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by crusso 11y ago
Yes, and much more recently we had the IRS stifling political groups that oppose the current administration. But there's a difference between government stifling of speech illegally and government stifling of speech legally. At least
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by crusso 11y ago
You bring up a good point, but Japan could beef up its military defenses without also shutting down the press. You'd think that the USA of all countries could be clear about that distinction and urge our ally to maintain a free press
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by crusso 11y ago
The police subdued Eric Garner in an effort to arrest him because he was resisting. What they did was reasonable and only the hindsight of his health problems says otherwise. Eric Garner shares a large portion of the blame in his own deat
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by crusso 11y ago
Go back and read the post to which I was responding where the author stated that in his mind he thought that officers signed up for a dangerous job knowingly because they're heroic and self sacrificing. I'm saying it's a job,
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by crusso 11y ago
the job is inherently dangerous and the officer goes into it knowing that I think that forums heavy with computer desk jockeys like HN tend to throw this idea around too casually. If outsiders kept callously telling us "you signed up
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by crusso 11y ago
Any payment method that doesn't use cryptography for payment approval is fundamentally flawed.
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by crusso 11y ago
I would beg to differ with that opinion. I use JotNot Pro on my iPhone to track receipts. As soon as I get a receipt - say at a restaurant - I immediately snap a photo of it. JotNot takes a black and white contrast-enhancing picture of th
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by crusso 11y ago
5. At the end of the process you still feel that annoyance at having to pick up a pen to sign for the transaction and click some acceptance buttons. (happened to me at Best Buy yesterday)
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by crusso 11y ago
Upvoted for the headsup on the Discover card alone. Every time I've tried to add my Discover card to my Apple wallet, I've been told that Discover does not yet support it. I would use Apple Pay 100% of the time if it were availab
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by crusso 11y ago
I have daughters as well. I tried to get them interested in computers, I really did. I tried to show them how they could make web pages with HTML. I tried to show them some basic Ruby to ask them questions on the command line that they c
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by crusso 11y ago
And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys. That's a pretty bad correlation-is-not-causation slip there. Marketing efforts, especially in new markets tend to take the path of least resistance. If they were marketi
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by crusso 11y ago
It's not mysticism It's the opposite of mysticism. It's a great neuroscientist-based look at meditation. I'd highly recommend it if you're interested in meditation but put off by all the mumbo jumbo you get from
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by crusso 11y ago
The article is really about the effect of evapotranspiration. It's more of a look into a hidden effect of our attempts to remove and control larger amounts of fresh water. It isn't really a discussion of general policy.
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by crusso 11y ago
You could likewise say that no one holds "freedom" as an endgame, but instead they want things and sexual partners. Freedom is just shorthand for these and many other once-removed concepts. There very much are people who want heg
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by crusso 11y ago
That's because those freedoms work great when members of a society are seeking freedom as an end goal. When the end goal of significant numbers is despotism, collectivism, or hegemonic religious rule, those very freedoms become exploi
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by crusso 11y ago
It sounds a bit harsh, but the fact that this treatment hasn't been obvious and recognized for some time is an indicator of how unlikely it is for people suffering from T2D to lose weight.
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by crusso 11y ago
I question your premise that the author of the article flipped. By your same logic, the pastor was simply expressing his feelings and is thus beyond reproach.
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by crusso 11y ago
I guess I see what you're trying to do - and I'm not a Christian; but the Christ depicted in the New Testament wasn't shy about calling out inappropriate behavior. He didn't politely ask the money changers to leave the
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by crusso 11y ago
I had fairly nice conversation the other day with a neighbor who actually knew what CRISPR/cas9 were. I was stunned but delighted. It was a rare occurrence, though.
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by crusso 11y ago
Even the modifier "mainstream" suggests a subset of some larger "left". If you understood his similar comment about the "mainstream right", that should give you an idea of how he drew the connection for the &qu
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by crusso 11y ago
It's a genetic propagation strategy to prefer those more genetically like you than those more different.
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by crusso 11y ago
Notice that you had to add "entire" to vox's statement to make your point. Vox's point was a bit of a generalization, but your argument used an unfair exaggeration.
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by crusso 11y ago
Some always do go overboard no matter what the technology.
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by crusso 11y ago
so far I've never read anything leading me to believe we can understand organic complexity That's a bit hyperbolic, isn't it? We understand the basics many organic systems and our knowledge and tool sets are improving at a
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by crusso 11y ago
Will DNA be Turing Complete? DNA (with supporting cell machinery) create us, so...
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by crusso 11y ago
I don't disagree that there is a lot of inefficiency and counterproductivity in a conventional office - but the gp was offering up an example of how his hack session with his roommate proved something about how we "should" be
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by crusso 11y ago
And how do you get around the problem of who watches the watchers? [edit add: Because I actually don't disagree with anything you said, but the solution you propose never seems to work]
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by crusso 11y ago
If little hobby skunkworks 6 hour projects actually made much money then that would be the norm. The reality is that the things that people and companies are willing to pay for often take a great deal more time and dedication. Also, they o
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by crusso 11y ago
Exactly. That's why we opt for free speech. We allow people to lie and attempt to deceive and spin because we know that it's better for citizens to be accustomed to the marketing and somewhat robust against it than to trust some
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by crusso 11y ago
You could say similar things about political ads. They're mind-games. Do we want to get rid of them too?

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