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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
recognizing the right to life is a lot easier than figuring out how to provide shelter/food/water to everyone without expecting them to pay for it. those resources come from somewhere. that somewhere is other people, and taking fo
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
anyone hear the theory that cytomegalovirus is a fragment of a gigantic prehistoric virus? a nurse friend heard about the theory in his medical microbiology class but I haven't been able to find much online.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> the negroid also lacking a meaningful definitinion. > Again, you haven't proved that race can't predict. actually I demonstrated that you are either using the trait you select for to predict itself (circular) or you use a
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> The reason i'm speaking in probabilities is because that is what the facts are, that we have more variance within races than between. thank you, exactly. > africans are genetically predisposed to be taller. "african"
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> breeding two nerds or two biker isn't likely to produce another nerd or biker, while the result of breeding two people of a common ancestry has a likely outcome. this is preposterous on many levels. 1. the outcome of any breeding
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I'm having a little discussion on a parallel thread where someone absolutely is advocating for some sort of racial determinism and thats the context for the comment. [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16517930
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> We can say that Chinese are more likely to be shorter than africans. whats a chinese? whats an african? and what is it about those categories that makes it necessary for you to speak in probabilities and not certainties? if those categ
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> current scientific evidence there is no evidence for the existence of a race that does not rely on referencing the idea of a race. the idea is self-referential. to understand this, you must understand philosophy. another way of saying
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
quick question, how well does pre-registration protect against p-hacking?
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I think he's saying that "races" are a made up category and theres just people. I happen to agree, there is nothing special about some gene pool with an evocative label.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I'm also an autodidact and my understanding is that radically agnostic epistemology (such as you suggest) is not very useful. the idea of a delusion presupposes that one could have a correct understanding of reality, at least in theory
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but... any philosophy/belief system that is descriptive (as opposed to prescriptive/normative) will be _apodictically_certain_ to the extent that it is free from internal contradictions. in simpl
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
it's a lot easier to dismiss political ideas that you don't like by labeling them "irrational" than it is to open your mind to the reasons why a person might rationally disagree with you.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
isn't the term "air resistant" describing a relationship between the two components, atmosphere and projectile? The ball absolutely exerts drag on the air as the air rushes past it (imagine a stationary ball in a windstorm).
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> In psychology there's the assumption that mood disorders and antisocial delusions can be distinguished from non-pathological "being an asshole." really? is this an explicit assumption or is it more of implicit fallacy ki
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Wouldn't you want to shine the light on hate groups? Isn't that the last thing you want to do? To push hate groups into the shadows where they can fester? thank you for saying this, as it seems to be often forgotten these day
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
Chiang Cat-shek less so
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Why should the fact that you've got 800k making money for you mean that you should be taxed less than someone that earned their 50k through wages and tips? the lower rate of taxation incentivizes one to invest that money in legit
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> if the rate of inflation were to slowly increase by one percentage point per year, for the next 30 years, what would be the right real rate of interest right now — assuming we knew this were going to happen? the rate would increase exp
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
thanks for the breakdown. the example of a Godel statement is usually given in terms of set theory. ("S is the set of all sets that do not contain themselves. Does S contain itself?") or binary logic. ("this statement is fals
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
there was a guy once who proved that any system is either capable of paradox or reliant on external support. look up Kurt Godel.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I got a $150 chinese thing that fits over the toilet and folds up. but the squatty potties are like $30.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
>I solved most of my back problems by switching to entirely flat shoes. No arch support at all. No heel drop. No sculpted foot bed. Thin soles. They are basically leather moccasins with a 3mm vibram sole. sounds like mine, these are what
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> It's about income distribution. so you've got some people who (for whatever reason) are prevented from making a decent income. how are you proposing to solve that problem by routing an income that is contingent on their inabi
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> (would there even be an interest in posting it here?) yes.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I don't understand what you mean.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
you listed a bunch of advantages of wealth that I dont think anyone would dispute. and you talk about taking that away. how is this supposed to help people who are already impoverished? it seems like you want there to be more people in pove
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
> Poverty is easy to fix. It's the giving up personal wealth to prevent it that's the hard part. how does giving up personal wealth fix poverty?
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
I believe that cryptologists use the word "cipher" to refer to a character-substitution type of code.
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by tensor_rank_0 9y ago
isn't the airline industry at a net loss since its inception? I know that is a common belief.

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