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by hirundo 5y ago
Bernie is all over the map on gun control. He's to the right of Hillary, in that he opposes mandatory buybacks. He also favors the right of permit holders to carry weapons into national parks, and he voted against requiring trigger loc
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by hirundo 5y ago
It doesn't seem to me that aerial combat is vastly simpler than ground combat. If a robot pilot can accurately identify friend and foe, and maneuver effectively to target the latter, then likely we are not a lot farther from doing the
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by hirundo 5y ago
I think the Russell Conjugation is, I have principles, you have ideologies, they have dogmas. Clearly dogmas harm individuals. So do the wrong set of principles. But does anyone care to argue that we shouldn't have principles? We shoul
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by hirundo 5y ago
“Throughout the covid-19 pandemic, Joe Rogan has repeatedly spread misleading and false claims on his podcast, provoking distrust in science and medicine.” I don't think they're properly evaluating the distrust created by banning
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by hirundo 5y ago
Thank you for responding dang, sincerely. "pure religious flamebait" seems to me to be a very hostile reading. I simply meant to add context to the parent's argument, which I agree with. I apologies for any offense given, but
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by hirundo 5y ago
Hello dang, I'm not aware of posting flamewar comments. Can you point me to some? Thanks.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Inertia
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by hirundo 5y ago
A better article: https://archive.ph/Cyixf#selection-595.0-595.247 "The vote in the employer mandate case was 6 to 3, with liberal justices in dissent. The vote in the health care case was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice Jo
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by hirundo 5y ago
I can speak more freely on a forum if my logins are independent. If they are federated I have more to lose by saying the wrong thing. There are scarcely any values I can express without offending someone. For this purpose at least, it looks
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RCTs and the Status Quo: The Special Relationship(econlib.org)
1 points by hirundo 5y ago|0 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
Fear. There are many many people who believe that vaccinations are the only viable strategy to contain this pandemic, and information or opinion to the contrary is therefore a public and personal threat.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> As for the initial detection of the laser, it was probably done by the pilot and co-pilot with their “mk1 eyeball” (i.e their own eyes). https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Mark_I_Eyeball For some reason this
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by hirundo 5y ago
The Margaritaville stages of debugging: 1. It's nobody's fault 2. It could be my fault 3. It's my own damn fault https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6478121
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Male elite chess players are quicker to quit when dominated by a female(sciencedirect.com)
15 points by hirundo 5y ago|20 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
I recently heard a practicing cardiologist say that he felt it was unethical to encourage any medical procedure. Instead it was up to him to give the patient the best information he could, and then let them decide without any cheer leading.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Disagree. Finding those mistakes is the whole point. When I miss one in someone else's PR, the resulting problems are my fault.
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by hirundo 5y ago
I don't think most people realize how much the suppression of "misinformation" on Covid causes distrust of the system by the same people it is meant to protect, and results in much greater vaccination hesitancy. Source: A lot
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by hirundo 5y ago
I have too many colleagues who rubber-stamp my pull requests. I'm tempted to include a significant mistake in each one to see who's paying attention. Unfortunately I have done so too many times by mistake with nobody noticing. May
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by hirundo 5y ago
When I was in elementary school class one day I tipped my chair backward far enough that the kid behind me thought I'd tip over, so he put his foot gently against the bottom of one leg to prop me up. I didn't feel it, and so relie
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by hirundo 5y ago
Slavery is worse than war.
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by hirundo 5y ago
That seems like a future with one all inclusive, inescapable nation.
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by hirundo 5y ago
Don't anthropomorphize your variables, they hate that. And it makes it awkward when you have to ruthlessly eliminate them.
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Movie Review: Don't Look Up – By Scott Alexander(astralcodexten.substack.com)
27 points by hirundo 5y ago|7 comments
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by hirundo 5y ago
> However, the 31-year-old’s ambitions were cut short after she was sent to the hospital due to her outrageous, fart-creating diet. You have to respect the hustle.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> The most effective way for Green Community members to eliminate their carbon footprint is to Reduce, Renew and Offset the unavoidable emissions by supporting environmental projects. Wouldn't suicide or sterilization be more effect
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by hirundo 5y ago
> I was left questioning how a developed country can mess up so badly that some people feel this is their only option. Regulatory capture.
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by hirundo 5y ago
“This is a victory for Bristol, this is a victory for racial equality and it’s a victory for anybody who wants to be on the right side of history,” Willoughby said. And a defeat for the rule of law. A principle which, I'm afraid, is on
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by hirundo 5y ago
Here's a good HN debate on that topic, with several current commuter cyclists participating. The result is a lot more nuanced than "clearly fails". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19634987&p=2 E.g.
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by hirundo 5y ago
> There should just be separate lanes/carve out for bikes. This is highly controversial, and at best, overly simplistic. See for instance https://www.enotrans.org/article/cycling-philosophies-collid... "th
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by hirundo 5y ago
I am finding a lot of value in the posts that get flagged, but only after they get enough votes to appear on hckrnews.com. So reading those has become a routine for me. Most of those quite deserve their fate. But a surprisingly large number

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