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by argumentum 12y ago
Would you rather live, today, in Cuba or (the poster boy for malicious US intervention) Chile?
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by argumentum 12y ago
Don't be unduly impressed. It's common for a totalitarian state to focus its resources and "punch above its weight" in a specific area or two, but it's at the expense of the rest of their economy and the general wel
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by argumentum 12y ago
A brilliant paean to the free market and the invisible hand. Milton Friedman once described the manufacture of a humble pencil in this way. (edit: just saw a link to an essay entitled "I, Pencil" at the bottom .. this might have p
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by argumentum 12y ago
This referendum has convinced me that we should enfranchise 16 & 17 year olds for US elections. My main hangup before was that these people might be pressured by their parents into voting a certain way. It turns out not only do they hav
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by argumentum 12y ago
As an aside, what an unsettlingly photogenic animal this is, particularly its piercing eyes and expressive face. At first, I did not actually believe this was a real animal, and thought it was animated or from the planet of the apes .. the
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by argumentum 12y ago
Am I missing something? When did "sexist" start to mean being attracted to a person and acting on that attraction by pursuing an intimate relationship? """What startled me the most was the fact that when he was a yo
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by argumentum 12y ago
My intuition is the same .. I totally agree there are underrepresented groups .. but using numbers like that does not inspire confidence. More interesting numbers would be the % of engineering applicants (which are likely not available) or
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by argumentum 12y ago
Talk about fiddling with statistics to make an argument: "The result is sobering: Men make up 62% to 70% of the staffs of Twitter, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn, while whites and Asians comprise 88% to 91% , according to compan
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by argumentum 12y ago
A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth. So if the economy shrinks this quarter we are, by definition, in a recession.
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I would have considered going to this if the price was reasonable. As it is ($300 to $600), they are not going to get their purportedly intended audience of "hundreds of programmers and other whiz kids interested in helping libertarian
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by argumentum 12y ago
Wow, so similar. My first lucid dreams were initiated during sleep paralysis. Initially, these episodes were absolutely terrifying (i felt like I was suffocating). Lucid dreaming cured me of this fear .. once I realize i'm in a dream I
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by argumentum 12y ago
Interesting .. I tend to "become" lucid in the middle of a non-lucid dream (nightmare or otherwise). Rarely will I be lucid from the get go. So when I gain "control", the initial scenario is set. Sometimes, it's qui
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by argumentum 12y ago
Up till my early 20s, I used to lucid dream so much, I thought it was the normal state of dreaming (for everyone). Over the last few years the frequency has declined to maybe a couple times a month. Of course, you never know how much you&#x
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by argumentum 12y ago
In this overwhelmingly depressing article, I saw a ray of hope, an enchanting possibility .. a silver lining if you will: > Instead, two other mysterious companies came forward seeking to challenge VirnetX's patents. First was a sh
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by argumentum 12y ago
> but any method of grouping is equally or more susceptible to this same problem Not really. If you are looking to group people into what group they identify with (which is what this poll actually was), the only way to do it would be
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by argumentum 12y ago
That way all Christians are Jews.
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It only makes sense to treat people as individuals. Otherwise, what if one single Lutheran views all Baptists as heretics. I can guarantee that such a person exists. Are you going to create a new category for that one person? What will yo
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by argumentum 12y ago
It makes sense to count people as what they consider themselves. Otherwise you are going to open a whole can of worms: protestants may not consider catholics christian, sunni muslims might want to exclude shia muslims etc.
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by argumentum 12y ago
Every mainstream g-rated American comedy show has jokes like this about husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends etc. The new "rule" seems to be: don't try to be funny, or else.
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by argumentum 12y ago
The legal issues boil down to weak protection by Indian Constitution, which allows freedom of expression only for things that would never need freedom of expression . Under Indian law, the freedom of speech and of the press do not confer
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by argumentum 12y ago
On the plus side, this lets you create multiple third-party accounts using the same gmail address for verification. I've done this a lot for various nefarious purposes ;) Also, it's not something they can "undo". A lot o
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by argumentum 12y ago
How can the supposedly most capable "intelligence" organization in the world be so dumb at understanding public opinion in the internet age? It's like they are operating out of a 1930s propaganda playbook .. Especially when S
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Also interesting: Hacker News itself (a YC "product/service" if not exactly a YC company) would come in at #6.
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by argumentum 12y ago
What specifically do you find offensive about this? All the participants (male & female, consumers and company) are willing and eager. I don't necessarily agree with firing people over politically incorrect jokes either, but in thi
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> I can't figure out how this was allowed Why wouldn't this "be allowed"? More importantly, what is the entity that would or would not be doing the "allowing"?
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Um, where is Reddit? At first I thought they were excluding exited companies, but then I saw Heroku at #15.
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Fairly normal, maybe a bit paler.
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I've been enjoying my first week of Soylent. I eat "regular" dinner, but the rest of the day I drink a cup of soylent every couple hours. The best part about Soylent is it's hackable. I'm looking to gain weight, so
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I quit working on this same idea about a year ago after concluding that the resolution on (existing) 9-axis IMUs wasn't good enough for serious tennis players. Then again, maybe just being able to see your racquet head speed increase a
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by argumentum 12y ago
Bummer, I generally liked Mahbod's eccentric tomfoolery. He also was extremely passionate about RG (and poetry genius & news genius).

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