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by innguest 12y ago
> But the police don't arrest people for breaking ethical principles, they arrest people for breaking laws. ...Unless the police officer has ethical principles, in which case they will refuse to obey unfair laws. I remember watching
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But the police can take out a hit on me if I start a commotion and flee. Then they will pursue me with the intent (or legal right) to kill me and I will be blamed for it. So it makes sense to blame the police for starting a commotion that s
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The axioms were found much much later than a lot of the work had already been done. When Euclid wrote down his list of axioms do you think he was laying the ground for work yet to be done? No, the axioms were the synthesis he came up with b
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by innguest 12y ago
That's exactly how I keep in shape. Choosing what to eat is already too much effort, let alone making it.
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Seconded. If you do please ping me (email on profile page).
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They sit and collect dividends from the social contract you were forced into.
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I find that absurdly crazy. My Firefox sessions usually see between 300 to 1200 tabs open at a time. Now I understand why I need to keep crashing it to force the GC. I wish all tabs idle for longer than 5 minutes would be collected by the G
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Didn't Science used to consider all sorts of weird things as true and therefore the "right answer"? Wasn't phlogiston the right answer at some point? Wasn't aether? And so on? How do we know we've finally arriv
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I know little about autism so feel free to educate me if I'm wrong or inadvertently contributing to spreading misinformation, but this caught my attention, at 46:16 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjqrNPomIzg It&#x27
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Government passes laws to regulate themselves. People who work for the government pass laws to regulate what they can and can't do in the role of government worker. It is a monolith in the sense that there is no non-government entity h
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Nothing disturbing about these things. Depressed people think about that a lot and blurt it out on occasion.
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> I fail to see how ruminant poop would improve the situation. Contrast: Headline: Blah Blah Government Agents Blah Boring Blah Torture Blah More Big Words Blah Blah with: Headline: Protesting Citizens Dump Tons of Manure at White House
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What a hypocrite. He wishes so dearly that everyone have the same opinion he does so as to willingly work more to pay for other people's shelter and food. He can be the change he wants to see - all he has to do is take care that the po
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> Take the next logical step & prosecute these sociopaths. But they're friends with the cronies! So it's not going to happen. No matter how many "voters" beg daddy Govmints. Keep cheering though. Maybe something w
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Why does the author keep saying "If OPEC doesn't interfere"? Is the author in favor of price-fixing? I thought all sane human beings understand that a monopoly controlling the price of something is bad. That's why the au
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> What would be the point of dumping tax dollars into amputee research? Helping real people that need help now. > We invest in space because we think it is worthwhile, and still mostly unprofitable (that's changing). That doesn&
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Why doesn't NASA grow up from the government's training wheels and becomes a for-profit offering its satellite placing services like everyone else is doing to turn up a buck? Why do I have to subsidize this when they could be maki
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> but when your a teenager or adult you grow out of it And you keep the emotional scars.
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You should be upvoted to the maximum. Bloodthirst not only blinds but creates evil, manipulates others into believing lies, and the effect is then compounded.
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And for some reason liberals think that the attempted extortion of money from people within a certain radius of a certain situation is an honorable act.
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Are you surprised people don't know this? That's why the US is the new SU and CN is the new US.
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From first hand experience I can tell you this might not work because sometimes (as it was in my case) the bedbugs hide far away from the bed, then do their daily pilgrimage at night onto your bed.
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The reality is if we dumped as much tax money on it as we dump on spaceships landing on comets, we'd be all done with this in 1 year and headlines like this would be old news.
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> Can anyone track and connect the dots from fed bond buying to increase in Facebook share price? I don’t think anyone knows. Are you willing to bet? :) Bonds aren't too profitable right now (I hope I don't have to explain why!
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Also of note is that Seaside uses the concept of continuations to manage multi-page flow which is a very fitting abstraction for this problem, and that most languages can't afford to do. That means they can code complex behavior as if
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I'm confused. :) What does what I said have to do with Ayn Rand? I'm also curious about how Ayn Rand and Plato were thrown into the same group. I remember well that Plato went on and on about his Utopia of the State controlling th
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> I applaud the transparency they have shown. They have no choice. There's no regulation around this so companies are forced to be transparent and convince their users they're legit. We're just not used to companies being
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Good thing the smart are incorruptible by power. Oh, wait.
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> As a parent, I find this mildly useful in keeping my kids on their best behaviour Indeed, I'm sure it's a useful substitute to talking to your kids like human beings deserving of respect and giving them real world reasons wh
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> So, in some ways, this thing is conditioning parents as well. No, for parents you get Amazon Echo.

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