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by kirse 17y ago
due to the fact that the decision is made without the coercion of a punishment by God Except this isn't true, at all, so you can throw out that invalid assumption. The things a religious believer does (at least, speaking for myself) are
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by kirse 17y ago
So religious people can be very uncertain and scientists can be very certain. Except this is not the case, at all. It's a false sense of certainty drawn from the solid roots of empirical science, especially for the existential (or une
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by kirse 17y ago
I'd hate to break this to you also, but being "turned on" is just another emotional state that is subject to the mind's interpretation and perception. It's long been known (as the root of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) that the order of neur
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by kirse 17y ago
The reason I act the way I do now is out of love and obedience, not selfishness. Besides, that hypothetical scenario is not reality, and we have enough to debate given the present reality. What the tribe does is wrong. The fact that they
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by kirse 17y ago
I would disagree. I believe that moral absolutes exist and that certain things are intrinsically wrong. If you really believe that moral absolutes exist, then you must conclude that there exists some infinite being capable of being the fo
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by kirse 17y ago
But god doesn't exist anyway, so this point is pretty moot. Well then, it is solved! And to think, we've been wondering all these years! I hope your open-mindedness and skepticism (forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe science is one of
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by kirse 17y ago
Free will is an elegant answer, if we accept it... But what about natural disasters? Well, if you are going to assume the existence of God (Jehovah - the Biblical deity) to make your argument, then the simple answer is that yes, we are re
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by kirse 17y ago
If you believe in free will, God couldn't be causing any of the suffering to happen. People have been given the complete choice to do whatever they please, and this world is a product of that. This world's suffering is our own. Allowing
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by kirse 17y ago
I always agree with you on these financial topics =) I remember back in October 2008 when we both commented that the best time to sink money into the stock market is exactly when everyone else is pulling out in fear. (I was 22 at the time
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by kirse 17y ago
If people had any idea this was coming down the Google PR pipeline this would have been a huge money-making play... BIDU is up 13% today and BIDU options are set to expire 3 days later... JAN420 calls are up 7000%... Game over, time to ret
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by kirse 17y ago
Was it from that point on when you realized how smart you were and decided that anyone who questions Evolution is incapable of abstract reasoning? Such scientific close-mindedness is cargo-cult science, my friend... I believe Feynman spoke
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by kirse 17y ago
To be honest, my Dad gets the nod for buying me a VB book that included VB5 back in 5th grade (1997). But, I'll have to say that you (with that AOL-Files.com site) and this guy named "Oogle" inspired me with the "hacker" curiosity by about
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by kirse 17y ago
I've got this baby on preorder, can't wait to see if Maemo lives up to the hype. Personally I've never been an iPhone fan either purely because you can get phones with far, far better technology for the same price. iPhone wins hands down i
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by kirse 17y ago
Yea, my Nokia N95 (built in 2007) has this... it works perfectly for showing videos, etc. Mobile mfgs. are starting to build 720p HD-ready devices (ala Samsung Omnia i8910) but there's still tons of bugs and it's all very beta. Give it 2
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by kirse 17y ago
I don't have bipolar disorder, but I do know on particularly stressful days that the best thing exercise does is get you out of your own head - so the only thing you can possibly do is focus on is moving faster, pushing that weight harder
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by kirse 17y ago
I couldn't find an organizer solution that provided exactly what I wanted in the format I needed, so I just hacked one up in a week with PHP/MySQL. For awhile I had been using a simple pad/pencil and an EXPO board at home, but I noticed I
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How the U.S. removed a 1/2-ton of Uranium from Kazakhstan(washingtonpost.com)
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by kirse 17y ago
This sounds so intellectually deep and all, but did you even take roughly 30 seconds to think about what happens when you combine men and women in athletic competition? Hint: Men will dominate (just about) everything.
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NASA's lunar probe is sending 461 gigabytes of data per day back home(networkworld.com)
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by kirse 17y ago
You know, I've been here for over 2 years now and have certainly seen this link but never made the mental connection to use it for just a weekly checkup. Excellent idea! This will keep me from getting caught up in time-wasting comment wars
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by kirse 17y ago
Being a mobile nerd, I fully agree with you =) However, dkarl is arguing his point from "the way any typical user would" As a "typical user", if he's easily annoyed by how an in-depth phone review is structured, I could hardly imagine th
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by kirse 17y ago
What kind of readers does this guy have that he's not afraid of losing them to boredom at this point? The kind of readers this "guy" has are the 2+ million unique people that visit per month (see compete.com chart) who are actually intere
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by kirse 17y ago
I've owned my trusty Nokia N95 (8gb) since late '07 - before the original iPhone came out, and it's been funny to watch the evolution of comments on HN... It's like a bunch of people bought into the iPhone hype and have slowly come to reali
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by kirse 17y ago
operate in the 10-70mph range I had to laugh at the thought of a Segway doing 70mph. I'm all for taking risks, but have you ever done 50mph+ on just a moped?
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by kirse 17y ago
I just check how many dashes on the highway... the distance from the beginning of one "dash" to the beginning of another is 40 feet... So at 70 mph you need at least 5 dashes. The two-second rule is definitely the bare minimum... At 70mph t
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by kirse 17y ago
Another good one is the clearance rack at clothing stores. That's pretty interesting, because I buy the majority of my name-brand pants, polos, shoes, and shirts from discount stores like Marshalls, TJ Max, Nordstrom Rack, etc... Do you p
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by kirse 17y ago
the security forces use these paint balls to single out protestors, who they believe should be arrested If this is really their goal, then I would think accuracy would be high up the list of concerns... i.e. nailing the right protester to
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by kirse 17y ago
According to this person, the security forces use these paint balls to single out protestors, who they believe should be arrested. Sharp shooters are positioned in nearby locations (where they cannot be seen by the demonstrators) and launc
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by kirse 17y ago
I always enjoy when you come into the security threads on HN, call everyone out on their BS and set the record straight. Keep up the good work. =)
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by kirse 17y ago
My brain is a jewel. I am in awe of the mind that I have. I and my experience of life is not inferior, and may be superior, to the NT experience of life. Amen. Too many people try to victimize their situation by labeling themselves with

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