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by 0xdde 6y ago
Where is this latest information? The articles timestamped today or yesterday still quote two officers saying he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. I don't see reference to your last point.
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by 0xdde 6y ago
Among other things, you're omitting that they beat a police officer to death. I would also be surprised if the only people who felt disturbed by this whole event were "some politicians".
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by 0xdde 6y ago
There isn't. He is pointing out that publicly funded research is then not freely available to the public.
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by 0xdde 6y ago
> it's like a religion The parallels run pretty deep. Smith's "invisible hand" most likely referred to the hand of God, but I guess these days blind faith in that concept somehow qualifies as secular and scientific.
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by 0xdde 6y ago
Because that is the specific topic of this thread? The same arguments are brought up with these other aspects, too. Are you trying to suggest that the problems with those other mediums somehow negate the problem here?
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by 0xdde 6y ago
There's no equivalence. The rationale behind each of these two positions is completely unrelated.
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by 0xdde 6y ago
> The only real thing that can save us is for a small group to come up with some kind of technology that can make sweeping changes on a massive geological scale and ultimately reverse global warming without humanity having to do anything
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by 0xdde 6y ago
> Recycling has been sold from the very beginning as being the option of last resort. Maybe in the most literal reading of that slogan, but a claim like this could really use some substantiation.
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by 0xdde 6y ago
So depending on the numbers, are we possibly seeing non-overweight people overrepresented in adverse outcomes relative to the population?
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by 0xdde 6y ago
Do you have some deeper point you're trying to get at? This sounds like a total nitpick, and I'm not sure where you're getting your erroneous corrections from. The illegal wire-tapping was a matter known to the public before
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by 0xdde 6y ago
It's always amusing to me how stubborn and pedantic HN commenters are over basic things. I can't help but play the game this once. I don't doubt that plenty of people share your view and plenty will share mine. We're dis
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by 0xdde 6y ago
You might be the one with a weird idea of what a city is. I'd wager most people think of something like the top 20 metropolitan statistical areas by population when they hear the term. In the U.S, at least, those generally all have ter