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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Any article that discusses atheism and does not even mention Ayn Rand is incomplete. Its probably a good thing she wasn't mentioned as one of the "new" atheists because she is an old atheist from way back when it wasn't
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Good. I hope NYC sues and takes it all the way to the Supreme Court and they put an end to the Fed using the threat of withdrawing Fed Highway funds as a means to force states to toe the line.
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
Ayn Rand, in her article "Anatomy of Compromise" in her book "Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal", identifies three important principles regarding the operation of principles; "1. In any conflict between two men (or tw
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by dmfdmf 11y ago
FYI, thrown out on procedural grounds (jurisdiction) not lack of merit.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
> And it doesn't seem so bad since we're the good guys. Post-Snowden, check your premises.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
They should include The Better Business Bureau in their documentary. Now that is a shakedown organization if there ever was one.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
People complaining that these escape methods aren't 100% effective or the testing isn't real enough are losing sight of the fact that it is an EMERGENCY escape. You can't control all the variables or insure everyone gets out
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
No. But there are actually 6 sensory inputs to the brain. The standard 5 of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste plus the often forgotten sense of balance or orientation from the inner ear. Note it is the only one that is not (directly) dep
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
The big problem that I see, and it applies to any browser, is that every page is loading tons of crap from ad or tracking sites including twitter or facebook. When one of these sites stalls the whole page stalls and it is a chronic problem.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Amen.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Its not any specific rule or action at this time. It is the power to create such rules that is the problem. Right now everyone is paying lip-service to freedom of speech/content or focusing on this as a win for net neutrality over big
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
TLDR: The Federal government via the FCC just nationalized the internet using the red-herring of "net-neutrality". Such wide regulatory power over the communications system crucial to a free society is ripe for abuse by a future d
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
You don't know what a straw man argument means. Also, you drew the exact point the socialists wanted you to draw and thus proved my point. Who can argue with your little sketch of fairness? If the "public" does the funding
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Since when did the concept of "freedom" become too emotional for rational discourse? Moreover, the fascists and communists are responsible for the murder of millions whenever they got into power so the negative emotive meaning of
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
> The title of this piece is terrible... I agree but not for the same reasons I am sure. This title is an old saw from the socialists and has been around for decades. The implicit conclusion is that to make things "fair" we sh
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Ah, its not just a minor criticism of the analytic-synthetic dichotomy but a devastating identification of Kant's fatal error regarding consciousness and his theory of concepts that eviscerates Kant's entire intellectual framework
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
This man is swimming in the deep end of the pool and is in over his head. First, Rand never offered an "Objectivist" psychology but she wrote an integrated philosophy that she called Objectivism. This is not a trivial point but I
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
That's what it sounds like to me too. Unfortunately, most people don't want to hear the truth so they downvote you. Big news for the ostriches; we never paid for the 2008/9 mortgage bust and those chickens are coming home to
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Excellent comment. I posted a comment on a recent HN post discussing an article by Scott Adams. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8986916 I am wary of "science" pronouncements and I am not an easily smeared ant
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
You can downvote me all you want but it is a valid question. Legally the definition of a crime must be clearly and objectively defined or it is unfair and invalid. So what constitutes sexual harassment? Is it the feelings of the woman? If t
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
Is it sexual harassment to be a man in tech?
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
This is exactly what he fails to see.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
You can't see past your nose I guess.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I am concerned about the implications for free speech. And I don't mean the freedom to say whatever I want as long as the FCC approves or that I don't piss off a large enough political constituency. If I start a blog to post pic
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
> So how is a common citizen supposed to know when science is “done” and when it is halfway to done which is the same as being wrong? Forget about the common citizen, the scientists themselves don't know when science is "done&q
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I've been writing a journal since 1992 and it is probably one of the best decisions I ever made. I've used a Franklin Planner from the same year which is how that got started so my journal is handwritten on paper in my day-planner
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
The only way to meet Rand now is by reading her books.
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I am glad you liked it. I know HN doesn't like the supposedly contentless "thanks for sharing" type of comments but I appreciate it and think it is important to express such sentiments. In fact, about half way in to writing
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
I don't want to disparage the whole management class but I think part of it is that manager types don't really get the motivation to solve problems. They think that if someone doesn't have a manager telling them what to do th
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by dmfdmf 12y ago
This is a problem not just for coders but almost any technical area. A loooong time ago when I was still in engineering I worked for Big Corp, Inc. and they had a designation for master technical talent, I forget the name, so let's ju

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