Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
And I mean that it's not ironic to try to make the best of a bad situation.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Presumably the protest is intended to help ensure that his death does make a difference.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Go ahead.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm not sure what I would need to see to believe that someone who was such an asshole isn't anymore, but this ain't it.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm skeptical. My expectation is that the majority of definitions on Urban Dictionary are in fact attested uses of slang-- mainly on the basis that however many people are out there spending their time coming up with "bullshit" slang, there
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by Cushman 14y ago
Self-aware music might do that-- and beyond the musical singularity, a concept like "self-aware music" has to be treated as plausible. Which I think is the point.
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by Cushman 14y ago
What are you disagreeing with? It sounds like you're demonstrating the point: You find it distasteful to be told a bunch of stuff that was already true.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> A comment by the author gives examples of humans who don't have names, but certainly exist: "Someone born into slavery in the Sudan, a woman born in rural China, an American baby recovered after being born into a toilet, a feral child
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by Cushman 14y ago
If you were an alien anthropologist, would that strike you as the most bizarre thing going on at parties?
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by Cushman 14y ago
Paranormal is a lazy word for me to use, since a scientific worldview doesn't have any unexplainable phenomena, only unexplained phenomena. Leave that word and its implications aside, and take this away: I feel comfortable saying (and you s
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by Cushman 14y ago
Really? From the first scene, is it so hard to predict "One of the diners has a gun, but will let the robbers go?" But seriously, I see what you're saying: Pulp Fiction has a multilayered narrative that is complex and consistently surprisin
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'd recommend hitting the JREF forums.[0] For best results, approach them with a single thing you can do that others cannot, rather than a list of things. Minor is actually better, as long as it's something with a causal impact that shouldn
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by Cushman 14y ago
Man, since when does a relevant link to a clever solution to a technical problem get downvoted on HN? Y'all need to get over it.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> If you can predict how the story ends (or count the number of possible endings on your fingers), the movie probably isn't worth paying for. How on earth can you say this? New tellings of old stories are a — the — foundational elemen
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by Cushman 14y ago
I gave the example to illustrate what I mean by "bullshit word", but the question is more or less this: Are you using this word because it's a word you know, or because it's a word you found in a list of Scrabble words? I'm not saying that
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by Cushman 14y ago
Good analogy, actually. There is a popular perception that being good at chess indicates skill at strategy or reasoning. In reality, these are helpful, yes, but mostly what it indicates is that you know a lot about the game of chess. Simila
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by Cushman 14y ago
You're actually hitting the hidden question: Will getting what you want make you happy? Cognitive science suggests that the answer to this is also no.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Seems like a semantic point more than anything. Would you really call the device I am transmitting this comment from a phone?
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by Cushman 14y ago
The thesis of the War on Drugs is pretty much that there are abstract, amorphous dangers to recreational drug use, and the proper role of government is to provide immediate, concrete dangers so that people will stop. It does have a certain
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by Cushman 14y ago
PayPal's "sandbox" environment is uniquely torturous to work with. It didn't take us days, but it did seem like someone had gone out of the way to make it annoying.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> History has shown pretty clearly that governments on the more-coercive side of the spectrum have caused more death and destruction than those on the less-coercive side. I'm not seeing it. Absent governments in the third world cause q
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by Cushman 14y ago
Are you universally dualist, or only when it comes to governance? It seems as if we only know these "innate" rights through the protection of government.
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by Cushman 14y ago
By being born in the United States, and as a child of citizens of the United States, I became a citizen of the United States. This entitles me to rights, like the ability to travel anywhere I like across the continent without impediment, as
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by Cushman 14y ago
Of course you can-- you can move somewhere else. But you'll be likely to find that places without "government coercion", i.e. government, are not as much nicer as you had imagined. Many millions of people are materially dependent on individ
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by Cushman 14y ago
Easy there, killer. This isn't some feel-good bullshit about maybe hurting someone's feelings; it's about the atmosphere we want our community to have. We're all social creatures. Super negative comments bring everybody down, not just whoev
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by Cushman 14y ago
Any contractual obligation, any transaction, is implicitly backed by the threat of violence. If you believe free enterprise can be more effective than government assistance, you believe "coerced charity" is better. You got anything better
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by Cushman 14y ago
Let this be your lesson that presentation does, in fact, matter. Whatever your intent, your post reads as an excessively negative scorecard. And nobody wants to read excessively negative content, man. It's a drag.
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by Cushman 14y ago
FYI, that "recommended dose" of eight glasses a day is mythical. No scientific basis whatsoever. If you aren't thirsty, you're drinking the right amount of water. http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp
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by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, I'm not really buying that. So you're bringing somebody exceptional on who will create some amount of value, and you're willing to compensate them appropriately for that. But wait, the rest of your team will be resentful! There are tw
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by Cushman 14y ago
In case I was unclear, the taboo is real, and has sociological explanations. I'm just saying there's an economic incentive behind it that favors businesses over employees.

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