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Epistemology is not my strong suit so please excuse me here, but how can you reasonably advocate for your positions in a worldview that specifically privileges personal experience?

Epistemology is about how we know what we think we know. This is very separate from rhetoric, the art of trying to convince others with your words.

I personally focus on epistemology, which includes clarifying what I believe, why I believe it, how strongly I believe it, and what different things I could reasonably believe in different circumstances. Knowing these things often leads me to conclude, "I believe X, you seem to believe Y, there is no way that I am going to change your beliefs." This seems to me to be a feature, not a flaw.

I am unable to be friends with strongly religious types who are unable to muster the same feature.

I tend to agree that we infer theory from anecdotes not data and even that that is a good thing. But don't we have a responsibility after developing a theory to evaluate it before making claims about it?

In my world view, yes.

If you see me failing to properly qualify what I claim, then please call me on it.

That said, when I make a claim, I'm almost never going to give my full supportive reasoning for my world view. Life is too short.
For sure means I am certain. May I? Is there anything social that is not debated?

I just learned today about a gay couple that adopted a child and used him for child-porn and pedophile sex. Would I bring that up as an argument? No. Have I? No. It's not.

People DO have different views on what harming a child means. It's not a platitude at all.
I used 100K as an example that even at that high of an income $3,000 a year only adds up to 72K. If you make 50K salary for 24 years you're still only paying 36K for your education. The program stats "students would pay 3 percent of their paycheck back for 24 years in order to help fund the program for future students".

With the direction higher education costs are moving, this could be a very inviting choice for those who would pay for college with student loans.
Search for the names on the internet and find credible corroborating sources.
Help me fork a new currency like PPCoin
Downvoted? This is controversial how? And to who?

It has been pretty well established that the financial crisis of 2009/8 for one was cause due to rampant deregulation of the financial sector.

Even Alan Greenspan admitted (and even apologised) for the matter.

And a trillion dollar bailout is a pretty good evidence in itself.

There are people that still believe it all was because, say, single black mothers took social care money, or something?
Same experience for me. I felt bad about myself but I found out other people had the same experience. So buck up. I plan to give Dvorak another swing (that was my layout of choice.)
And I think it invokes the rarely considered idea that maybe democracy isn't the pinnacle of human social organization.

Corrupt power structures may have finally optimized for dominating a democratically organized society and we should be at least philosophizing about a favorable post-democracy world. I.e., what's more "democratic" than democracy?
You said the following:

>>There is no gender equality when it comes to what a child needs. A child needs the smile of a mother as much as they need the smile of a father. And one can not replace the other.

This is stated as an absolute fact, not an opinion.
Same could be said of doing a MBA or medicine compared to STEM. Yet few people on HN made that choice.
It really depends on the type of accident (skim Wikipedia on ones with survivors) ... and after looking at the CNN supplied video https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6003232 right now I'm thinking "Major miracle" and "If it's ain't Boeing, I ain't going", although I'm sure it's a lot more of the former than the latter.
How The Stress Of Running A Startup And P90X Led To A Stay In The Hospital
I'm not sure what you are trying to tell me. You told me that you can use my spectacularly stupid argument to justify a conclusion that you don't like, well that is your problem, not mine.

I only attempt argue that, 1) given the fact that people are free to own lethal firearms within their own homes, 2) given the fact that police officers are wont to die if they get shot, 3) and given the assertion that presented with a police force, SWAT or otherwise, within the safety of their own home, threatening the suspect with arrest, the suspect can resort to irrational and sometimes violent behavior, I conclude that to maximize their self-preservation, police forces have to ensure an imbalance of power while making the arrest.

You are calling this argument spectacularly stupid, so you are going to, without having to resort to logical fallacies, show to me why my conclusion is wrong.

> I assume though since you're automatically painting opposition you don't understand with the same tired old bullshit labels typical of mainstream statist standard leftists, correcting your mistakes is liable to just annoy you with more cognitive dissonance.

That you are quick to associate me with a political position that I am not inclined to support merely betrays your confused dichotomous outlook on politics. I can't even begin to guess what a "mainstream statist standard leftist" is. I only asked the question because to my knowledge, FOX News often uses the slippery slope argument as a rhetorical device. You turn it into a political debate.

> My apologies, I won't be replying again.

Right.
> Given today's software, it's trivial to fake a "photocopy" of an ID.

How would one even go about doing this? Sounds rather difficult to make a fake ID convincing.

Can anyone share some links on the subject?
This is a bit off topic for this thread but given that you brought it up:

It is hard for me to look at, say, Steubenville[1] (to take just the most publicized of several examples that I've seen in the news lately) and understand how anyone can suggest that accused rapists aren't given a presumption of innocence in our society. The blame heaped on rape victims is often tremendous, even when everyone knows that it happened.

