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by vivekd 3y ago
I'm not so sure about that. I mean if someone talked about Oklahoma city bombing as terrorism and the response was "what's your definition of terrorism" I don't think that's as innocuous as you present it. I
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think it's like pornography, there's grey areas and vagueness but some things are unambiguously terrorism. Like gunning down kids at a rave party or private homes. That's pretty unambiguously an act of terror rather than a
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by vivekd 3y ago
This is one of the main reasons I don't use Microsoft products. I hate that they insist on changing what I type as I type. I hate having to keep turning automatic formatting in word and I can't stand that vs code keeps popping u
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think maybe a reverse interpretation might be more charitable - like it's too bad that there are many people who don't have access to that investment and opportunity due to their birth. Although my take is I disagree with both p
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by vivekd 3y ago
Maybe there are other factors besides just money. Like the fact that wealthy parents can afford invest more time into their kids, they have less financial stress so can focus more on parenting. Also having a successful person literally rai
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by vivekd 3y ago
I mean isn't automating important decisions line insurance claims or life and death decisions a beneficial thing. Sure the tech isn't ready yet but I think even now AI with a human overlooking it who has the power to override the
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by vivekd 3y ago
You're getting downvotes but what you say follows logically, we all suffer to some extent, we all die at some point. The distinction between maid eligible cases and ineligible cases seems arbitrary to me.
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by vivekd 3y ago
He wrote an autobiography - he was a young man who was a communist because he believed in scientific materialism. He later recanted after some of his friends were shot and killed by the police. Popper said he noticed that scientific materi
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by vivekd 3y ago
I don't feel like you really need scrolling on a terminal, just pipe to less or cat output to a file. It seems weird to me that people are going through large data sets on the terminal alone It seems to me like base st is enough for pr
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by vivekd 3y ago
He thought it was untestable because it was based on a series unique one time unrepeatable events in the distant past. Parts of the theory like Mendelian genetics are testable but on the whole... Evolution happens so slowly that we can&#x27
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by vivekd 3y ago
Fyerabend is the top dog right now I wouldn't recommend investing too much in him, he basically thinks there is no demarcation and Voodoo and Einstein are equally valid. I accept Quine who I admit isn't much better, he thinks it&#
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by vivekd 3y ago
sure, but I mean, it's pretty hard to call flat earthers or proponents of voodo unscientific if we have to admit that we haven't solved the demarcation problem. Also more importantly for Popper, he wanted to oppose communists&#x2
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by vivekd 3y ago
Popper did have the idea of combating communism's claim of being a science or scientific materialism. And that's a pretty noble goal in my mind. His heart was in the right place. I don't think Popper was going for that sof
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by vivekd 3y ago
and you hit one of the main objections to the theory of falsifiability as the criterion of science. There are also other more serious ones, like the obvious fact that actual science does't seem to actually work this way. The idea is
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by vivekd 3y ago
This is correct, Falsifiability was origionally concieved of by Karl Popper. I would also add, that while Popper had the best of intentions and good ideas in creating falsifiability theory, it is not generally accepted today by people who
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by vivekd 3y ago
I would like this but I don't know how much of a demand there is in the popular market. Eg. There's windows ltsc available but people aren't exactly clamouring over it. Stuff like debian has a limited user base. I think tech
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by vivekd 3y ago
I don't want to touch on what I see as a futile debate about whether people are generally better or worse now. However I do feel the need to point out that there are currently more slaves in the world than at any other time in history.
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by vivekd 3y ago
I know asking for funding to do research on getting girls is probably going to be a no go. But I feel like it's necessary. It's something a lot of people think is important and bad actors like pick up artists and others with var
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by vivekd 3y ago
Women do tend to make that claim in social circumstances but to be fair it's a pretty flattering self portrait. Could these women be exaggerating to make themselves look hot and unobtainable and the women who fail be keeping quiet. I
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by vivekd 3y ago
I hear this claim alot on social media but is there any solid research backing this up? I want to propose a different hypothesis - men and women lie differently. Men are more likely to say they got no matches on a dating site and complain
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by vivekd 3y ago
You would think so, but I work in construction and I can confirm that finding a skilled builder is just as hard as finding a skilled coder. Probably more so because coders seem more intent on lifelong learning whereas construction types te
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by vivekd 3y ago
I guess it's good for small businesses trying to distinguish themselves. But it seems like giving a shit doesn't really scale. It seems like at some point in growth all companies attract a critical number who don't really ca
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by vivekd 3y ago
I'm glad you caught that because as a Catholic this has been a source of tremendous annoyance to me - the pope must be one of the most misquoted people in the modern era. So much so that I routinely just ignore "pope says" t
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by vivekd 3y ago
Did you get the idea they were maximalists, the article seemed to restrict itself to talking about political speech which I understand is supposed to have the highest levels of constitutional protections because it seems obviously important
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by vivekd 3y ago
I choose to censor myself all the time out of consideration. My issue is when the law mandates and controls political speech If you are American you are safe because political speech has a high level of protection in the US. If like me you
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by vivekd 3y ago
The article complains about misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and other ill-defined terms being used to censor speech. The opposition to this and the indifference of the population generally suggests the age of free speech is over. These c
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by vivekd 3y ago
Maybe the solution here is just what the parent suggested a disclaimer - a small message saying this was translated by an Ai, may not be 100% accurate - just so people are aware. Not for liability but just to make people aware
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by vivekd 3y ago
Does anyone know how likely we are to actually get to 800 ppm ? Would that require doubling our CO2 output or would our current levels of CO2 output get us there?
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by vivekd 3y ago
I think that's going to be the key here, how do you define "Canadian content" in terms of internet broadcast. Does this mean the government will be hand picking which content and producers count as Canadian? If standards ar
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by vivekd 4y ago
I upvoted this post because I the advice he gave about reading up on cognitive distortions and knowing what they are. This helped me alot, just being able to identify that I was thinking very negative things that were purely a mechanism of

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