It is impossible to trust information that comes out of country that suppresses freedom of the press. It's a very simple cause-and-effect.
Unlike news companies, commentators do not gain monetary value from sensationalism. Authors of articles are generally more informed than their pieces suggest, but their editors step in and make the story "pop" for…
The modern Chinese psyche has been sculpted in large part due to the Cultural Revolution. People who have grown up in comfort do not fully comprehend the effect of widespread hunger on a large population. Natural…
I love my pets profoundly. I have sacrificed immensely for them. But I would blow my brains out if I let a little girl burn to death so that I could save my dog.
The letter is a massive mistake. The most ardent feminists that I know aren't willing to defend it. It's absolutely and clearly hypocritical, and maps directly into every shitty, awful defense of a male sexual harasser,…
From a purely Orwellian standpoint, I think the Russian model of government/media interaction is more effective. There is "freedom of press" in Russia, and there are opposition media groups, but they are toothless.…
Knowledge tests that introduce time pressure become lossy. An employer can test performance under pressure and extrapolate that against historical data, but they cannot do it in the reverse order as the information is…
You believe that a student that derives a proof from scratch is less knowledgeable than a student that rote memorizes it out of a textbook? My argument comes from the perspective of the real world. It is, in effect, the…
By cutting exams short, we are losing information about the student's knowledge in return for information about how well students work under pressure. As an employer, "working under pressure" is not very high on my list…
Assange pays for Snowden's flight and hotel: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-reconstructi... Assange advises Snowden to move to Russia: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/29/julian-assange...…
This is true, but he also was financially aided, advised and accompanied by Wikileaks every step of the way. Nonetheless, you are correct. I would edit the previous post if I could, as it's not especially critical to…
> Isn't it also naive to think China and Russia weren't fully aware of the NSA's capabilities? The latest Mueller indictment suggests no. I believe that the NSA's domestic surveillance programs were an egregious…
Wikileaks.
Leaking secrets is not a freedom of speech issue. I would agree with you if Snowden narrowly leaked the details of the PRISM program. I think if he did that he would have been a genuine hero. But he didn't. He…
Skinning is probably a slight misnomer. The skins are applied to the player's weapons and can be seen by all other players as well as spectators. They are, in effect, a status symbol. This feeds into the supply and…
The entire ASMR sleep community is built around this premise as well, fwiw.
To outright dismiss the possibility of chance affecting people's lives for a cute one-liner is pretty silly.
I don't think that footage is frighteningly convincing. It's pretty good, but not difficult to tell that it's not real. The bridge between pretty good and perfect when doing this type of thing is a very, very difficult…
People often suggest that the Internet is a problem in terms of disinformation, but I'd argue in many cases that the Internet actually helps. In pre-Internet days, it was difficult to get someone's views in their own…
So, the premise is that all Liberals think this way, right? It seems odd that Fox News keep returning to college campuses over and over and over to get quotes that are intended to represent the views of Liberals writ…
When Jeff Foxworthy does his (incredibly unfunny) "You might be a redneck, if..." bits, the crowd is not laughing and nodding and saying "That's so true, I too am a bigoted and loutish ultra-conservative!" To many…
I suspect those inside the Warsaw Ghetto may have had different views on intervention than you do. I absolutely agree that talking about intervention is murky, which was precisely my point.
The term derives from someone who works in the sun. It's unambiguously elitist. I don't think you need to hedge here, it's quite clear. I also enjoy the pejorative aimed at a sectarian group immediately followed by…
I'm all for open discussion. I'll discuss anything with anyone. I was just responding in particular to the point about gay marriage because I think, as I said, by definition it's difficult to make that argument without…
1. I don't believe that religious people should be treated differently than non-religious people. 2. Asexual people can marry. They don't force you to have sex before they give you the certificate of marriage. I did not…
It is impossible to trust information that comes out of country that suppresses freedom of the press. It's a very simple cause-and-effect.
Unlike news companies, commentators do not gain monetary value from sensationalism. Authors of articles are generally more informed than their pieces suggest, but their editors step in and make the story "pop" for…
The modern Chinese psyche has been sculpted in large part due to the Cultural Revolution. People who have grown up in comfort do not fully comprehend the effect of widespread hunger on a large population. Natural…
I love my pets profoundly. I have sacrificed immensely for them. But I would blow my brains out if I let a little girl burn to death so that I could save my dog.
The letter is a massive mistake. The most ardent feminists that I know aren't willing to defend it. It's absolutely and clearly hypocritical, and maps directly into every shitty, awful defense of a male sexual harasser,…
From a purely Orwellian standpoint, I think the Russian model of government/media interaction is more effective. There is "freedom of press" in Russia, and there are opposition media groups, but they are toothless.…
Knowledge tests that introduce time pressure become lossy. An employer can test performance under pressure and extrapolate that against historical data, but they cannot do it in the reverse order as the information is…
You believe that a student that derives a proof from scratch is less knowledgeable than a student that rote memorizes it out of a textbook? My argument comes from the perspective of the real world. It is, in effect, the…
By cutting exams short, we are losing information about the student's knowledge in return for information about how well students work under pressure. As an employer, "working under pressure" is not very high on my list…
Assange pays for Snowden's flight and hotel: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-reconstructi... Assange advises Snowden to move to Russia: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/aug/29/julian-assange...…
This is true, but he also was financially aided, advised and accompanied by Wikileaks every step of the way. Nonetheless, you are correct. I would edit the previous post if I could, as it's not especially critical to…
> Isn't it also naive to think China and Russia weren't fully aware of the NSA's capabilities? The latest Mueller indictment suggests no. I believe that the NSA's domestic surveillance programs were an egregious…
Wikileaks.
Leaking secrets is not a freedom of speech issue. I would agree with you if Snowden narrowly leaked the details of the PRISM program. I think if he did that he would have been a genuine hero. But he didn't. He…
Skinning is probably a slight misnomer. The skins are applied to the player's weapons and can be seen by all other players as well as spectators. They are, in effect, a status symbol. This feeds into the supply and…
The entire ASMR sleep community is built around this premise as well, fwiw.
To outright dismiss the possibility of chance affecting people's lives for a cute one-liner is pretty silly.
I don't think that footage is frighteningly convincing. It's pretty good, but not difficult to tell that it's not real. The bridge between pretty good and perfect when doing this type of thing is a very, very difficult…
People often suggest that the Internet is a problem in terms of disinformation, but I'd argue in many cases that the Internet actually helps. In pre-Internet days, it was difficult to get someone's views in their own…
So, the premise is that all Liberals think this way, right? It seems odd that Fox News keep returning to college campuses over and over and over to get quotes that are intended to represent the views of Liberals writ…
When Jeff Foxworthy does his (incredibly unfunny) "You might be a redneck, if..." bits, the crowd is not laughing and nodding and saying "That's so true, I too am a bigoted and loutish ultra-conservative!" To many…
I suspect those inside the Warsaw Ghetto may have had different views on intervention than you do. I absolutely agree that talking about intervention is murky, which was precisely my point.
The term derives from someone who works in the sun. It's unambiguously elitist. I don't think you need to hedge here, it's quite clear. I also enjoy the pejorative aimed at a sectarian group immediately followed by…
I'm all for open discussion. I'll discuss anything with anyone. I was just responding in particular to the point about gay marriage because I think, as I said, by definition it's difficult to make that argument without…
1. I don't believe that religious people should be treated differently than non-religious people. 2. Asexual people can marry. They don't force you to have sex before they give you the certificate of marriage. I did not…