(In the Steubenville case, there were widely shared photos documenting what happened to the young woman in question and at least one video of a guy at the same party laughing about what his friends had done to her, and most of the local community evidently still strongly sided with her rapists.)

[1] http://sports.yahoo.com/news/highschool--steubenville-high-s...
I don't know what Medium is, but ... a white page with a title on the top? This is just as much a 'theft' of the default Apache "It works!" page.
Evolutions take a long time. Can we as a nation really afford the luxury of waiting?
It only causes eye strain if you look around, which, the whole point is to remove distraction and other things to look at.
1) When properly used, commonly freely available encryption should be unbreakable even when given completely unreasonable resources (i.e., a Manhattan Project scale effort). Alternative methods (e.g. kidnapping&torture of everyone who might have access to keys and their relatives) would be far simpler and cheaper than actually bruteforcing proper cryptography.

2) There are freely available steganography/hidden volume tools that make it impossible to verify IF there is something encrypted - for example, you might guess that a hidden volume exists, the accused may decrypt N hidden volumes, but noone would be able to check if there is another N+1'st volume for which a key was not provided.
I used 100K as an example showing even if you made that much a year 3% would still only be 72K over the 24 years. If you were only making 35K a year, say as a teacher, 100K in student loans would take a LONG time to pay off. With this program someone making 35K would only pay back a little over 25K into the program.
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I propose different model. Either you'll pay for my education to become engineer who'll pimp up your self-driving flying car, or I'll become uneducated mugger who'll beat you up and steal your stuff or I'll become uneducated cop who'll beat you up and shoot your dog for not respecting my authorita.
Well, the people over at the Center for Applied Rationality have tried to work on something like this, if only to attempt to better measure the effects of their workshops. I suspect this is a very hard undertaking.
The entire article is about truth, perception, and perspective.
I grew up with an absent father. I don't think a second mother would have replaced him. That's why I am skeptic about homosexual parents. At the price of my few karma points. :)
Indeed. Early is this quote: SENATOR BILL JACKSON: There’s more murders with hammers last year than there was shotguns and pistols and AK-47s.
BROOKE GLADSTONE: That’s not true, by the way. They then fail to address the objective truth: There’s more murders with hammers last year than there was [with] AK-47s and all other rifles. There's also more deaths from cars than with shotguns and pistols and AK-47s. He was making a point; rather than addressing the point, the critics drill in to one small verbal error and dismiss the inconvenient objective truth.
There is some irony in chiding someone for hyperbole while claiming 'at least it's not as bad as some other places', an argument that can be made of almost any aspect of the human experience.

I mean, if you set the bar as low as "better than living in a dictatorship" instead of "comparable to western democracy -foo-", you're engaging in some pretty solid resetting of the frame of reference.
FYI the flight was not in one hop, but several flights over several days. This flight in particular was DC->NYC.
What a sad truth, especially the last part
You might make more money by open sourcing: if, for example, it's not currently in a state to have anyone be willing to purchase it.
That note is from 2011.

According to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop_for_PHP

"in Q1 2013, the production version of facebook.com started running on HHVM, replacing HPHPc."
Whilst I appreciate the discussion points around gender/sexism, I personally have felt more discrimination from the kids / no kids situation, on more than one occasion.

I recently interviewed at a large company and did very well on all the questions, connected with the interviewers, had long chats with the recruiter, etc - but didn't get the job. I suspect one of the reasons I didn't get the job was the fact that I mentioned my wife/kid. The team that I interviewed for were all fairly young (so am I) but I think the kid thing could've thrown them off.

This may just be an issue at and job level that I am applying at and I'm very prepared for the fact that it may have been because I didn't do as well as I thought, but I have no idea what else it could've been. Would be great to know if anyone else has ever felt this.
Subscription required :(

EDIT A similar article appears to be almost the same, and is free on a number of news websites:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/agreements...
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The plane did do a 360.
Anti-conformity to the "mainstream" seems to be a compulsion, or even an addiction, with self-described hackers. Why not maintain the hacker ideals of innovation and disruption while hacking others' perceptions of you to make yourself seem more trustworthy and respectable? You will surely wind up with someone of the sort as your boss. That's just the way the world works.
where and when do collective purchases go to anything besides enriching the wealthy or politically connected?

