Edman274

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by Edman274 4y ago
Your unstated assertion here is that we don't actually need to try to mitigate global warming and that it's merely a moral question, or like some culture war tempest-in-a-teapot. We need to mitigate global warming. That's
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by Edman274 4y ago
I don't understand the connection between the zoo's aquarium "fogging up" in your home town because of brownouts and the unwillingness of scientists to share data. I don't understand the connection between scientifi
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by Edman274 4y ago
For anyone else seeing this comment, I recommend the following blog post: http://bactra.org/weblog/918.html "Attention conservation notice: Over 7800 words about optimal planning for a socialist economy and its in
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by Edman274 5y ago
Do you think that if the price of insulin goes down that there's suddenly going to be a huge floodgate of people who will consume a lot more insulin than they're already consuming now? Like, people who were like "yeah, I&#x27
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by Edman274 5y ago
Yes, a single counterexample negates the general trend.
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by Edman274 5y ago
Yeah, the ambiguity was intentional, and you're right.
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by Edman274 5y ago
As a shareholder, I think that not making as much money as possible is the real evil here. I always interpreted "don't be evil" as "don't waste money building an aquarium for sharks with lasers on their heads&quot
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by Edman274 5y ago
Sure, but you chose only the last panel as your witty rebuttal. Honestly, I don't think that the first panel is that off. If you go on the internet to criticize a company, be intellectually honest and acknowledge the fact that you&#x27
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by Edman274 5y ago
Brimble said "If you have advertisers (or just standards) you'll also need to check it for horrible stuff that's not illegal. And by "you'll", in the case of a place like Facebook, I mean "some other peopl
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by Edman274 5y ago
The reason that the "yet you participate in society" argument works in the original comic you're quoting is that the peasant with sticks on his back is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and the peasant isn
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by Edman274 5y ago
If you're arguing in good faith you should probably explicitly acknowledge that you recognize that you're using hacker news to argue that a website like hacker news shouldn't exist. Do you think that no one is paid to moderat
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by Edman274 5y ago
That response is basically "nothing he said is strictly speaking wrong, but we value freedom above everything else." Well, they're allowed to take that position, but I prioritize being able to use a free / open source me
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by Edman274 5y ago
>It's different this time Good job inventing a strawman and then knocking it down with sarcasm.
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by Edman274 5y ago
> then how can it be true that Doreen still represents the movement Represents the "movement", or represents the sub? They obviously still represented the sub - they were there when it got created, were a moderator, were picked
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by Edman274 5y ago
There was literally no way for anyone to know that at the time that they treated him like a bag of grain that needed to be dragged off of a cart. All they knew was that some old Chinese man seemed like an easy target to bully out of a seat
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by Edman274 5y ago
https://www.faa.gov/data_research/passengers_cargo/unruly_pa...
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by Edman274 5y ago
The rich are different from you and me. (Yes, they have more money.)
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by Edman274 5y ago
"So this seatbelt will prevent all injuries from car accidents, right?" "No. You can still be killed while wearing a seatbelt." "Will I have to keep driving carefully in hazardous conditions?" "Yes."
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by Edman274 5y ago
> to people who are totally ignorant of common illnesses, health issues, or injuries. Hundreds of thousands, no, potentially millions of people have decided to take hydrochloroquine and ivermectin as a treatment for Covid. The people who
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by Edman274 5y ago
Oh, good point. I didn't know that there was a hard mode - I've only played twice.
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by Edman274 5y ago
If you right off the bat guess "bound" and then positions 2, 3, 4, and 5 all come up green, then your goal needs to then be to use words like 'morse' to rule out (in one fell swoop) words like 'sound', 'mo
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by Edman274 5y ago
I thought shilling operations don't operate on Sundays. Do they not give you the day off?
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by Edman274 5y ago
"Ever since I started photographing back in 2012 at the ripe old age of 19, my primary subject has been garbage and everything that comes with it." The author tells you how old they are in the first sentence.
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by Edman274 5y ago
In the imagined scenario of a 1980s MAD first-strike, it's wherever the nuclear missile silos are. There's a lot of farmland around Dayton. I would not rule out the possibility that there is at least one nuclear launch site near W
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by Edman274 5y ago
That's the point I was making. The mere existence of a constraint that says "you have to define a first name and a last name" is not a traumatic constraint. Whether the first name and last name match up with a previous name t
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by Edman274 5y ago
It is not hyper-exaggerating any more than "Falsehoods programmers believe about names" is. That post lists as a counterexample the unpronounceable name that Prince went as. It described a scenario where no one has names and peo
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by Edman274 5y ago
Does the requirement to define any last name at all expose you to a special form of trauma that would be mitigated by not having to define any last name, even if the last name is of your choosing?
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by Edman274 5y ago
I know the post - it includes most of the examples I gave! "I could decide that I never have the same name after it's been uttered once" is the extension of "8. People’s names change, but only at a certain enumerated set
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by Edman274 5y ago
Okay. Let's change the example. I make my full, legal name the same as my credit card number.
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by Edman274 5y ago
> I’m not sure a riddle that stumps young children is a good basis for how people should define their own identity. I certainly don’t think it should defer to the convenience of others. Especially when identity, or conflict thereof, can

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