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by jshevek 6y ago
> Less gets done means the country gets worse and people get more radicalized trying to improve things. This opinion requires a great deal of justification.
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by jshevek 6y ago
That's amazing, thank you. Putting the location code 549R+27 into Google Earth also gives an interesting view.
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by jshevek 6y ago
> If that is too difficult to comprehend, then consider: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jshevek 6y ago
If you are arguing that they aren't really giving it away completely for free , I would agree. On the other hand, many people accept the word "free" to include "no charge, but strings attached", depending on con
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by jshevek 6y ago
> So because it is possible someone else may have come along and stolen it, that is a justification for the Brits to steal (and keep) it? Please do not pollute the conversation with strawmen. There are more options here than the two ex
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by jshevek 6y ago
> For no reason other than "I didn't think of that". Of course there are other possible reasons. Many people have a range of relevant ideological positions on the profit motive, and when and where it should be applied.
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This conclusion assumes many things that are not a given, such as the assumptions that it would have been not have been lost, damaged, or stolen by a third party during all of that time.
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Its a little tricky.. Even Weird Al gets the original artist's permission. Weird Al's preferences don't add any strength [evidence] to any argument regarding the legality.
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> which is the big issue here There are at least two issues, and both are worth discussing. Interestingly, if we prevent the surveillance problem we also prevent the racist surveillance problem, so in this way one could argue that (in t
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by jshevek 6y ago
I think you answered your own question, as that is not the content of the post.
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Your last point is less impactful recently, as opposed to years ago. Years ago one needed to making numerous substantive contributions to earn downvoting power. Recently, a critical mass of users has been rewarding participants in reddit s
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by jshevek 6y ago
Promoting a post about a resolved issue that doesn't prominently show that the issue is resolved is misleading. It would be better to promote critical non-misleading posts.
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The culture of hackernews is being poisoned by the culture of reddit during this pandemic.
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They are illustrating the problems intrinsic to your justification for your extremist and narrow minded position.
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Your substance-free comment is a non sequitur.
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> It's disingenuous to say it used to be worse pre-reddit because there is no data. It was not disingenuous to state their opinion that it used to be worse, while also noting the lack of data (to suggest that people's percep
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by jshevek 6y ago
I have seen many arguments with this same problem: > Economy will crash even if we open up This invites us to think of economic crashes as a do-or-don't function. This oversimplifies, and prevents us from thinking through the vari
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by jshevek 6y ago
> You ignored his point entirely, which is that even if we did manage to further lock down our borders, it does nothing to stop community transmissions. Your statement on the relationship between border control and non-border community
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by jshevek 6y ago
Setting aside Dawkins, and looking beyond image macros, it seems to me that the meaning of 'meme', in it's common usage, can encompass the meanings of "message", "claim", "idea" and more. It&#x2
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Large retailers that happen to also offer food are permitted here, while all other retailers are not.
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No, I'm not expressing my emotions, I'm pointing out the lack of intellectual integrity in the statement.
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This is in no way relevant to my point. You brought up three countries that have nearly eliminated the virus from their land, while overlooking the single most important prerequisite in all three cases. Edit: In other words, we can strive
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by jshevek 6y ago
Both parties are corrupt, and both advocate for reasonable and unreasonable policies. Part of their power derives from convincing much of their base to despise the "other side", to never properly listen to the other side, and nev
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by jshevek 6y ago
False trichotomy and false dichotomy are both simply specific cases of the more generalized "fallacy of exhaustive hypothesis".
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by jshevek 6y ago
> In New Zealand, South Korea and Australia coronaplague is on the way out thanks to testing and contact tracing. Why can't the US muster the political will to do the same? When it comes to complete elimination, you leave out the m
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by jshevek 6y ago
> This is not the time for egocentric defiance of the recommendations from our leaders. This is not a fair representation of the alternative and contrary viewpoints.
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by jshevek 6y ago
I understand people have strong feelings on this issue, but you can argue your position without using language like "cower" and "magically".
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I agree that there are a lot of problems with continuing the lockdown as it currently stands. However, the phrase "now that we've flattened the curve" could be interpreted to imply the curve can't quickly become unflatt
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I agree with your assessment of the nature and consequences of a well-functioning democracy. I think it self evident that ours (USA) is not working especially well, particular with regard to resisting corruption. On the other hand, I'
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by jshevek 6y ago
I'm not convinced, as it creates the possibility of egregious violations of community standards being difficult for moderators to detect. Less of an issue, but still worth some thought: Just like paywalled submissions must be by-passab

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