criley2

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by criley2 8y ago
Fallacy: Fallacy fallacy. The worst kind of munchkin is the one that thinks A) a fallacious argument is a wrong one B) that reducing arguments to fallacies is a beneficial way to communicate and C) who misuses fallacies as a tool to avoid a
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by criley2 8y ago
I feel like your (and most) anti-intellectual property arguments are built on terrible strawman, so let's go through your terrible strawman. >One is an absolute. The cake is and moves. The other is an idea. You get rent from me expr
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by criley2 8y ago
There is where people understand that working with military intelligence services to receive hacked materials isn't "Free speech", it's clandestine espionage, and "journalism" isn't any more of a cover for
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by criley2 8y ago
Not if he is giving the standard advice everyone in the industry gives. There are lots of conditions where the standard expectation is that "people like you don't really get well" and "symptom management is the name of
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by criley2 8y ago
A psychiatrist that behaves as you describe is literally engaging in malpractice. You are a perfect example of what the article describes: your rationalization process for mistrusting experts seems rational at first glance, but upon close
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by criley2 8y ago
That's like asking why you should correct false data on your personal credit report. It's someone else's computer database, not yours! (Or maybe a better analogy would be "Why should I ask Google to stop marking my legi
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by criley2 8y ago
I guess as a former addict you have to do things like categorically dislike all video games just to maintain your sobriety. Good on you for doing what you have to do to overcome your addiction, but such black and white opinions are not real
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by criley2 8y ago
The conclusions they draw about the Russian spies are so fundamentally basic that to question them would be a shocking assault on truth. These spies used GRU HQ address on their undercover passports. They registered over 300 sequential vehi
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by criley2 8y ago
This is nearly all true in America too (not sure about a 3 source/70% rule) but in order to get around it, the conservatives have massively underfunded the tax organization / auditors to the point where they basically cannot even
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by criley2 8y ago
There is "Unemployment Insurance" in America, and companies have to pay into it for their employees by law. Any employee who no-fault loses their job can draw from it. This company used a "cheat" in the legal system in A
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by criley2 8y ago
Reading "who believed the company’s refusal to diversify gameplay had led to creative stagnation" makes me laugh. That would be like a Call of Duty developer or Assassin's Creed developer complaining that the company not dive
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by criley2 8y ago
To be fair, the gold standard is "move a dense, liquid mass uphill" so doing it with solids is kind of a novel approach.
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by criley2 8y ago
Eh, Chrome's auto-keyword system works well in most cases, and the ones that don't it's very easy to right click on the address bar and click "Edit Search Engines" to clean up the list and create any search URL you
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by criley2 8y ago
Your reply is kind of ridiculous. "The main party"? Dem socs are anti-intellectual idealists and while I appreciate their energy it's like putting a designer in charge of programming. "Free college and healthcare and eve
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by criley2 8y ago
This is a pretty weird statement, as one party has fought tirelessly for NN including legislation and regulation, while one party has fought against legislation and regulation. But you create a false equivalence based on media corp donation
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by criley2 8y ago
It'll be an interesting thing. They definitely understand the gaming angle due to Pokemon Go causing them to specially create tools and customize their API for gaming: https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/gaming&
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by criley2 8y ago
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/07/18/mueller-i... "The good news is that FBI agents in Atlanta made a mirror image of the server that Lamb breached when they were investigating hi
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by criley2 8y ago
The FBI made full images of all Georgia machines.
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by criley2 8y ago
The download included a persistent notification informing me of the entire download process, including percentage and a finish message. Perhaps you disabled notifications from the app.
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by criley2 8y ago
Google makes it trivial to download maps for offline use, I have multiple states downloaded in Maps. Google Maps experience with offline downloaded maps is 100% quality and absolutely not "sub-par" or "frustrating".
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by criley2 8y ago
Minecraft and imagination are two sides of the same thing. People with no imagination put Minecraft down very quickly. It is a sandbox afterall.
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by criley2 8y ago
>For the land of the free, some US rules are a shock to me. A few things. 1. We are the Land of Liberty, and liberty is described by our founders as "Freedom from onerous government intrusion", not anarchy. People get hung-up o
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by criley2 8y ago
That article isn't a "smoking gun", it's quite literally biased propaganda by a paid member of a campaign! A blog post (not journalism!) by a paid member of a political campaign infamous for its loose relationship with f
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by criley2 8y ago
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/index.php?page=nuclear_w... "Canada–25% Kazakhstan–24% Australia–20% Russia–14% Uzbekistan–4% Malawi, Namibia, Niger, and South Africa–10% Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republi
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by criley2 8y ago
AFAIK the US imports 80% of its uranium used in power generation?
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by criley2 8y ago
"Right, diamonds just cost human lives." If we're going to play that game, where did the electricity come from for your watt-hour-sucking GPU? A coal plant? How many died mining it? How many got life long illness or injury&#x
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by criley2 8y ago
>The user logs into Facebook on the device. This log-in action the part of the user is effectively permission to share data with the device. As well as the data of 10,000 to 100,000 connected users as both friends and friends of friends
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by criley2 8y ago
If a friend of one of my friends, who I am not connected with, can acces my private data despite my settings being clearly limited, with API access disabled, "friends of my friends" settings disabled, as was reported is possible,
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by criley2 8y ago
Crazy that everyone in here is defending Facebook. - How on earth does Facebook justify giving direct API access to information that users have, in every setting possible, marked as private? - How on earth does Facebook justify offering dee
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by criley2 8y ago
"Check the Monsanto Wikipedia page for more details, but the short version is that Monsanto patented its genetically engineered seeds and then sued farmers for patent infringement if they were found to be growing crops from that seed w

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