Banthum

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by Banthum 9y ago
I'll begin with a simple analogy. Your house is for your family, including children who have never done anything to earn it. Why can't other people come in, eat your food, watch your TV, and sleep in your bed? Why should other peo
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Your comment made sense up until the last paragraph. I honestly see no connection between giving things to women and solving any of the problems we're discussing here. In fact it could make things worse by further saturating the job ma
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The people who care most about that list of issues aren't reproducing biologically, and the progressive memeplex is having trouble finding new willing converts, since most of the people with a foundationally Christian belief system hav
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by Banthum 10y ago
The weak "you've stated opinions of the wrong tribe in other discussions, therefore nobody should believe you" character attacks are a boring waste of time. Please respond to the comment at hand; digging through post history
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I think you're right, but anger actually works better in person. The problem with anger over text, especially email, is that the angry message sits there and stews and stays angry at the recipient for hours or days. And they have lots
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The author is reasoning along the premise that the universe is lifeless; he didn't declare it with absolute certainty (and in fact he specifically addressed the possibility of aliens and how they'd interact with his point). Frankl
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Catastrophes are only catastrophes when they happen to conscious beings. Every days, stars explode and planets are torn to pieces. None of it matters because there's nobody for it to matter to . Moreover, any catastrophe on the table
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I'll believe immigrants' revealed preferences. Clearly they prefer living around those horrible white people to living around their own people in their own country. And - Good thing none of us have a time portal to 1954.
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The word 'bias' implies that the belief is incorrect. If the information is correct, it shouldn't be called a bias. It is simply a conclusion. For example: "It also tended to associate "woman" and "girl&qu
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It is fairly absurd to suggest that the mainstream American right has the goal of "reconcentration of power in an oligarchy". Even the furthest of the alt-right take their goal as the exact opposite: to break the control of the &q
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People end up in prison for a reason. Though how I wish it wasn't so.
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At Twitter's scale, they do have an obligation to be a neutral platform. They own the modern digital "town square". Things have changed since the old days. Businesses have obligations beyond just barely staying within the law
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You're saying Twitter isn't obligated by the law about free speech. I'm saying that free speech is more than a law. Perhaps you're referring to the first amendment, but I'm making the point that you can't limit
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Well, you obviously know the history. You can see as well as I that cultures with regular psychedelic use tend to be incapable of defending themselves from even very casual incursions by foreign powers. This isn't limited to the Americ
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Behavior leads to outcomes. If you emulate a people, you'll end up with the outcomes of those people. Looking at the outcomes of shamanistic native cultures (e.g. a total lack of influence, power, freedom, equality, or prosperity), I&#
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It's actually a myth that most Chinese characters have a semantic component (indicating meaning). And the phonetic component often doesn't correspond to anything any modern person would know. The problem in both cases is the shift
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One great example of this from the New York Times: 'Last year, 35% of colleges saw international student numbers go up, 26% saw no change, and 39% saw them go down. New York Times publishes this with the headline “Amid Trump Effect Fea
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The problem is that local politics don't really make the differences that people care most deeply about. Maybe that should be different. This is why I'd like to see a more federalist approach. Where really passionate issues could
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That original, pure form of "fake news" held onto the label for about 24 hours before the definition started expanding to include all this true-but-deceptive stuff we're talking about. Nobody's defending "true"
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In truth, free speech DOES mean business shouldn't censor arbitrarily on their own platform. Free speech isn't just a quirky law to restrain the government. It's a social virtue which should all try to uphold, everywhere, b
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On 2) parent is not equating the goverment's position on this case to Twitter's positions on Milo. He is equating Twitter's position on this case to Twitter's position on Milo's case, and noting that there is indeed
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Why does the headline present this as a known fact, while the sub-headline clarifies the fact that this is just a theoretical and unconfirmed possibility? "Trump administration’s proposed changes may mean travelers from countries inc
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Agreed, but let's make that even more general. No need to limit that to "real journalists", since then you're just asking for people to build an ivory tower and use it as a power base for control of "non-real"
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The author really does seem to think of black people as children who can't possibly be held accountable for anything they've done. What must it be like to be on the receiving end of such paternalism? It sounds awful. And horrifica
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>"How do machine learning and statistical analysis tools distinguish between a causal relationship and mere correlation?" They have no reason to make such a distinction. If you're trying to look for subjects of with a part
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Comments on the climate and economy are reasonable here - But your moral judgmentalism reminds me of a Bible-thumping racist talking about how horrible SF is because of all the godlessness and miscegenation. Yes, people in Utah have differe
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>It's not difficult to imagine a scenario where you lose your job, or an important supplier relationship because you left the church. By the same token, it's not difficult to imagine a scenario where you lose your job because y
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Heck, if that one fighter can win a world war alone, it's worth it! E.g. One WW2 battleship could defeat every ship on Earth combined as of ~1830. (and it probably cost more than all of them too). But, this is an amusing observation.
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Not defending the details for the F-35 program, but military spending in general: Every dollar you spend on weapons also increases GDP. Because GDP is not a measure of economic good, only of economic activity. In fact, wars create huge jump
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Regarding manners, it really depends on what those manners are. Chinese medieval society was very orderly and mannered; there were clear standards of behavior (at least for the elites). But the manners in question were conservative and did

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