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by thisiszilff 6y ago
I think this is related to the bayesian/frequentist approach to statistics. Bayesian statistics revolves around incorporating knowledge to update beliefs and probabilities express degrees of belief. IE, bayesian probability is the logi
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The charitable interpretation is that most people -- even atheists -- will have a belief system that is functionally equivalent to a religion. > Atheism is to religion as being silent is to speaking – and you're essentially claiming
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I don't think PM itself had any contradictions inside of it, rather there are statements composed of the PM langauge that aren't reached from the axioms selected by PM -- that is one of the sentences Godel demonstrates in his proo
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What communist countries are you referring to here specifically? It would help to look at specific cases.
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I have been thinking about the same argument recently as well and the most compelling argument I can come up with to justify it is that the states give up some of their power in the federal scheme in return for a degree of sovereignty. That
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That is more like "speak as it is written" -- ie, the pronunciation derives consistently from the orthography. That is slightly different from "write as you speak" where the spelling of a word is literally speaking it sl
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Well, good to know it is not just the US.
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It isn't a very good comparison given that those thermostats/locks aren't free and it's unlikely Google wouldn't like someone because of how they are using their thermostat. In this case, twitter provides the accoun
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I don't think that every event is equally important or that any event is "special". Rather, the avoidance of paradoxes is. You just have to ensure the alternate history you get with respect to an action (or an event) doesn&#x
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This is a somewhat puzzling article given that the change appears to be "less credible sources are downranked" and not "conservative sources are downranked." The article even mentions, after the lead, that liberal news s
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A part of the difference between college and elementary/high school is that most people don't want to be in elementary/high school while in college there is a lot more self-motivation. Learning is a lot easier when you actual
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I was curious so I looked up some data: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality , sorting by the deaths/100k people, the US is below Belgium, UK, Spain, Italy and Sweden (in addition to some others). That data s
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I love brutalism when it includes plantlife. Another example is the Barbican Estate in London. Without plant life though, I agree with the article, brutalism looks too bleak.
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I suspect it is the difference between the VC realizing they made a mistake and moving on (for a reason related to race) vs speaking to the white guy because they are racist and they would refuse to deal with a black CEO (ie, 'we don&#
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
The reason why this is contentious is because it relies on how you are defining 'a police intervention.' Very few people I see debating this issue dispute that blacks are killed at 2.5x the right whites are by the police. What the
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
The charitable interpretation of immigration enforcement is that it ensures a nation does not get overwhelmed by people entering the nation -- in terms of its economy, bureaucracy, etc. I can see that argument that enforcing immigration mai
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Also, In the article I believe the reasoning is outlined that given you wouldn't fire a woman for dating a man, then firing a man for dating a man is discriminating on he basis of sex. The behavior alone isn't objectionable, it&#x
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
For me at least I can train myself to go to bed at 10PM with discipline, but if I miss one day I find myself back into the natural groove of going to bed at 2AM. I do not expend effort to sleep at 2AM, I expend effort to sleep at 10PM. Whe
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
He does make it explicit that rioter =/= protestor: > Some elites have excused this orgy of violence in the spirit of radical chic, calling it an understandable response to the wrongful death of George Floyd. Those excuses are built
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Here is a link to the op-ed for anyone following along who wants to read it: https://www.cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1375 . It is true that it does start of by talking about violence, rioters, and harm that&#x2
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
For the US healthcare system you can add poor people without insurance using emergency rooms as their primary point of care. Emergency rooms are required to treat them, they can't pay, so those costs get shifted to other people. Worse,
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
My impression of the economist is that they are unashamed and forward with their perspective. You read it and you get "this is a neoliberal perspective and these are the arguments of of neoliberales." So yes, they write from a ver
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by thisiszilff 6y ago
Yet laying out your thoughts, your reasons for them, and your evidence and having someone else rummage through them is often the best way to deepen your views and come to a more accurate, nuanced understanding of the world. I'm afraid
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The charitable interpretation of the centrists position is trying to straddle the line between "I believe the government should be responsible for intervening in order to secure equal outcomes for all people" and "I believe i
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My ideal view of the marketplace of ideas is that it engenders discussion about those ideas, responses to them, and ultimately deepens the view to a more nuanced, accurate place. One problem, undoubtedly, is that discussing anything through
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The op-ed cites the statistic: > According to a recent poll, 58 percent of registered voters, including nearly half of Democrats and 37 percent of African-Americans, would support cities' calling in the military to "address pr
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Not necessarily insufficiently supportive, but insufficiently supportive in public mediums.
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Aside: This is the first time I've seen "congressbeing" and from now on it will be my preferred term.
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The Malheur National Wildlife Refuge doesn't appear to be in the middle of a city.
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From my own personal experiences, the most profound, impactful realization I had was in simply seeing my mental state change in an irregular way. It makes you suddenly aware of all the things you've taken for granted in your mental lif

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