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I already gave the two examples necessary to address this. - Kissinger. He was Nixon's National Security Advisor, intimately involved in prosecuting the Vietnam War, a war which he…

My point was that giving the prize to an American diplomat for taking a break from his collaboration with Nixon to try to end the imperialist war that we started , on terms agreeab…

It's a good thing they have any credibility left after giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Kissinger in 1973 (!) or to Obama in 2009.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_v._Eiland-Hall

That's not what salting does, and different hashing methods are irrelevant. The danger of having your hash leaked is that it can be cracked and the plaintext password recovered. Th…

No, it's my observation that conspiracy theories about organized child sex abuse are largely a right-wing narrative. For example: > QAnon (/ˌkjuː.əˈnɒn/) is a far-right conspiracy …

Any time conditions exist for someone who doesn't care about others to get what they want, that person will try to get what they want. That's not particularly insightful on its own…

You make it sound like priests are just bad at maximizing their income, so they must be damaged somehow. But putting it in economic terms like that is silly. Priests aren't in it f…

> I don’t think anyone would ever dispute the mental health benefits Excuse me, what? I certainly would, and I don't know how you could possibly think that nobody else would.

That is a big part of it I think, and just being able to provide meaningful names for code/documentation/discussions makes a huge difference, though I'd say communication problems …

There is no "standard library function" for inverting a binary tree. That's not a thing that exists, probably anywhere in any standard library for any language, and even if it did …

I actually do think you have a point about the fetishization of trivia knowledge in this field. It's really not ideal, and I think it's more driven by social dysfunction or over-co…

Beyond parody.

I think usually people who try to make this point are just pouting over how they shouldn't be expected to know basic, fundamental things. Like https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/60868…

> I don't have to memorize random things I don't even use in my day job Yeah, imagine what kind of nerd would be interested in the field and genuinely want to learn all they can, h…

The article says why. The US Chamber of Commerce has fought tooth and nail against climate legislation because they view themselves as "job creators" and see anything that threaten…

That doesn't conflict with anything they said.

I'm just pointing out that it's a common belief (and it is , your ignorance notwithstanding) and giving them the search term to read more if they're interested. What's so difficult…

Conscious beings flourishing is the goal, whether they be human or AI. That might seem like a fine distinction, but the importance going forward is stark given a quote from TFA: > …

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computationalism It's a very common worldview among the tech set. Edit: Uh, downvotes, really? I think it's totally reasonable to assume this as a…

> they're at least all consistent so there's plausible deniability that the author just didn't know English that well

No, I'd argue that there's basically no use case for email beyond stuff that you want the other person to be able to ignore. If you're expecting a response, but don't care when it …

I agree that there's not a single instance of double-spaces in the text, and I thought that was a really bizarre claim, but there are some instances of misspellings that help it al…

I meant "really" worth, for some reasonable definition of "really." But I can't argue that market cap is a more pragmatic definition of worth, so your point is fair enough I guess.…

I just scanned this, but some of it seems ludicrously wrong. Like rating chat a neutral face for "find" when honestly one of the biggest advantages to chat in my mind is being able…