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theorique commented on Fake vaccine cards are everywhere. It’s a public health nightmare   grid.news/story/science/2... · Posted by u/treycopeland
pndy · 4 years ago
Pretty sure the US doesn't have an official federal-issued ID, and most of the time driving license works as such. And it seems this applies to the majority of Anglosphere countries.

Here in Poland we have a compulsory IDs, which for over 20 years now are plastic. Recently RFID tags and finger prints were added; there's also a standard biometric photo of face. All of this comes also with electronic and qualified electronic signature which can be used to verify our identity in government services or to sign the digital documents. And yes, we need to have it or the slowly accepted digital version when we want to vote in any elections.

theorique · 4 years ago
A passport is probably the most common ID issued by a federal government entity (Department of State) in the US.

A military ID is a also federal document (Department of Defense) but that only applies to a certain subset of the population.

theorique commented on Ask HN: Do Udacity nanodegrees get anyone a job without academic background?    · Posted by u/ycombonator
mowingscooter · 7 years ago
When I come across an applicant with a nanodegree, it almost sends a negative signal. If anything, do the course, leave it off your resume, and if you get an interview, you might impress your interviewer with all this unexpected technical knowledge.
theorique · 7 years ago
almost sends a negative signal.

Could you expand on that? Is there some common feature of people who have completed nanodegree courses?

theorique commented on Google employees call for removal of rightwing thinktank leader from AI council   theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/drugme
theorique · 7 years ago
Left-wing newspaper reports on actions of left-wing employees of major tech company based in left-wing geographic area.

I'm quite sure this article is going to be unbiased...

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theorique commented on Australian telcos block access to 4chan, other sites   9news.com.au/2019/03/19/1... · Posted by u/_ylmx
ratling · 7 years ago
They and others should permanently block 8chan. TBH if NZ/AUS started DDOSing it I'd be fine with that too but I doubt we're there yet.

The others I don't agree with long term (4chan is 4chan, Zerohedge is moronic but mostly benign, liveleak is concerning but I get why they did it) but 8chan is just cancer.

I get freedom of speech, but there has to be a limit somewhere. Those animals would drop nukes for funsies if they had the opportunity.

theorique · 7 years ago
"I get freedom of speech, but I don't believe that people should actually have it."
theorique commented on Well-Meaning Bad Ideas Spoiling a Generation   nautil.us/issue/70/variab... · Posted by u/dnetesn
Latty · 7 years ago
I don't see how safe spaces are at odds with that. Just because people want to have some space where they can relax doesn't mean that disagreement is impossible.

There are just less private spaces now, and we have more of an understanding that some people find it extremely hard to find those spaces, so actively ensuring they exist is important for them.

The idea that we have to let people show "dissent" about someone's identity and life by harassing people literally all the time seems obviously wrong to me.

theorique · 7 years ago
No one is arguing that people should be harassed "literally all the time" (or ever).

Some of the more egregious deployments of "safe spaces" in universities happened in response to controversial campus speakers who were deemed to have views that were threatening to some students. According to some campus radical leftists, the very presence of such speakers was "violence" and a literal "threat" to marginalized students.

Of course, the students could simply refuse to attend the talks of speakers they didn't like, but that wouldn't make as dramatic a statement as creating an explicit "safe space" where they could congregate.

theorique commented on America’s Professional Elite: Wealthy, Successful and Miserable   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/ojbyrne
AnIdiotOnTheNet · 7 years ago
Life isn't fundamentally empty. It's the philosophical underpinnings of profit-worship that make life seem empty.
theorique · 7 years ago
Is that really true?
theorique commented on K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system   cbc.ca/news/business/k-cu... · Posted by u/camtarn
theorique · 7 years ago
If you dry out the used pods and their contents, couldn't they be burned for energy?
theorique commented on Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting diets work   qz.com/1419105/a-diet-gur... · Posted by u/lxm
ngngngng · 7 years ago
I dislike articles like this as they continue to perpetuate the belief that there are secrets to weight loss. There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics.

The problem is made worse because overweight people typically greatly underestimate how much they eat, while underweight people (me most of my life) typically greatly overestimate how much we eat. It's nearly impossible to accurately gauge calorie intake without strict calorie counting.

When talking nutrition with people, I'll often bring up the examine.com piece on "does metabolism vary between two people?"(1) And I am always amazed to find at least one person in any conversation that will flat out deny the information presented there. they are positive that if they ate one single slice of pizza a day and nothing else, they would still be fat.

1: https://examine.com/nutrition/does-metabolism-vary-between-t...

theorique · 7 years ago
There are no secrets to weight loss. Eat fewer calories than you burn. It doesn't matter if that involves keto, or vegan, or one meal a day. Thyroid problems also don't change physics.

The point of the article is, the timing of feeding vs fasting leads to differences in fat storage.

The work of Dr Fung, among others, suggests that concentrating eating into a few (4-8) hour period per day causes better outcomes than feeding during the entire waking period.

Same thing with the balance of macronutrients. Tuning the ratio of fat:protein:carbohydrate can make a diet more filling and more sustainable on fewer calories. This enables that "calories in / calories out" rule to actually work and cause reduction in stored body fat.

theorique commented on The Socratic Method in an Age of Trauma (2017) [pdf]   harvardlawreview.org/wp-c... · Posted by u/barry-cotter
SilasX · 7 years ago
>Had I just told people "Don't get eliminated in a 5v4! Do you understand?" and they said "Yes!" I wouldn't really know if they understood or not.

That seems like less of an issue of using the Socratic method, and more about quantifying the cost of getting killed. "Dying costs your team X" is more helpful than "don't die". The former tells you under which conditions the heuristic "don't die" is no longer applicable, while the latter doesn't.

Or, to use my attempt at a neologism, your method satisfies the Scylla-Charybdis Heuristic, while "Don't get eliminated" doesn't: http://blog.tyrannyofthemouse.com/2015/12/the-scylla-charybd...

theorique · 7 years ago
The lesson is "quantifying the cost of getting killed".

The method by which that lesson is conveyed to the student is the Socratic method.

The point is that the Socratic method of asking leading questions and building agreement at each stage was more effective in getting the point across than "do you understand X? OK, good."

The student constructs the knowledge him/herself and internalizes it better than otherwise.

u/theorique

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