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by jshevek 7y ago
Parent addressed this when they said "with first I mean to first capture the large swath of people that wasn't techies nor young people"
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by jshevek 7y ago
As a space exploration enthusiast, Elon's tunnel boring activities are especially interesting to me. He is the only tunnel boring CEO who has openly expressed interest in developing the technology for Mars.
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by jshevek 7y ago
This would have the net effect of warming the atmosphere, unless you developed new technology to simultaneously beam significant heat energy into space.
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by jshevek 7y ago
If you are checking something else, I recommend Brave. I've switched from Firefox to Brave and I am mostly satisfied.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I took it as an observation or speculation of cause and effect. There is no judgement (positive or negative) needed for this.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I don't know what it means to say "that's how natural selection works" in this context. At times, evolutionary pressure favors cooperation and altruism.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I'm uncomfortable with the generalizations [that get] made on both sides of this debate. Region specific policies and culture can play a role, but ultimately the behavior of the police can depend highly on the specific individual or ev
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by jshevek 7y ago
This doesn't change the fact that the risks of harrassment for a homeless person can increase (or also decrease, depending on details of the situation) if they become well known. For example, a local business owner or homeowner could s
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by jshevek 7y ago
Addressing causes of her prior homelessness, she says: > I have a serious medical condition. As best I can tell, this is a much more common root cause of homelessness than the addiction and mental health issues that get so much more atte
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by jshevek 7y ago
You frame your question in the present tense, but this post describes her homelessness in the past tense. > I don't think I stated online that I had been in Fresno until after I left California entirely and got back into housing.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Over what time period are you claiming there is a rise in hate crime? And how are you defining hate crime? I've seen several kinds of fallacious arguments related to allegations of a rise in hate crimes. One is based on allowing peopl
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by jshevek 7y ago
Thank you for clarifying this. Based on the coverage I've seen, I had always been under the impression that a shooter shot multiple rounds at a group of people. I had no idea it was a single round directed at a lock in a door. It&#x27
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by jshevek 7y ago
Thank you for explaining.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Without further clarification, I'm honestly confused whether you comment is related to my own, or you just wanted to make this observation for its own sake.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Forgive me if I misunderstood, but it sounds like you are simply questioning the word "earnestly" in my comment? And not implying agreement with the snark laden comment to which I was responding?
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by jshevek 7y ago
"...Prof. Young-Wook Lee (Yonsei Univ., Seoul), who led the project said, "Quoting Carl Sagan, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, but I am not sure we have such extraordinary evidence for dark energy. Our result
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by jshevek 7y ago
Cherry picking unlikely hypothetical scenarios (this is GR, not yelp) is a bad strategy for making a binary determination of the morality of a choice. When you ask "Was that the morally superior choice", what set of options are yo
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by jshevek 7y ago
I see nothing in the parent comment to imply a desire for gratuitous attention, nor self importance, nor a predilection for drama nor profanity. I just see someone who is tired of being tracked, and earnestly wants to know how to opt out.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I do not believe that the author has faked their own fake criticism in this case, but this marketing tactic has been used successfully before by others.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> If burning the review section to the ground with garbage content forces Goodreads to take notice, I could see someone arguing that it is a morally productive, good action to take -- not just neutral, but in fact morally superior to Peo
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by jshevek 7y ago
> Let me rephrase that -- is there a more moral action they could take? This depends on your basic values, but one could definitely argue that doing nothing is morally superior to abusing the voting system. Only sometimes do two wrongs m
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by jshevek 7y ago
It's absurd that pre-release reviews are available to the general public. This should be easy to fix, if GR cared to do so.
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by jshevek 7y ago
What is the morally correct action if fake positive reviews outnumber fake negative reviews? Should we then post more fake negative reviews to offset the fake positive reviews?
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by jshevek 7y ago
I did not claim they were bad. From their own words, some of them evidently believe they are not just morally superior to the people posting fake negative reviews, but vastly morally superior. It is not obvious that this is the case.
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by jshevek 7y ago
That's why I used relative language such as "as morally superior as they evidently believe" Edit: If someone is caught posting fake positive reviews to boost a rating[1], that doesn't make it okay to post fake negative r
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by jshevek 7y ago
Some people are trying to battle against negative fake reviews by posting positive fake reviews. It's not clear to me that they are as morally superior as they evidently believe. Edit: The solution is to fix the voting system, not to a
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by jshevek 7y ago
This is why the parent comment asks for a reason to wait for the dev version, rather than simply install their own distro. If one does not want to install a distro, then this might be a reason to wait for pre-installed Ubuntu. But the paren
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by jshevek 7y ago
It cannot be done simply nor perfectly, but making the effort is at the very foundation of having a functional civilization.
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by jshevek 7y ago
"Dell estimates that this model will get up to 19 hours of battery life when configured with an FHD+ display." I like this trend.
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by jshevek 7y ago
I disagree with the suggestion that the size of the group is important here. For example, a better measure might be the nature of the harm, if any, done by the defiant group.

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