bitdizzy

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by bitdizzy 6y ago
What do you mean by tribalism? What is inconsistent about thinking hate speech should be deplatformed and porn shouldn't be? Or vice versa? It seems to me like you're implying that the only reasonable and honest principle of free
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
JoJo has been a hit manga series since the 80's
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
They can be not ok and you just deal with it. The presence of conflict and cognitive dissonance isnt doublethink. Most of Orwell is misunderstood in an aesthetic or superficial way unfortunately.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
No one is barred from reading these books.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
So you singled out this person by using a different speech pattern than you would normally use so that you wouldn't have to accommodate a request to use a different set of pronouns in your normal speech while referring to that person?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
How do you define doublethink?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Yes.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Do you have an axe to grind?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Facebook hires low quality engineers.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
All pronouns are made up.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> He's routinely called a transphobe. Because he routinely harasses other trans people and has a coterie of cis people chomping at the bit to bully trans kids he retweets and mocks. He's not called that for the quote you chose.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
All words are made up and no one is going to fine you or jail you for being a jerk.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
"This professor is in charge of the team/ that tells us whether the song is racist or not? His Twitter account is filled with race baiting and cry baby [Black Lives Matter] junk," the caption below the photo read. "UT be
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
This is completely off topic but are you aware that governments are parts of economic systems and there are kinds of governing closely associated with capitalism as a whole?
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Brev I think they'd make an exception for an alien baby found in an escape pod.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Yes.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I dont think it will ever be worth reading a Bari Weiss piece.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Garbage in garbage out applies to markets too.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Anyone who tells you history is shaped by the opinions of scholars is ill informed on the mechanisms of the world. What is true is that political forces will rationalize the actions they take for their material interests by finding a conven
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
You're not left wing. You're a liberal.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
These are the ideals of capitalism in the same way that the ideals of European feudalism are those of upholding the natural order of things as mandated by God.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
The media helped the Bush administration manufacture consent for the second gulf war. The infamous lies peddled on every major news channel and newspaper are recorded for all time. Parenti wrote Inventing Reality and Chomsky wrote Manufactu
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
A minor point on the history: the term intensional had been in use decades prior as counterpart of extensional ot denotational. What Carnap did was give those terms a technical foundation in model theoretic language.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
> But in science fields, authors names don't really matter. The same outcome will exist regardless who is studying it. I'm curious, how much experience do you have in scientific academia? Names matter a great deal in my experie
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
State of the art chip fabs require some of the most advanced technology we've developed, the purest materials we can produce, and the most stringent environments we can maintain.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
This generalizes to convolution in an arbitrary group (and even groupoid, and even category), not necessarily one that is commutative like the reals or integers are. For group convolution over a group G, the functions take values in the com
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
I would not consider the philosophy of those three writers to be the same philosophy.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
You might have AD(H)D. It is underdiagnosed in adults. CBT can help many cases by practicing focus and attentiveness.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
That's not what the OP was saying. The argument is if somebody can take Silver's model's predictions over time and produce a better next estimate than it, then Silver's model is incoherent about its own beliefs.
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by bitdizzy 6y ago
Taleb is seriously proficient at probability which can be judged from his technical publications.

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