try_the_bass

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by try_the_bass 8d ago
Subtle Lena[1] reference, maybe? [1] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by try_the_bass 1mo ago
The Ship of Thesus is a powerful metaphor
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by try_the_bass 1mo ago
> IDK, a sufficiently complex consumer or enterprise app winds up having big performance problems if people don't know what they're doing w.r.t. the code they write and how they connect systems together with that code. I don&#x
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by try_the_bass 2mo ago
> So... we're just gonna forget that governments exist? ... No? I'm not sure anything I said implied otherwise. I mean, I literally mentioned government in my second paragraph...
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by try_the_bass 2mo ago
That wasn't what I said at all, and you know this. Please don't deliberately misrepresent me
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by try_the_bass 2mo ago
> That isn't what it is being used for. I'm not sure if you know what you're talking about? Flock cameras have definitely involved in detecting people who come into SF in stolen cars or with stolen plates, who proceed to
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by try_the_bass 2mo ago
> Why is the primary tech people impulse to disrupt, destroy and harm other industries? Maybe that is why we dont produce useful tech anymore. The primary impulse is always hostile, rarely something like "lets create and sell a usef
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by try_the_bass 2mo ago
I mean, that is the essence of how to fix the problems in a capitalist society? One of the core tenets of capitalism is that one person's profits are another person's opportunity. If the latter can do the work/obtain the ca
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
Similarly, you know that "moved some magazines" doesn't accurately portray what this person was sentenced for. It was evidence tampering, and intentionally trying to frame it as "just moved some magazines" is dising
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
I've definitely heard a similar joke about economists. It probably applies to most sciences, tbh
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> From above: "Conservatives have been basically purged from academia over the last 30 years" Yet, when you are handed evidence that this is objectively true, you move the goalposts. You're clearly not arguing in good fait
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
No, I called them out on something I thought they were wrong about because they were being super obnoxious in the way they were stating it. Turns out they were right, but instead of losing the attitude, they doubled down on the toxicity. Wh
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> We'll probably notice the reduction in sulfur pollution more than the reduction in CO2. I feel like I've read something about the effects of reducing sulfur production already: https://www.climate.gov/news-fea
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
But so you have a baseline to compare this against? You don't know what you doing know, after all.
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
Transparency mode is better, but it isn't perfect. The simple fact that you have something else producing noise in close proximity to your ears is enough to disrupt your ability to hear other things, even if they're also making it
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
The thought of intentionally deafening myself to the outside world, even partially, is unnerving, because I can't stand the thought of nerfing my own situational awareness to that degree. Especially in fast-paced environments, like cit
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> Look at how much "trust me, I've got training, I know what's good, I know what's already right" is in their argument. I mean, isn't that what we're supposed to do in science? Listen to the folks who
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> At the start of this I said: "I think the surprise is that someone believes its indicative of a giant conspiracy to exile conservative professors." If you agree with this could have saved yourself a lot of trouble. You were c
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
Wow, you're pretty obnoxious. Guess you're right, though
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
I loved this story. I haven't read it in a long time, but I thought that ending was great. Personally, I think he was a bot.
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> I think you know perfectly well my meaning in context of the comment thread I was replying to. No, I don't, and smugly insinuating I have some ulterior motive or whatever is, frankly, offensive. I asked you a question because I di
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> My friend, I simply stated a conclusion that is very commonly accepted, including by conservatives (hints: populism, religion, gender roles). People commonly accept that God exists, too, all across the political spectrum. That doesn&#x
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
Having read through this whole discussion, and as an outsider: they're approaching this from a much stronger and consistent position than you. This is most obvious given how far you've moved the goalposts along the way.
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> I don't think there is surprise that higher learning is associated with progressivism. This is such a wildly elitist take. There's nothing intrinsically progressive about education, and to just declare so as fact is an excell
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> race is an intrinsic immutable attribute Is it? Care you define who makes up the "white race"? Or any other overly-broad category that typically gets bandied about as "race"? From my perspective, as someone who is f
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> Yes, that is the correct term. In each election >50% chose "Not Trump". Uhhh... Not voting at all doesn't count as "Not Trump". It counts as "I don't care," which implicitly means "whatev
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
Wow, this is such a wildly pessimistic and cynical take. Are you okay? > But that's not a cure. If they don't take that drug, assuming it works, they still have the original mutation in the cancer cells. The person you're
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by try_the_bass 3mo ago
> This is akin to how two kinds of people respond to law. The first kind think "This is the law, we must follow it" and the other kind think "This law doesn't make sense, we must change it". What? I don't un
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by try_the_bass 4mo ago
I dunno, but this hardly a convincing rebuttal. Can you provide some citations about loans and such? I believe the thing I linked included loans as part of the "aid given". And I'm pretty sure Russia or China have the second
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by try_the_bass 4mo ago
Is it really false, though? I don't think the claim is that such benefits are directly subsidized, but indirectly. For example, the EU relies (relied?) heavily on the US military to be their "big stick", freeing up some porti

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