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by chc 9y ago
Full self-driving is a vaporware feature separate from the current Autopilot. It's confusing that they would advertise a feature that doesn't exist, but it's not like they're claiming Autopilot works that way. More impor
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by chc 9y ago
It basically is the naturalistic fallacy. It's taking nature as the way things ought to be and human developments as dangerous aberrations. There is an element of nostalgia to it as well, but the nostalgia is for a time when we were &q
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by chc 9y ago
This is partially alleviated by the fact that you can't downvote until you reach a certain karma threshold.
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by chc 9y ago
How would you phrase it that communicates "without consent" without that sounding like a potentially bad thing?
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by chc 9y ago
It seems like the right word in this context. It sounds like you have an issue with the word for some reason, but I can't work out what the issue is, much less how it shows a lack of journalistic integrity.
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by chc 9y ago
Common Intermediate Language is the standard name for MSIL.
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by chc 9y ago
Whether or not there is evidence of this particular thing is irrelevant, because this subthread is about whether skepticism is just as irrational as blind belief when confronted with unsupported claims.
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by chc 9y ago
Unless you're denying that drummers are musicians, it's my impression that beats are a kind of music.
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by chc 9y ago
Skepticism due to insufficient evidence and lack of obvious plausibility isn't usually considered a strong opinion.
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by chc 9y ago
The proposition "listening to music affects your mood" is very different from the proposition "listening to a certain frequency of tone causes your brain to produce waves at a corresponding frequency."
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by chc 9y ago
Expecting your brain to operate in a way that produces certain frequencies because your ears are detecting air vibrations with those frequencies sounds extremely homeopathic.
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by chc 9y ago
That's weird — here, the more full-service a theater is, the more expensive it is. Some theaters have more extensive food selections and serve booze, and those are more expensive than normal theaters. Others actually have servers take
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by chc 9y ago
The story in question, At the Mountains of Madness, isn't about any of those things. It's about an Antarctic expedition that finds the ruins of an ancient civilization, which they gradually realize wasn't built by humans. I d
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by chc 9y ago
You've moved the goalposts from "hard" to "impossibly hard." That doesn't seem like what they were saying to me. The original comment even contrasted it with "pretty easy."
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by chc 9y ago
"Lovecraftian" is still used as a general term for an entire genre of fiction. He was a xenophobe, but that is not what he's best known for. Similarly, Aristotle was a misogynist, but it would not be accurate to say that Aris
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by chc 9y ago
I think part of it is that this comes near the end of the book and a lot of it is referring to stuff that had previously been established, and part of it is that the style of writing that was en vogue a century ago is kind of hard to read t
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by chc 9y ago
Lots of people making below-average incomes get healthcare through their employer. And regardless, it's certainly possible with employer-provided healthcare for everyone who has a job to get insurance through it, whether or not that&#x
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by chc 9y ago
"Something weird and/or strange"? A condition as commonplace and easily treatable as appendicitis requires more than generic drugs, a scale and a blood pressure cuff. Then consider other relatively common conditions like canc
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by chc 9y ago
This is one of those solutions that seems simple and neat, but falls apart on a cursory inspection. For example, it implies that the poor should die of curable illnesses. It also largely ignores the economics of the situation — healthcare i
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by chc 9y ago
I think there's actually a better example of the usefulness of Google's broad search embedded in there: Somebody writing "Star Wars 1" most likely intends Episode 4 rather than Episode 1.
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by chc 9y ago
I don't think "how fast a car is capable of going" is the relevant comparison in speed of transport via rail vs. bus.
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by chc 9y ago
I think the advantage of rail over buses is that rail is faster.
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by chc 9y ago
I don't see how the fact that they gave money to both major candidates is supposed to dispel the idea that they get favorable treatment because they try to buy favor. If anything, it supports the idea (since otherwise you'd expect
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by chc 9y ago
> Tesla doesn't support CarPlay at all, but you don't hear about hoards of people boycotting Telsa Because that isn't mistreatment; it's just not offering a feature. Doing something in a bad way can be more objectio
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by chc 9y ago
I don't know about European cities, but it's generally easier to walk around the San Diego Gaslamp Quarter than it is to drive.
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by chc 9y ago
This seems to imply that most people in the US don't already have many neighbors within walking distance. I don't think that's the case at all, even in the sprawliest of suburbs. For most people, if you don't stop by you
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by chc 9y ago
Dense cities already exist . People already live there. The OP even contains examples. As far as I can tell, what people are advocating for is to make existing cities harder (or impossible) to get around in when you're not on foot.
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by chc 9y ago
This isn't particularly a benefit of high-density cities. I work in a fairly low-density city, but some of my coworkers still live close to work. My mom grew up in a small southern town in the '60s, and my impression is that many
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by chc 9y ago
Isn't this pretty much true by definition, though? People who want density will tend to all go to the same relatively few places (that's how you get density), whereas people who want to avoid density will go to different places (b
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by chc 9y ago
You seem to be attacking a straw man argument along the lines of "Drivers should hit pedestrians whenever possible." The actual question here is whether pedestrians should be limited in their use of roads (e.g. having to use cross

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