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by cryoshon 11y ago
In other words, your idea is that anxiety is the repetitive regression of meta-thought?
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Isn't this absolutely terrifying? People being rounded up, house arrest, cities locked down, violence against immigrants. It's a very bad look, and it's especially hard to criticize the response in the wake of the attacks. Ra
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by cryoshon 11y ago
On one hand, it's unquestionable that radical Islam is an aggressor that is funding and directing terror attacks. On the other hand, Muslims are people too, and it is extremely unjust to punish all Muslims for the actions of a radical
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Surveillance must increase after terror attacks, say 2016 candidates(theguardian.com)
1 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I posted this comment last night when this story was on HN for the first time: I've come to expect this kind of painfully unhelpful commentary from the rag that is the NYT. On par with their myopic mainstream-ism, this article's p
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Currently, money equals political voice, and the rich are the ones running the show because they have an overwhelming amount of money. Money is not rallied in sufficient quantities (millions to billions) by anyone other than the rich. Polit
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Not sure if a DNA test was necessary to determine that skull fragment wasn't the result of a suicide... not that this says much about whether it is Hitler's skull or not. The picture provided in the article clearly shows a downwar
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I've come to expect this kind of painfully unhelpful commentary from the rag that is the NYT. On par with their myopic mainstream-ism, this article's purpose is to confuse and pacify readers with a narrative that states we can con
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by cryoshon 11y ago
There's no "calling bullshit". We don't have the money for the house in the burbs, or anywhere at all.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
FTA: "Faced with a widening wealth gap and the slowest economic growth in more than two decades, millions like Xiong find themselves priced out of the big cities and are rejecting the consumer trappings of a modern lifestyle. Instead,
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On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit [pdf](journal.sjdm.org)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
You always have free action under all circumstances. You may not have freedom from the consequences of your actions, but usually you will, unless you take a few specific verboten actions. To determine beyond a doubt what you have the right
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Uhh... I don't believe that these concerns are valid at this point in time because the technical complexity required to actually "use CRISPR on yourself" (which isn't even a coherent idea in the first place) is extremely
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Illinois inmates increasingly sued by state to recoup incarceration costs(theguardian.com)
6 points by cryoshon 11y ago|2 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Why can't consciousness come from material things? We only have evidence of one kind of substance, which is material substance.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Hm, seems quite oppressive. Westernization of the Korean work ethic is emotionally appealing, but who's to say what works best for them... I imagine that the mores regarding vacation time and amount of time worked will be very slow to
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by cryoshon 11y ago
The police also stole more from people via asset forfeiture than actual burglars did last year. They are criminals.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Systemic severe racism over the course of 20 years? A cover up by the police? Par for the course in the USA, and it's disgusting. The justice system in this town has been an injustice system for as long as some of the people who live t
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When busyness is our key social currency, our lives become poorer(theguardian.com)
1 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments
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Kurdish fighters say US special forces have been fighting Isis for months(theguardian.com)
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by cryoshon 11y ago
"Sandberg pushed forward, asking whether Scott’s ums were the result of nervousness. She even suggested that Google could hire a speaking coach to help. Still, Scott brushed off the concern; it didn’t seem like an important issue. “Fin
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Can you define weak character and poor morals? Can you explain to us how these things will lead to poverty?
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Yes! Formulation of scientific questions is an essential skill which I think that every person should have. A scientific question is a request for evidence from the world in the context of what we already think is correct.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I think you're being downvoted because people don't want to accept that what you are saying regarding critical thinking being anti-adaptive may be true. The followers of the hacker ethos are revolted by prospects that the less-ski
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by cryoshon 11y ago
A necessary skill, but honestly, a college-level skill that most students/people will opt out of because it doesn't sound sexy and it certainly has no direct-skill applications in the work world. If you put critical thinking as an
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HSBC whistleblower given five years’ jail over biggest leak in banking history(theguardian.com)
10 points by cryoshon 11y ago|3 comments
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Hm, I can't stand DFW's writing style, but I'll check this out anyway since I admit he has fruitful thoughts on occasion.
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by cryoshon 11y ago
I'll give you the top one: Politics and the English Language by Orwell. Reading this as a young man sent me down a wonderful road of critical thinking and skepticism and altered my life in a major way... no guarantee it'll do the
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by cryoshon 11y ago
Eh, I'm always looking for and consuming longform content... I never have a backlog because I prefer searching for articles, then consuming them on the spot, with no effort of indexing. I guess this quickly becomes very hard to track d
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Police response reflects major shift in year since Ferguson riots(theguardian.com)
2 points by cryoshon 11y ago|0 comments

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