newsmania

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by newsmania 9y ago
The purpose of requiring a college degree, I have come to realize, is not to demonstrate knowledge, but rather to demonstrate submissiveness. It shows that you are decently capable of doing what you are told, and that's all most employ
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by newsmania 9y ago
That’s exactly why I think empirical models of consciousness fall short.
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by newsmania 9y ago
I would point out that metaphysically speaking, we have no way of knowing if we are in a simulator. For all we know, the universe could be just the matrix. However it is self evident that our conscious thoughts and experiences exist. This
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by newsmania 9y ago
People these days don’t really seem to care much if a serviceman dies. Now if the terrorists wife dies in a raid, people act like something far worse has happened. This plane will help target terrorists better because it’s slower.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Run as far as you can from the atttractive ones. Good looks are a crutch. They let people slide by without ever developing character. Get an ok or ugly one. They aren’t in as high demand so less likely they will leave you. More importantly
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by newsmania 9y ago
One problem I’ve thought of with UBI is that it may very well make everything more expensive. Since people will have more money they will not need to work as much. When people don’t work as much, of course the amount of goods and services
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by newsmania 9y ago
Cops get a bad rap, but the DAs haven’t come under fire. They knowingly ruin many many more innocent lives than cops. And unlike cops who may shoot in a poor split second decision, DAs knowingly and willingly destroy the lives of the inno
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by newsmania 9y ago
No they’re not. The only reason they are still there is because China wants them there. And they are being very dumb by making China angry. Secondly treating your people like dirt is also a very bad idea. Singapore remains a monarchy whil
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by newsmania 9y ago
Hosthatch has a 1 TB hdd vps plan for $20. I’ve used them before and they were ok. They had a network outage but fixed it.
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by newsmania 9y ago
I have an idea. Corn farmers aren't making money, so let's subsidize corn farming to help them make money. Of course, that will lead to a worse oversupply, but hey, it's been working so far, right?
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by newsmania 9y ago
Google “flexbox”. That is the single biggest new thing replacing floats in css. You’ll also want to make sure you understand css transitions (they are very simple).
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by newsmania 9y ago
everybody hates on Mongodb, but at least it's sql-injection proof.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Because we have the right to vote at age 18! And since politicians decide who goes to jail, who fights in wars and where bombs dropped, deciding on the right person to vote for is hugely important. Normally we would take years to formulate
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by newsmania 9y ago
Slavery actually held the USA back. It kept the south rural, whereas the north was far wealthier without slaves because it industrialized. Furthermore, the civil war was incredibly destructive and without slavery would not have occurred. L
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by newsmania 9y ago
No way! Vue is way better than react. Ok, it depends on personal opinion, but I think it’s s much nicer framework to work with.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Why would they pay more? First, convenience - it's right in the store, you can just buy it without having to do a shady deal where you might get killed. Second, big drug companies at scale will be able to manufacture for much less. Thi
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by newsmania 9y ago
Make drugs legal. Impose a 15% tax on each sale with all money devoted to rehabbing addicts. Problem solved.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Gee if you want music and don’t want to pay for it, learn how to play the guitar. But if you think someone else is better than you and you want to listen to their music, what do you have against them being compensated? Copyright is differe
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by newsmania 9y ago
After watching enough shows about lions on Netflix, I can't see how anyone wants to preserve these creatures in the wild. They are mind glowingly brutal animals, whose very existence is predicated in mauling other animals. If you care
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by newsmania 9y ago
This is just such a nonissue. 10mbps is fast enough for anything regular users need.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Your right to vote does a lot more for you than get you money, it can keep you alive! For one it could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated and people forced to go due in Vietnam. Additionally it could keep you out of jail.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Would you elaborate on the issue? JavaScript actually does have a type system, it's just not very transparent. Using triple equals will not coerce types when comparing, whereas double equals will.
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by newsmania 9y ago
I don't think he's advocating shaming people with problems. I think he's just pointing out that the way our culture acts like obvious sin is hunky dory is a real problem.
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by newsmania 9y ago
Thanks, glad to see someone stand up for Jesus on HN. People act like religion is stupid here, but you make a great point to the contrary. If everything truly is relative and all that matters is what you want, why is opioid addiction a pro
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by newsmania 9y ago
I may not understand your point correctly, but I would say yes, they do. The JPEG is an arrangement of atoms in an SSD. This is different from my experience of the color red that I see on the screen. The color red is physical. It is a typ
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by newsmania 9y ago
> If it's not neurons that produce consciousness then there must be some other physical phenomena that generates experience. Not necessarily. If you think about it, consciousness is not physical. My thoughts have no mass. My experi