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by crassus 13y ago
Given that the vast majority of all people that have ever lived have been religious, your hypothesis is going to be very hard to test. Now what do we call untestable beliefs?
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by crassus 13y ago
I just think it amusing that his example of atheist nations are countries with crosses on their flags . You can't separate the history of the West from the history of Christianity without committing ahistorical absurdities.
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In modern times perhaps. But they were Christian for a thousand years before that. Majority atheist nations have existed for only a fraction of an instant in historical terms (unless you count the Buddhists as atheists). The first was proba
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Name some of them.
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Where are the peaceable, prosperous, and happy atheist nations hiding?
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Martin Seligman is one of the father's of positive psychology (the study of happiness). He has several popular books.
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Indeed, religion makes you happier[1], so its strange the author left it out of his ten points ""[9] and a review of 498 studies published in peer-reviewed journals concluded that a large majority of them showed a positive correla
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I disagree with the dichotomy between living a "default life" and being happy[1]. Maybe in America where society is so atomized and culture is so dead this is true, but this is not true everywhere. It is an American sickness that
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I agree with you for the most part, except for your concern about not having a vote on laws that effect you. In America, voting is a placebo. It has been effectively neutered of all potency or threat to the political regime. Do you believe
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Word on the street has it that Android and Chrome are two highly separate fiefdoms within Google which are somewhat antagonistic (fighting over company priority). There is unlikely to be a high level of cooperation between the two teams wit
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Paul made a factual statement about the world in the spirit of helping others and his opponents responded with emotionally-charged labels [1]. This is dishonest bullying. I am responding with a label designed to attack labeling. So yes, it
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PG said both accusations had been made in his follow up column.
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I love you too. Cheers.
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What bugs me about web apps is that I need to download a new copy of it every time I go back to it (or at least send all the AJAX requests again). Load times suck.
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It is my observation that most hackers aren't fans of FTSE 100 DJA 30 HR directors, and they don't want to live in that world.
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> When that happens it doesn't matters if you are as eloquent as the best orators in history Not to worry! If you are as eloquent as the best orators in history, you'll do great in Silicon Valley!
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Legality and reasonableness is seldom correlated
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WTFPD is about people forbidding ideas because they are offensive , rather than having an honest debate about them. I'm perfectly willing to debate any idea with an honest opponent who's not going to get offended and start call
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I'm sure that when they are striking deals with local politicians, regulators, and partners, they are careful to do so through representatives intelligible to the local populace. The founders of both firms speak American english well a
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Raising capital for a startup in a particular geographic place and selling a product there from a multinational megacorp are very different propositions. When you have the capital to hire an entire local sales division you're in a very
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by crassus 13y ago
I admire him for sticking up for his principles[1]. You give the thought police and inch and soon they'll be back for another. There is no theoretical limit to how warm and fuzzy they can make the world. [1] http://www.p
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We feel that WTFPD is a better acronym. Are you trying to enforce Eurocentric norms of acronym construction on us?
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"Dear Paul, The warm and fuzzy thought police department (WTFPD) would like to have a little chat with you. You see, we have taken down bigger game than you, and we could easily have you stuffed and mounted on our mantle. Instead of sa
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by crassus 13y ago
Yep. PG's advice as given is clearly more actionable than "communicate well". The problem with people that are easily offended is that avoiding offense forces you to use vague, non-specific language. PGs said what some founde