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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
> I think systemic injustice explains a large part of disparities but not all of them. I appreciate your statement of nuance, However, most letists behave as if systemic injustice is the primary cause, and the only cause worth dealing wi
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
Thanks for the info. Can you give an example of someone on the right mistaking a symbol for reality? I've seen, I believe, the opposite in play. I've seen, for instance, thinkers like Jordan Peterson and Jonathan Pageau argue the
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
> To the extent that any philosophy is that, it is Marxism I actually don't think that's the case at all. Post-modernism is far more prevalent today than Marxism and even more dangerous. > Postmodernism is explicitly and inh
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
> Centralized and diffused power are each vulnerable in their own ways. Of course that's true. But one of them is worse. > You'd generally expect people with more training to make better decisions than people with less train
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
> It's not what the Reason author claims it is. The article literally describes Scientific American as "the leading popular science magazine". What exactly did the author mis-claim? > It's OK for it to have a polit
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
https://freedompact.co.uk/podcast/128-dr-gad-saad-the-war-on... "Professor Saad’s latest book The Parasitic Mind: how infectious ideas are killing common sense takes a wonderful look at some of the ideas which are
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
You are comparing two different types of things: 1. Allocation profiler 2. Heap analyzer Allocation profilers will capture data about what is allocating memory over time. This can be captured in real time without interrupting the process an
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by PathOfEclipse 2y ago
My experience maintaining old codebases is that you are just as hard-pressed to find a justification to write code to use new language features, or even to take the time to upgrade the language and compiler version. Most often you just cont
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
Survivor's of the Soviet Union, North Korea, and Communist China are all echoing similar warnings about the direction America is heading towards. https://www.amazon.com/Live-Not-Lies-Christian-Dissidents/dp... ht
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
Yes, they are absolutely sending people to jail to set an example in support of woke orthodoxy. https://www.dailywire.com/news/anger-erupts-after-biden-doj-... https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
Well, here's your first link: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3... It says nothing remotely conclusive about 1), 2), or 3). It literally only says "Here's some hypoth
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> I highly doubt you read through the relevant bits and instead jumped to argue further: What do the relevant bits you cited have to do with you providing evidence that the research on long covid is high-quality or conclusive? I guess I
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> I don't care to further argue with you. If you can't be bothered to make a good argument, then why make one at all? Also, I want to know, what kind of religious world view leads people like yourself to make evidence-less stat
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
I like how you couldn't be bothered to provide a single citation or reference to back up anything you just said. If I wanted to learn how I am wrong, you certainly failed to deliver. > Over 400 long covid publications a month for th
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
Thanks for pointing me to that comment so I could upvote it. His comment is not accurate in that there are plenty of theories, but the general idea behind the claim is far more accurate than what probably many that frequent HN believe about
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
I'm continually amazed how much people fall for language manipulation."Hate speech" is almost always speech the powerful want silenced. And, what kind of speech do the powerful censor? * The truth whenever it is inconvenient
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
I believe capitalism is the best economic system we've invented and likely will invent, but, you give it too much credit. American capitalism has worked largely because it was underpinned by a foundation of Christian morality. With tha
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> It's a sweeping take to say that everything Chomsky has said is wrong or immoral. A statement can be both sweeping and largely true. We need to stop giving academics undeserved moral authority. Chomsky is a prime example of someon
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
Seriously, what's the difference between what OP wrote: " [Cochrane] found there was no reliable evidence that masks worked against COVID/" And the editorial: "the review examined whether interventions to promote ma
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
The real lesson to be learned is to always assume your PoC will, if successful, get shipped to production pretty much as-is!
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> The Supreme Court can I guess try to go case-by-case banning metrics. This stupid whack-a-mole game will look pathetic on their part and burn up whatever tiny bit of institutional legitimacy they have left, but at least they’ll probabl
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> I think allowing legacy while also promoting lower class students is OK. Why are you thinking in terms of class? Class-based conflict was the center of original Marxism. Then the 20th century Marxists, realizing that it wasn't wo
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> And then I think: you can't just stop doing a bad thing and pretend it didn't happen. You've got to try to make things right. Who did the bad thing, and who is going to make it right, and how? > Have things been made
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> and wrote the first human right cylinder. This interpretation of the Cyrus Cylinder is highly contested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_Cylinder From Wikpedia: The interpretation of the Cylinder as a "cha
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> but it does have an ethical obligation to prevent anti-abortion centers from using Google services to trick young women into a lifetime of difficulty and poverty by misrepresenting themselves as medical providers. "Ethical"
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
https://www.leefang.com/p/msnbcs-mehdi-hasan-gets-basic-fact... Maybe you're actually the one falling prey to false information, and harming others by spreading it. From the article: The Taibbi-Hasan debate speaks
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
It's literally not a theocracy /in practice/. You don't get to redefine words to mean whatever you feel like. A theocracy is not a state that has some laws that correspond to one religion's moral code. It has never
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> people in high positions within the LDS Church often go into state and local politics and elect Yep. That's called a democracy, or a Republic, depending on which word you prefer. It's literally nothing like a Theocracy, in p
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> Theocracies can be elected. No, they can't, at least not by a general citizenship against a general pool of candidates. The Vatican's citizens don't get to elect the pope, and among those few who do vote, they can't
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by PathOfEclipse 3y ago
> is effectively a theocracy operated by an ultra-conservative religious minority. You should look up what the word theocracy means. Here. I'll do it for you: "a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or

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