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by liberte82 8y ago
The best benefit I've heard about paper voting is the mechanism by which trust in the count is ensured. With paper voting, all votes are counted by several people, with oversight and random recounts. It is _possible_ to cheat, but it w
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by liberte82 8y ago
Oh yeah I've had this one big time in the past. It sort of comes and goes, hasn't been bothering me much lately. But a few times at my old job I drove all the way back into work to verify I'd locked the door when leaving for
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by liberte82 8y ago
Based on how people talk about it I actually thought it was a lot more.
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by liberte82 8y ago
How do we know that reality itself isn't a mass hallucination?
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by liberte82 8y ago
They said "would", but they meant "wouldn't"
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by liberte82 8y ago
Why don't we send a rover to some of these interesting places? It seems like we're constantly making fascinating finds on Mars, then send rovers to the middle of a random rocky desert.
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by liberte82 8y ago
Thanks for teaching me a new word!
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by liberte82 8y ago
I can't believe people are _still_ getting trolled by Cohen. How can every single politician and their handlers not know exactly who he is by now?
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by liberte82 8y ago
That's the first I heard this piece of the story. Source?
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by liberte82 8y ago
So... yet another article full of nothing but anecdotal evidence. What will it take to actually get a real answer on this?
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by liberte82 8y ago
Was that employee Mark Zuckerberg?
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by liberte82 8y ago
Is the theory that space-time is infinitely large, or also that there is an infinite amount of matter/energy within it?
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by liberte82 8y ago
He at least did the honorable thing by issuing a public warning on his way out. I bet the Facebooks learn from these experiences and start requiring NDAs for their acquisitions. Anyway, someone can just build another Whatsapp.
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by liberte82 8y ago
Richard Stallman was a prophet
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by liberte82 8y ago
what were they accused of?
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by liberte82 8y ago
Additionally, what "life" are we talking about? We know about certain lifeforms existing in hostile environments, but can we talk about humans?
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by liberte82 8y ago
Even worse, we're just stealing from it!
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by liberte82 8y ago
Make The Sun Great Again, that trade deficit is monstrous, Earth has been taking advantage of us for far too long.
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by liberte82 8y ago
It was all well and good when we were getting good cheap Chinese goods. Now that China is rising, we've all suddenly become humanitarians.
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by liberte82 8y ago
And the part where HN folks start complaining about it's super obvious and everyone who uses any internet service should clearly know that all of their data is going to be used for any and all nefarious purposes we could imagine, you m
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by liberte82 8y ago
that's why I don't do it anymore - it got a little too scary for me
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by liberte82 8y ago
nope, or at least I didn't back in my drinking days. it was just normal for people to get wasted and hook up. does that not happen anymore?
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by liberte82 8y ago
BALLISTIC CONDUCTION
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by liberte82 8y ago
From the perspective of a photon, everything in the universe is happening here and now.
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by liberte82 8y ago
When exactly did it enter the public consciousness that drunk people are unable to give consent? I feel if this is true, there are many drunken hookups that become questionable. I'm in my mid-30s, and I feel this concept wasn't re
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by liberte82 8y ago
When taking hallucinogens and in a few cases without, I've had instances where my ideas and concepts of time have begun breaking down. It's a very weird feeling, when you begin becoming uncertain about how or if time works. And im
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by liberte82 8y ago
Don't they teach in logic classes that appeals to authority are an invalid form of logic? If we don't trust authorities, in the world of the internet where anything goes, where does that leave us?
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by liberte82 8y ago
In Japanese, blue and green are considered the same color, just different shades. So is true in some places.
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by liberte82 8y ago
Joke's on them when the US decides educational facts are fake news and we pull a full 180.
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by liberte82 9y ago
Oh goodie, another technology promising to connect us better than ever. I can’t wait to see how this one backfires horribly.

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