jibal

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   by jibal 6mo ago

   I don't think you understand how jokes work. They are mostly "distortions" of real dialog or events to add incongruous or absurdist elements. Here, Hardy's not uncommon momentary doubt about whether a statement really wa
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   by jibal 6mo ago

   loser (Didn't you notice being mocked for the spelling error?)
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   by jibal 6mo ago

   It was an honest post, unlike "I wasn't even trying to make any claims about the statement"--you DID make a claim about it--a false claim, as I pointed out. "My mere point" Again lying. "not need to rely on &qu
4. 454.▲
   by jibal 6mo ago

   You're lying about what your own link says. The poster did not claim that Blanchard refused to leave the podium; the poster wrote "with * officials* claiming he refused to leave the podium after his three-minute speaking time end
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   by jibal 6mo ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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   by jibal 6mo ago

   > The first move is always: white rook takes black rook No. N4 leads to a forced win.
7. 457.▲
   by jibal 6mo ago

   White has a forced win.
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   by jibal 6mo ago

   It was a good way to while away the time at jury duty back in the days when you had to physically be there until you were called. I encountered a tournament player who beat me maybe 4 times out of 5. I also played in a chess tournament wher
9. 459.▲
   by jibal 6mo ago

   (your) kNight moved to the 4th (1-indexed) square then (their) kNight moved to the 5th (1-indexed) square
10. 460.▲
    by jibal 6mo ago

    It's wild that anyone doesn't know that. It's less surprising than the fact that disallowing someone with 34 felony convictions from being President would also require a Constitutional amendment. Both the pardon power and the
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    by jibal 6mo ago

    Congress can propose amendments but it takes 3/4 of the states to ratify them.
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    by jibal 6mo ago

    We "should" do many things that aren't feasible, like this or anything else that requires a Constitutional amendment.
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    by jibal 6mo ago

    There's nothing less intelligent than voting Republican other than urging people to do it.
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    by jibal 6mo ago

    So he spends a few seconds writing something generic about his family and then uses that as a platform for a bunch of personal PR. That's sociopathy.
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    by jibal 6mo ago

    N4 N5 Nx6+ K7 R4 Kx6 R2 (or K2) K7 Rx5#
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    I started programming on an IBM 1620 with 20,000 BCD digits of memory, 20 usec to add 2 digits, 160 usec for branch not taken, 200 usec for branch taken. I remember these and many other details but I have no desire to go back because I&#x27
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    Glad I have a good font in my browser to read such nonsense.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    Thanks for the clarification. > If you're the kind of person who is naive enough ... That wasn't necessary. But I acknowledge that I should have dug deeper before posting that.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    I think you have that backwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Star_Codex#Anti-reaction...
20. 470.▲
    by jibal 7mo ago

    non sequitur ... less of a thing is still the thing.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    If you have to lie to make a point, maybe the point is invalid. And the same goes for your other comments on this page ... they have no truth to them. Low quality trash comments like "[Newsom] does seem wildly corrupt though with extre
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    I'm not about to bite my tongue for this absurd cowardly fallacious reason.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    That's a completely intellectually bankrupt argument that blames good people for the actions of bad people. It doesn't have a shred of fact or logic to support it.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    In the aggregate we live miserable lives and then die.
25. 475.▲
    by jibal 7mo ago

    As it says in the footnote of TFA.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    It doesn't sound that way to me, but there's a lot of context at https://youtu.be/tzXu5KZGMJk?t=3160
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    So many strawmen. The only lies here are about what I said. > The law is an objective concept I didn't say that or anything like it and I don't believe it. > so clear that there can be no confusion I didn't say that or
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    Does that explain Trump's numerous wives? Reading your comments is a wonderland of right wing bias.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    > It’s hard to imagine a[n informative] article like this dissecting a product of some other administration. A baseless ideological claim.
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    by jibal 7mo ago

    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -- Upton Sinclair