Banthum

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by Banthum 9y ago
You really think that your beliefs are so obviously superior to every other belief system ever - even millennia-old self-reinforcing super-memetic religious ideologies - that everyone will just automatically start thinking like you if given
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by Banthum 9y ago
Because they don't trust the Iranian government to provide accurate and complete information about her. Previous administrations may have extended that trust, but that doesn't prove they were correct to do so.
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by Banthum 9y ago
Parent is saying that it's better if everyone gets richer, even if some get more richer than others. So you're saying that it would be better if everyone was poorer individually, as long as they were more equally poor?
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by Banthum 9y ago
I've always found this idea that capitalism was "invented" to be so strange. e.g. When an ancient king had land, and let poor people work the land in exchange for a part of their production, what would you call that? Sure sou
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by Banthum 9y ago
Even more blatant was un-verifying Milo Yiannopolous. How can a person become not-themselves when they've been verified to be themselves already? It made it incredibly obvious that "Verified" actually means "Morally appr
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by Banthum 9y ago
With their revealed preferences, people have signaled that they want convenience more than privacy. Really, surveillance barely even seems necessary any more. People already voluntarily tell Facebook, Uber, Instagram, Amazon and their credi
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by Banthum 9y ago
Wouldn't be the first time we rediscovered something we shot out there and sorta forgot about. If I recall correctly, a few years ago an astronomer detected something drifting pretty far away with weird visual characteristics. It turne
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by Banthum 9y ago
Fun fact, the difference is because the Soviet designers chose to guide the rocket by varying the thrust between many small fixed engines. The American designers chose to have a few large engines that could turn slightly. I wonder which met
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by Banthum 9y ago
Here's your link: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Snargorf Certainly I made points that are culture war relevant a few times, but I think that account is clearly still within the rules. Certainly no rules wer
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by Banthum 9y ago
Our version is: shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.
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by Banthum 9y ago
Um, that may be true in you local experience, but statistically it is really, really false. There are lots of places where illegal immigrants can receive drivers' licenses and other forms of government assistance. And they do. For exam
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by Banthum 9y ago
I had an account before this one that was shadowbanned one day with no notification at all. I hadn't broken any stated rules. I had posted some points about IQ, which would be considered offensive or "harmful" from the leftis
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by Banthum 9y ago
The main issue is not citizens voting multiple times, it is illegal immigrants voting once each.
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by Banthum 9y ago
Democrats' base is also composed of a huge population of over ten million illegal immigrants. They are often well-integrated with Democrat-aligned political organizations, and many have family or friend connections to citizens who can
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by Banthum 9y ago
The crazy thing you think people are doing is not actually being done. IQ is not intended to represent 'all that intelligence is'. It is simply one way to measure a cross section of particular capacities that are valuable in a mod
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by Banthum 9y ago
The statistical abuse in this headline is extreme. It's so meaningless, yet so carefully designed to appeal to irrational confirmation biases. Consider some extremely simple thought experiments: e.g. Imagine a world where police do the
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by Banthum 9y ago
"I like to think that the current wave of high-profile sexual impropriety cases is similarly a sparked by the more socially liberal sectors of society against the misogyny embodied by Trump and the socially conservative segments."
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by Banthum 9y ago
>most problems could be solved by experts Implicit here is that when you say "experts", you mean people who share your terminal values and general way of thinking. Your post makes it seem like you're having trouble stepp
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by Banthum 9y ago
As I mentioned, each side simply did the thing best for themselves based on their circumstances at the time. Crusaders did not have any easily accessible slave markets to sell their captives to, since unlike Muslims they were not practicing
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by Banthum 9y ago
5 seconds of Googling reveals: >On July 4, 1187, the Muslim forces of Saladin (Salah al-Din) decisively defeated the crusader army south of the Horns of Hattin in Palestine, capturing Guy, king of Jerusalem; Reginald of Châtillon, Saladi
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by Banthum 9y ago
There are lots of cultures (national and sub-national) where people don't think about the future. Migration flows are always away from those cultures, and towards cultures where people do think about the future. The thing is, everybody
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by Banthum 9y ago
Or, more directly, what kind of job or hobbies that person has. E.g. If you work in construction, or you hunt, you'd be a lot more likely to choose a pickup truck for purely practical reasons.
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by Banthum 9y ago
Corruption can only harm you to the extent that corrupt organizations have power over you. e.g. You worry about the cops being corrupt; you don't worry much about a local restaurant owner being corrupt because you can just eat somewher
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by Banthum 9y ago
It's both. Large groups of people carry characteristic sets of genes which drive behavioral patterns, as well as culture which also drives behavioral patterns. On a large scale, the differences between Japanese and Mexicans are driven
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by Banthum 9y ago
I'm pretty sure I independently invented binary search when I was a child (as have many others). It's a pretty darn obvious thing to do when you're physically handling an ordered collection of records.
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by Banthum 9y ago
Not that I agree with the practice or anything, but I have to call out the how obviously maximally-outrage-inducing the headline is. From the middle of the story: >They found that 482 of the world's top 50,000 sites used scripts pro
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by Banthum 9y ago
"if we can get the benefits of capitalism when most equity is owned by a passive investment fund like an index tracker, then what's the problem with the state owning all the equity in that tracker, and redistributing the proceeds
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by Banthum 9y ago
Fair enough, but why wouldn't you acquire them from Africa?
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by Banthum 9y ago
I don't have an established opinion here, just a question. What's the rationale for forcing people who live in densely populated areas to subsidize those who live in remote areas this way? Why don't we subsidize them for, say
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by Banthum 9y ago
That's one way to calculate it. Other times, people measure life in "quality-adjusted years". So a coal plant that kills a young person every 20 years is worse than one that kills 78-year-olds regularly. This is a more rigoro

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