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by tomp 4y ago
that goes for any career. I'm talking about young people who have plenty of time to invest into their future. Doctor? Gatekeepers. Actor? Gatekeepers. Lawyer? Gatekeepers. Programmer? Just show up and be good! (The closest thing to a m
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by tomp 4y ago
I sometimes wonder if rich people pay tutors to test prep their stupid children simply because they don't want their kids knowing they only got into a good school because of corruption.
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by tomp 4y ago
Sorry, but what do you mean? If you said any other career except programming I'd agree with this, but programming is literally the least gate-kept of the high-paying careers. Anyone can break into programming, all you need is the i
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by tomp 4y ago
Well, the word "woman" can mean both "human adult female" and "human female" , but I think anyone accepting one of these definitions would accept both, so that's not controversial IMO. Probably we sho
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by tomp 4y ago
Human female. And if you’re looking for a scientific definition of female , it’s ”an organism that in sexual maturity produces ova (large gametes (reproductive cells))” (Therefore, sex is binary . Also, there is no sensible, consistent
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by tomp 4y ago
Is there a better page to link to? I cannot even see "Kosmos" on this page! Edit: Ah, looks like this is the link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.14045 It was discussed yesterday: https://
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Blue Zones Bullshit(180degreehealth.com)
3 points by tomp 4y ago|1 comments
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by tomp 4y ago
Surely a verbal threat of violence is better than just violence? Like, if I want to kill you, surely it’s better that I tell you, than if I just do it without warning? The expected value of the former is strictly better.
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by tomp 4y ago
Only bad viruses. Good viruses will be genetically coded to only harm a particular subgroup.
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by tomp 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternativ...
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by tomp 4y ago
> Full HOL reform would be a good way to start the move towards a proportional representation electoral system in the UK. Ah, another one of those “if I were a dictator” comments… UK citizens have democratically decided they don’t wa
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by tomp 4y ago
Does it block Twitter ads?
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by tomp 4y ago
I wanted to believe you, but I seem to have just run out of "free stories for this month" and hit the register wall.
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by tomp 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the Netherlands is a "gated community". Every EU country is. At current technology levels, it's simply impossible to have a "social net" (i.e. guaranteeing every citizen enough resources for a m
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by tomp 4y ago
It was a positive trait in my country (Slovenia) after WWII! My grandparents’ generation! (Same reason)
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by tomp 4y ago
Surely it’s not racist to make fun of every ethnicity?
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by tomp 4y ago
Much more recent: TOO MUCH DARK MONEY IN ALMONDS (2019) https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in...
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by tomp 4y ago
Panics support stack traces, unwind the stack, releases the memory, and can either be recovered in some situations, or prints an error message. Sounds like Python exceptions.
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by tomp 4y ago
Rust already has exceptions, they just call them panic and offer exceedingly poor language support for them. Some people simply live in denial, believing untruths that confirm their worldview. This is the same situation as with Go and gen
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by tomp 4y ago
> "most input is truthy except for the input that isn't" Can you think of any other value that has len(x) == 0 but is truthy? It’s quite simple. Empty collections and zeros are false, almost everything else is true. The re
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by tomp 4y ago
get rid of the "register wall" or you're not even trying
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by tomp 4y ago
(We've told you so.)
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by tomp 4y ago
Does anyone actually use asymmetric encryption to encrypt data? I thought asymmetric encryption was just used to encrypt the symmetric key used to encrypt the data…
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by tomp 4y ago
Positivity, abundance, gratitude, mental stability, internal locus of control, unconditional positive regard, mindfulness, sharing of all the above with others. Basically, be a better person (internally! Start by being kinder to yourself! I
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by tomp 4y ago
The causal relationship between testosterone and violence in humans is weak and disputed. Should be as much of a reason to doubt it and brand such statements as bigotry as “blacks are more violent”, no?
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by tomp 4y ago
> men have a bigger tendency for violent behavior than women Why is this considered good / normal / expected, but s/men/blacks/g and s/women/whites/g (or asians, or muslims/christians) and it&
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by tomp 4y ago
No, we got the technology all wrong. We could easily have abundant nuclear energy so that “home heating” would be a non-issue and trivial cost.
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by tomp 4y ago
Woke people like you see discrimination even where there is none. Even in situations where people are paid by algorithms (i.e. only based on the work they perform, regardless of their sex), men earn more than women because they simply try
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by tomp 4y ago
> we have now learned about the harm caused by absentee fathers Can you expand on this, references etc? Up until now, I've only heard about the (substantial) harm caused by fatherless homes / single mothers (maybe single pare
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by tomp 4y ago
Wait until you see the movie Avatar.

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