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by logjam 13y ago
Wonderful. "Hacker" News at its finest. A post that is nothing more than an anecdote full of questionable horseshit on an important matter like health in turn generates HN comments that are merely anecdotes full of questionable ho
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by logjam 13y ago
That's nice. And I have completely unmixed feelings from reading you and the other genius commenters here and in the other thread about how you are somehow threatened by his simple encouragement of underrepresented minorities in a tech
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by logjam 13y ago
Don't make the really vapid errors in logic of trying to dismiss something by name-calling it "poetic", followed by the really vapid claim that IQ "strongly impacted by genetics", followed by failing to link to a si
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by logjam 13y ago
Oh for gods sake. We must live in alternate universes. I have never clicked an online ad. Ever. I have never met someone who said that they were grateful for ads on a web page, or found them helpful. Ever. The "advertising business mod
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by logjam 13y ago
Oh brother. We care about legitimate privacy issues but now you are suggesting that becoming the equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church on these matters will somehow be effective . It won't. The adolescent libertarian smell combine
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by logjam 13y ago
A Haiku for the Imperative Encountering the Sublime "It might help to start off with some text" HN comment text fades to gray Flower abides
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by logjam 13y ago
Wrong. Tact, compassion, and honesty are not in any way incompatible. And no, people who think they are being "brutally honest" while forgetting compassion or even basic fucking manners are not doing so with others' best inte
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by logjam 13y ago
Hi. I'm a man, and I'll explain exactly what you're missing. There are no different perspectives that you need to try to understand. This was a gutless, sexist, little shitfest in front of a tech audience in a supposedl
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by logjam 13y ago
Oh for fuck sakes, your spin that homeschooling is mostly "culturally diverse, community-involved, and intellectually curious" is really getting old. Even with your anecdotal assertions, do you really, really expect us to believe
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by logjam 13y ago
No, c'mon, I won't login with twitter or facebook.
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by logjam 13y ago
No, no thanks, I'm not going to login to read.
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by logjam 13y ago
Mind if we ask you to rearrange your own comment, or at least clarify any differences, if any, you may happen to see between....oh...innate sexual orientation... and the historic and recent practice of polygamy in Utah. Maybe you'd com
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by logjam 13y ago
Uh, you are the one being melodramatic here, and childish, and arguing strictly from emotion. You are trying to suggest the really vapid idea (over and over and over) that because no "names" are being supplied by one side (in a re
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by logjam 13y ago
> Human races are not a matter of belief.... Oh. Then please provide the list asked for, and while you're at it, list the genes and loci you use to classify members of a "race". I mean, if human "races" are not a
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by logjam 13y ago
Sticking nuts and bolts are the perfect meditation . Pedant alert: consider a beefy breaker bar or a torque wrench for that mechanical advantage. A pipe slipped on the end of a wrench has a habit of slipping off or breaking the wrench, and
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by logjam 13y ago
> the most comprehensive review of the SSRI studies (by Irving Kirsch et. al.) found no clinical significance beyond placebo for the vast majority of patients. No. Biological theories of mental health and mental illness are very much e
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by logjam 13y ago
Stallman's honors and awards for just some of the great work he's done (like launching the GNU Project, founding the Free Software Foundation, developing the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs): 1986: Honorary lifetime membership of the
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by logjam 13y ago
Sigh. In an HN thread commenting on a scientific study, our top comment is an N=1 report, followed immediately by the commenter peddling the book of a self-described fitness expert who praises "ultra-high calorie diets", followed downthread
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by logjam 13y ago
$550 million. Gross And downthread you're all exercised about agenda while completely giving Disney a pass on pushing an agenda ? We get it. The "ethics" you're advocating argues for giving kids plates of sparkly sugar for dinner becau
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by logjam 13y ago
The "British Psychological Society" needs to review their undergraduate coursework on the concept of "projection".
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by logjam 13y ago
His handlebars had started slipping. Not badly, he said, just a little when you shoved hard on them. I warned him not to use his adjustable wrench on the tightening nuts. It was likely to damage the chrome and start small rust spots. He ag
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by logjam 13y ago
"We have been fighting on this planet for 5000 years and we should take advantage of their experience." Lessons in better tactics ain't the most important learning to draw from that reading, General.
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by logjam 13y ago
Papers are generally peer-reviewed. However, this nitwit was just outright falsifying his data - peer-review or a "higher authority" review wouldn't necessarily have caught cooked data. Open data policies may help.
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by logjam 13y ago
Ok self-appointed HN comment cop, maybe you could make a ruling for us on top-voted HN comments which consists of nothing more than a mindless, unsupported assertion that the Rolling Stone article author "routinely lies", followed by a comm
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by logjam 13y ago
Gosh gee. You mean "finance discussions" from people who owed their income to the finance industry...and yet who want us to believe they are unbiased on the topic of the finance industry...this despite their well-thought out "discussion" in
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by logjam 13y ago
Congratulations! But this is a highly stressful time for parents. Be gentle with each other (it sounds like you are doing that) - both of you are not getting enough sleep, your bodies are still adapting, and you are learning a ton of new
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by logjam 13y ago
That is some really utterly fascinating spin right there. Next up: criminals are not really responsible for crime, since "government entities" like municipal police forces supposedly "strictly enforce" criminal conduct. I'm going to take a
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by logjam 13y ago
Oh. You're emotional and you don't want rationality to intrude on that emotion. Flagged.
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by logjam 14y ago
>...you're only adding to the perception that women lie [emphasis added] about sex crimes. And they do [emphasis added]...20%-40%...are simply false... blah blah Oh. My. Lie . Speaking of sleazy, do tell us more about your oddly wo
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by logjam 14y ago
I say no need to overcome your philosophy, and you can be highly successful without the rather silly idea people have around the need for competition. Cooperation, symbiosis, or whatever you want to call it, is a higher good than competitio

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