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by curi 19y ago
maybe they have sex with women, too. then "gay" doesn't fit so well.
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by curi 19y ago
please make it pair you when you hit a button, not when you log in. revealing your activities to a random person should be opt-in, not opt-out. and people wouldn't want to do this every time, anyway.
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by curi 19y ago
oh, it's comparing killing terrorists with civilians. i thought you meant collateral damage vs Israel's own military casualties. not as amazing as it sounded, but still excellent. the link actually mentions historical rates and how they've
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by curi 19y ago
I didn't know that statistic. That's amazing! Do you know where I can find a source for it?
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by curi 19y ago
One of the notable things about those kinds of pictures, is you will see a Palestinian gunmen, in the midst of a crowd of "innocent bystanders". If they were so innocent, they'd get the hell away from the crazy, evil man with the gun, so he
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by curi 19y ago
Israel goes to great lengths to avoid killing innocents, even when the innocence of those people is in serious doubt. (e.g., the family of a terrorist, which makes no effort to get out of the way so Israel can kill him without collateral da
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by curi 19y ago
Yes, that is a fact. But, do you agree that morality is not a matter of counting dead people, and then declaring the bigger victim is in the right?
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by curi 19y ago
So suppose a criminal breaks into your house. And he's got a knife, and you're frail, so you better shoot him. Add more details if you want, so it's clearly justified self defense. Now add a reason that doing this kills the criminal's innoc
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by curi 19y ago
While the copycat fear is valid, I think in the longrun suppressing information about teen suicide can't be a reliable way to prevent it. To reliably prevent teen suicide, you need to have error correction -- when someone has a mistaken i
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by curi 19y ago
Israel's policy hasn't been entirely consistent in its aims. There are rival political forces which disagree. Just like US policies sometimes change after elections. But Israel has other factors making it difficult to be consistent, too. Sp
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by curi 19y ago
I agree -- the international community should decisively deal with the problem of violent thugs in control of the Gaza Strip, and be done with it, rather than letting everyone involved suffer slowly, and then having to deal with it decisive
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by curi 19y ago
If you really want to understand, read the second chapter of this book: http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Impl... Just the second chapter isn't too long, and should help tremendously.
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by curi 19y ago
someone recently said wars create wealth. i think the statistic of 40,000 allied planes destroyed in WWII, while the present day commercial fleet is only 15,000 planes, is a pretty good refutation. it gives a sense of the scale of how much
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by curi 19y ago
If if you were a headhunter they'd have to pay you 20%. But as a developer, they'll have to pay you 100% of your salary. ;p
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by curi 19y ago
How does giving money to support a cause fail to demonstrate that you care about that cause? Even a caring letter of support, would demonstrate caring, but giving money seems to go beyond that in proving you mean it.
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by curi 19y ago
We're going to have a disaster relative to the rest of the world ? I thought most countries had even worse taxes.
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by curi 19y ago
I basically agree with all you say, except the idea that all this constitutes being on the verge of massive disaster. One reason is that, on the whole, a wide variety of things are getting better over time. Including our wealth -- we are
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by curi 19y ago
Maybe it's a warning. We thought we lived in a civilized world where no one would actually punch us. But we don't. In consequence, we should torrent some martial arts PDFs and then write a 3d app in C to simulate the techniques. Once we add
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by curi 19y ago
YC is not perfect. But which places are considerably better? Certainly there are places where people focus narrowly enough on the topic for gender never to come up. But, that's probably true on YC too. Go to a different thread, make an on-t
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by curi 19y ago
Your survey will be confused by people who know what entropy is, and thus aren't sure how to react because your statement will be literally true. Also, people may be distracted by the fact our planet isn't a closed system. If you do it, als
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by curi 19y ago
> so either you'll hate me, or think i'm wrong. i don't see how i can win. He could be seriously offended, but then not hate you. He might realize you were right, and be glad to find out. Or if he isn't offended, he might still recogniz
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by curi 19y ago
No one reasonably can fault you. No one published reasonable explanations of why/how he'd done anything wrong. No one said anything that would be embarrassing or difficult to explain to his friends. No one said anything that would weigh on
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by curi 19y ago
There still exist people who (sometimes/on-some-issues) act and think unreasonably. Good ways of life do not reliably make these people like you. That is as it should be. Aiming to please them would be a mistake. Meanwhile, you'll notice no
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by curi 19y ago
I wanted to be. Does that count? :)
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by curi 19y ago
An interesting issue is that what you can or cannot say, depends a lot on how you say it. If you talk in a way that is easy for people to ignore, you can get away with almost anything -- people just won't pay enough attention to understand
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by curi 19y ago
I'll try to talk to you in private, then. The added constraint of writing for everyone else is too hard. Send contact info to curi@curi.us
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by curi 19y ago
if i try to give you an example, one of two things will happen: - i will seriously offend you - i won't seriously offend you so either you'll hate me, or think i'm wrong. i don't see how i can win.
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by curi 19y ago
people are talking about it. there are much more difficult subjects.
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by curi 19y ago
of course there is safe ground: the truth. you don't have to actually be right, you just have to have the truth as your only motivation, and then no one can fault you.
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by curi 19y ago
Also if you are a militant atheist, and you take a religious studies class, you might learn that you should not be a militant atheist.

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