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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Do I think he's a genius? Go read my comment again and see if you can understand my very simple position against your conflating different people and their different arguments. Mods, please read this exchange, including 'tptacek&#
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
I assume he's referring to your intentional conflation of two different peoples' claims (namely, 'zelon88 ("[w]e're going to take a genius away from civilization" [0]) and the writer of the article ("Earli
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Is this because antibacterial agents in soaps are not funded by Monsanto? (okay, I asked that facetiously, but still) I mean, basically, yeah. Firstly, there's no market-spanning hand sanitizer megacorp (megacorps make hand sanitiz
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Some might dismiss your idea as silly -- but you're the only one in this thread who got exactly what he wanted for the price he offered.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
This seems like a strange objection, relying as it does on "the gain" made by those who control what the "minimum" is. Postulates A2 and A3, which are assumed to hold for this question, make any savings from the cut &quo
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
To anyone who intuitively understands why the maintenance of human health and well-being might suffer for being corrupted by vested interests who are more interested in said vesting than human health and well-being (ie, "opposition to
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
This is clever sophistry. However, in Canada, a debilitating injury might necessitate bankruptcy because of bills that you can't pay thanks to a medical condition which precludes your usefully working. In America, a debilitating injury
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>I'm from Cuba and I can say that weekly package (el paquete) always contains files from previous weeks, so what's real new each week is up to 200 GB Right, thanks! I made the erroneous assumption that the bulk of the data chan
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Awesome article! Does anyone have any further information? A few things stick in my mind: 1. FTA: "You'd need to be downloading at over 11Mbps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get the equivalent of El Paquete" 2. The AV updat
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Eh, an interesting comment. I assume you merely skimmed mine, because I was only using the term 'boobs' to refer to getting to see a naked lady without any of the usual cultural impediments (wooing, dating, even tracking down and
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Indeed! I'm slightly shocked by the casual implication that our masturbatory world is the same as that of our ancestors -- excluding my Dad, who can indeed use the internet, I think that the argument could be made that I have seen more
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>It sounds like designers hating on Comic Sans or programmers arguing over tabs vs spaces This, basically. I find it darkly humourous that HN's commentariat, in this thread and indeed whenever confronted with domain-specific jargon
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>HN karma is worthless, so there's really no point worrying about getting upvotes HN karma might be 'meaningless internet points', but as long as some functionality, like the downvoting the GP complains of, is gated by kar
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Rat park is unreplicatable Much of social science is unreplicatable, psych especially. Is this because it's wrong, or because of other factors? Take the easiest, most commonly replicated, least contentious conclusion one can come t
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>ctrl+f "rat park" Not found!? Well, I'm just the motile conglomeration of vermin for the job! "Rat Park", a utopia for rats, is (IMO) a critical component of the pushback against the disease model of addiction.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>No, you haven't provided anything of value beyond personal attacks at people that had the gall to suggest that UBI might not align well with economics Without some evidence that it is true, the claim that started this all, namely t
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Provide an argument supporting the notion that people shouldn't be incentivized to produce things that the market values What?! That's crazy! Even if I were intending on debating any of you guys, I could hardly do it being pro
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>In short, a UBI will make us all poorer because people will refuse to provide the things that others actually want, and instead will engage in hobbies that provide little value to the world? >Your phrasing suggests you favor a UBI, y
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>While sometimes viewed as lazy or boorish, swearing actually requires substantial verbal facility and skill. When used correctly, in other words, profanity is expressively complicated I'm glad they pointed this out -- as I always s
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
A more concise and convincing presentation than the article itself. Thanks!
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>I make a serious effort to nurture relationships with people who hold beliefs very different from mine, some of these beliefs I even consider ethically flawed, or counterfactual. And yet I get so much out of talking and especially liste
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Jesus, read your comments in this thread again. Do you really think you're a champion of Listening? A guy made a rather cogent point about whether this protocol will actually help resolve issues or not (which the linked article doesn
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Such a system would be beneficial for other reasons as well: in many recent plane crashes, survivors have ended up wandering the area, which leads to a lot of unnecessary stress for loved ones searching for them, administrative hassles
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
As much as I cheerfully upvote snarky jabs at HN's pretension to highfallutin', superior-quality commentry, consistently downvoting effortless one-liner comments is a great way to ensure that they generally don't happen.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
It's actually totalitarian dictatorships that get me passionate. Try reading my comments again. Or, just keep saying "communism" until it becomes what I was talking about -- it worked for the vast majority of Western culture.
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Hand-wavy conflation of communism-as-economic-system and communism-as-government to describe brutal totalitarian states that happen to have a communist economic system is exactly what I'm talking about. It's an easy thing to do, b
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
Honestly, the sort of True Believer who classifies Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, Pot's Cambodia, Castro's Cuba, etc, as all "true Scotsman" communism isn't worth talking to about communism anyway. Rare is the pers
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>Edit: Not a 9/11 truther or anything - I just know this from first hand experience with metal working Isn't the knowledge that steel loses structural integrity at a temperature way lower than that required to melt it a sign of
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>What if not being depressed is the beneficial adaptation? It would not surprise me if many depressed people have a more accurate view of the world and their place in it It's funny that you should mention that... https://
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by justratsinacoat 10y ago
>The inexistence of God is an article of faith as well. It's typically faith in the truth of the physicalist position Is it? I really hope you're merely lying in order to socially signal religiousness, because the general form

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