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by homogeneous 10y ago
What are some practical approaches (i.e. without regulating firearms) we can take to tackle this problem? We know that there is no way to change gun laws in the US, so it feels like that particular debate is pointless in the midst of a cris
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by homogeneous 10y ago
Are we looking at the same thread? There are clearly many more comments in here expressing anecdotal confirmation of the study's findings than those suggesting the study's methods preclude it from consideration.
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by homogeneous 10y ago
This observation sounds like a case of confirmation bias to me. Check out this thread for multiple examples of how this "not-so politically correct claim" "makes sense" (among other thoughtful anecdotes along the traject
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by homogeneous 10y ago
The car analogy isn't very solid because most drivers are invested in their own safety as opposed to the fracking industry which only cares about environmental damage insomuch as it represents a financial liability. You claim that frac
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by homogeneous 10y ago
Presumably when new robots start executing based on the signature of the smart contract and conducting tasks in line with the contract. What if they don't build the robots but instead execute whatever payload the contract anticipates
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by homogeneous 10y ago
What if the human employees lie, are incompetent, or collude with the subject of their inspection in exchange for part of the pay out?
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by homogeneous 10y ago
How does the DOA know that the robot factory in Shenzen was built successfully and to specification?
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by homogeneous 10y ago
I just wanted to say that I appreciate the nuanced tone of your reply, as well as the nuance present in your responses to those that disagree with you and also those that seem just slightly too eager to agree. Every individual has a persona
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by homogeneous 10y ago
I despise this hackneyed and arrogant reddit chide. HN has excellent moderation, but it's not such a bastion of quality discourse that breaking forum etiquette merits shitting on another community via rhetorical comparison. This site i
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by homogeneous 10y ago
> you misunderstand the purpose of Bitcoin That's quite a confidently presumptuous tone for an opinion that is clearly controversial at best. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/49c7ij/so_
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by homogeneous 10y ago
Ah, the "off-chain" transaction, AKA "using a traditional centralized database because the blockchain is too slow and expensive".
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by homogeneous 10y ago
The "yawn" is a bit flippant, but I don't see why it's condescending, he's absolutely correct. Your comic book guy reference seems to suggest that you think he's using big words to sound smart or something, but
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by homogeneous 10y ago
"Negative opinions" are fine. Heaping on condescending substance-free exclamations of ridicule in the middle of a thread about a specific issue regarding a platform you don't even use is just toxic arrogance. Your "micro
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by homogeneous 10y ago
What does this type of condescending bile add to the discussion? Thousands of companies successfully use PHP and node to write excellent software every day. If you despise node so fervently, why are you even engaging in a thread about the l
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by homogeneous 10y ago
> More white people than black live in poverty, yet blacks commit crime at far higher rates. For statistics see FBI and DOJ crime data: 1 in 10 whites live in poverty compared to 1 in 4 blacks so it's not true that more whites live
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by homogeneous 10y ago
> So poor blacks kill each other in huge numbers, and poor whites don't. What's your point exactly? 90% of black murder victims are killed by black perpetrators, 84% of white murder victims are killed by white perpetrators, so
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by homogeneous 10y ago
What is often missed in these statistics is that 90% of the homicides committed by black citizens are committed against black citizens, so it's not surprising that blacks are overrepresented in homicide statistics since they are overre
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by homogeneous 10y ago
My point is that determining what constitutes "too far" is fraught with ambiguous subjective analysis. Who is the arbiter of what is too far in terms of comedy? Pretty much nobody has an issue with "an innocent joke" by
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by homogeneous 10y ago
I think keeping jokes about genitalia and other sexually explicit topics out of the workplace is a pretty reasonable line to draw. The problem isn't that dick jokes are categorically offensive, rather, the problem arises because, when
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by homogeneous 11y ago
> You are making the case that intraracial facial structures all resemble each other No, my point is precisely the opposite. I'm making the case that facial structures are a crude approximation for genetic classification because it&
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by homogeneous 11y ago
It's also telling that "genetically inherited IQ" always happens to appear in discussions about "race", as if our crude racial classifications represent semantically meaningful genetic variations as it relates to ge
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by homogeneous 11y ago
You're comparing the microscopic bitcoin economy to the financial infrastructure that services the entire planet; it's a ridiculous comparison. How would bitcoin's power consumption stack up if it were tasked with servicing t
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by homogeneous 11y ago
> Any payment system requires energy and electricity. With traditional currency, lots of energy is consumed guarding and moving gold bullions around Whenever the topic of bitcoin's inherent wastefulness is discussed, someone always
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by homogeneous 11y ago
> in 2010, only 0.5% of the US labour force is employed in industries that did not exist in 2000 Well that doesn't seem too surprising, I can't really think of many industries that exist today that didn't in 2000.