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by abraininavat 13y ago
Your definition of "hypocrisy" is off. A hypocrite is someone whose current actions and professed moral standards don't agree. The father was simply wrong about you, not a hypocrite. And the The View host simply changed he
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by abraininavat 13y ago
and I was hoping you'd get that it was a joke instead of spending time explaining what you meant :)
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by abraininavat 13y ago
We're "neutering language"? Hyperbolize much?
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by abraininavat 13y ago
This is your friendly reminder that jlgreco's is not a deductive argument and that most of the logic we base our everyday decisions on would be called logical fallacies. It's time for a Fallacy Fallacy, I think. This is also your
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by abraininavat 13y ago
But what is the point? Having had an opinion before the trial started doesn't preclude someone from talking about it today. Not having watched the trial from start to finish doesn't either. You're just saying "be civi
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Given that the entire trial was televised gavel-to-gavel, how do the jurors know a lot more about the details than anyone else?
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Do you realize that 99% of people use gmail, facebook, twitter, and play web games for 99% of the time?
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Dad?
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by abraininavat 13y ago
How do you recognize that, though? Your heuristic can't be "promotes comments with many downvotes" because the problem at hand is bad comments with many upvotes. If your heuristic is "promotes comments that others don&
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by abraininavat 13y ago
You've simply assumed that engaged users are less likely to vote up fatuous vitriol. That remains to be shown and I'm skeptical.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
This assumes there's a correlation between karma/age and the tendency to promote fairly (i.e. due to civility and positive contribution, rather than promoting what one agrees with). I doubt there is. The problem is that no one ju
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Apparently you hate self-promoting on your website as well. Am I missing where you explain what your product does? I see * this blurb: Factor.io lets developers automate the most tedious processes in minutes, not weeks, so they can ship
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Also, the interactive map on http://www.restorethefourth.net/ is completely broken. Clicking on any of the locations for more information leads you straight to a 404. Judging from the comments on the subreddit, it's n
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by abraininavat 13y ago
What is your point exactly? I'm not saying they will. I'm saying they would.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Guess you missed the sarcasm. I know it's the internet, but I thought I slathered it on pretty thick.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Of course! The government will go as far (and only as far) as it takes to quell the dissatisfaction brewing among the people. If that goes as far as real action, that's what will happen.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I agree with most of what you said. I want to nitpick one thing though. I don't agree that "the ends justify the means" is a valid argument. It's not an argument at all, it's a premise in the argument at hand. An
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Costs to the US?? What do you mean?? But people have been blathering for weeks on HackerNews that the US spying on anyone who's a foreigner is good and right and expected! Surely they can't have neglected to consider that there
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Every time something is released, people like you come on HN to say, "Really, you're all so naive, were you really surprised?" Would you mind please telling us the next big development before it happens so that we can get a j
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I don't see that assumption in the parent's post. You apparently are operating under the assumption that politicians are less two-faced than they are.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
People keep saying this. A democratic nation derives its power from its people. These nations are not willing participants in the spying program. What you mean is that their elected representatives have sold out their country.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I addressed your us-versus-them mindset in my reply to Goladus, but I couldn't help but point out how disingenuous this is: Good can triumph over evil, but as even Jesus said, it needs the "cunning of snakes" to succeed. Th
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by abraininavat 13y ago
I'm pretty sure nkoren's point has just flown over your head. You're talking about the obligations of the US Government. The US Government clearly only has the obligation to secure the rights of its own citizens. nkoren is
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by abraininavat 13y ago
my country? I wish people would grow up and stop thinking in terms of these stupid imaginary lines.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Or just be completely honest and say "".
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Take out the to decide what the public gets to know and your statement makes a lot more sense.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
This is a maybe-sensible dose of speculation. Be very skeptical of such speculative diagnoses.
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by abraininavat 13y ago
Why is it that people always feel the need to ask, "Why is anyone surprised,", when in fact it's not clear that anyone's surprised? Is it just to assert that you're smarter than some group of imaginary surprised p
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by abraininavat 13y ago
What about an organization that has no secrets? EDIT: Downvotes? Clearly I need to explain myself better. My point is that an organization built around full transparency is indeed impervious to informants. Take the government, for exampl
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by abraininavat 13y ago
A neutral statement? Not with the Poor little Siggi part.

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