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by forensic 14y ago
ITT we confuse talking points and identity politics with PHILOSOPHY. Jesus. You know the intellectual landscape is bleak when even hackers are willing to entertain the notion that democracy/mob rule has anything to do with philosophy, or th
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by forensic 14y ago
>I conclude that the voters were not persuaded by philosophy. Very astute, Plato. Welcome to planet Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay.
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by forensic 14y ago
Transphobia in the software industry? Shocking
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by forensic 14y ago
This is wrong. Empathy in the context of psychology is a feeling rather than a cognition. The kind of empathy you're talking about is a cognitive sort of empathy that doesn't involve a feeling process. There is actually a distinction betwee
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by forensic 14y ago
>Does empathy increase the probability that the actions you decide to take will reduce or increase suffering? Interesting question. You are speculating about human psychology based on your understanding of history. Though you haven't ci
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by forensic 14y ago
You're counting beans because you have no faculty for grasping nuance. >Why would you even ask that unless you're casting about for a strawman? It's called making a point. My points fly way over your head. I'm making a point through ins
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by forensic 14y ago
just because people "CAN" doesn't mean they WILL 3 binary dimensions: - original / trite - civility / rude - correct / incorrect leading to 8 kinds of people 1. original, correct, civil 2. original, correct, rude 3. origina
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by forensic 14y ago
Those are so NOT facts. You're such a bean counter. Civility is totally in the eye of the beholder. It's defined as politeness, which is a disgustingly relative concept. Perhaps there is some gradation of civility, where you are holier than
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by forensic 14y ago
This whole discussion is about personal preference and opinion. The original post and all of the posts that followed. If you think there is any objective fact to be had here, you're crazy. I'm a long-time user of HN, reporting my experience
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by forensic 14y ago
I said, "why can't you handle a little incivility" It's not that I think this place would be better with less civility, it's mainly that I think this place would be better without self-righteous whiners complaining about incivility an
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by forensic 14y ago
Newsflash: Individuals who create stuff put their favorite things in the stuff they create. It says a lot about your intelligence that you immediately jump to a worldwide conspiracy theory from a single instance of a single individual putti
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by forensic 14y ago
You're entitled to your strategies. Why do you have to push your strategies on me? When you do that you turn from a tolerant civil example into a Christian missionary pushing his beliefs on everyone. Civility is completely in the eye of the
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by forensic 14y ago
The question is not whether attacking the ball is preferred--it is. The question is whether the forum should censor topics that raise strong feelings about that ball. Pg said that flat insults without intellectual content (e.g. "you're gay"
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by forensic 14y ago
>Your righteous incivility is, ultimately, profoundly _boring_. All passions are boring to those on the outside. To enjoy the incivility, you need to join in. Now that you've jumped in, you must be having fun. If HN decides to censor te
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by forensic 14y ago
You totally prove my point. That parable perfectly reflects the Last Man's desire for a dry and sterile life. You want to live in a traditional society where people are stifled and controlled through social norms that outlaw all kinds of st
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by forensic 14y ago
>Don't people enjoy expressing strong emotions about online freedom, startup life, the ethics of various companies, and many other subjects on the front page as well? Yep. >Could we not have strong emotions about tablets and phones
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by forensic 14y ago
>yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death. You obviously don't live in America! By the way, telling someone to "calm down" makes you a douchebag. And strawmen don't help either. And let
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by forensic 14y ago
Raganwalder is one of those lonely social phobics whose entire social life is a collection of blogs and forums. If your entire social life happened online, you might be tempted to try and improve the wall paper as well. The simple fact of t
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by forensic 14y ago
I like this idea. But which aspect of his belief do you think might be an illusion? I'm not clear precisely what you're referring to.
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by forensic 14y ago
Objectivism caused Goldman Sachs, Alan Greenspan, the 2008 crash, countless corporate psychopaths... The death count is more than a few million. GS alone is responsible for a famine. Have you ever been to their offices? Copies of Atlas Shru
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by forensic 14y ago
What if Colin is dead? It's a backup system for the truly paranoid so this is a legit question.
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by forensic 14y ago
Why would you put a swastika on your business in any situation? Ayn Rand is for Glengary Glen Ross wannabes. Not for your typical creative writer.
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by forensic 14y ago
I have no words. The internet is flooded with pop culture bullshit. The Library contained precious works from some of the greatest geniuses in history--works that we know exist but were forever lost.
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by forensic 14y ago
I'm here too. I know that we exist. But Peter Thiel's entrepreneur/libertarian monoculture is expanding. These culture killers are celebrating the death of the liberal arts. It used to be that entrepreneur billionaires funded the arts, now
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by forensic 14y ago
>we tend to avoid blank-check crash-development programs. If only this were true. The blank-check programs are still with us. Iraq, Afghanistan, the security-military-industrial complex. Wall Street bail outs. Corporations are great for
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by forensic 14y ago
The economic ignorance on display at Hacker News is pretty solid evidence for the necessity of liberal educations to maintain a civilized society. There are now entire generations of engineers who never read any philosophy, economics, or hi
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by forensic 14y ago
> because corporations are economizing in accordance to a variety of factors. Except, they're not. Planned obsolescence is not about economizing for other factors, it is about rent seeking. You seem to be dismissing the findings of this
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by forensic 14y ago
You realize that XKCD is mocking people who do that, right? It's completely ridiculous to ask for citations in the context of a speech and only an idiot would do that. In the context of writing, it is certainly appropriate to cite sources.
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by forensic 14y ago
Because when billionaires own everything they won't be able to coerce us? Government is the ONLY entity capable of checking the power of the private oligarchs who control the majority of the world's wealth. Do anarchists have a solution for
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by forensic 14y ago
All modern corporations do this. It's called planned obsolescence and it is NOT a conspiracy theory. It's a well established standard operating practice for the majority of companies with manufactured, mass marketed goods. Planned obsolesce

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