Exofunctor

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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Are you familiar with https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict... ? This is a good example of how relatively small populations can have huge cultural effects. Another example is how migrants from Is
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
No, which is exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. "Free movement", to me , means that you are free to travel wherever you'd like on your own dime. It doesn't mean that you get to show up somewhere and deman
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
I am, by most metrics, an ardent globalist; I advocate absolute free trade and absolute free movement. However, it's not very hard to recognize that many people's definition of globalism effectively includes such things as forced
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
I can't imagine how people have such an incorrect view of how insurance works. No, car insurance is not you subsidizing other people. Car insurance is you paying in proportion to your own estimated risk . That means if your expected c
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
While I think health insurance shouldn't be attached to employers, I don't really have an objection to insurance companies using genetic testing. This is certainly an unpopular opinion here, but as someone who believes that medic
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Many would argue that IP itself is inherently anti-capitalistic, because it imposes artificial scarcity where it would not otherwise exist and, relatedly, because IP "theft" doesn't actually deprive the "victim" of
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
I recommend that everyone use an extended-length PIN for your phone. Both Android and iPhone support it. Mine is 12 digits; a bit of extra time, but vastly more difficult to brute-force or shoulder-surf.
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Being more confident than average is not the same thing as being overconfident.
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
You realize there's actually a severe gender imbalance in who chooses to go into STEM fields in college, right? Privige has nothing to do with it; for whatever reasons, women don't actually want to study tech fields. I actually
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
This approach may work (I say "may" because most of the time it's not actually backed up by hard evidence free of confounding variables), but it's also lazy; there are vastly more accurate predictors of a priori success
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
It's interesting that in certain subcultures, including a large portion of the tech community, things that are non-racial are now considered racist. Not only do you have to be "racially aware", as they say, but you have to be
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
The ADA is an example of a regulation that's entirely well-intentioned, but has tremendous second-order costs to society that very plausibly outweigh any benefit it's ever provided. Hopefully this serves as a lesson. Next time we
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Stating that Germany only exists for the sake of Israel is controversial, however. (At least, I hope it is! I hope most Germans have enough self-interest to dislike the idea of being a vassal state.)
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> Claiming that European politicians give a shit (his words) about their citizens is not 'criticizing' anything. It's just hate speech against politicians This is probably the strongest invocation of Poe's law I'
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
The whole "if you support Europe in any respect, you must be a white supremacist" meme is one of the most inane things I've heard in a long time. Europe isn't all white, and hundreds of millions of white people aren&#x27
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Burg's comments put Schultz's ability to support pro-Israeli policies at risk; if he's known to be an ardent supporter of Israel for ideological reasons (to the exclusion of concern for Germany), people will be more critical
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Maybe it could have, but it wasn't. Have you tried analyzing my arguments instead of just recognizing that it sort of reminds you of something you disagree with?
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Yes, you're right; European politics has fallen victim to ridiculous notions of ancestral guilt. Is it any wonder that people who had no involvement in something that happened hundreds of years ago are unhappy that they're being p
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
So what you're saying is that a direct claim from a high-ranking Israeli politician about a conversation he had, with no apparent benefit to lying about its contents, is not enough? > right-wing groups Haaretz, a liberal Israeli new
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> Turkish immigrants we already had. That's not a very high standard. You haven't refuted my point, just said "well, they're not the absolute worst". > Which means you have no idea whats going on. You would do
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
IOM and UNHCR estimated 1 million refugees back in December 2015. More since then. > This is aggressive against millions of people. Not sure how. You can describe it however you like, but that won't change the fact that it's tr
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
What are you implying? That I need to live in the EU to have knowledge of EU politics?
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
I'm not right-wing by any stretch of the imagination (pretty hard left, actually), so the fact that instead of actually thinking about my arguments you just slap a label on them and dismiss them out of hand should disturb you. Perhaps
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> Most people in Europe are not dumb enough to fall for your nonsense. Feel free to actually try to refute anything I said. > It isn't. It is according to Avraham Burg, and I'm not sure there is anyone more qualified to mak
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> What is driving this change? AFAICT there are no major issues that should have caused this. I honestly can't imagine how you could avoid exposure to any of the incredible amount of discontent in Europe right now. European leaders
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi... (no Syria data) http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/Get/40ebdf12-8960-4d18...
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
> What do you base this belief on? Any sources to any studies? http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi... You should think very carefully about why you had an incorrect model of these
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Pew research does per-country religious belief surveys. I think you will find it very enlightening to look up the religious beliefs of the average Syrian.
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Pointing out that religious fundamentalists don't integrate well is not a good example of "bias".
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by Exofunctor 10y ago
Clients mostly find me. I'm honestly not sure how to optimize for that, it's usually pretty random. I guess for those clients I do seek out, they'll post about wanting developers in forums or mailing lists or whatever.

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