mrjangles

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by mrjangles 4y ago
This is often measured by researchers. It is called a "cost of living" calculation, and every one of these that I have seen indicates that this isn't the case.
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by mrjangles 4y ago
>how modern work for a lot of jobs has become de facto indentured servitude...The average worker can't afford anything without taking on debt. For people from other countries wondering about the veracity of these claims, let's
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by mrjangles 4y ago
I couldn't agree more and I think the road the right takes with "free speech" is purely emotional and makes no sense. What makes HN great isn't that there is free speech, it is that everyone is treated equally . The ru
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Well first, Twitter literally banned the President of the United States while allowing ISIS and other terrorist groups to have free reign. All this tells me is that one of your friend groups is perfectly happy lying to themselves about wha
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Bad example because the only reason the communist dictatorship in North Korea still exists is that they are propped up by China, and the only reason Chinese dictatorship exists is because they are propped up by the West.
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by mrjangles 4y ago
This is historically accurate, sure, but from what I have seen the current ruling class in the West has used this as a cheap excuse at best. It certainly seems to me that they have simply been selling our cultural and technological heritag
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by mrjangles 4y ago
>Yanukovych decided to flee on his own What on earth does that even mean? If you watch the videos the entire city was on fire and the "peaceful protestors" were firing rocket propelled grenades at the police force. And the Dem
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by mrjangles 4y ago
I'm not religious so I don't feel old growth forest have any sort of spiritual value.
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Two things: 1) An all powerful state is the logical conclusion of anyone who believes the collective is more important than the individual. 2) There were many benevolent all powerful states during the 20th century, but every single powerful
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by mrjangles 4y ago
There are a huge number of cultural differences in the US to other places, with all sorts of different reason behind them (seriously it is like being on a different planet), and the reasons can be hard to pin down. However, a lot of them, a
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by mrjangles 4y ago
>have this shitty ideology where the individual matters more than ... the collective You do realize that the 20th century gave us very good reason to feel this way right?
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Ok you have provided zero evidence of anything happening today, the best you had is 40 years ago, and that one was false. >In the 80s we have plenty of lawsuits demonstrating the black Americans were routinely denied home loans because t
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Forest cover has been increasing in most first world countries since 1970 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?end=2020... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.FRST.ZS?locatio
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by mrjangles 4y ago
I remember listening to someone point out (I think it was Sam Harris) that what all ideologies and religions have in common is that they must have, somewhere, a very strange idea that everyone in the religion must accept. One that clearly
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by mrjangles 4y ago
It really says a lot about what an amazing society we have created in that here we have some people making history by revolutionizing our understanding of something that was (at least in the past) considered absolutely fundamental and uniqu
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by mrjangles 4y ago
> This is the precise argument in favor of diversity: that we have, for centuries now, been discriminating on the basis of race and selecting inferior performers over better choices because they were white, or male. If people who believe
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by mrjangles 4y ago
The fact that no one could possibly have a clue what this sentence means is a pretty good indication of how important this work was.
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Every release is more bloated, runs more slowly, non of the old problems fixed or improved (e.g. still can't handle large files well and every release handling of graphics gets slower). The user manual has gone from being one the best
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by mrjangles 4y ago
You are going to need a very specific citation for that because, if he did, no one working in physics today has heard of it.
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by mrjangles 4y ago
I don't understand all these comments saying "Sure Wolfram may be arrogant, but he has achieved amazing things". "lets look at his work and ideas not him as a person". ... What does this even mean? Steven Wolfram h
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Yeah but if older you had actually told younger you to relax a bit, would you be where you are now talking about how things are going well, or would you be like OP in the linked article? Sure it is true that opportunities usually never com
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by mrjangles 4y ago
That was the case 10 years ago, but since then they have discovered that all the temperature records since 1950 were wrong, and they have been correcting them. Turns out the computer simulations were correct all along and it was the data t
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by mrjangles 4y ago
They definitely misinform their audience for money.
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Oh believe me, every thread here about physics is exactly like this. 90% of the comments are the most ridiculous crackpot nonsense from people who clearly learned physics by watching startrek. There are usually a few surprisingly knowledg
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by mrjangles 4y ago
I can tell immediately that you have never actually picked up a physics textbook. The main reason is that most physicists only have the most elementary understanding of the mathematics underlying what they are doing. This is for historica
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by mrjangles 4y ago
> Why are new formats not forthcoming? oooh I can answer this one. About 15 years ago I saw a talk from a team at, oxford I think?, that had invented a way to store many terabytes on an ordinary blue ray by adding rotation to the scratc
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by mrjangles 4y ago
I think the class warfare aspect of this stuff isn't discussed enough. People also want to differentiate themselves from other classes in some way. These days everyone has money and owns the latest iPhone and can afford nice clothes,
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by mrjangles 4y ago
You seem to have a problem with the US fighting against evil, autocratic groups like the communists in South America, and Asia. That's fine, it's your opinion. But this is exactly the sort of thing the author of this article is
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by mrjangles 4y ago
Actually, it seemed more like it started with a group of self proclaimed 'elites' who had more knowledge than everybody else. This group thought everyone else was stupid, so they started lying to everyone to get them to try and g
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by mrjangles 4y ago
You might have a point if it wasn't for the reality of the situation and who is pushing conspiracy theories and who is trying to crack down on them. It is always the people saying how democracy is flawed and we should be more like Chin

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