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by jshevek 6y ago
> Not having enough money to survive isn't a made up thing. No one has suggested that anything here is a 'made up thing', are you creating strawmen? > However you want to define it, people need to make ends meet includ
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by jshevek 6y ago
In what way am I in the wrong? I did not claim and do not believe that there is only one level of 'forced'. No one here is making it out to be that way. Edit: Just because there is a range of accepted meanings for the word &#x27
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by jshevek 6y ago
I didn't know what you meant. I thought you meant what you said. I'm grateful that the parent gave you a chance to clarify, and don't see this as a "derailment". Surely you aren't impugning their motive?
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Stop playing PR hype-man for Amazon, they don't need your help. You can address the other speaker's points without this.
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by jshevek 6y ago
The nuanced approach is to reject extremist characterizations, not embrace them.
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by jshevek 6y ago
That quoting style is for code. It is difficult to read on mobile.
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by jshevek 6y ago
Any claim about surface area that relies on the examination at the atomic scale is no longer due to the fractal nature of the lung's branches. Such claims would be equality true (or false) of non-fractal organs.
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by jshevek 6y ago
Yes, I agree. My point in that comment was not to debate the merits of a general policy vs specific policy, but to dispell the idea that the general policy would only be used for the specific case of corona virus and 5G. It seems that you
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by jshevek 6y ago
I try not to engage with people who go directly to snarky extremist characterization, as above. But yes, political agendas are a factor here, as is simple appeasement.
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by jshevek 6y ago
If you want to discuss that with the GGP, and think you can do so fairly, in good faith, go right ahead. I'm just tired of the absolute degradation of quality dialogue on this site, which has accelerated during this period of mass unem
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Yes, ignore all the overwhelmed hospitals and the sudden jump in mortality in Italy and Spain that made them decide to lock everything down after they already had a crisis on their hands. Rail more about a transnational organization wi
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by jshevek 6y ago
This is where a person less concerned with the correct use of the terms designating logical fallacies might accuse you of a "false equivalence". Regardless, trying to reason by analogy on topics like this invites errors of oversim
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by jshevek 6y ago
That's a strange way of framing the fact that the WHO is explicitly siding with China in denying the very existence of Taiwan. Especially considering that Taiwan had data that would have saved lives, had the World Health Organizatio
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by jshevek 6y ago
> I hate to be the one to have to explain this to you. Your snarky condescending tone is not helpful. Just because a person reaches a different conclusion than you doesn't mean that they lack information like this. I think it'
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by jshevek 6y ago
> Youtube is doing what they can to save lives by stopping misinformation... I'm shocked that anyone would believe that this is an honest framing of YouTube's motivation.
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by jshevek 6y ago
> The 99.99999% case scenario concerns videos that are saying '5g caused coronavirus' If this were the case, they could simply announce that their policy is to ban videos that blame coronavirus on 5G. In practice, they will pr
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by jshevek 6y ago
Wrapping with asterisks, with no whitespace, italicizes . I don't think that you can embolden, otherwise.
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by jshevek 6y ago
> You being entertained on the train by judging people on their phones sounds hardly more valuable as a hobby than them being entertained by judging people in instagram stories. The train entertainment is likely something which happens
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by jshevek 6y ago
This may or may not be relevant: > Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.
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by jshevek 6y ago
> I hate to lose reputation with downvotes for sounding negative This kind of comment is discussed in the second from the last paragraph here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by jshevek 7y ago
For people accustomed to Fahrenheit, that's 140 to 212.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Were you using a fresh filter cartridge? And even if you were, was the smoke so severe that the cartridge may have quickly collected so much particulate matter that it was rendered less capable of allowing a high flow of air at a low pressu
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by jshevek 7y ago
It's not an real doubling of number of people actual dying within a 24 hour period.
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by jshevek 7y ago
> you think that being in middle or upper management is the same as running a business The parent comment made no such assertion.
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by jshevek 7y ago
Most of the links on that page are unrelated to COVID19. Three were related. Are you recommending one of those three? Which?
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by jshevek 7y ago
I strive to treat all frameworks skeptically (aside from the meta-framework of logical consistency). I see two notions of 'rights' in common usage, one (which you call a natural right) is predicated on personal liberty and the ot
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by jshevek 7y ago
Threatening a person with death is not the only way to violate a natural right. To take this view might arbitrarily limit one's ability to analyze the nature and impact of the censorship being done by social media.
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by jshevek 7y ago
You can disagree on who is obligated to defend what kinds of speech, but do you agree with the parent's point - that the grandparent conflated an amendment with a moral principle?
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by jshevek 7y ago
True. Examples: Less driving means less vehicular death. We probably have slightly more death due to domestic violence. More or less death from drug overdose. Less contact means less death from the normal flu.
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by jshevek 7y ago
You should be a bit skeptical of both. Trusting the courts is foolish and dangerous, in this case and in general.

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