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by dlss 10y ago
Since demonizing Trump tested as the best way to distract people from Hillary's record?
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by dlss 10y ago
> [Sam's] continued support for Peter Thiel is harming the goal he shares with me of preventing a Trump Presidency now, or in 2020 > (b) Pretty sure Thiel isn't going to shut up no matter what Sam Altman does. The seeming di
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by dlss 10y ago
> I think you read the atheist situation incorrectly. When any group grows so large it splits. There are more atheists in the US than ever and the polls indicate that number is growing. Re: group size being the primary cause... maybe? Th
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by dlss 10y ago
> As long as an ideology is small enough, completely shunning it's adherents is actually the best strategy Until the thousandth time you use this tactic, and the number of people shunned begins to outnumber the ones doing the shunni
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by dlss 10y ago
> I got confused because the parent post mentioned the "downfall" of "the Atheist community in the US" Yes, I was the person who wrote that, and this is what I meant. > as opposed to an outspoken atheist who said s
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by dlss 10y ago
> It's not a moral fashion to believe that jailing political opponents or advocating laws making it illegal for the NYT to criticize him is outside the boundaries of "wrong, but tolerable". Right, I would call those moral
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by dlss 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734808
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by dlss 10y ago
If true, it would also mean there was an increase in bookings on AirBnb relative to hotels. Which would imply: > Option 1. They didn't lose market share across the board, and instead cherry picked non-representative markets for thei
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by dlss 10y ago
89%, which is to say roughly double (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12732978 )
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by dlss 10y ago
I wanted to talk "market size increases" in response to your comment. If you're now postulating that a market size increase occurred w/o effecting the chains, I find that even more implausible, but am not sure what to sa
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by dlss 10y ago
Yeah, I wasn't trying to recommend them. They just did the leg work of digging up the quotes and putting them on a single (huge) page for linking, which I thought was what you were asking for.
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by dlss 10y ago
Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and Dennett wrote books, participated in debates, and basically reimagined atheism as a political movement. Then the question of social justice's role in atheism split the community in two via progressive purg
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by dlss 10y ago
Our disagreement isn't on the question of Trump's existential threat status, it's on the question of what should be done about it (incidentally, the same disagreement you seem to have with Sam Altman and Paul Graham). If you
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by dlss 10y ago
I don't know if you followed what happened to the Atheist community in the US, but its downfall was essentially the kind of witch hunt you're trying to incite. The level of virtue signaling demanded gradually increases until no on
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by dlss 10y ago
> The absolute amount is not meaningless because it has an effect in the real world. Right, I think GP was replying to your earlier statement that: > Not many people are willing to part with $1.25M for someone they don't fanatica
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by dlss 10y ago
> > the fundamental principle that no matter what in a democracy everyone have the right to say and mean what they want without having to fear the repercussions > This is not a principle, let alone a fundamental one, in any demo
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by dlss 10y ago
> Trivial: Because the market size increases. More people are renting hotels/airbnb + more often + for longer durations. Lol, yes, this is fair. The hotel market doubling in revenue would be headline news at the WSJ, etc though. We
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by dlss 10y ago
Finally an article that answers some pressing societal questions: * Can hostfully.com identify suspicious data analysis? (no.) * If given the chance, will Airbnb present misleading data for self-serving ends? (yes.) * Will an already self-s
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by dlss 10y ago
Given that no twitter user was specifically mentioned by wikileaks' account, how do you know this?
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by dlss 10y ago
> Then why use it? You're saying it's more likely they hadn't heard of it, but used it anyway? Yes, right. They used it as a way of naming the thing they were seeing, not using it like someone familiar with it. > Wha
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by dlss 10y ago
> What is Hanlon's razor for including an anti-Semitic key in their tweet? That they'd never heard of the key? (I hadn't, as the slate reporter seemed to anticipate with their "might be a little hard to follow"
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by dlss 10y ago
> Whoever runs the Wikileaks twitter has posted anti-Semitic tweets I was surprised by your claim that wikileaks posted something antisemitic, so I googled for it. Is http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/201
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by dlss 10y ago
It looks like you're also assuming: 3) whoever posted to the wikileaks twitter account didn't first consider the more obvious hypotheses. Which seems like a rather large issue with your theory.
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> That's worth a lot more than $12.5M. Agreed. (Though FWIW $1.25M is the amount he invested)
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These are very good questions, and have been debated at extensively (as you might imagine for such important questions) by humanity's legal, ethical, and philosophical scholars. Here's the current state of things with references a
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by dlss 10y ago
Hmm. Now I can't tell if your reply is serious :p As near as I can tell, the political process converts ideas from logical propositions into group signaling devices. Once a idea becomes a signal, any question of its truth or falsehood
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In my experience it's relatively easy if you essentially treat an IAT test as a method acting challenge. According to the literature it's relatively easy for study participants when given a couple tries to get it "right"
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Downvoted you because I don't quite see how this connects with GP other than a by being a Godwin laden form of "I'm not going to explain why, but trust me you're wrong" Worth a read IMO: http://www.paulgr
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The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Downfall of American Society [pdf](unc.edu)
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by dlss 10y ago
I find it weird this comment was downvoted but my post (GP) wasn't. I completely agree with you here MarkMc.

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