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by chroma 10y ago
You're probably thinking of /sg/ (the Syria general broad) on 4chan last year: http://i.imgur.com/5P1N1GI.jpg Turnaround time (from initial post to bombs dropping) was about 36 hours. Most of the delay was in
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by chroma 10y ago
> Something that's been done for 5,000 years doesn't get stopped that quickly. Doesn't this prove too much?[1] Plenty of things were common for millennia before they suddenly weren't. Eg: Monarchies, slavery, beasts o
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by chroma 10y ago
The idea of publicizing more role models seems fine, but Pike crossed a line here: > It may take proactive behavior, like choosing a women over a man when growing your team, just because, or promoting women more freely. Doing this would
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by chroma 10y ago
> The best scifi, the really good stuff, doesn't hit a home run with reviewers immediately. Wait, so your expectations for the movie would be higher if the Rotten Tomatoes score was lower ?
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by chroma 10y ago
From https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement-0 : > Many people inside and outside the Tor Project have reported incidents of being humiliated, intimidated, bullied and frightened by Jacob, and several experienced
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by chroma 10y ago
I can find thoughtless humor anywhere. I like HN because the comments tend to be more "meat & potatoes" and less "cotton candy". The ratio has definitely gotten worse over time, and I wish moderators would detach and
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Reverse Voxsplaining: Drugs vs. Chairs(slatestarcodex.com)
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Understanding Riots (1994) [pdf](object.cato.org)
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by chroma 10y ago
Yes, "no first use" means a nuclear state can be stymied in conventional proxy wars. That's an acceptable trade-off, since it limits escalation. Better to lose a proxy war than to "win" a nuclear exchange. Also, onl
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by chroma 10y ago
For both swimming and track events, each starting block has a speaker to broadcast the gun sound. In the 2012 Olympics, the starting gun was replaced with a fully electronic device.[1] 1. http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog
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The Game of the Name (1994)(articles.baltimoresun.com)
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by chroma 10y ago
There are plenty of moral arguments both for and against an estate tax, but I think the economic consequences are more important. If you ask economists about the desirability of estate taxes, they say, "We don't know."[1] May
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by chroma 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that verse allows slavery. It forbids kidnapping and enslaving people, but if someone is born a slave, buying and selling them is fine. Fortunately, I don't have to be an expert on the Bible to argue this point. If
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by chroma 10y ago
Many books are interesting and impressive. That doesn't make them divine. After reading this post, I do wonder if the author has read the entire Bible. I haven't, but the parts that I have read ranged from mediocre to abysmal. The
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Fighting for Free Speech on America’s Campuses(nytimes.com)
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by chroma 10y ago
> The satirists shows Mohammed weeping over deaths committed in his name without realizing that depicting him such is a blasphemous thing in the eyes of the very Muslims he wants to convince. I'm sorry, but you missed the point. The
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by chroma 10y ago
Harris's point is that moral accountability lies solely with the murderers, not the cartoonists. The same goes for your examples. You don't blame the person trying to vote. Yes, there are practical expectations (this is why I use
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by chroma 10y ago
Is this your reply to all straightforward moral arguments, or just the ones you disagree with? It's not my fault that answers can sometimes be simple. If you trawl through my comment history, you'll see I've discussed ethics
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by chroma 10y ago
Yes, but not so much that I'm willing to pay significantly higher rent or mortgage. And many people can't afford life in denser areas.
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by chroma 10y ago
This article is in response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and it really irks me. > And again, is a culture that takes mortal offense when an image it holds sacred is mocked a second-rate culture that needs to be dragged kicking and scre
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by chroma 10y ago
I desperately want to read a lawyer's answer to the questions raised by the author. My bet is that most of the gray areas exist simply because no cases involving them have been litigated. If such cases ever go to trial, courts will pro
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by chroma 10y ago
> I would take that threat and the fact that they had not been detonated to signal that the shooter had no bombs in the first place. Are you so sure that you'd be willing to bet the lives of potentially hundreds of innocent people?
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by chroma 10y ago
The possibilities look like this: • Attacker doesn't have bombs, police blow him up: Dead attacker, everyone else OK. • Attacker has bombs, police blow him up: Dead attacker, everyone else most likely OK. (Only not OK if attacker has a
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by chroma 10y ago
> I don't know many details, and obviously wasn't part of the conversation that took place to arrive at this decision. The shooter claimed to have explosives elsewhere in the city that he would remotely detonate. In that situat
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by chroma 10y ago
The shooter was holed-up and claimed to have explosives elsewhere that he would remotely detonate.[1] The robot was controlled by a human. There was no autonomous decision-making involved. Morally, what the Dallas PD did is no different tha
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by chroma 10y ago
You seem to have very high standards for privacy. So I'm curious: If DDG doesn't pass muster, what search engine will you be switching to?
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by chroma 10y ago
A few points: First, eliminating aging won't make people immortal. People will still die from accidents, violence, disease, and suicide. I vaguely remember doing the math, and without aging, life expectancy would be around 300 years. (
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by chroma 10y ago
Reversal test: In a world where people didn't get old, would they decide to invent aging? I'm certain they wouldn't. I totally agree that there are disadvantages to indefinite lifespans. It's just that those disadvantage
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by chroma 10y ago
You could have both regulation paths: Either you build according to code, or you build whatever you want so long as it has plenty of liability insurance. As a side note, I really wish more of these sorts of alternate regulations existed. Th
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by chroma 10y ago
Just curious, but have you acted upon this belief and bet on Trump in the prediction markets?

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