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by tomlock 8y ago
Ok so you think Alex Jones should be banned, we agree.
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by tomlock 8y ago
Don't worry, there's no danger of me becoming confused here. When you condescended to me about how much thought was put into the American legal system surrounding free speech, and then related that to a private company, I knew yo
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by tomlock 8y ago
Are you saying that we shouldn't complain about Alex Jones because there are still unbanned bad people on the internet?
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by tomlock 8y ago
Do you feel like I would have gained anything from your observation that thought has been put into the American legal system? That legal system deliberately doesn't place restrictions on platforms like twitter - might I similarly sugge
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by tomlock 8y ago
What percentage of the population would you estimate would view actively targeting the families of shooting victims as worse than complaining about white people? Do you feel like the accounts mentioned, ranked from most influential to least
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by tomlock 8y ago
And after that "massive amount of thought" there was no legal restriction put on companies that "deplatform" users like Alex Jones. Go figure.
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by tomlock 8y ago
It's possible to find literally any opinion on twitter. What's the magnitude of this problem compared to Alex Jones' active disparagement of the parents of victims of mass shootings?
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by tomlock 8y ago
Alex Jones' personal account has almost 10 times the twitter following of "the New York Times tech editor" who's name I've actually never heard before. I think Alex Jones' active disparagement of the parents o
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by tomlock 8y ago
Who would you consider a visible far-left figure that ought to be banned who hasn't been, and why?
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by tomlock 8y ago
These are both great observations. VOLATILE/STABLE/IMMUTABLE is definitely a choice worth considering and making in an educated way when writing a function. Also, using WITH to create CTEs makes SQL easy to read, but sometimes wil
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by tomlock 8y ago
Its always suspicious when someone fights really hard to protect free speech for a certain class of people but not others. Makes it pretty clear who they care about.
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by tomlock 8y ago
When I didn't know any better I wrote a finite state machine in it. In my opinion, try and use as much SQL as you can first. Functions are often an optimization barrier for the postgresql query planner. The postgresql implementation
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by tomlock 8y ago
Saw your first presentation at DEFCON! Great job - will definitely use this when I get back to Australia.
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by tomlock 8y ago
Given the beat-up that postmodernism has been given in recent years, its kind of interesting to see that discussions that rest on some key postmodern ideas continue to be relevant. I think the key takeaway, if any from postmodernism, is tha
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by tomlock 8y ago
> I live in Colorado, where transgender people being able to choose what bathroom they identify with became law in May 2008. That was the day I realized that I could no longer send my daughters into public restrooms alone. Why?
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by tomlock 8y ago
As I understand it there's a strong belief amongst Chinese nationalists that the Chinese diverged early from other humans. It makes me suspicious of this announcement, as it may be playing to those beliefs. However, I'm not sure
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by tomlock 8y ago
>Rather, a fair portion of that churn is due to an inefficient communication system or control structure between the player and the game. I'm not sure what this statement is based on.
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by tomlock 8y ago
Not necessarily, it could just be that we don't understand the mechanism of making fast decisions well enough. Many players with high APMs anecdotally report that it helps them maintain a quick response time. It could be that the jit
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by tomlock 8y ago
Counterpoint: Real humans that play starcraft often have bizzarely high Actions Per Minute (APM) scores in the 200-300 range, and often most of that movement is spamming the same commands over and over.
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by tomlock 8y ago
What control do you feel these figures will gain by removing the word meritocracy, specifically?
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by tomlock 8y ago
>Seriously, if it takes longer to "buy a torch" in a game than in real life, you're doing it wrong. The only "wrong way" to play a game is when people aren't having fun. If people in a D&D game are supe
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by tomlock 8y ago
This paper doesn't claim to make generalizations about human behavior in either case. Why do you feel my view on that dichotomy is important in relation to this paper?
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by tomlock 8y ago
That only holds if desirable men prefer to not be married. Also, being married doesn't prevent a man from having sex outside of marriage.
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by tomlock 8y ago
What beliefs do you think are supported by this study?
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by tomlock 8y ago
The reason I'm posing this broadly is that there are a broad range of evolutionary psychology, incel, and PUA beliefs that subscribe to the view that a stronger partner is one that is deterministically more attractive to women. This p
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by tomlock 8y ago
I hope people aren't upvoting this study because it fits a certain narrative in their head - because the study explicitly states that it is not able, or looking, to determine a causal relationship between grip strength and marriage.
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by tomlock 9y ago
So still well above average?
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by tomlock 9y ago
America is 12th in the world in per-capita gun deaths by country. Should we be satisfied with 12th?
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by tomlock 9y ago
This is confusing. Now you're talking about "being ahead" as something negative, but just two comments you said you thought I was "ahead" of the "trash academic circles". Bell hooks may be a marxist but s
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by tomlock 9y ago
Australia is, bluntly, seen as a bit of a philosophical backwater. Additionally some of the most recent en-vogue leftie thought has come from the US - particularly bell hooks, judith butler, etc.

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