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It's not even sufficient to show that maps are never neutral.

As far as neutrality is concerned, I'd like to see someone argue that a graph of sin(x) with x between 0 and 2pi and y between say -1.5 and +1.5 is not neutral, provided it is presented as a graphical approximation of the function and domain.

For other numerical graphs, such as stock prices, or population development, there's always the possibility that it isn't represented in sufficient detail, but that would depend on the user's knowledge and expectation, I think. How to lie with statistics is a good starting point for that. The article suggests the same idea, but makes it a social issue.

Don't worry too much. If you follow basic food recommendations, even those given out 60 years ago, your child can grow up fine. Even if you only follow it just half the time. Basically, all those articles have to be taken with a grain of salt. What kills you is: smoking, drinking, tanning, long periods of only junk food. And those seem to affect you mainly after age 25. Children are remarkably sturdy.

More like: we all need arginine, but our body makes it, so we don't need to supplement it. Wikipedia writes this:

Preterm infants are unable to synthesize arginine internally, making the amino acid nutritionally essential for them. Most healthy people do not need to supplement with arginine because it is a component of all protein-containing foods and can be synthesized in the body from glutamine via citrulline.

If you use sysctl to disable mptcp, you need to do that again after each reboot.

Welcome to corporate drivel. That memo says next to nothing. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been written by some LLM. "Write it in a grand style, like Kennedy's moon speech, but don't scare the share holders."

Is there any security in internet traffic that isn't obscurity? It all boils down to private keys.

Idk which period you're referring to, but for a long time, the Politburo was nothing but Stalin's mouth piece, as was the Central Committee and the rest of the Party, ad they ruled through very hard repression. That puts a long-lasting kind of mark on a society that you can't engineer yourself out of. So I'd argue it's not much of an argument.

What's the 11-10 vote? DId everybody go on holidays and leave only 21 members in session?

The elephant in the room: I didn't check the other mammoths, but e.g. Amazon has 4.4% of all ipv4 addresses.

There seem to be two paths for the Mac: integration, aka subject to the iphone, and become less appealing, or being split off into a separate company, and probably going extinct. Not saying that are the only two sensible outcomes, but shareholders and bonus vying execs always want to stir things up, so may choose one of these two easy paths for short-term profit, and there's no turning back.

The correlation is there, though. Many think highly of Heidegger, whose only achievement is wrapping a mix of trivialities and utter nonsense in an impregnable newspeak. Or look at Derrida, who tried to outdo Heidegger. Instant success.

Veering off a bit more: books written in 1896 may not be readable any longer. Not because the ink faded, or the paper got stuck, but because the spelling and vocabulary changed, or the type font has been relegated to the dust bin (think Fraktur).

It may sound a bit silly, but it's also a reminder that even these "monolithic" sites are built upon knowledge of others.

Normal keyboards have staggered rows. This design doesn't seem to permit that.

Well, some of that actually is common among the Protestants in Western Europe. The belief is that God will punish you for doing bad (quite common in many religions), and therefore that your are faithful if you're doing well. These were not the persecuted minorities that fled to the USA, but dressing greed as piety did cross the pond.

So national interest doesn't exist? It's all at the whim of a demented money grabber, just because a small majority of the voters (if there really was a majority) got riled up?

He definitely isn't a Catholic. "Thiel is a self-described Christian and a promoter of René Girard's Christian anthropology." says Wikipedia. He grew up in a fundamentalist evangelical household. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Religious_views

An insane take. If you could read, ypu would have understood I'm not in favor of dictatorship nor censorship. Nor am I part of any echo chamber. Thou doth project too much, methinks.

I think we may assume these sites won't go away, and also that a personal blog is not a solution for the vast majority.

No, it means that the role of the Swiss president cannot be compared to the cases discussed. It requires a different organization of the state, not just a term or age limit.

Wrt to the latter: the Swiss system prefers the elder candidate.

Unfortunately there's a lot of magical thinking around LLMs.

In tests, reseats allow you to take the maximum, not the average. The maximum goes asymptotically up.

First among equals, the president of the Confederation has no powers over and above the other six councillors and continues to head the assigned department. Traditionally the duty rotates among the members in order of seniority; the vice president of the Federal Council assumes the presidency the year after the officeholder's tenure. The president of the Confederation is not the head of state because the entire Federal Council is the collective head of state.

Per wikipedia.

> maximises the luck component

No, it doesn't. Repeating it ad infinitum does that.

But therefore it's a good thing grades aren't just pass or fail, but have a range, from 1 to 10, or to 20 or whatever. Too bad there's so much external pressure on the system.

Yeah, that's not going to solve twitter, facebook, instagram, etc.

I'll make my position clear: many parties try to influence people, and quite a few of them do so with grave consequences. The swing to extreme right politics cannot be seen separate from internet interference. In the words of the article: it's already not "technology serving people", but rather "controlling" them.

If extreme right (or left) parties come to power, your freedom of speech and privacy is over. So it's either moderate moderation, or authoritarian moderation. And if it's up to me, it's not your choice.

? Are you meaning to say that the same tentatively beautiful things always illicit the same 'sensation' type in all people?

No, just that we have managed to learn to apply the word "beauty" to things that cause a similar mental state, just like we learnt to label things "red" or "acid".

> What is hindering you from accepting the existance of multiple perspectives/points of view?

Reality? Our "brain" adapts itself continuously. But it goes either way. It gets desensitized when overstimulated. When using the label "X" for "Y", that didn't carry that label before, you assume that "Y" now gets part of its perceived values from "X". But associations of "X" are equally at risk to take over part of the anterior values of "Y". If you call too many things beautiful, it starts losing its meaning, and possibly numb you to the experience as a consequence. And if the original association of "Y" is visceral enough, chances are that you cannot overrule it, and that the reverse will happen.

Instead of faking smiles in order to pretend happiness, it's better to learn to accept things for what they are, warts and all.

I think the elephant in the room here is the reaction of other people to scars, especially so big and visible. Calling your scar beautiful and making that known is a passive-aggressive, pro-active move to avoid judgement through suppressing socially unacceptable behavior.

> But to deny that things managed by the State are more expensive overall is a clear sign of ideological blindness.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50208837

Your argument seems to imply that the only thing that an exam is possibly allowed to measure is ability to answer a question at some arbitrary point in time. It also separates the people with the wit to understand a bunch of topics in a span of 3 or 5 months, the ability to plan accordingly, enough self control, and some motivation to see the plan through from the ones that don't. That's not a bad thing, as diplomas are often used as a proxy not only for intelligence, but also for suitability to certain jobs.

It's good to be reminded that "frontier models" aren't particularly good at most tasks. They happen to be good at programming, since there's a lot of training data available, and the task has parallels with report writing and story telling. For skin cancer? Probably very little. Also, images of skin cancer probably don't translate that well to a Large Language Model's internal representation.

The post speaks negatively about the tumor that was where the scar now is. Why didn't they consider it beautiful?