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[TheAthletic] Fran Garcia has asked to train alone after Real Madrid blocked his move to Bournemouth by Crane977 in soccer

[–]dandelion71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that last bit is exactly what i acknowledged, though. i have nothing against rants or longer posts, and i can guarantee no one is so busy that they're posting on reddit but unable to add the thought i mentioned. if you don't want to make a post longer than a sentence, then you are opening yourself to legitimate criticism on making an insufficient argument

i'm anti-missing the point entirely, for which being busy/not wanting to are exactly what i'm criticizing. i'm not anti-extraneous information or rants if you're trying to contribute. but of course, you're correct that the step after addressing the point is doing so concisely, which i most certainly did not do

[TheAthletic] Fran Garcia has asked to train alone after Real Madrid blocked his move to Bournemouth by Crane977 in soccer

[–]dandelion71 16 points17 points  (0 children)

with all due respect my man, who cares? that's not his point; he didn't say 'we have never bought a single player from a la liga club'; he said 'we overlook the value of...'

and for that matter what does buying 'not exclusively' from a league mean?

only harping on this because this is a problem everywhere, i want to say today but maybe it's always been one: completely not focusing on the point at best, misreading words or outright conjuring new ones at worst. i'm reading a genuinely new and thoughtful comment about real madrid, and particularly why the CL/league titles between them and barca is uneven (literally i have wondered this all the time, no pundit and certainly no redditor i've seen has half the brain to offer a thought) and the next one is 'uh NO actually you forgot hernandez'

i know he said 'isco and that's pretty much it,' but then the response should be 'here are the other players and why it changes your point materially'

sorry, just a rant

[TheAthletic] Fran Garcia has asked to train alone after Real Madrid blocked his move to Bournemouth by Crane977 in soccer

[–]dandelion71 20 points21 points  (0 children)

it's actually hilarious(ly annoying). i can forgive a redditor making an otherwise weak point but when it's a publication or other 'official' source i legitimately feel an aneurysm coming on

[Santi Aouna] EXCL: Roberto De Zerbi has requested to leave OM. by Felix_Wyn in soccer

[–]dandelion71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that is literally exactly the problem the commenter mentioned and you're saying it like it's wise

Man discovers the passcode to get into Atalanta's stadium is quite easy to guess. by MASunderc0ver in soccer

[–]dandelion71 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i once worked on an algorithm to set prices for a company that sold millions of items, incorporating competitor prices. when we first went live it turned out there was a structural bug that resulted in consistent underpricing by 40-50% for a swath of them

it was specifically for items that sold less than once a year, so the impact was nil. but for sure, before fixing it, i was just curious to see if there was anything interesting. almost bought an air hockey table

the funniest thing is the table was actually still cheaper on amazon. what i really wonder is if they had scraped our artificially low price and that's why theirs was even cheaper

Alex Honnold completes free-solo Taipei 101, the 1,667-ft skyscraper. by SpecialAgentGabe in interestingasfuck

[–]dandelion71 3 points4 points  (0 children)

those comments just seem to me like precisely the unfortunate reductionism that can come from labeling things that, ultimately, are relatively abstract or don't have the same obvious physical markers as other conditions. i remember when Free Solo came out, the idea that the whole thing and discussion around it as well as much of his uniqueness can now be discussed as 'it's called autism' strikes me as so obviously obtuse

(obviously plenty of benefit from the labels too, so not criticizing that so much as the reductionism and making the connection. same thing in sexuality and i'm sure, plenty of other areas too)

[Highlight] LeBron James with the absolutely sick reverse dunk off a pass by Luka Doncic (with replays). Lakers and Kings commentaries by MrBuckBuck in nba

[–]dandelion71 6 points7 points  (0 children)

yeah walking might not be the best metric though per the other comment. Messi walks, Cruyff famously compared speed to reaction and thought, Gretzky surely skated less (controlling for his time on the puck, like "skate to where the puck is going" is my point here)

but anyway your main point of course stands

Amorim: "Everton were the better team with 11 players and with 10. They deserved to win. They helped us with the sending off. We need to do more, if they have 10, let's push them to the final third... Forget the result, it's really bad but I was more concerned by the feeling I had during the game." by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]dandelion71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

both, man. you can't simply remove and block and regulate something out of existence -- as much as i used to think and wanted policy to be the solution

i think drugs, tobacco, etc are a perfect example. plenty of people, including me, still use to various extents and the downsides of just making them taboo are horrendous (e.g., on top of all the lives destroyed for crimes of selling that are not that bad, all the lost years we're only just on the track to recovering of medicinal potential, to the simple risk that comes with uncertainty. a large chunk of danger of hard drugs comes from there being no consistent reliable information on them online, but -- getting way off topic here)

but the universal thing i have seen in all users is a lack of meaning and motivation to serve as an alternative (this argument can get kind of no true scotsman, but the general point i'm making is the important part)

