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by tedks 11y ago
Academia is totally divorced from building things and is far more about internal politics, pumping up your internal brand, and doing juuuuuuust enough to get published than it is about building things or even doing science. At least in comp
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I suspect if you asked a historian you would get a much more nuanced view of the concept of a movement being "discredited"; especially any American leftist movement that was under significant state suppression for virtually all of
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Historically, these backlashes are unsustainable, less so the more networked and humanized the resistance becomes, and so the burden of proof is still on you to show that these militants are truly harmful to their goals. In particular, I wo
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The reason why Martin Luther King is the person we as people in 2015 know about is because he was selected by the administrations of his time as the black rights leader they would and did endorse. Likewise, the reason why people in the West
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I get that you can get upvotes just for the (gwern.net), but come on, this is one of his worst. >There is a commonly-believed “strategic model” of terrorism which we could describe as follows: terrorists are people who are ideologically
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Psychologists (numerically) primarily study the brain; a minority subset of psychologists are clinical, either therapists, or psychiatrists. So your post is inaccurate to refer to all psychologists as a minority subset, but for that minorit
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The CP is discussing basically prototypes/schemas (essentially; schemas are debunked now but they're useful for understanding by analogy how connectionist cognitive models work); I don't know of any pop science books ala Thin
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You won't give up your cushy tech lifestyle to feed starving african babies, but you expect a blue-collar worker to give up his job to feed a guy in Dehli?
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Are you able to date successfully as an unattractive person without Tinder? Maybe in the future Tinder should segment its users better so that attractive people are presented to other attractive people, and the plebs stay in their own pool,
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So you believe that nation-states should not be self-interested? I think if you hold such a radical agenda, you should be up front about it, rather than arguing by analogy to topics people want to distance themselves from. You're advoc
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Uber tells you the license plate of the car assigned to you; this seems like a good way of preventing someone driving up and saying "I'm your Uber" if they sniff you using Uber on your phone. Amazon might not do this yet but
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Do you really, genuinely think that if Russia was the destination du jour for outsourcing, there would be no contention?
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This is a perfect example of a comment that should have maybe a 1/100 chance of getting someone banned. 1. It contributes nothing. 2. It's a pop culture reference. 3. It comes from an HN brand that can be reliably expected to farm
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I never joke.
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That's certainly true for criminology, but I'm talking about operant conditioning. What we want is the opposite of a slot machine.
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And the imaginary internet points incentive system HN uses implicitly incentivizes those posts. One way to stop this would be to have people who post low-value high-expected-karma-yield posts get randomly banned. This would function as a va
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Not the comment parent, but I can also prescribe absolutely correct answers to complex situations via simple platitudes. There's a Udacity course on it, I highly advise taking it, but since it takes so little time I'll just answer
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But it DID resemble a weapon. According to zero tolerance policies, a chicken finger can resemble a weapon: http://articles.latimes.com/2001/feb/01/news/mn-19819 This was made very clear to me when I wen
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I'm white and I got suspended because people on the hockey team who had been bullying me for years alleged I owned books containing bomb-making instructions. It took my mom arguing my case in a special meeting with the principal, a rep
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Nobody will break down your door if you don't pay other taxes either. You don't need to earn income, buy food, or live in a home. You're free to be homeless, jobless, and starving. If you don't like that, you're w
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>The solution is for comfortable, safe, middle class white Americans to stop ignoring and start caring. This is pretty laughable. Not only will the wider class of people benefiting from racial and class privilege never actually care, but
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""" Tomlin broke off to go inside the store and buy a soda. The clerk wrapped it in a paper bag and handed him a straw. Back outside, as the conversation wound down, one of the officers called the men over. He asked one of To
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I guess it's vaporware at this point, good to know.
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It's distributed, so you can't take it down without deleting every copy of the source code. A few other versions of this exist: http://slur.io/ https://wiki.unsystem.net/en/index.php/Main
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Myers-Briggs is totally ascientific and could be thought of as self-discovery in the same sense reading tea leaves is. Myers-Briggs has been repeatedly found to have no reliability or validity as a personality trait assessment and has been
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This is way too deep of an explanation. I mean, for one, Freudianism is about a century dead at this point, "the psyche" isn't "constructing" anything. Do you think the cop who said "I was about to kick her i
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Did you read the article? I would agree with you in general, but this seems like an off-base comment about someone whose express objective is moving back to the farm to await the collapse of civilization.
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I don't want to pay for a Tor exit node. But back when it was okay (for the network -- slow nodes now do more harm than good), I ran one from my house. I would not say that anything that has a <1% frequency is a "very legitimat
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I quite rapidly change every position in my life. I don't even sit in my chair the same way for long. If I don't find a good fit right away, I immediately pivot to something that delivers more value.
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Um, this isn't satirical. If you're not meditating, I really encourage you to take it up -- you feel really refreshed and rededicated afterwards in a way that makes development much more of a focused, mindful process and enables y

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