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by 1457389 8y ago
Your witty little strawmen with snappy names aren't helping your argument...
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by 1457389 8y ago
By all means dislike away, it's all about the qualia after all.
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by 1457389 8y ago
I'm glad you made this comment, it really illustrates the thesis of the essay Let's start with the line I find most telling: >...a person who has written something they feel passionate about and that reflects their personal exp
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by 1457389 9y ago
They don't need much more incentive to arrogate power; I don't think there is much hope in changing that calculus. >Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of cryptography.
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by 1457389 9y ago
You can try and tax your way to culture shifts but since we aren't all Homo economicus it is often not as effective as directly appealing to morality and individual responsibility.
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by 1457389 9y ago
In Which Eastendguy Obfuscates the Much Stronger Nature of the Link Between Profligate Western Meat Consumption Patterns and Climate Change
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by 1457389 9y ago
I didn't downvote you. Here's a vote for consensus.
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by 1457389 9y ago
Non sequitur. It means the reasons given by GP for him being a bad fit are flawed.
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by 1457389 9y ago
No he stated his moral position (that torture is wrong) first, and then at the end of his answer appended "and of course it is ineffective, but that is another story". Maybe listen/read to his full response first?
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by 1457389 9y ago
Yeah, he seems like a great example of someone who bows to the populace and political climate based on his track record...
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by 1457389 9y ago
No. Like I said, he literally stated word for word that torture is both morally wrong in his eyes and ineffective, not to mention illegal. Paraphrasing here but I think his definition was along the lines of "anything that purposefully
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by 1457389 9y ago
>He'd quite likely prefer that the FBI be legally allowed to torture suspects if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information. To law enforcement, the rights of a suspect are a barrier to many convictions
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by 1457389 10y ago
> I mean I eat animals. I can't put myself on some high horse. At some point we make them to use so there is a balancing act going on Well I must say it is rare to see someone sliding down their own slippery slope, bravo.
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by 1457389 10y ago
Sadness is also linked to creativity: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2015/08/27/happy-sadne... Bunch of stuff out there to support it, anecdotally I would agree. If you're too happy why
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by 1457389 10y ago
You don't need the NSA to calculate that a couple million in donations (with added free publicity) is worth a shot at multi-billion-dollar public sector systems integration and analytics projects.
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by 1457389 10y ago
I'm sorry but dozens, maybe hundreds of other questions were more deserving - this ama is about sending a rocket to mars not about their IT stack... We are all a bit scarred after the IAC debacle, perhaps that explains the downvotes.
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by 1457389 10y ago
Zubrin thinks we can get to Mars with current tech. He has thought that for decades, and his outreach efforts was one of the things that inspired Musk in the first place. He disagrees with the timespan for colonization, yes, but his post he
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by 1457389 10y ago
Totally fair to be skeptical; not very impressive though unless you have detailed cause. Not quite as fair, or impressive to make comments like these with no effort or backing: >Glass domes and underground Martian tunnels make for some v
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by 1457389 10y ago
I don't think you have looked very hard then. Here's Zubrin on the topic: >However, we already have data that shows that the accumulation of slow rates of cosmic ray radiation received during long duration spaceflight is not a
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by 1457389 10y ago
I am so glad /r/spacex had the chance to host the AMA. Even this thread shows a pretty depressing lack of understanding (so far) of what Elon has claimed and what SpaceX has actually demonstrated. A bunch of tilting at windmills,
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by 1457389 10y ago
Nice binary logic there. It's an attack vector therefore it can't be a solution to customer problems. The issues here are orthogonal.
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by 1457389 10y ago
Markov chains are bad at understanding context, and so is the GP. This post is about village women's rights in India, how did we get a thread several comments deep about the rights of wealthy white men? Oh right, we are on HN I forgot.
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by 1457389 10y ago
Umm, are you an MRM markov chain?
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by 1457389 10y ago
Meyers Briggs is meant to be descriptive, but the preponderance of evidence shows that it is not, at all. In the corporate world discussion of MBTI very quickly becomes idiotically prescriptive. In my line if I see someone discuss MBTI with
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by 1457389 10y ago
I would say you are a little too excited about the drama and morality of a statistical process, and it's occluding your understanding of what's actually going on.
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by 1457389 10y ago
Thanks!
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by 1457389 10y ago
Thanks, I've started on a couple MOOCs but the ones that sound interesting end up being over my head,
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by 1457389 10y ago
Thank you!
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by 1457389 10y ago
I'm in this category. I guess my excuse is that I did Bio instead. What's the best way to get up to speed without having to go back to school? I stopped at linear algebra in undergrad but I probably need to refresh that as well. W
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by 1457389 10y ago
Agreed, if there was a way to grow them on synthetic media then we can do away with just about all of the negative externalities of livestock farming.

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