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by mrrrgn 7y ago
I'm trying to figure out what you mean by "white supremacy" because you use it so often it seems like something nebulous. -- So it seems that "white supremacy" is a catchall term for anything that argues a biologica
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
> Are you implying that the Googlers involved are doing this to advance themselves? I'm stating the obvious fact that former Googlers have made themselves notable by engaging in public activism while at the company. Both conservativ
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
This sounds exactly like the kind of thing that people who have various other religious conversions say. They have this profound ineffable moral "awakening" and then see fit to start integrating it into every aspect of their lives
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
At this point it's looking like the potential to kickstart a professional "activism" career is becoming a fringe benefit at Google. Given that, it's probably best to protest things that will win the attention of mainstre
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
I absolutely don't disagree with you. Personality traits and aptitudes are strongly inherited, along with some genetic randomness and some environmental conditioning. What I don't like is full on genetic determinism. Human beings
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
While I think on the whole our society is very biased toward a Boasian view of nature versus nurture: "give me a child and I can raise it to have any personality and aptitudes via deliberate rearing techniques." I'm skeptical
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
> Fascinating to see such clear ramifications of allowing religious beliefs to creep into the outcome of successful product expansion. Dicks sporting goods recently took a stand against firearms that raised the ire of some of its custome
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
There's no way that you can form a tally from the sum total of a person's entire lineage in order to equalize them according to their ancestors struggles. Attempts to do this seem mostly to act as a laundering scheme for financial
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials 1982 - 1996, that is more than ten years. But the people in that range would have shared formative experiences during the '00s. Thus the moniker millenials.
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
As the namesake suggests, "millenials" are ideally people who were young-adults around the 00's. That generally means born from the early/mid 80's to mid-90's. Gen z were/are young adults during the '
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird "Operation Mockingbird is an alleged large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early 1950s and attempted to ma
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
I feel like you misread the thread here and jumped hastily into taking an accusatory tone. The argument in the thread was essentially: Person One: It's bad to say that one group "took over" an area from another instead of usi
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
Why not discuss the article rather than post drive by links to supposed "bias fact check" sites which don't themselves seem to be authoritative....?
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
If the tendency to have large families is heritable in some measurable way, maybe because of beliefs or personality traits, wouldn't the carriers of whatever makes them have more babies eventually overtake the rest of the population? I
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
What comes after we pull ourselves out of the "marketplace of ideas?" With no marketplace where will original thought come from? The whole point of the marketplace is to sift through all the bad stuff and find the diamonds in the
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
A lot of partially informed individuals en masse may act more "informed" on the whole than what you're giving them credit for. It's also a less brittle organizational structure than having a few authorities who are suppo
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
There is a difference between a platform and a publisher. Publishers can curate, platforms aren't supposed to. As I understand it, whether social media companies are platforms or publishers forms the actual core and substance of this d
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
I guess it's not a penalty if you are able to invest the money you get from the helicopter drop in assets, or a sweet gaming rig, while other people are just paying down debt?
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
> I don't remember any sanctions on Chechen republic after it separated from Russia, for example. The double standards are all explained by geopolitical maneuvering. Western powers pulled Kiev into their orbit and threatened to use
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
> That sounds a bit naturalist fallacy When we see things in nature, it's always possible that they serve a purpose. Adaptive traits are selected for. It's also possible they aren't. It seems there are three possibilities:
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
Certain personality types are more likely to ignore social pressure and pursue logical conclusions of ideals. It's probably no accident that such personality profiles only account for a small percentage of our population as logical con
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
Well I'll be. I'd thought that the rules were more strict. It appears that even if the bank does run out of bills more can be created by writing on pieces of paper.
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
We sort of live in a finite universe in terms of matter and energy right? Conservation laws seem to imply that. So at a large enough scale life would have to be zero sum. I guess what people may actually be arguing about is at what scale th
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by mrrrgn 7y ago
Monopoly is a zero sum game. So perceiving it as such shouldn't be the bias that leads to poor strategy. (edit: it seems that it may be possible to play monopoly in a way that generates infinite money and with no win condition)
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1D Cellular Automaton Being Fed as Input to a 2D Cellular Automaton(mrrrgn.github.io)
3 points by mrrrgn 7y ago|1 comments
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by mrrrgn 9y ago
What's "their kind?"
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by mrrrgn 10y ago
I think the easiest solution would be to just conduct the interview via text only. You could even apply filters to transform some common grammatical structures or word choices with gender cues into a more neutral form.
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by mrrrgn 10y ago
Their point stands. The Chinese government is a bad actor with a history of tapping university students for industrial espionage. Their population also dwarfs ours which could justify some concern about American students being "crowded
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by mrrrgn 10y ago
Have you heard a woman's voice in this "masked" state? It still sounds extremely feminine because of the manner of speaking. It's very odd. You can even hear it in this short clip: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by mrrrgn 10y ago
I hope that they normalized the data to account for the number of words spoken during each debate, rally, etc... This is important because of Zipf's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law If they didn&#x2

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