banmeagaindan2

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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I believe they were planning to lose this election from the outset. Ten Presidents have failed to win a second term in 230 years.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
True - but most people never become scientists - not even amateurs - but there exists a flourishing industry of science books for people who are a bit science curious. Scott Alexander used to be a giant Hancock fan - anecdotal I know but he
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I'm a bit tired RhysU - so I might take back some of this later. We are - you can read the Golden Rule as an ideal to aspire to as you are doing. There is nothing wrong with that - as I mentioned I'm with the general thrust of the
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I don't support either person or party. Europe isn't more left wing than the United States. This is just a popular myth Americans tell themselves. It's just more - of everything because of a longer history. There's nothi
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
As the Wiki states - that Prussian monarchists, nobility, Roman Catholics were enemies of the Nazis is a fact. It doesn't fit into the ideals of Washington or Moscow during the 20th century - but it is still true. Family relations don&
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I tend to agree with that synopsis. The positions of the factions are switching on race and class - impossible to believe a century ago. I don't know how it fits into my model or anybody else's model. There are factors like social
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I don't want to snipe but sometimes it's irresistible. The Golden Rule should be abandoned as an ideal. It's a Christian ideal, it's a Western ideal - I support the general effort but I think we've made a mistake. I
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Is it really an extraordinary claim? In your own experience have you never settled for a poorer model of something, a lower resolution because you feel either you didn't have the cognitive resources to get there or you felt unmotivated
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Here is a example solution for the WebMD problem - I think it's about empowerment and tribalism - in positive senses of those words. In Japan there exists an institution called Ningen Dock. Almost nobody in the West has heard of it out
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I get where you're coming from but there is a general frustration out there about physics that a lot of nerds share. We need kicks as well as truth or the heart won't be in it. People invest a lot of energy into something if they
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Error report. I should have switched Environment to the Left, Culture to the Liberal faction. For the definition of Environment - it is used loosely but it is the physical facts of a location - climate, soil quality, material resources incl
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
So there are three factors that explain people. Biology, Culture, Environment. Right explains the world by Biology. The Left explains the world by Culture. The Liberals explain the wold by Environment. It is possible that you only need to s
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
You are mixing up the far right with the right-liberal part of the Liberal faction. We live in a chimeric system and it confuses nearly everybody in it. There are always two factions working against a third. I think political partisans are
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
And the internet classic The Animal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwSmCyL_c0
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
There exists an underclass in Ireland who have the same origin as the other Irish - but have many of the issues that exist in the African-American community. Live to about 50, developed a different dialect, very high crime rate - expected t
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
By few people I mean the conventional opinion in the middle class - to give credit where it is due HN is more likely to understand why these claims could be true. The wages of blue collar workers will be much higher than white collar worker
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
We've all been there - the article doesn't say if he got him so this is clickbait.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I love it. Tachikomas!
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Also infoglut.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Not well known Masterworks - all different all strange tales in different genres and stories well told. Our Fair City podcast The Lost Cat podcast. The Mabel podcast The SHWEP podcast The House of Sunshine podcast We're Alive podcast I
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Even Sparta had some democracy.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Pity, a worthy opposition for sparring. I wish the debate with Peter Thiel had worked out better - I think they were hamstrung by the format and something like the Uncommon Knowledge conversational style would have bought the best out.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
There was a window cleaner trapped in an elevator between floors who used a squeegee to stab the plaster and escape. When I last worked it out - he had about 7 minutes to escape the area of collapse. Intense when you're half way up a s
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Tesla and SpaceX are successful corporations - Elon has the ability to collect a selected group of very motivated nerds in a narrow area and then good things happen. There is a risk of charlatanism but I don't like to fault the result
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
May the force be with you.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Setting to one side my pet forum slide issue - there is a chance current events blow up into something worse so your responsibility is to think super hard about what is right if that happens. Obviously we butt heads in many ways - but good
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
dang needs to establish zero politics but won't do it.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I was set with a modifier of -50. On some days -150.
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
Can I pay for GIMP training?
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by banmeagaindan2 6y ago
I have mistaken your name - I thought to check but then doubted there were even two Simones involved in all of robotics but that was incorrect! I recommend you check the work of the other Simone out - it is delightful. https://ww

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