asianthrowaway

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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
If this publication is false, its premise is true, which would mean the publication is true?
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I'm not sure to what extent the problem is due to economics and to what extent it's due to culture. I read recently that half of single men in Japan are virgins, which is quite staggering. Lots of Japanese people seem to have simp
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Thanks Trump?
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> I didn't say Africans and Europeans, I said black people and white people. Same thing > A black person from Africa and a black person from elsewhere are considered the same race because of their visual similarities, regardless
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> Two black people living in the same area, sharing the same cultural and ethnic identity, can differ more genetically than either with a white immigrant. I'm pretty sure that's false. What is true is that africans exhibit a gr
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
What do you mean by racism? Discriminating against people based on their race? I think the reason we've forced ourselves not to be racist is because it's morally wrong.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
All dog breeds are part of the same species, and dog breeds are fundamentally a social construct. Does this mean that we need to stop categorizing dogs into breeds? I find it hard to understand how some people still cling to 1960s "the
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
From those I remembered to log on goodreads... 1) Art of Unix programming - amazing book, lots of "ah-ha" moments. Enlightening is the word I suppose. 2) Mythical man month - very uneven. Some chapters are insightful, some are hop
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I'm surprised Bezos doesn't empathize more with the working class, especially given his own humble origins. In fact, I find it hard to discern his personality.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
So it seems that a good chunk of us got interested in computers and programming due to wobbly windows. I guess that's Compiz' main legacy, heh.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Maybe we could strike from home on slack
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
A good programmer plans ahead. Edit: of course it is up to individual judgement on a case by case basis, and there are instances were it is obvious that no other concrete implementation of an interface will be required. But otherwise, writi
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Why all the animosity towards "frat bros"? I worked in a "nerd only" environment before and I felt incredibly lonely. Nobody ever wanted to go out for drinks, nobody even talked during lunch.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Things are changing with PSD2 regulations. Banks in the EU starting in 2019 will have to provide open (and secure) APIs to third parties.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> what possible vocabulary do they have left for all the superhero films we now have in the cinema?! "excrement" comes to mind!
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
They're both well made, well paced, engaging movies. I especially liked inception due to its unique premise.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
The thing with movies like interstellar and inception is that they're ultimately action/romance movies set in a sci fi context. 2001 is the only movie that I know of which is exclusively about themes such as human evolution, alien
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I wonder if we'll ever see a sci fi movie as deep as 2001 again...
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Smoking weed is way better than getting drunk to enhance creativity (in my experience).
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I always wondered why Franco has such a bad rep. I'm not really knowledgeable about the Spanish civil war but it seems he prevented Spain from becoming a Stalinist totalitarian country, which is a good thing in my book. I mean no doubt
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Well, I heard it's rather... controversial, to say the least.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I'm still really unconvinced by this whole "Russians influenced the election" narrative. I doubt a few articles written in poor English about how Hillary runs pedophile sex rings would have had a greater influence on the elec
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Venezuela was (and still is) a democracy. I think people tend to conflate liberalism (in the classical sense), and democracy. You can have undemocratic liberal states (the Austro-Hungarian empire was a good example).
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Yeah, establishment journalists consistently provide accurate information, like the time they discovered that huge stockpile of WMDs in Irak.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I don't think he was disparaging his looks, but rather his social skills. It's undeniable that Zuckerberg is not really an extroverted social butterfly with good public speaking skills, which is kind of a requirement if you want t
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
Pot calling the kettle black.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
5 points have been deposited in your social credit account Edit: why did you censor yourself? At least own up to what you post.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I always wondered, why don't women get very harsh sentences if they get caught making up false rape allegations? I think that would discourage that sort of behavior and sort of balance things out.
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
I don't think you're very informed on the current state of IQ research (which is totally fine, not many people are, it's a very taboo subject). Perhaps you would gain from reading a bit on the subject (wikipedia has good arti
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by asianthrowaway 8y ago
> since the environmental factors that the poor tend to be more exposed to that lead to downward deviations from genetic potential have had significant impact before schooling starts (in many cases even in utero), It's true that adv

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