thepompano

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by thepompano 9y ago
"Varieties remains for most believers a powerful defense against Karl Marx, who criticized religion as the opiate of the masses " That's not what Karl Marx said. He said: "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creatur
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by thepompano 9y ago
So did they solve the Trolley Problem?
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by thepompano 9y ago
What exactly are you counting as high-level rational thought? If it's the ability to clamp down on "extreme irrationalism, exaggeration, and fabuluism", and Western societies are better at this, then I'd think Fox News
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by thepompano 9y ago
Oral traditions are so inefficient at transmitting multiple viewpoints, at collecting multiple viewpoints, at codifying multiple viewpoints, and eventually at balancing multiple viewpoints To these ends I agree that oral traditions wouldn
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by thepompano 9y ago
But is it true? You wouldn't know from the article, because the author of the article doesn't cite any studies and just sort of takes Neil Postman's word for it.
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by thepompano 9y ago
"[Online social networks] reduce our curiosity by showing us exactly what we already want and think, based on our profiles and preferences." I hate to defend the world's largest algorithmically-enforced echo chamber, but is t
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by thepompano 9y ago
This might create some integration-related hiccups with XML, as most ASCII control characters are forbidden per the XML 1.0/1.1 specs.
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by thepompano 9y ago
Just throwing this out there - replacing an entire front-end monolith framework in large part depends on the size/scale of the application, and how well it was implemented to begin with.
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by thepompano 9y ago
I wonder if this will impact Donald Trump's campaign promise to get the FDA to sign off on all of those drugs awaiting approval. Reforms will also include cutting the red tape at the FDA: there are over 4,000 drugs awaiting approval,
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by thepompano 10y ago
I would think that the program is meant to extend help to people who pursued a college-education, took out $30k worth of loans, worked hard, and became disabled or otherwise unable to procure employment post-hoc. For example, people who pu
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by thepompano 10y ago
I'm not sure if I'd be paying your mortgage per se, but I'd be paying for whatever benefits you receive through the Social Security Adminstration's Disability Benefits program. But even if I was, why would that be contr
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by thepompano 10y ago
> Is it right that I subsidize people more privileged than I? Probably not, but considering that the forgiveness program the government is talking about mainly targets people with debt who can't pay it back - like people who are ser
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by thepompano 10y ago
> The only responsible party here (i.e., the party you can count on) is yourself. Agreed, but to that point, I'd imagine that the primary consumers of student loans are people in their late-teens who are on-the-whole less financiall