"[The socialists declare] that the State owes subsistence, well-being, and education to all its citizens; that it should be generous, charitable, involved in everything, devoted to everybody; ...that it should intervene directly to relieve all suffering, satisfy and anticipate all wants, furnish capital to all enterprises, enlightenment to all minds, balm for all wounds, asylums for all the unfortunate, and even aid to the point of shedding French blood, for all oppressed people on the face of the earth.
Who would not like to see all these benefits flow forth upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source? ... But is it possible? ... Whence does [the State] draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?
...Finally...we shall see the entire people transformed into petitioners. Landed property, agriculture, industry, commerce, shipping, industrial companies, all will bestir themselves to claim favors from the State. The public treasury will be literally pillaged. Everyone will have good reasons to prove that legal fraternity should be interpreted in this sense: "Let me have the benefits, and let others pay the costs." Everyone's effort will be directed toward snatching a scrap of fraternal privilege from the legislature. The suffering classes, although having the greatest claim, will not always have the greatest success."
For a free trip to the colonies, you paid with all of your output for the next 20 years(or longer) - not just 3%.
I was very skeptical of comments that the plane 'cartwheeled' and 'flipped'. I just didn't believe there was not only not enough energy, but there would be a lot more fatalities and the airframe would be even more wrecked.

However, this video was quite the shocker. Not only does the aircraft do a near 360 degree spin, but you could see the bottom of the aircraft as it spins with the tail up and nose down with the right wing up in the air. Amazing only 2 fatalities so far and the aircraft was intact as it was.
One nice thing about this is it would seem to more directly incentivize state universities to provide a curriculum that maximizes student earning potential; I think that's a great thing especially for people who've chosen their fields for reasons other than money. 25 years is a somewhat scary number, but this very exciting.
I was just pointing out that a paleo diet still has some expensive food choices. If you don't eat grains, legumes, or dairy regularly then you're probably going to have to eat meat or eggs for protein, both of which are considerably more expensive than vegan sources of protein. This is especially true if you try to go a step further and try to find grass-fed beef or free-range chickens.
This is comparing one single safe landing to a crash landing. Does that gain us new insights? Not really. For that, we'd need the crash landing compared to the average landing, and also to other (safe and unsafe) extreme landings of the past.

And to get all Tufte of the graphics: Most of this is chart junk. The 3d view only serveres to hide information, and overlaying the paths (in 2d) would actually let us compare more accurately.
You might want to read my whole statement. I appreciate that there's a "beautiful, loving world outside the office."

It's precisely because of that that I wouldn't want to spend all of my time inside that office - I'd want to spend it with my family. And because of that, I wrote "families get in the way of work." It really is that simple. People with family have more beauty & love in their world, they realize what's important in life, and they spend less time in the office. And that's perfectly fine. But in such an environment, certain other types of people (bored single guys who really want to work long & hard) will not find themselves feeling entirely comfortable.

Companies tend to gravitate between the two ends... either super hard working, or laid-back family types. You can see that FB is drifing towards the latter. Which is perfectly fine.
"No, I'm just talking out of my ass" would have been a sufficient answer, instead of your evasive wordplay.
Most of the time, string concatenation is unnecessary with interpolation: "$alpha $bravo" means alpha & " " & bravo.

The reason `and` and `or` are best in parenthesized groups is that it creates confusion in the precedences otherwise. asking someone what `alpha and bravo or charlie` means can be confusing if there's no obvious grouping (like a standard mathematical operator's) giving `and` more precedence than `or` or the other way around.

You actually can use `!.` as an "owns access", as used in `alpha!.bravo`, which means `if alpha ownskey \bravo then alpha.bravo`.

And yes, `?.` means an "existential access", as used in `alpha?.bravo`, turns into `if alpha? then alpha.bravo`.

You can also mix these with `?!.` and it works as expected. :)
Most of the people most likely to want to opt out are, I imagine, already effectively doing by not going to the Oregon state schools and going to, say, a highly ranked private university. Or they might be getting substantial scholarship assistance as it is (it's unclear to me how this would work under the new system, the article could use more details there).

There are a lot of students out there who don't go into college with the sort of super-high self-confidence that would cause them to turn down a free education because they think they'd be better off with a traditional loan. So the question is: will enough of them make enough money to make it a workable solution? My guess is yes.
1. This s not a bad idea.
2. Student loans should have zero interest.
3. Don't take out student loans for any school that is for
profit, or advertises on T.V..
4. Remember student loans are not bankruptable.
5. Your interests will change as you age.
6. If you can swing it, get a bachelor's degree.
7. I despised "networking". I made friends with people
I truely liked. Well, I'm paying for it now. I hate
to say this, but force youself to be friends with "people
of means". I know they have the personalities of drift wood.
8. With the right direction; I feel an ambitious student
could lean what they need off the Internet.
9. If you do make a lot of money in your life--Remember
what it was like to have nothing.
10. Oh, yea--really think about marriage. I'm not
sure it's necessary anymore.
> Examples: The Kimchi I had with lunch was 15 calories, the half bag of russels sprout I had last night (excluding the oil oil cooked in) 130 calories.

