dinoleif

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The Toxic Reality of a Post-Familial Society(aaronrenn.substack.com)
45 points by dinoleif 3y ago|60 comments
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Anti-Natal Engineering(firstthings.com)
1 points by dinoleif 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: OpenTheo – Transcribed and searchable Bible teaching with Whisper.cpp(opentheo.com)
5 points by dinoleif 4y ago|0 comments
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by dinoleif 4y ago
JP Moreland has written at length on this topic (see his book "The Soul" and many interviews/talks he's done). In short, he distinguishes between the brain and the mind (consciousness, memories, etc). While the brain may
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by dinoleif 9y ago
I think we agree, but I think you misinterpreted what I said. "Mystical experiences" isn't the problem. It's that the things commonly described in "near death experiences" are overtly contradictory with Judeo-C
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by dinoleif 9y ago
It's worth pointing out that the notion of "near death experiences" is not Biblical. These are modern, Western fantasies superimposed on Christianity.
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by dinoleif 9y ago
Say what you want about the tax bill on net, the elimination of the SALT deduction is very good for the country. There is zero reason for the Feds to subsidize and distort incentivize to encourage states to increase their tax burdens. SALT
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by dinoleif 9y ago
Oh. The answer here is actually straightforward. It's because the tax bill needed to pass through reconciliation (which has special rules related to the deficit). Generating artificial savings on paper allowed the GOP to increase the s
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by dinoleif 9y ago
From a technical perspective sure. From a statistical perspective, the point is a distraction.
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by dinoleif 9y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/12/18/the-u...
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by dinoleif 9y ago
Fathers can't be involved if they aren't around. Single motherhood rate in 1950: 5% Single motherhood rate in 2010: 41%
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by dinoleif 9y ago
"not an option for most Americans" OK.
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by dinoleif 9y ago
This is plainly false. Most households have multiple internet providers.
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by dinoleif 9y ago
In what way are customers "held hostage"? If you sign up for an internet plan that promises not to throttle certain sites and then that provider throttles those sites, you can sue them. If you sign up for an internet plan that mak
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by dinoleif 9y ago
"Net neutrality" is one of the most Orwellian terms in modern usage. It's a corporate welfare play by large tech companies to "solve" a "problem" that nobody can identify. It's pre-emptive, busy-body
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by dinoleif 9y ago
Of course Google takes building effective teams seriously (and rightly so, it's People Ops org does good work), but that doesn't really have anything to do with the dynamic here.
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by dinoleif 9y ago
I made a mistake. It turns out that there are actually 9 articles as part of that series, so I have to make a correction: There is not a single piece of useful data in any of those 9 articles.
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by dinoleif 9y ago
Ridiculous puff piece & PR job. There is not a single piece of data in that entire article. The way this works is: 1/ Google crunches some data 2/ The company leadership looks at that data, twists it to leave out "inconve
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by dinoleif 9y ago
The point is that the questions I outlined become increasingly less scientific. There are genuine scientific questions, but there are lots of others that are kind-of scientific, and others that are not scientific at all. Climate activists
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by dinoleif 9y ago
The problem, as your comment beautifully illustrates, is the scope of what is considered a "scientific" question. You left that ambiguous, and in that ambiguity lies the problem. For example, the greenhouse effect is a piece of we
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by dinoleif 9y ago
Among the conservatives/libertarians/etc in my life, who I broadly consider among the smartest people I know, there is a broad unwillingness to have a real discussion for fear of being shamed. The climate debate has become more ab