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The Ship of Thesus is a powerful metaphor

> 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 co…

> 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...

That wasn't what I said at all, and you know this. Please don't deliberately misrepresent me

> 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 ca…

> 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…

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. …

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 "j…

I've definitely heard a similar joke about economists. It probably applies to most sciences, tbh

> 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 goalpost…

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 o…

> 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: h…

But so you have a baseline to compare this against? You don't know what you doing know, after all.

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…

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 …

> 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? Lis…

> 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 h…

Wow, you're pretty obnoxious. Guess you're right, though

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.

> 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, fra…

> 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 exis…

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 yo…

> 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 educati…

> 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"? Fro…

> 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 mean…