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Why Are So Many Techies Lefties?

The Greatest Documentary - The World at War, a 1973 series, remains an essential primer on history’s deadliest conflict.

VDH: The myth of progress

Human nature stays constant as the material world continually transforms. People are not pawns of history or pilgrims skipping up some radiant celestial arc. Sometimes the people, ideas, and movements of the twenty-first century prove better, and sometimes far worse, than those of the past—and they will likewise again when framed against the future.

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Climate Modeling Dominates Climate Science

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We don't take Obamacare

The War against the Male Breadwinner

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Government agencies can do whatever the hell they want.

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Just an old-fashioned empire

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QUOTE:

Climate Modeling Dominates Climate Science

Except for all that data collection, such as launching satellites, expeditions to the Greenland icecap, collecting butterflies, and stuff like that.

Google Scholar isn't probably the best resource. If you search for biology from 2006, it returns 500k results, but if you search for biology AND modeling, it returns 1200k results from 2006, even though the search is more restricted. According to the analysis used in the article, not only is biology inundated with modeling, modeling is 240% of biology since 2006!

#1 Zachriel on 2016-05-16 09:55 (Reply)

Haha, someone didn't understand the piece.

#1.1 DrTorch on 2016-05-16 11:57 (Reply)

DrTorch: someone didn't understand the piece.

In fact, we applied the methodology to show the limitations of the methodology. Otherwise, this is where you explain your own understanding of the piece, and how we may have misunderstood it.

#1.1.1 Zachriel on 2016-05-16 13:20 (Reply)

Re: Alternative summer camp

Wow! What a cool camp!

#2 mudbug on 2016-05-16 10:02 (Reply)

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Why Are So Many Techies Lefties? ... aesthetically pleasing design is more important to the success of their products. Therefore more creatives are required and creatives trend left of center.

Not necessarily true of the individual, but still implies the importance of diversity. Society needs both dreamers and builders, leapers and plodders.

#3 Zachriel on 2016-05-16 10:04 (Reply)

I've worked in IT for 20 years. There are three common and interlocking conceits in the industry:
1. All unsolved problems are primarily technological
2. If technology has not yet solved the problem, it is because the correct paradigm has not yet been discovered
3. The end goal of most people is to become more like us.

Number 3 gets amplified by living in the closed-society echo chambers that many startups implicitly or explicitly grow into. I think the whole notion of tension between tech-heads and creatives is a false dichotomy. At the top end of both fields there's a huge need for creativity, and at the low end there's a lot of room for pluggers, whether you are talking about database or interface and experience design.

#3.1 Another guy named Dan on 2016-05-16 12:07 (Reply)

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The Myth Of Progress

While the essential human nature hasn't changed, there has been a strong social trend (albeit not monotonic) towards greater equality and technological sophistication, at least since the Renaissance.

#4 Zachriel on 2016-05-16 10:06 (Reply)

^ I like how the 'Farm has attracted someone's artificial intelligence experiment. It may be entry-level tech for the sector, but the results are still entertaining. Bravo.

#4.1 Ten on 2016-05-16 19:11 (Reply)

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We don't take Obamacare

People don't have "ObamaCare, but rather have private insurance policies bought through an exchange. That doesn't mean a doctor may not be out of their network, but that's no different than it had been previously with private insurance policies.

#5 Zachriel on 2016-05-16 10:13 (Reply)

Always telling when an apologist's best argument is one of semantics.

What is certainly more different is the higher price of health insurance, so you didn't even get that part right.

#5.1 DrTorch on 2016-05-16 11:58 (Reply)

DrTorch: Always telling when an apologist's best argument is one of semantics.

Except that we pointed to a substantive, not a semantic, difference. You don't call your doctor and say you have "ObamaCare", but that you have coverage through a private insurer, such as Blue Cross Blue Shield.

#5.1.1 Zachriel on 2016-05-16 13:16 (Reply)

Except you didn't, but it's cute that you think you did.

#5.1.1.1 DrTorch on 2016-05-16 16:07 (Reply)

Except that in order for the ObamaCare bill to be passed, Obama had to tell people that nothing would change for those who already had health insurance. That was a lie. Due to increased regulations on insurance plans, many plans could no longer be offered and because of increased regulations on doctors, many had to go out of private practice and join health care conglomerates affecting the level and cost of service.

#6 mudbug on 2016-05-16 10:26 (Reply)

If someone has been a long-term supporter of Trump such as Sessions, Hunter, etc. then the VP slot would be welcome. If Trump follows through on what he has mentioned during his primary run, he will be incredibly popular. Mark my words.

#7 MissT on 2016-05-16 11:02 (Reply)

Re: Government agencies can do whatever the hell they want

"It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices." - John Roberts

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." - Thomas Jefferson

"Crown Bolt 3/8 in. x 50 ft. Natural Sisal Rope $8.81 each" - Home Depot

Something tells me they're not going to like it when the American people decide to save themselves from the consequences.

#8 Jerryskids on 2016-05-16 11:59 (Reply)

"It is not my job to protect the ruling elite from the consequences of their political mandates" _ indyjonesouthere Indeed!

#8.1 indyjonesouthere on 2016-05-16 17:24 (Reply)

Suburbia's going to DIEEEEeeeeeeeee for a really long time. Many people just don't like living IN big cities, but maybe near them.

#9 Sam L. on 2016-05-16 13:31 (Reply)

Highly endorse "The World At War" series.

The series was made while many WW2 decision makers were still alive. And viewpoints are presented for all sides. Not only those of the British and Americans as you would expect, but Germans and Japanese and to a lesser degree Russians. French, and others.

They reflect on how the situations looked at the time, not how they look in retrospect, and upon how choices were made.

Thus it is much different from being told what to believe by historians who weren't there. and/or by those who have current political ideas.

I watched on Amazon Prime It automatically will play the epiisodes in order and mark and resume where you stopped.

#10 KTWO on 2016-05-16 16:05 (Reply)

Yes, it's currently available for Prime members and can be bought for $25 used or $35 new. I'm going to buy it and also make sure my kids watch it as a course when they are old enough. I've seen episodes, but I look forward to watching it from beginning to end.

#10.1 Jack Walter on 2016-05-16 23:42 (Reply)

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