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by Practicality 10y ago
Fair enough, but pro-authoritarian boards do not represent all Americans. I was replying to a post that said "Americans think..." implying that all or most Americans think the same thing, so I was presenting a counter-point that n
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by Practicality 10y ago
I was disagreeing with the premise that all Americans think exactly the same thing by presenting any example of Americans who disagree. Since I know quite a few, it's at least enough that you can't say "Americans think X,&quo
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by Practicality 10y ago
That was precisely my point. Thanks. :) (The comment I was replying to said that Americans are ok with one thing but not ok with another. It was implying that all Americans think the same way and I disagree)
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by Practicality 10y ago
Are you replying to the right comment? Or are trying to give yourself as a datapoint of an American against Snowden?
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by Practicality 10y ago
Thanks for explaining. As jacalata pointed out I don't have much interaction with people with that point of view, hence why I have such a strong aversion to comments saying Americans feel that way.
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by Practicality 10y ago
True. But Kerry did get 48% of the vote. That's a LOT of people. It's not like the 50% who voted for Bush are the only Americans that exist.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Perhaps HN has cultured the evolution of a different type of troll.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Who are these generic Americans that think that Snowden should be condemned? Everyone American I know is very grateful for what he did. And I know quite a few. I've only ever heard official policy statements condemning him. I am not ev
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by Practicality 10y ago
You didn't bother with an actual argument and instead tried to force others to do the cognitive work to prove you wrong. This is intellectually lazy.
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by Practicality 10y ago
I upvote whimsical humor because it represents the true reality.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Yes, I considered that. Saying a person who has the opposing view is weak-minded is a little bit of both, I think.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Don't use strawman arguments? That would silence 90% of the arguments on the internet! (Honestly, I am seeing a general trend toward better arguing and less fallacious logic as time goes on, but you are absolutely right, the argument s
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by Practicality 10y ago
"why American society has this need for narrow-focus in ONE specific issue at a time" This isn't an American phenomena, it's a human one. EVERYONE can only focus on one issue at a time. It's a delusion that we tell
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by Practicality 10y ago
I think a lot of people expect this to be the way it works, and perhaps it should be, but it's not the way business thinks. They see it as you volunteering free labor and that's pretty much it. There is some research showing that
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by Practicality 10y ago
I've never seen en passant used outside of chess before. It makes sense though, so long as he didn't capture you afterward.
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by Practicality 10y ago
Bring it on! The more in this party the merrier. If other countries want to create competing systems in similar markets, fantastic, it can only create more innovation and ideas.
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by Practicality 10y ago
I was on a remote job site where all living expenses were paid (but not entertainment) and there was just NOTHING in the town. The hotel had a nice gym. I was the only person working from my company for quite a period, so I had nothing to d
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by Practicality 10y ago
I lost 20% 10 years ago and haven't gained it back (295->225 lbs.). On the other hand I am still overweight and would like to lose more. I did it by just exercising an insane amount every day. (Like 6 hours of cardio+strength traini
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by Practicality 10y ago
What foods are you referring to as "low calorie density foods"? I can imagine that most vegetables fit this classification... but why would you state it this way unless you are referring to something else?
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by Practicality 10y ago
You win the pedantic award for today. :)
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by Practicality 10y ago
There was a related discussion recently where "organic" in an article was referring to life-forms. So it's good to clarify which organic is being discussed. Of course, if they found microbes on a comet this would be a much bi
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by Practicality 10y ago
Wouldn't it be better for uninformed people to not mess up the results rather than voting for whoever sounds good or looks nice? I mean, how many people are really putting in the necessary research and deep consideration for choosing t
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by Practicality 10y ago
The worst is when you are so tired you can't sleep. I get that way if I stay awake ~36 hours or more. I try not to do that anymore though.
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by Practicality 10y ago
"at least two people that are unquestionably in the top 0.01% of math ability." To whom are you referring to, if I may ask, and what do they do? (I would just like to learn about them)
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by Practicality 10y ago
My original post was all about the distribution and rarity of people with different IQ results and how the article confuses the three different cohorts. Those three cohorts are defined by IQ. The terms "above average," "gifte
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by Practicality 10y ago
That may or may not be true, but it's not what we were talking about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts#Logical_f...
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by Practicality 10y ago
Ok. While I am not going to give out my city, their water report says that their average chlorine level is 0.5 mg/L. The bottled water I drink has a full water report that simply says "not detected" for chlorine. Perhaps I am
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by Practicality 10y ago
The most recent data I can find on that is 20 years old so it's hard to say: http://sq.4mg.com/IQ-jobs.htm If you go by the "engineering" part of that, then average would be 125, if you go by "computer o
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by Practicality 10y ago
Let them eat cake! (With all the leftover sugar)
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by Practicality 10y ago
"there's no good reason to buy bottled water if your water supply is reasonable" You pretty much explained why many of us drink bottled water, since our supply is not reasonable. :)

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