sethrin

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by sethrin 8mo ago
I have no particular idea whether there's a business case for humanoid robots or not. I would love to have the argument set out well. Perhaps you'd indulge my curiosity.
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by sethrin 1y ago
That there can be differing viewpoints on this matter is demonstrative that sex as well as gender is a social construct: the categorization and distinguishing characteristics of sex are normative. It's deeply ironic that the people com
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by sethrin 1y ago
The only problem is that knitting wasn't invented until hundreds of years later.
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by sethrin 1y ago
Use the `method` method to get a reference to the one you are concerned with, then call `source_location` on it.
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by sethrin 1y ago
> Even worse, there are programmers who have only had a high-school education and just seem to ''be good at it''. These scenarios and how they really do play out in real life have detailed at length. This is classist
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by sethrin 2y ago
I appreciate the source, but a website that advertises Michio Kaku is deeply disappointing.
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by sethrin 2y ago
I feel like the missing option is event handlers.
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by sethrin 2y ago
Neat. I visited Valdez, Alaska lately and a friend was pointing out the tugs there. They seemed somewhat larger than other tugs I've seen. A data sheet says they have about 4x the horsepower of Heidi Brusco , coming from a pair of CAT
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by sethrin 2y ago
Which tug?
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by sethrin 2y ago
It's a reference to a song ("867-5309 / Jenny") by Tommy Tutone. It's pretty dated by now.
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by sethrin 2y ago
I think I'd argue for a sui generis classification, which does partake somewhat of the whistleblower, but it seems like calling Napoleon a general. He was certainly that, at times. Apologies for the nit-picking in any case.
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by sethrin 2y ago
Whistleblower is a very revealing thing to call Mr. Assange.
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by sethrin 2y ago
Unionize. Demand better working conditions.
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by sethrin 2y ago
I do tend to think I live a bit more in the present because of aphantasia. However, I also do have an experiential memory. It's not great, and largely not visual, and to the degree there are any visual elements they're pretty usel
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by sethrin 2y ago
This seems like a bizarre statement, or at the very least your thesis does not seem supported by your example. There is no particular reason to think that Roman civilization should be the same after the passage of 500 years since the suppos
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by sethrin 2y ago
"Slave" cannot mean unpaid coerced laborer, especially since the society in question predated currency. In point of fact, there isn't a single set of conditions that uniquely define slavery, and historical labor relations wer
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by sethrin 2y ago
I mean yes, the ruling class was Macedonian for a while, but saying "Egyptians became Greeks" is broadly not true.
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by sethrin 2y ago
This is like prevaricating about whether the Earth is flat. If your standards allow you to set aside direct observations then you are not being scientific, and if you don't like "skeptic" as a label for that then I don't
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by sethrin 2y ago
His comment was accurate, yours was misleading, seemingly deliberately. AGW is not in scientific dispute; the skeptics are merely unscientific -- politically motivated, if you will.
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by sethrin 2y ago
There are easier "facts" to disprove AGW that don't rely on innumeracy. I mean you don't really care, you just want to have a "gotcha" and not think past that, but AGW was considered disproved for a few decades
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by sethrin 2y ago
I think the figure I saw was that if human emissions stopped tomorrow, silicate weathering would get rid of the excess carbon in something on the order of 10k years.
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by sethrin 3y ago
yes, and?
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by sethrin 3y ago
How do you feel about Crystal-lang?
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by sethrin 3y ago
Most often I do var_that_might_be_nil.presence || default reads better imo
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by sethrin 3y ago
The point I was making was not about objectification but about risk. I don't necessarily approve of objectification but I don't see it as a deciding factor in sexual success. Someone who sees other people as things to be used is p
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by sethrin 3y ago
Instead of "I'm struggling to take this in good faith" you might try asking clarifying questions; it's less rude that way. Talking about goals is a way of suggesting that sex isn't competitive. It is simply an act,
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by sethrin 3y ago
The worldview here seems to be that women are sex objects and treating them like human beings is optional -- there is no utility in being "nice" or "cheerful" if it doesn't get you laid. A lot of dating advice for m
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by sethrin 3y ago
Sex doesn't have a goal, neither does biology more generally. Reproduction as distinct from sex might be a safer argument, but reducing sex to reproduction is inapt, particularly in a discussion of human social behavior. The active vs
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by sethrin 3y ago
I feel like the author is writing from a perspective of women being an alien species with incomprehensible motives, and their view of women is limited to how they are useful to men (most of the commentary here also seems to share this myopi
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by sethrin 3y ago
> Japan surrendered because the US had total air superiority and bluffed about their supply of nukes. This is at best disputed, and alternative explanations have a great deal more supporting evidence.

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