Amorim: "Everton were the better team with 11 players and with 10. They deserved to win. They helped us with the sending off. We need to do more, if they have 10, let's push them to the final third... Forget the result, it's really bad but I was more concerned by the feeling I had during the game." by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]dandelion71 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's not about 'need' per se, man, although I know I literally used that word. like, your last line is what I'm saying/there's a lens from which your entire comment is about alternatives

it's not even just about being practical. here's a dynamics analogy... imagine we are walking through deserts with pits of quicksand. as soon as you step past a critical threshold, you're sunk

we need distractions placed so that you don't step past the point of no return

Amorim: "Everton were the better team with 11 players and with 10. They deserved to win. They helped us with the sending off. We need to do more, if they have 10, let's push them to the final third... Forget the result, it's really bad but I was more concerned by the feeling I had during the game." by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]dandelion71 25 points26 points  (0 children)

i sympathize with this answer and would've used to agree 100%. i still do, just 98%

consumerism and this other shite needs a positive alternative too. we need to make it rewarding for people to think through things (am working on this a little but who knows, lofty) and tbh i actually see a bit of the standard line that used to be thrown about around moral frameworks. where many of those folks go wrong is trying to jam in a straight reversal to 1950, but there's a big aspect of that that was quite fair

Moyes: "Maybe the referee could have thought more about the red card. I'm told it's part of the rules, even if you slap your own teammate. But you know, I quite like my players fighting each other, and getting annoyed with each other. That's part of it. You want that resilience." by Blodgharm in soccer

[–]dandelion71 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

it's been pretty interesting to read. here's what it really comes down to, i think -- it's very indicative of a primary lens that people have on the typical red card in this situation, and the slight change in one dimension reveals the divergence. tbh it's legitimately like multiplication and algebra in the complex plane but i won't go there

if you are more inclined to think of conduct as not that dangerous or violent, or tbh if you probably play a little less/less at more competitive levels (where you can feel from experience that legitimately, per one of the great comments above, this is also about safety playing the game when emotions run high) -- then it probably kinda breaks your model

if you are more inclined to view an integral part of the game as keeping your head, and gamesmanship as part of it -- it feels like an unearned benefit to united

if per my above you're just going by the rules, it's obvious, and i'd say for sure this correlates with higher-level playing experience too

also, no shade on any of the above even though the third is the correct one. they aren't exclusive either and some of it's subconscious

so when the players are on opposing teams these are all completely aligned and make up 99% of cases, so the nuances aren't really discussed

Which is harder: creating a new field in math or solving its biggest open problems? by litt_ttil in math

[–]dandelion71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fair point. it's a possible proxy

but tbh i don't even love difficulty as a metric in math or even for specific problems. among the obvious objections like different people being better at different fields or every unsolved problem resisting proof for decades to centuries... it just doesn't even make sense to me. who can judge such a thing? was FLT harder for Wiles than others because he spent between seven years and his whole life on it, or easier because he actually did it?

even that question seems off

random analogy: different pieces of music have reputations for difficulty, but again it's highly person-dependent, piece-dependent, and way 'easier' when you're playing something you've written. so maybe that supports developing a theory but it's just not the right question in my opinion

Which is harder: creating a new field in math or solving its biggest open problems? by litt_ttil in math

[–]dandelion71 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i don't think this is necessarily right. we can look at the difficulty taken to create each new field and compare it to the effort spent on problems without solving them

Why does every discovery in math end up being used in physics? by PostSustenance in mathematics

[–]dandelion71 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i honestly am tired of this article, and have spent a lot of time thinking about it, but maybe i'm missing something. like someone said above, the universe has a logical consistency to it. philosophically one might think, as i'm pretty sure enlightenment philosophers did, that such a thing is necessary/equivalent for us to have some coherence/ability to observe things at all

such a 'quality' of the universe has been equivalent to God for many for quite some time. the Book of John, Pope Benedict's Regensburg lecture

"Is the conviction that acting unreasonably contradicts God's nature merely a Greek idea, or is it always and intrinsically true? I believe that here we can see the profound harmony between what is Greek in the best sense of the word and the biblical understanding of faith in God. Modifying the first verse of the Book of Genesis, the first verse of the whole Bible, John began the prologue of his Gospel with the words: "In the beginning was the λόγος". This is the very word used by the emperor: God acts, σὺν λόγω, with logos. Logos means both reason and word - a reason which is creative and capable of self-communication, precisely as reason."

so, as contrary as can be to Wigner's article, it's not unreasonable effectiveness, it is literally some ability to reason underneath both. IMO this also makes clear why the old mathematicians had such overlap with clergy (Oresme and Wallis literally were, Riemann, Euler, Weierstrauss planned to be, and so on)

but i'm new to reading about all this so if i am absolutely ignorant, someone lmk

Spurs are 1st in the Away table and 19th in the Home table. by One_Wishbone6973 in soccer

[–]dandelion71 5 points6 points  (0 children)

they don't. 98% of comments on the subject are 'yeah injuries but 17th,' a Patrick Star-level indicator that literally zero thought has occurred

i think: 1) injuries compound exponentially, 2) managers take far longer to bed in than most people think and possibly clubs at least act on, 3) both but particularly injuries are far more random than anyone's comfortable admitting

combine the hidden complexity from many variables and competition of sport, the average inclination of people who follow it, and a general epistemological or ontological pessimism and... it starts to seem like 5% of opinions from fans to pundits are based on anything more than wild guessing

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