bjlorenzen

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by bjlorenzen 6y ago
Natural disasters generally do represent temporary collapses of society.
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by bjlorenzen 6y ago
There’s a lot of hard data which actually suggests otherwise. From the classic paper “Why G Matters”: https://images.app.goo.gl/X4wAFYFC6xQrSU259
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by bjlorenzen 6y ago
I don’t agree with Pilger that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were unjustified, but his points about China are valid. What do we gain by instigating war now?
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Another Hiroshima Is Coming – Unless We Stop It Now(consortiumnews.com)
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by bjlorenzen 6y ago
“Give me liberty or give me death” were founding words of our country. If you don’t believe our commitment to liberty and freedom was important, then what else made America the #1 most successful country for the last century?
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by bjlorenzen 6y ago
Why do you think you can speak for “hard-core” libertarians? I am a thoroughly moderate one and don’t believe this at all
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by bjlorenzen 6y ago
The globe might feel stable while sitting inside the US and reading domestic media sources, but it sure hasn’t been easy for the dozens of countries we’ve been invading/occupying for the past decades.
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by bjlorenzen 7y ago
Have you ever spoken to a Chinese? They have their own good intentions too. Besides that, why do you always trust that our governments’s label of “terrorist” is never self-serving or opportunistic? The civilians we bomb every week might hav
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by bjlorenzen 8y ago
Thanks for posting this, I now have a new opinion on climate change :)
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by bjlorenzen 8y ago
This is pure speculation. Meanwhile, our government is actively invading and occupying how many countries?
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by bjlorenzen 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this is just a subset of Intrusive Thoughts ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrusive_thought ) which affect all people equally.
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by bjlorenzen 8y ago
China's actions seem horrendous from our perspective, but at least they are only operating within their own borders. How do you feel about the decades of war and destruction wreaked worldwide by our own government, including the bombin
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by bjlorenzen 9y ago
Could you please source this claim? A quick google search is revealing a lot of contrary evidence.
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by bjlorenzen 9y ago
Yes, definitely. It might be a different situation if Japan also had military bases inside our country, or if they had any choice in the matter. Do you think Japan, Germany, or South Korea have any choice whether our military can occupy the
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by bjlorenzen 9y ago
If I follow you around with a gun held to your head, is it fair to characterize you as my ally?
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by bjlorenzen 12y ago
Looks like the new GTX 970/980 can push 4k at 60hz through these with HDMI 2.0, it's a very exciting combo
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by bjlorenzen 12y ago
I disagree with the very premise; why go out of your way to encourage bad behaviour? I stand for freedom of information and will avoid New Yorker from this point forward.
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by bjlorenzen 12y ago
It's even more confusing that Obama would push for more names to be added when the article clearly states that the underwear bomber was already on the list: >...after a Nigerian terrorist was able to board a passenger flight to Detr
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by bjlorenzen 12y ago
As a developer working for a major competitor to airbnb on a shopping page, and having implemented hundreds of experiments on my page, I can say that these guys are way too obsessed with statistical certainty. Rate of deployment of experime
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by bjlorenzen 12y ago
Using four buckets instead of two like that will improve your confidence in the results, but will also double the required sample / testing duration. You could just as easily use two buckets and wait twice as long to achieve the same e
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by bjlorenzen 12y ago
The act of walking itself doesn't burn very many calories, no, but it does strengthen your legs (the largest muscles in your body) which then burn more calories 24/7.
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by bjlorenzen 13y ago
1. War and conflict are desirable 2. Unfit/unintelligent people should be sterilized 3. Sex with children is ok mad yet?
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by bjlorenzen 13y ago
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