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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Which partly explains Wikipedia's political stance. I'm curious to hear what you think Wikipedia's political stance is?
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
If somebody talking about their disability triggers you into such a strong political reaction, then maybe consider the possibility that you have let your own identity politics take too much control over your life. > Also i have a distast
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
The license wasn't changed. But yes, generally you can make changes to MIT code that aren't released under the MIT license. > It's definitely the case that at a given snapshot of the repository which has copyrighted code o
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I'm just curious, is Microsoft actually in violation of the MIT license here? All future changes to this repo are copyright Microsoft, so Microsoft's copyright should be in the statement. Arguably there should be an additional sta
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Yes of course it's in dispute. It's so dominant a dispute in intelligence research that it's hard to imagine anyone being familiar with research on IQ and not knowing that it's in dispute. IQ tests are maybe ok at doing
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
This is a very well studied field, just do a Google search
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
It's not sufficient that a metric be objective. The student's astrological sign is objective. But it's not a useful measure of college readiness. Standardized test scores do very little to predict college success when control
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
It's usually not obvious where to put the seams ahead of time so you can cut them when you need to split into microservices. Plus keeping the API boundaries clean costs time and resources, and it's tempting to violate them just to
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I'm sorry I've hurt your feelings.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I'm sorry I've hurt your feelings.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> To be readable, usable. Go doesn't particularly value readability or usability. For example, the short variable name convention makes it harder to read code you're unfamiliar with, and there are a number of noticeable usabili
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Haha, no problem. I do that a lot too :)
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
You can't shoot someone in the US for swinging something at your head. Otherwise all bar fights would end in gun violence like in a cheesy Western film.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> nobody except the sender, the receiver and the service provider can read the messages E2EE means the service provider cannot read the messages. Only the sender and receiver can.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> If people are willing to pay money for a service, that service is by definition valuable. This is only true if you define "value" to mean "people are willing to pay money for it." But that's a useless and circ
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
From the context, I think they were talking about discovery, not whether the books are available for purchase on Amazon. Personally I don't think I've ever become aware of an interesting book via Amazon, but I've also never u
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Ha sorry, I just realized you must have meant Watergate. I misread your original comment as saying it was about the current sitting president.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> We've already seen a sitting US president hire intelligence agents to bug his enemies and political rivals, Do you have a source for this claim?
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Essentially the government has built a surveillance state by outsourcing it to private enterprise. Well, yes, that's essentially the whole point of silicon valley. The government and military fund the creation of startups that hav
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> The endless virtue signalling is so tiresome. And yet you felt the need to signal your tribe while trying to shut down someone's speech.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Is it possible that you're autistic? There are lots of online tests you can take. If so, it would explain why you have a hard time finding people to connect with. If you are, then you'll probably get along best with other autistic
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
The word "happiness" refers both to the temporary emotion and a long-term state of being satisfied with your life. Nowadays the long term state is often called "life satisfaction" in research. Someone in a gulag would ha
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Yes, that's true. If you project down to a linear relationship, more IQ is associated with more income. Most of the data you see on that stop around an IQ of 125, which is about the average IQ of a PhD in the US. But there's also
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
I find this to be an odd essay. It's trivially easy to come up with new ideas. Just take any existing idea and perturb in a random direction. With high probability it will be new. Drugs and some mental disorders make it very easy to do
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> Being even a little clever—and that's the best I can claim—is living life on easy mode That is probably true about being a little clever, but being really smart is not easy in the general case. Really smart people often share few
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> the reason they were so much brighter was (in part) exactly because of what made them initially seem dim The causality also goes the other way. Very smart people see their limitations more clearly and so tend to be humbler about what t
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
There is an element of truth to this, but they are easier to use than explain. Part of the hardness comes from people wanting to use monads as an entry point to category theory.
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
Ah okay, that makes sense then. Sorry about my confusion. I don't know the motives of the original poster. Since the article was about how the top 10% own ~ 90% of the stock, I assumed the relevance of the income tax figure was that it
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> If you’re claiming people who are in alignment with official tax government policy (again in the spirit not just the letter of the law) are free riders, then we are back to who should assume the responsibility for paying. As stated in
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by SquishyPanda23 5y ago
> we are talking about who assumes responsibility for paying for the benefits of society/governance This has essentially already been decided. The topic is tax avoidance, which I compared to skipping out on a bill that ought to be p

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