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by gort 16y ago
The author isn't suggesting that something being meta-contrarian actually makes it wrong...
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by gort 16y ago
I'm sure the fisheye in the video is adding to the nauseating effect...
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by gort 16y ago
Ah. I was wondering why it said Galileo was still in the solar system...
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Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism(lesswrong.com)
4 points by gort 16y ago|0 comments
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by gort 16y ago
The offending statement is: "Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democ
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by gort 16y ago
Agreed. I'm a Platinum 1v1 player, and completely terrible.
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by gort 16y ago
Trump is awesome. His stream is live right now at http://www.trumpsclive.com/ if you want to get a sense of him... (when it ceases being live it will no longer have a big red rectangle saying "live")
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by gort 16y ago
You've now completely changed your argument. Originally it was "mild drugs lead to strong drugs". I noted that alcohol is a mild drug. Now your argument is "mild crime leads to strong crime". If I can summon a good argument against that, wi
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by gort 16y ago
You have this theory that marijuana (lets be consistent and say alcohol too) cause cocaine use. You take the fact that cocaine users have almost invariably first used such substances as evidence supporting your theory, without recognising t
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by gort 16y ago
Wouldn't it be peculiar if the sort of person who was going to use cocaine didn't first try marijuana, or, for that matter, alcohol or cigarettes? Who jumps in at the deep end?
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by gort 16y ago
Thanks. I had to adjust the brightness on my screen to see it; it says: touch, grep, unzip, mount, fsck, fsck, fsck, umount. Clearly someone's worried about the integrity of their filesystem.
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by gort 16y ago
Interesting. Cryptococcus neoformans is a relatively common cause of fungal infection.
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by gort 16y ago
Possibly a mistake for "antifungals".
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by gort 16y ago
"freedom-of-expression (which should be held dearly) is not freedom to attack other's values." Actually, it is. I have read the Qur'an, all of it. Page after page it tells me that people like myself deserve to be tortured for zillions of ye
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by gort 16y ago
"Populations do indeed evolve along with individuals" Individuals don't evolve at all. Evolution is changes in gene frequency over time. What I think you're trying to talk about is macroevolution, where species that happen to have certain t
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by gort 16y ago
"Absolute cowardice, while beneficial to an individual" If this were actually true then evolution would go ahead and make everyone absolutely cowardly. Evolution works because traits that are helpful to an individual become more common; bec
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by gort 17y ago
Lies! or so I strongly suspect.
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by gort 17y ago
Sadly, even if you can arrange for some blocks to line up in an approximate row, they don't disappear! Satan, you do not play fair, sir!
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by gort 17y ago
As I recall the problem was not "there aren't any" but "there aren't any more"
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by gort 17y ago
It's only partially working at this time. It seems to return "articles" but nothing else.
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by gort 17y ago
3rd possibility: malice, incompetently implemented...
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by gort 17y ago
Significant events (note that this refers to the link as modified by pg, not the link as originally posted): 1:11 - We hear there's a guy with a weapon. 1:38 - We see the weapon. 2:05 - Identification of a second weapon. One of the pilots r
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by gort 17y ago
Some unarmed unmarked men. You must assume Y. You can't just start shooting on the balance of probabilities. It might be forgivable if there was some imminent danger to... somebody. But I'm not seeing that.
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by gort 17y ago
It's worth noting that there's probably no fundamental reason why animals that live forever couldn't evolve. Sadly though, evolution favours whatever genes multiply fastest. There are trade-offs between living forever and reproducing as qui
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by gort 17y ago
chime fits a few of the patterns: use of etc. mid-sentence, occasional use of hyphens - in this very pattern - and moderate use of slashes when "or" would do. Also American spelling. Still, it's easy to get into a sort of confirmation bias
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by gort 17y ago
For those who find this comment cryptic: Clarkson is one of a trio of presenters on BBC TV show "Top Gear". They do various challenges on their show. Once, in a special where they drove across America, the challenge was to get each other "s
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by gort 17y ago
And even if they do get used they heal the patient; whereas the most profitable drugs are the ones requiring continued use.
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by gort 17y ago
I'm sorry if the writers of thousands of years ago don't meet your expectations. As if writing things in the wrong order made more sense thousands of years ago. they're in the same chapter of the same book So what? It's entirely possibl
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by gort 17y ago
the order doesn't matter, as the first section is 'foreshadowing' or a 'condensed explanation' How can a condensed explanation put things in a different order? The very least I expect of a condensed history is to get things in order.
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by gort 17y ago
This has been widely discussed in many Hebrew speaking universities by very able individuals. Well then. Does Genesis 2 put the creation of animals after Adam, or what? Not sure what good it does to try to interpret the English version.

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