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by justsee 14y ago
I don't think political trolling is needed on HN. There are plenty of other places on the internet to make controversial personality politics statements.
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Well the simplest answer: because a roomba is not a living thing. Regardless of how sophisticated Roomba Mk #9999 is in aping the behaviour of living things, it itself is not living and so is not sentient: "Sentience is the ability to feel,
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by justsee 14y ago
No, because as an inanimate object it has no capacity for suffering or self-awareness.
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by justsee 14y ago
Ah sure - I see your point. Yes on the whole it was a bit of emotional hysteria driving reaction to this particular product when the same point could be made regarding all commercial meat production. I suppose it became the perfect poster c
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by justsee 14y ago
The first sentence of that Wikipedia page clarifies that animals are sentient? "Sentience is the ability to feel, perceive or be conscious, or to have subjective experiences." The 'Consider the Lobster' article simply investigates the philo
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by justsee 14y ago
Ah, you're quite right, I made a completely false interpretation of his position. Apologies! However my position has simply been that the response to pink slime was not entirely irrational / hysterical, considering it originated in the priv
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by justsee 14y ago
Well if that's your position there's not much chance of reasoned debate really. I simply highlighted that concern over the product originated from a USDA microbiologist. That fact refutes your characterisation of all opposition as entirely
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You falsely portray all opposition to industrial food production / GMO as unscientific / irrational / illogical? It certainly seems to be a favoured industry angle (esp. in regards to Genetically Modified Organisms): portray opposition as i
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by justsee 14y ago
Well yes, that's why I just posted the link to the article which explains why they are sentient. A more interesting, thoughtful piece on this is http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l...
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The unwitting coiner of the term was a US Department of Agriculture microbiologist who was disgusted the USDA approved the product for human consumption, stating: "Nobody did anything (about pink slime). USDA dropped the ball again. The mea
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience
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Yes, I thought as an outside observer that if successful, Stuxnet would have been a great nonviolent approach to achieving geopolitical ends.
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by justsee 14y ago
The analysis in that Economist opinion piece is rather poor, and reads more like an industry booster piece than a review of current knowledge about the process and impacts of fracking. A study was released late last year by the National Cen
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Mobile Megatrends 2012(slideshare.net)
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by justsee 15y ago
> Iran has insurgents and clerics in Iraq actively attacking Sunni civilians... Yes it does, as outlined in the Defense Intelligence Agency's statement on Iran's military power (from 2010)[1]. However I simply said Iran's military postu
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> Also: who cares if Iran has a Jewish population? It's a simple fact to illustrate that Iran is not bent on destruction of the Jewish people. Cultivating that idea in the public mind is the aim of that mistranslation, because the false
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by justsee 15y ago
No they haven't. That convenient mistranslation is widely reported because it suits the narrative of the major political powers [1]. They've essentially said the current political regime in Israel must / will disappear. However that sentime
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by justsee 15y ago
The warning is at the end of the article: "I think Google controlling search, the browser, and the network or DNS layer is a dangerous trifecta that the consumer will probably be best served avoiding" > the interview contains no actual
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by justsee 15y ago
Well, of course? As is The Economist and other publications that are part of the existing power structure. It is possible to make these pedestrian observations without supporting the people who oppose the power structure. I would also say t
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by justsee 15y ago
Huh? You've completely misread my comment. As have a few others it appears. Perhaps I should have written the bit you got so irate about as "Completely valid target, viewed from a number of perspectives." Just so we're clear: * I don't cond
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Stratfor is a geopolitical analysis company which helps shape a world-view for decision-makers in the existing power structure. What don't you understand about their infrastructure being a completely valid target? The question of identities
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An HTML. As an aside, what increasingly bugs me is the number of programmers who seem to have bought the urban myth that "An green apple" is grammatically correct, and have proceeded to pepper their project documentation with awkward and in
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by justsee 15y ago
Why do you assert that Australia "didn't have the bubble in real estate prices that the US did"? We have a significant asset bubble here. It hasn't popped primarily because we've had government-sponsored inflation of prices via the First Ho
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"it's important to keep in mind those conditions are often better than the places the workers came from" No offence, but I think this type of ignorance forms part of the denialism we use to avoid considering the moral issues. Mike Daisey ha
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A patronising tone is really unnecessary in HN discussions. Well-argued points should be enough. On the surface your response appears to be an informed, expert rebuttal but it falls apart with the briefest of examinations. Take for instance
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Is there any other energy-extraction process so mind-numbingly primitive and destructive? After doing a little research on fracking recently I honestly can't think of any. Pumping millions of gallons of chemical-laced water under high press
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The article is misleading, which is utterly unsurprising if you're already familiar with the previous work of Lewis Page at El Reg. He has a penchant for pumping stories that downplay climate change, Fukushima meltdown, etc. If you want sto
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by justsee 16y ago
That isn't the test for whether something is Hacker News-worthy though? However a notable developer hit a problem on a well-known site, diagnosed, proposed and explained a solution, and did it in a friendly, humorous way. So there are a few
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The point to be made here is that Apple's provided almost universal, historical snooping capabilities without any individual actors having to get James Bond on the situation. Every iOS device has the potential to reveal someone made a trip
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The point I made in another thread on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2468950 Basically by having it stored locally, it lowers the barriers to accessing data, so that it is no longer restricted to law enforcement people seeking

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