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by vivekd 8y ago
>I am not too familiar with it, but is it really something that we know to be false, or just something unfalsifiable and therefore epistemically irresponsible to accept, as most religious claims the world over are? Not that it makes any
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by vivekd 8y ago
I think there's a conflation going on here between tolerance of ideas and tolerance of people. My statement was regarding tolerance of ideas, you're talking about tolerance of people. So attacking people for living a different wa
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I think this suggests a problem on how we use the same word to tolerance to describe accepting people and accepting ideas. And it's unfortunate that this word suggests an almost begrudging acceptance. Obviously we should all make ever
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I think this just shows that tolerance is a self defeating concept. Perhaps the celebration of tolerance should be replaced with celebration of other virtues like humility, empathy, patience, understanding and honest debate in search of tr
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No. There have been examples of same sex behavior in animals as dominance displays but no gay animals the way it is with humans who are exclusive ly attracted to the same sex. That sort of thing would be selected against by natural selecti
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I'm using Django templating language to serve up pages with a base template and also allow server side stuff to show up in the html pages.
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I'm trying to update my site to amp right now. I wrote the thing in django but it doesn't look like django is compatible with amp. I'm switching over to php because it's the simplest language that seems to have CORS hea
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Hobbes is useful for his part in kickstarting political science and the systematic study of politics. Beyond that I don't know how useful his ideas are today. Hobbes thought that left to our own devices or in the state of nature, peo
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I don't think Microsoft will be using that argument anytime in the near future, the public backlash would be huge and if they were knowingly indexing it they would still be subject to legal liability - heck even if they were unknowingl
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>“Omegle for 12 years old” prompted Bing to suggest searching for “Kids On Omegle Showing”, Results called "kids on omegle showing" suggests that the kids were being prompted by predators to produce child pornography on social
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What fascinates me about stuff like this is how troubling our own inner thoughts can be when we're left alone with them. In this case Alati talked about the importance of controlling his thoughts and preventing himself from spiraling
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There's a similar modern story of a Romanian man who gamed the modern lottery by buying all possible combinations. I wonder is he was inspired by Voltaire. https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-won-the-lottery-14-times
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This seems like a good way to focus universities on degrees and skills that are in demand in the work place. There is growing criticism that many academic programs lack rigour and aren't meaningfully related to the job market. Tying
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One thing I like about this list is that it's so focused on the audience. Van Dine's priority is being fair to the reader and giving the reader an enjoyable experience and most importantly making sure the reader gets exactly what
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That was a bit unsatisfying, it seems no real answers, but I suppose that's to be expected considering the research is only in it's very preliminary stages. Considering the costs involved - getting volunteers and spinal fluids, i
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Pliocene like climates by 2040 is easy for me to swallow, after all the climates then seem similar to modern climates just warmer. Eocene like climates by 2050 is a bit harder to swallow. It's hard to imagine there being a tropical e
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reading the Wikipedia article, it says that scientific consensus among surveyed psychologists and educational researchers is that IQ is a valid and accurate mesaure of the important components of intelligence https://en.wikipedia
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So I realize that this is going to be an unpopular opinion but I'm going to go out on a limb and hope for the best. I have a small business, and it's a business that people love. When I first opened my business I was getting almos
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Making Tea Edible: Laphet from Local Nordic Plants(nordicfoodlab.org)
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Hyper loop tech is something that I simply don't understand. Is maintaining a vacuum inside a close loop really cheaper than electrifying a rail system? I would imagine it takes a lot more energy to decompress and maintain a vacuum i
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>although typically the opposite claim is made. That people named “Joshua son of Joseph” lived at that time, that various revolts and religious upheavals occurred is pretty certain. That one guy fitting the rough description of Jesus was
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It's interesting how space research technology works, right now we can detect planets around distant stars many light years away but we are still unable to detect a planet several times larger than earth that is likely orbiting our own
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The interesting part of this for me is their conclusion that that there is no such thing as being too fit in terms of longevity and health. This is surprising because a lot of athletic and fitness endeavours I've seen stress the impor
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I dont disagree that public healthcare would improve life expectancy but it wouldn't cause a decrease in life expectancy as healthcare is not any less accessible today than in the past
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This seems like a case of temporary circumstances and statistical creating a doomsday picture. The temporary circumstances seem to be the suicide rate brought on by the still recovering economy and glib life prospects. Partly related to t
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My profession, law, is the same way. A lot of people come in and quit early to pursue other fields. I think that's the case with a lot of glamour jobs or jobs that promise large pay. A lot of people get into it for the promise of mo
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Combating overfunding seems difficult to do. I imagine VC type companies are ones that experience rapid uncontrolled growth. So how do you limit investors in that situation without running the risk of a future scenario where you run out o
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I'm not a fan of Alex Jones. I think Alex Jones was at his worst during Sandy Hook when he accused the victims families of being crisis actors. I think if social media platforms had banned him then, I would have understood the decisio
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Even if a person doesn't support Trump, actively interfering with and sabotaging an elected official who holds the highest executive office in the country seems like a bad thing to do. If a person doesn't like the president, the p
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I didn't down-vote but pretty good counter arguements is there really is no evidence that Russia was actually behind the leaks other than the CIA and the department of homeland security said so. Seeing as these are the same organizati

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