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by nnfy 9y ago
I'd just like to point out that I was wasn't the one who introduced the "flamewar topic" of race and success, and so a just application of the rules would place https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=150867
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by nnfy 9y ago
>I think being born white, male That is an ABSURDLY racist and sexist thing to say, and it is terrifying to me that it is becoming not only socially acceptable, but socially required, to believe and say such things. What happens to peopl
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by nnfy 9y ago
Is this really a flaw in bitcoin? And I do not agree that this makes bitcoin any less anonymous. There is still the gap between key and owner that needs to be bridged before identification can take place, and I do not believe that the word
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by nnfy 9y ago
For years I've been confused by the two different names. That was an insightful comment.
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by nnfy 9y ago
This is true. However, I think logical people as a group hold a disproportionate amount of power in society. I'm not sure, though, and I'm only arguing out of, well, logic. What I mean to say is if I were a politician, I would be
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by nnfy 9y ago
At least this way you convince the educated public that you are credible. We should avoid names inspired by what amounts to political correctness, because people who see through the names may distrust us further. However, I do appreciate yo
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by nnfy 9y ago
I appreciate your effort, as I fear that the greatest hindrance to the success of cryptocurrencies is a nontechnical and/or ignorant public.
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by nnfy 9y ago
The whole purpose of soylent is to allow me to spend 13 hours per day coding on adderall without leaving my room. Healthy or not, I think OP missed the point of ready made, no cleanup food.
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by nnfy 9y ago
Discrimination? If you really want to go down that absurd road, I want special accommodations for being short. I want free seat pillows in movie theatres. I demand that bars implement rules that require tall people to crouch or bend their k
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by nnfy 9y ago
Correction, at 6'4" you're in the 98.9th percentile for the U.S. What you're asking for is simply not reasonable or fair to the overwhelming majority.
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by nnfy 9y ago
They do care. They've shown that it is more economical for private companies to not make special allocations for one subset of the population, especially when customers are free to upgrade. This isn't about airlines being evil, it
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by nnfy 9y ago
And she was absolutely right.
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by nnfy 9y ago
6'4" is absolutely exceptional. You're asking for airliners to cater to what, less than 5% of the population? Do I get special accomomodations in society for being short? Where's my dating rights lawsuit?
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by nnfy 9y ago
>It is a hedge against technological development in cell reprogramming and repair - technological development that is progressing at a revolutionary pace right now, and that will soon enough enable old cells to be restored to youthful co
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by nnfy 9y ago
But there is nothing to rebut for a scientist without an agenda. Look around you; the plan of egalitarianism transitioned from experiment to propaganda decades ago. We do have scientific evidence of predictable gender differences in ability
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by nnfy 9y ago
But it would likely cover topics which would suggest differences in gender. This entire debate is absurd. The link between gender and behavior is beyond plausible. Something as simple as psychological effects of being physically smaller tha
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by nnfy 9y ago
This isn't just some AI gone wrong. YouTube has had an agenda for years. At the very least, people with power to undo these bans are complacent, there is simply no way that YouTube staff are unaware of the gradual crackdowns. Even cont
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by nnfy 9y ago
>When you own a cryptocurrency, you can’t really “hold it in your wallet” like you could have a $100 bill in your physical wallet. In crypto, your wallet is actually a key which is used to control the associated account number on the Blo
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by nnfy 9y ago
>but disdainful of these solicitors. It reflects poorly on them. To me they seem like people who don't understand what's happening but are anxious not to miss out on a new wave of get-rich-quick schemes. This is an odd point of
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by nnfy 9y ago
1. Electric motors are easier to repair than bus sized diesel engines in trains- not the best comparison to motors and engines that have to be shrunk down and crammed into the family sedan. I'll bet the maintnence savings margin is sma
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by nnfy 9y ago
From that same article, the average repair cost is $387/year for a typical vehicle. Nowhere near the scary list with >$1000. You feel right into OP's literary trap, which is my problem with the whole article. Overly optimistic
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by nnfy 9y ago
Pointing out the potential for differences in performance based on human genetics and physiology does not make you "alt-right" or "racist," and this kind of slanderous conflation by media like NYTimes is partly responsib
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by nnfy 9y ago
OP does not understand that he is far more enthusiastic about his Prius than the rest of the world. Too much of this article is based on unsubstantiated, overly optimistic predictions, and the reasoning is regularly fallacious. Two examples
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by nnfy 9y ago
This isn't a simple class thing. Rural areas aren't just populated by rich evil bankers with mountaintop villas; they're predominantly settled by poor rural whites who have owned land for generation and do not have the means
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by nnfy 9y ago
That has nothing to do with the nonsense that we should avoid using something powerful or dangerous simply because our human senses are not equipped to detect it. You are literally surrounded by toxicity in modern materials, power transmiss
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by nnfy 9y ago
The fact that a reactor may be failing after decades of use does not make it a poor design. One optimizes for longevity during design, as well as other factors which cost money. It may have, for example, been cheaper to construct, with a st
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by nnfy 9y ago
People are using Fukushima to rationalize their fear of nuclear, just like we did after Three Mile Island and and Chernobyl. As someone else confirmed by posting [1], the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 15 meter tsunami have not happened for a
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by nnfy 9y ago
Your own post confirms my assertion that the magnitude 9 earthquake was an exceedingly rare event and did not necessarily need to be designed for. It had been at least one hundred years since the last earthquake of that magnitude. Same for
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by nnfy 9y ago
Thats borderline ludditeism. We can't detect CO or even CO2, should that stop us from using fire?
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by nnfy 9y ago
"Good" design is ill defined. The fact that a design is riskier than an alternative does not immediately make it worse. Especially when safety can be engineered to arbitrary standards with enough money.

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