jmfayard

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by jmfayard 4y ago
> And who gets to decide who gets none? For example you look at the history and look whether something was more helpful than harmful (eg: fascist propaganda) or you look at the science and look whether something is a real theory or barel
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Very few issues have both sides. Booleans yes, they have exactly two equally valid values. Coins also have both sides. But most issues are neither coins nor booleans.
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Yep, assuming there are two equally valid positions for everything, because they have a two-party system, so there must be for every topic a GOP side and a Democrat side. Never mind that both parties have often similar bad policies on any t
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by jmfayard 4y ago
> Objectivity means 5 minutes for the Jews and 5 minutes for Hitler Jean Luc Godard thought he was making fun of idiots when he wrote that in an unrelated context, but he was actually describing a mainstream US dogma. There is no reason
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by jmfayard 4y ago
$24 is the cost of knowledge, but what is the cost of ignorance?
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Apparently you are really curious about getting to the bottom of this so I did my research. For me it's a vague intuition. But women are much better are recognizing "men talk" than I am. So I asked one woman how she does it a
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by jmfayard 4y ago
The spirit of capitalism comes from the US and has a religious background. Nowadays, many countries have a strong US cultural influence, no shit. I wish I was smart enough to make this up, but it all comes from this very famous book which s
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by jmfayard 4y ago
I like coffee a lot, so when Colombia comes up, coffee is the first thing that crosses my mind. I understand that everyone consume different things :P
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by jmfayard 4y ago
For women online in particular I'm pretty sure lots of them would rather enjoy less attention on them personally. Too much it not pleasant for _them_. I'm thinking in particular about friends who are content creators, minding her
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by jmfayard 4y ago
I can't do that in general. Certain attitudes OTOH are heavily gendered, like the psychology behind internet trolls who at the simplest level is that they want everyone's attention to orbit around them.
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by jmfayard 4y ago
On websites where it's anonymous I infer that from what I have seen since 25 years on websites where it's not, and from attitudes people have IRL.
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by jmfayard 4y ago
I have seen 25 years of internet trolling and this kind of attitude is gendered yes. Not in a binary way but in a bimodal one. I could have avoided the point because it's obvious though. I don't hate men because as you found out I
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Hilarious view of what is going on behind the scenes, thanks!
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Gender Content bias is a systemic thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_bias_on_Wikipedia
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Jean-Paul Sartre is shown as the most famous people born in Colombia I think Simon Bolivar or Shakira or Gabriel Garcia Marquez or many others have a better claim to the title Especially since Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris What's
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Those are polar opposites. A button for 'disagree strongly' should upvote a comment. When Einstein and Niels Bohr 'strongly disagree' on quantum physics in 1927, they start a debate that makes both of them more enlighten
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by jmfayard 4y ago
The article could also have been called > UK financial industry is huge Which I guess would not have surprised or interested as much people. Now before the financial crisis, we were already told that the financial sector was oversized be
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by jmfayard 4y ago
"My source is that I made it up"
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by jmfayard 4y ago
I have lived in France and Germany and 95+% of the articles I have seen that follow this exact pattern to use as selling argument for $SomeTechnique$ the exact number of millions or billions someone made using $SomeTechnique$ were from the
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Sounds like a U.S. thing too. Worshipping of rich people, who must be rich because they are virtuous (Weber) therefore if you copy their habits you can be virtuous too, become rich and go to paradise. On my way to make 9 babies in order to
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by jmfayard 4y ago
It will happen the day after Kamala Harris (or another democrat) wins the presidential election despite loosing the popular vote. Most GOP states will then instantly forget their principled support for the electoral college and join the Nat
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by jmfayard 4y ago
It's not even hypocrisy, they believe there are not bad things but only bad people doing it. Like in the Harry Potter book where slavery is not bad per se, only when done by bad people. If Harry Potter owns a slave that's fine bec
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by jmfayard 4y ago
The US government is a foreign government for 96% of the people, not to mention that its own citizens don't control it much.
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Understandable but funny that US Americans start to care about data regulation only once the Chinese government is involved. Asking the stores to remove one app won't do it though, time to adopt EU-like regulations.
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by jmfayard 4y ago
The Bible uses PI = 3 and that's good enough for me > And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round abou
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by jmfayard 4y ago
Those experts don't understand the absolute free speech principles that Elon Musk cherishes
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by jmfayard 7y ago
People always make fun of the little girl who wants to become the next Madonna. So totally unrealistic right? And then they read startup porn and copy Elon Musk habits to become as insanely successful as him. Or at least as Peter Thiel. I&
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by jmfayard 7y ago
So Paul Graham has just developped the perfect classifier "A Plan For Haters And Fanboys". I will try to apply to it to myself --- Well I am clearly an hater, because I think that Paul Graham says a lot of stupid shit on subjects
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by jmfayard 7y ago
It's not a free market. Apple has a monopoly on Mac OS alas. Most people don't change their operating system and habits just like that.
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by jmfayard 7y ago
Not directly what you ask, but "Terms of Service didn't read" is great https://tosdr.org/#

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