cybersnowflake

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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Palantir: hey dude want to work for a company whose job it is to help punish people, manipulate, and violate their privacy through big data? Engineer: sure! Just as long as I'm not enforcing a national border that's where I draw
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I never specify which one the author is or if they are even either of the two.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Okay, I'll bite...tell me how the burden of proof is not on those postulating a global conspiracy of sexism?
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Yes, I made an additional point but that doesn't invalidate the main response that a bigger burden of proof than men/women are different == MUST BE GLOBAL THERMONUCULAR SEXISM is on its feminist advocates. If you're upset tha
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I know the designers of the Pact understand this, I'm just not so sure about all the voters in smaller states signing on to the Compact.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
No...I don't think it works that way. You can't bootstrap the likelihood of one hypothesis by proposing a counterhypothesis. The existence of the Easter Bunny doesn't become more likely because someone hypothesizes that there
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Technically every single voter in Nevada could vote for one candidate yet under certain circumstances all their votes would go to the the opposing candidate under the Compact. Yeah, I don't think all the people in smaller states fallin
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I wonder how many people arguing for the abolishment of the EC would like it if India and China automatically had the most votes in whatever supranational government arises in the future and got to decide everything that happened across the
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Its called burden of proof. And its the core of scientific thinking we don't automatically put the assumption that gyms are secret powerplants that exist to siphon off energy to feed space aliens at equal likelihood to its negative. Li
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
From all available evidence females across most mammalian species strongly prefer and reproduce with the most successful males. In humans women strongly prefer men who are more successful than them, are the gatekeepers of reproduction, and
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Okay I gave this a chance and while it has a formidably long citation list every argument essentially boils down to difference found between men/women =MUST BE SEXISM. The rest is generally the author like most 3rd wave feminists using
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Anybody dumb enough to still think cigarettes are good for you these days can't be helped. Its not big bad tobacco's fault. And obviously they want to minimize negatively advertising themselves, thats what companies do. You can on
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
'Most'? Woz is actually pretty lucky, he's appreciated, people know what he did, and he's fairly wealthy. When it comes to successful Hands and Faces, the Hands more often end up like Kildall or one of an even more anony
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
If the Brexiters spent all their time worrying about kitchen knives and making people buy porn licenses instead of getting out of the EU you might have a point.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Theresa May is the greatest Brexit champion mankind has ever known according to HN.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
No man you're hallucinating all those talking heads, articles, multimillion dollar campaigns, and plain logic.The EU secretly doesn't care or even WANTS the UK to leave according to the wise bearded mean of HN.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
The EU and the British establishment will do everything they can to punish the UK for their insolence. All the more reason it was a good idea to #Leave. Better to take whatever lumps that come now.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Harassment and rape are separate crimes. There is no need to institute a special global supercopyright for poor oppressed womyn and trample the free flow of information to prosecute those.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
lol "destroyed"? "merciliessly"? I love it in a world where a lot of bad shit goes down only the stuff that involves women and sex is automatically hyped up to the most important, even more than genocide. So every woman
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I'm in the middle of work and lost interest after doing a cursory dig through the links. If she actually has a counterargument you can boil down for me I'd be happy to consider it.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Not VR, the chickens live a real life as fulfilled and self actualized as a chicken could be. At any rate it doesn't even really matter (from the chicken pov) whether its real or not because as I said, from all the available evidence c
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
You don't have to torture animals to eat them. Assuming advances in technology and energy we could get to the point where a hypothetical farmer could raise animals in luxury. As tech increases the luxury will increase. If animals are i
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Hypothetically, it could get to the point where it is more ethical to eat meat than not to, ESPECIALLY if they are sentient in the way activists say they are. Lets say aliens came and offered you a deal. You can either not exist or live a l
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Oh so 8chan indeed moderates but not enough? Whats enough moderation by your standard and why should we go with that and not a more lenient one? So we should not only censor direct threats of violence we should also censor allegedly 'c
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I think I've been ideologically consistent but feel free to continue looking and post any examples where I'm against freedom of speech and individuality. *note when I say freedom of speech and expression I don't necessarily m
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
I love how everybody is having a cow over a website where the rhetoric isn't really all that much worse than a 'mainstream' site like twitter. For example in twitter you can find guys who call for children to be fed into wood
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
A lot of superdefensive people over at quora everytime you ask a question about china.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
Well for one thing its not like people are already dying to move there. You're not going to help that with California style taxes.
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
How much of these 'lol x written in Rust is better than y' is simply a matter of newer code generically improving on older poorly written software?
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by cybersnowflake 7y ago
There are several reasons why alaska wants badly to maintain low taxes and it's not entirely because the leaders are all fiscally conservative ideologues.

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