Svettie

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by Svettie 6y ago
so what? Countless other people did the same thing, it's a public market.
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by Svettie 6y ago
"In the same way you can legally remove people from your home that you don't want in there" -> I agree with you in principle, but this is the type of thing where the principle doesn't generalize at every level of scal
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by Svettie 6y ago
I think it could require government action: I could argue that it was government inaction in allowing a monopoly/oligopoly over the conduits of free speech that is now depriving me of my rights.
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by Svettie 6y ago
No one is defending calls for violent overthrow, but typically we hold the people that have actually committed the acts responsible. Here, we're shifting the responsibility a level above with the sentiment that "this happened on y
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by Svettie 6y ago
Another idea for a hand could be a straight made from 4 cards, but the suits are all distinct.
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by Svettie 6y ago
The fifth card can just be a high-card. Rectangle seems just like a stronger version of 2-pair, where it's 2 pair using only the same 2 suits
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by Svettie 8y ago
If anything, this publicity will increase the usage of Waze for evading these checkpoints.
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by Svettie 8y ago
I really think you nailed it with this analogy, and I think I can better understand your position and the disagreement. Let me extend this analogy to clarify what I mean then. If we agree that "alive" simply arises from ever more
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by Svettie 8y ago
I didn't downvote you, but interestingly when I first read your comment I had that negative reaction, then after seeing this response and rereading the comment I could see it as just neutral/analytical. For me at least, it's
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by Svettie 8y ago
I disagree, I think we can strip out a lot of stuff that goes into conscious behavior like how all the various sensory systems work, how learning works, etc. If that's what you're looking for there isn't anything weird real
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by Svettie 8y ago
> Another possibility is that the consciousness of the electrons is just following the usual laws of physics, but also it would be equivalent to have non conscious electrons So I think this is where the disagreement happens. You are fo
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by Svettie 8y ago
Maybe I'm not a serious person, but I don't think "consciousness means the popularly-understood ability to reason and plan" is part of the common understanding of this term, and a lot of what you wrote seems like a &quot
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by Svettie 8y ago
You're starting with the concept of "Russian SSR" to mean "Russia" and going from there, and this line of reasoning makes sense. But really, "Russian SSR" was the novel concept. Before the USSR, "Russ
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by Svettie 8y ago
Different contexts. In the real world it's understood that anything is possible (you can also clarify if unclear). But in a book like this, you put trust in the author to use precise language, and especially given the nature of this pa
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by Svettie 8y ago
The point isn't that the number is a precise measure of unemployment, but that it's correlated to it and can be used for historical comparisons. That's all. As long as the way it's measured stays relatively consistent ov
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by Svettie 8y ago
Don't think this is grounded in reality, but if I imagine the perspective of a cat, there are a lot of other concepts that we could be taking for granted. Kind of related to object permanence, we have a strong grasp that what we see a
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by Svettie 8y ago
You're right, but here the word is used intentionally for dramatic/emotional effect, akin to a metaphor.
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by Svettie 8y ago
"Most" is not a stretch here. It is synonymous with "majority" in this case, which 57% certainly is. You might be thinking of a slightly different usage of the word
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by Svettie 8y ago
Who deserves credit for ending slavery? Or is it no one because it was an immoral practice to start with? Or are you saying that just because a subset of white people were involved, that credit would not extend to white people as a whole? I
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by Svettie 8y ago
Ok, so if you agree, there is no need to give the caveat "massacres happen". I recognize that you don't mean anything by it and it's a natural response when you are somehow associated with something icky to try and ratio
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by Svettie 9y ago
I think "Bloody opposition" in this context is a sensationalized way to say "military involvement", it doesn't refer to the magnitude of the blood spilt nor of oppression.
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by Svettie 9y ago
You can't really look at history in a compartmentalized manner like this, or rather, I guess I'm arguing that your "maybe" is closer to "probably not". If we're going to explore hypotheticals, it is very l
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by Svettie 9y ago
I don't think it's a bad thing. I think a lot of the differing opinions here stem from seeing the people on screen as primarily either engineering or PR people. So I think mabbo meant "nice to see an authentic engineering typ
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by Svettie 9y ago
On the other hand, there are indeed many scientists/engineers who look/act "nerdy" or don't have the suaveness of people we typically see on TV. I think what GP is saying is that typically companies will put forward
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by Svettie 9y ago
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