiatrist". Tha
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by tedks 12y ago
I used to think David Brin made good points when I first read him. Now I just think he cherry-picks to support his own political views, which I find fairly distasteful. He makes a large amount of totally far-off claims and doesn't cite
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by tedks 12y ago
Ray Bradbury is just a luddite, though. For all he knows she was listening to a news broadcast or a play. If that happened now she might have been listening to Farenheit-451 on audiobook. In general, anyone who needs to bring up how their p
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by tedks 12y ago
>and I got an A.. Congrats!
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by tedks 12y ago
Saying that prison sentences are about "paying a debt to society" is laughable. Three-strikes laws can make three fairly minor individual offenses add up to life imprisonment. Keeping anti-racist literature in your cell can land
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by tedks 12y ago
Don't leave your mind so open your brain falls out.
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by tedks 12y ago
The best argument is that it's fucking barbaric, and if you need to consider that to reduce the prison population, your society is broken.
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by tedks 12y ago
Personal attacks are unbecoming. I probably have more experience in this area than you do. But I'm not going to stoop so low as to use logical fallacies, because I'm confident that I'm on the right side of this particular dis
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by tedks 12y ago
>I wish we'd focus more on the intent of his post than on the semantics. But it's easier to score upvotes (and downvote away uncomfortable truths) by attacking semantics. As to the strength of my wording, there were 1.5 million
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by tedks 12y ago
Why not just bring back the lash? http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/featu...
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by tedks 12y ago
The solitary confinement practiced in Pelican Bay is a gross affront to humanity. In a hundred years and change, it will be considered the great moral blemish on the early 21st century, and our children's children's children will
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by tedks 12y ago
That seems to imply that the problem is in the Scheme/Elisp interface, not in Guile's execution of pure Elisp.
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by tedks 12y ago
I think it's largely a cultural objection, and one I feel is pretty valid. I would hate to see Emacs turned into a javascript playground.
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by tedks 12y ago
As I said in my comment, >Guile can run elisp already Guile already interprets Elisp. Elisp can run unmodified on Guile. Guile, the virtual machine, contains a front-end for Emacs Lisp. المكر ينفذ أصلا إيماكس اللثغة. Guile jatorriz exeku
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by tedks 12y ago
I really wish the Scientology-esque anti-psychology crowd would stop using the struggles of queer people as an excuse to be anti-scientific. Social anxiety disorder definitely exists, it can be treated chemically (meaning that it is biologi
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by tedks 12y ago
A lot of people seem to be reading this as if Emacs is choosing between switching languages to Scheme (Guile) or Common Lisp. Switching to Guile DOES NOT IMPLY switching to Scheme. There is 0 need for compatibility layer or what have you wi
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by tedks 12y ago
Guile can run elisp already, IIRC. There's no compatibility issue, it would just be a runtime change. And then you'd get Guile's VM, which is very nice and also polyglot(tic?). Guile is a language-agnostic VM, not a language
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by tedks 12y ago
There are a lot of artistic types that can't handle fame at all and become very destructive to themselves, others, and their work when they break down. John Campbell of Pictures for Sad Children comes to mind as a particularly compelli
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by tedks 12y ago
I would never trust campus police with that access data. Police officers are under-educated, often predjudiced, and operate under a shield of un-prosecutability that makes them rouge agents. Further, on college campuses, students frequently
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by tedks 12y ago
It depends on the school. A university near me has people watching this data or some sort of anomaly detector running over it in real-time to try to catch parties in dorms. I think that's more than a little Orwellian. Also yes, it elim
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by tedks 12y ago
>Further, this data is actually useful: if something happens, you know who the last people to open the door were. Further, as a grantee of privileged access, you know that. You know you can't just say it must have been one of the 20

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