maus42

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by maus42 8y ago
>* Freezing meat twice and eating it will make you sick Uh, every frozen meal I have ever seen has come with the printed warning not to freeze it again after it has melted? Freezing does not kill microbes, and additionally formation of i
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by maus42 8y ago
This piece of information just amplified my depression when I learned about it, because of past not-income-optimized life decisions (okay, probably even more because of limited abilities and capabilities), I know know for sure that with a h
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by maus42 9y ago
Giving it another name ("homophobia", "insecure about their own sexuality") does not make the issue go away for the people who suffer from it. You don't magically grow more confident about your sexuality (or your wh
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by maus42 9y ago
HN crowd is a quite special case. Elsewhere in the world, FB is assumed as to be the standard. My romantic life has been very disappointing, so some time ago I tried creating a Tinder account (it is the only dating [yes you read it right, d
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by maus42 9y ago
>Stop moralizing the behavior of companies. They aren't humans. That is true. Companies, however, consist of humans. Make the people making the decisions to be held responsible for those decisions.
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by maus42 9y ago
>Yet somehow many of us approve when the victims are wealthy and higher status Of course we do. What does, exactly, the level of wealth and status we are talking about entail? Owners and executives of a large multinational firm can wield
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by maus42 9y ago
One fascinating question is which country should be responsible for nationalizing them. According to the Snowden leaks, the US government is already more than happy to cooperate with FB and Google and alike to spy on non-US citizens; hand
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by maus42 9y ago
>A corporation is a moral agent I otherwise agree, but I don't know if Apple is a moral agent - that discussion will into quite complex philosophical issues. But certainly each individual person making decisions at Apple is a moral
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by maus42 9y ago
>I find it fundamentally strange that we expect our corporate overlords to do anything other than maximize their profits. There is difference between what we can realistically expect people to do (often, not much, and even after accoun
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by maus42 9y ago
As many others commented elsewhere, moral relativism is not very robust ethical system in a global community. If you ever have kids, why would you teach them some morals over others? Would you teach that some moral standard (pick any! say,
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by maus42 9y ago
Sure, if you are an US citizen, you can argue that it should be US government's job to represent your ideals in the wider world. But your government is not the only party responsible for representing your moral or political positions
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by maus42 9y ago
I thought "watching" anything (or even having a Netflix subscription in the first place) wasn't obligatory part of the activity "Netflix and chill".
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by maus42 9y ago
On the contrary, the culture and the society very much influences how various mental issues develop and manifest and how they are interpreted. You can't explain writing emails impersonating someone simply as result of "chemical
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by maus42 9y ago
>The guy is an active stalker. Let's stop making excuses for horrible behavior. He's not "confused". He's malicious. He's threatening. He's trying to destroy her livelihood. I did not read the root comm
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by maus42 9y ago
>You can do this fairly inexpensively via sites like https://www.indochino.com/ . Are there similar shops but EU-based?
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by maus42 9y ago
Some things I consider quite glaringly fake / unrealistic. The maps that show the progress of the invasion in the Eastern Europe: the area taken by the advancing Russian army is shown with just a bit too much precision. This is suppose
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by maus42 9y ago
But how do you start without the first set of friends and, so to speak, the base case of the induction fails?
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by maus42 9y ago
10 pages a week might be fine and well in a mathematics course and related fields, as it's a field famously characterized by it's use of a concise notation. You can state lots of things in a 10 pages. You can spend several hours
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by maus42 9y ago
Not much. Probably not. I don't know the particular instance because I don't follow US Twitter politics that closely. First time I heard about M. Y. was when he has blocked from giving speech at some college campus. However, as a
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by maus42 10y ago
I'm fine with buying a service for conveniently listening to music by a list of artists I like. If Spotify goes bust, it's not like that music disappears: it will be available on other services (and in theory as traditional record
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by maus42 10y ago
I think it's remarkable that a recording of Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode [1] printed on gold is on its way towards Gliese 445 [2]. [1] http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/music.html?linkId=356... [2] htt
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by maus42 10y ago
>That seems pretty cyberpunk to me. The problem is that it does not rain all the time and the ads are not in Japanese. The visual direction is simply off. Also the soundtrack leaves much to be desired. (Instead of Vangelis and Kenji Kawa
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by maus42 10y ago
While the article is interesting, I think some of the more curious part of HN crowd might find it also worthwhile to look at the actual dataset available here: http://www.gss.norc.org/ . Looking at the codebook, some of the
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by maus42 10y ago
1. Averages don't work that way. 2. Congratulations, you might not be as representative sample of the population as you thought! This is one reason why advocate visualizing the whole distribution into a some kind of graph whenever poss
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by maus42 10y ago
I'm pretty sure I have a Nokia 3310 in one cupboard or another, maybe I'll dig it out and swap my SIM to it...
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by maus42 10y ago
That happens in statistics programs. However, I have a ML-heavy minor in CS, and based on the ML course contents at our CS dept I've seen, I'm not sure if the all their CS majors go through the the full canonical statistics curric
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by maus42 10y ago
I was confused about your use of the word "nation in the modern Western sense" first there. It used to mean more or less same thing in the West, especially in Europe. Of course the construction of nation-states and their borders i
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by maus42 10y ago
Musk announced couple of days ago a plan to send tourists on a sightseeing trip around Moon. And not as some hypothetical plan, but in a sense that the said tourists have bought the tickets. Now, with their track record it looks like it&#x
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by maus42 10y ago
Yes, we also can say in English stuff like "Uncle Joe is slave to alcohol". Here we are discussing slavery as a concept, which is different.
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by maus42 10y ago
I have written now a quite many comments on this subject in various subthreads on this post, I'll try to summarize my position here ... I'd rather say that the word "slavery" has been used for certain forms of involuntar

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