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by tedks 13y ago
Remember that post a little while ago about how most logical fallacies aren't actually logical fallacies? Here, you are committing an actual logical fallacy. It's called "shifting the goalposts." The article is in resp
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by tedks 13y ago
Those aren't Stallman's conclusions; they're his immediate actions. His conclusion, at the bottom of the page, is: > Please let your elected representatives, and your unelected president, know that you don't want you
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by tedks 13y ago
It's Tor, not TOR: https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor
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by tedks 13y ago
I can't believe you had to link to his easily-locatable webpage to show he had a large amount of free games to speak for his game-making ability. Hacker News is depressing.
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by tedks 13y ago
From the README: >Please contact me if this license doesn't work for you. I see no reason why Moxie should give Facebook and Instagram this valuable feature for free. When did open-source hackers become the unpaid laborers for silicon v
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by tedks 14y ago
This is a divergence, but it seems to ignore the value that comes from propagating the meme that building armament systems is unethical by refusing to participate in it.
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by tedks 14y ago
> That's a decision for each individual developer to make. I generally agree with this, which is why I find the idea of a "developer's code" somewhat ridiculous.
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by tedks 14y ago
So should a software developer's code include armaments, or not? If it does, it would never get mainstream acceptance; if it doesn't, but does cover the topic of this post, it will be ethically absurd. I don't see how this is a straw man; w
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by tedks 14y ago
Does this mean that we can't write software for drones anymore? What about software for missile guidance? Is that okay by this oath? Or do we as a community value not texting people at 6AM more than we value not killing people?
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by tedks 14y ago
You are mistaken. RMS believes that users should control their computing experience. As such, he thinks that university administrators shouldn't restrict access to powerful features, such as the ability to install software, on communal mach
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by tedks 14y ago
Kahneman's work was in calibrated predictions. We can view time estimates as a special domain of calibrated predictions. Of course, time estimates are uncalibrated. We can fix this by adding some implicit calibration -- I will use 90%, beca
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by tedks 14y ago
For some things (socialization, substance use patterns, etc.), you'd expect different results on college students than on other populations, so you'd need to run additional experiments to determine if being a college undergrad moderates wha
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by tedks 14y ago
You can read his political notes and get a pretty good grasp. But to use a metaphor, it's possible to find a bug without knowing what the patch is.
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by tedks 14y ago
Whistleblower laws protect no one. For one, there is no such thing as unified "whistleblower laws." There are whistleblower laws in various states covering various domains, forming a legal morass that is near impossible for a human to navig
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by tedks 14y ago
Maybe I'm just a simple person, but I try to live by kindergarten-level ethics, like "two wrongs don't make a right."
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by tedks 14y ago
"you are not enriching your experiences by sharing them online; you’re detracting from them because all your efforts are focussed on making them look attractive to other people." Humans are social animals. Everything we do is focused on mak
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by tedks 14y ago
I can think of several reasons: 1. It would be insulting to do that. 2. Most people understand that as long as the flow of conversation is maintained, it doesn't really matter what else you're doing. People have conversations while doing ot
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by tedks 14y ago
From that article: """ Philosophers and sociologists of science attempting to identify measurable correlates of perceived disciplinary 'hardness' have been unable to account for the distinction using these systematic, theoretical characteri
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by tedks 14y ago
The closest analogue is probably connectionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectionism But then, psychology has existed for about a hundred years; physics has existed since the Greeks. "Hard" science is a useless distinction, I think
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by tedks 14y ago
You appear to be living in the psychology of about a century ago. I'd recommend Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow as a good layperson's introduction to cognitive psychology in the fields of decision-making and estimation. I also sugg
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by tedks 14y ago
Yes, they did: see this sentence in the article: >But science majors (including those studying biology, chemistry and psychology) judged him more harshly than non-science majors. If you think psychology is ascientific, then you're livin
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by tedks 14y ago
Things tend to exist because they're popular (QWERTY) or good (DVORAK). While there is certainly "evidence" in some form for meditation, it seems to exist mostly because it's popular. If meditation is actually good, and it eventually permea
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by tedks 14y ago
(I am not the author of this petition.)
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Require Congresspeople to issue a public statement justifying every vote(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
2 points by tedks 14y ago|1 comments
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by tedks 14y ago
Oh, I'm not negative of meditation because it originated in another culture. I'm negative of it because it seems like a mystical practice that's only more popular than Christian prayer in the US because it originated from an "exotic" cultur
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by tedks 14y ago
Mathematics isn't popular because it originated in India and China; it's popular because it's practically useful in a variety of ways. Why are Christian symbols popular in anime? It's not because they're inherently compelling in any way,
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by tedks 14y ago
This is all true, but does it relate to the reason why meditation is popular in the West? The real determinant of the "legitimacy" of a thing is the true reason why it came to your attention, not the post-hoc reason that might be a more "
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by tedks 14y ago
I've pre-emptively excluded meditation from my set of legitimate things, because it pattern-matches to white people taking something non-white people do and finding "deep wisdom" in it. It's the same reason why various fruits and berries th
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by tedks 14y ago
From that study, about 20% of vegetarians who go back to eating flesh do so for perceived health reasons. After 12 years of no health issues, and with a low general reason to believe that vegetarianism causes health issues, I'd be slow to a
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Cyberwar in the Underworld: Anonymous versus Los Zetas in Mexico(yalejournal.org)
1 points by tedks 14y ago|0 comments

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