alexithym

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by alexithym 6y ago
> I know I should be paying attention to the meat of the matter Yes, maybe you should :P
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by alexithym 6y ago
No, you're not the only one who feels that way
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by alexithym 6y ago
The 737 isn't really designed to fly longer international routes - it's mostly used for domestic short haul flights. However, the international market is absolutely gigantic, especially the Asian one, and not being able to fly 737
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by alexithym 6y ago
Well, Trump is the President. On the list of people worth fact checking, he's probably at the top. Also, they are fact checking other people - for example, they've fact checked Chinese politicians tweeting propaganda about COVID
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by alexithym 7y ago
This was an unnecessarily aggressive comment, and the tone with which it was made detracts greatly from the intended message.
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by alexithym 7y ago
I agree that people could benefit from an understanding of both, but I'm finding it hard to see how the actual body of scientific work could be improved by incorporating religion in any way.
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by alexithym 7y ago
I didn't restate my position - I made the observation that the human practice of science falls short of being devoid of dogmatism, but that that doesn't make science itself dogmatic. I never made the claim that religion is more do
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by alexithym 7y ago
Because we are human, science in practice will always fall short of perfect adherence of the scientific method. However, the fact remains that the two are fundamentally different, because one is existentially founded on dogma, and the other
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by alexithym 7y ago
It's incorrect to compare science to religion. In science, there are no facts that are presented as being undeniably true. Rather, all scientific facts can be independently derived and understood to be true by any person. This emphasis
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by alexithym 7y ago
"CodeGuru’s machine learning models are trained on Amazon’s code bases comprising hundreds of thousands of internal projects, as well as over 10,000 open source projects in GitHub" - from the article.
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by alexithym 7y ago
I'd like to believe that this was a culture failure isolated to a single fulfillment center, but that seems like a convenient way to absolve Amazon of guilt. At the end of the day, it's Amazon's responsibility to enforce a sa
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by alexithym 7y ago
This is much less irrelevant to HN's core purpose than the plethora of other random articles that can be found at any given time. Personally, I fail to see how the article was inflammatory. The author clearly took pains to avoid demoni
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by alexithym 7y ago
> If you don't push the line on consent you have nothing to worry about. The issue with this position is that it assumes a defined line of consent which is generally shared by both parties. However, one of the main theses of the art