I'm not one of the downvoters, but "satiety of eating unrestricted quantities of vegetables outweighs any caloric intake" approach only works if you don't add fats or sugar sauces.
"News" media.
Yeah, Wikipedia quotes:

''In 1977, facing first-time parenthood and an absolute lack of enthusiasm for anything like "career," I found myself dusting off my twelve-year-old's interest in science fiction.'' —William Gibson, "Since 1948"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson
this is exactly what I think. It's bad enough that college loans are non-dischargeable (and therefore probably in violation of the 14th amendment).

Now, the wage garnishment were voluntarily terminatable, that's another story.
fractional servitude is still servitude.
I was wondering last night why there isn't video of airplane landings being taken as a routine course of action? If nothing eventful happens they can delete the footage but in an instance like this they would have video of exactly what happened.
Loosely put in coder terms, you are interested in pass by value. This article acknowledges that some people pass by value, but instead this article focuses on pass by reference. They aren't saying that no one cares about direct values, they are concentrating on what happens when people use indirection. I.e. this is an article about perception management, not about what the facts are or who is "right" or "truthy".
Speaking as a dad, I hate taking my boys to the playground for the same reason. Moms see "man unaccompanied by woman, must be a predator" - I make a big show out of interacting with my boys and obviously being their father, but it's really grating that it's even necessary at all.

As to the culture of fear, I blame local news. It's wall-to-wall with alternating RAPISTS EVERYWHERE and LOOKIT THE CUTE PUPPIES, because those are the only stories that can compete with other news media. Telling people that they should be terrified (your neighbor is probably a child molester! Full story at 10!) is an extremely powerful tool, and people eat it up.

As a parent, I can understand those moms' reactions, even if I don't condone them. My kids are the most precious thing in the world to me, and I would rather err on the side of caution than ever let something truly traumatic happen to them. But, I think there's a line between being vigilant and being paralyzed in fear because someone with a penis is within 200 yards of your kid.
Cops have no legal obligation to protect you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
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It's difficult to make a convincing fake ID, but trivial to make a fake "photocopy" of an ID.

Photocopies are low quality, often black and white. They bypass most, if not all, security features on physical ID documents, can be digitally altered, etc.
Why do you need "a" identity as in singular, why can't you have multiple identities, and it seems easier to adjust your lifestyle to require minimal identification rather than to get "a" new identity.

You can go to immense efforts to subscribe to 2600 magazine without the bank or the mailman or the FBI knowing who you really are. That's all very impressive in a way. But for the overall system, it turns out to be a heck of a lot easier, cheaper, safer, and just plain ole better to walk to the nearest B+N and buy an issue with cash.

This seems to come up over and over WRT identity. Changing how you use it is simpler than changing the identity itself.

I've heard some apartment rental companies are a pain, running all manner of checks and requiring all kinds of paperwork. Then again your average illegal unzoned HOA denied landlord simply wants cash for a "good tenant". And the guy who sleeps over at his friends apartment couch for cash as a roommate has no documentation at all.

Gearing up to use a grocery store loyalty card with a fake id for your fake checking account at the fake address with the fake loyalty card to save 15 cents on an apple takes a lot of work and risk and money, or ... you could just pay cash at the full price at the farmers market, probably cheaper than the supermarket anyway.

The outside the box thinking will help a lot more than a magical set of documents ever will. And I don't even have any use for this stuff, imagine what I could do if I put my mind to it.
No reporting on this idea ever discusses what appears to be a fatal flaw in the basic idea: there is still no incentive for universities to lower their costs. They can still charge as much as they want for an english degree and the state pays them for it up front. The public is on the hook for the bill when the english major fails to get a job.

EDIT:

Just wanted to add that this is the sort of brain-dead reporting that allowed the student loan industry to essentially socialize loan losses by not permitting students to default on student loans and by allowing the federal government to guarantee them, subsequently allowing education costs to sky-rocket.
my father always says "if they're your kids, it isn't babysitting"
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But the Occupiers, who tended to be young, white, and middle-to upper-middle-class, knew social media like few other demographics. They knew how to live-stream video directly to the Internet. They all had smart phones, so police couldn’t suppress incriminating video by confiscating one or two or ten phones—someone was bound to have video of not only the original incident but also of police trying to confiscate phones to cover it up.

Looks like another good use of Google glasses, if used by protesters en masse.
Indentured servants weren't allowed to wind up unemployed or to pick a less lucrative career than the person they were indentured to might prefer.