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by oilchange 3y ago
> Your attempts at "gotchas" here are unpersuasive. It's not gotchas. It's just history and reasoning. Logic. It's persuasive to people who are willing to think. But no amount of reason will convince someone with
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by oilchange 3y ago
> No, they are. Okay good, I'm glad we are agreed. > Some yes, some no. If some are, then "everyone" has to, especially major powers. Just think about it. > This is a lot of what jcranmer is pointing to. I debunked w
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by oilchange 3y ago
> For major militaries, there's no point in using them, which is why the "big" military powers have all signed up to the anti-chemical weapons and anti-biological weapons treaties If chemical and biological weapons aren&#x
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by oilchange 3y ago
> Interestingly, over half the site's top 1000 subreddits on private barely makes a dent in the number of posts and comments. Probably because the top 1% of the top 1000 subs accounts for the majority of the posts and comments. The
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by oilchange 3y ago
> To add to this, most countries have turned away from infectious biological weapons because they are near impossible to control. Most countries ( small to mid-tier ) lack the expertise, will or reason for it. But most major countries ar
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by oilchange 3y ago
> They shut down a sub called “jailbait”, I’d say the vast majority of people are ok with that type of “censorship”. The point of free speech is to protect against "the vast majority of people". The vast majority of people are
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by oilchange 3y ago
> Go look at google image search these days. Useless. Mostly to cut off access to millions of images to build models. I think that was mostly due to copyright laws. The past few years, media companies, publishers, etc have been using cop
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by oilchange 3y ago
> Please note that Christianity is characterized by its emphasis on Jesus and the New Testament, in contrast to say Judaism. Also note that Jesus was jewish and he explicit said he came to uphold the old laws and prophets ( old testament
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by oilchange 3y ago
> I don't feel like HN is censored. It's heavily censored but that's fine as it exists to serve a niche business community. And HN never claimed to be a free speech platform like reddit did. > dang steps in mostly with
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by oilchange 3y ago
> I would be surprised to find any successful company that had no shenanigans in their origin story. And it's not just in tech. New restaurants hire actors as customers to make the restaurant appear busy and popular. Publishing comp
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by oilchange 3y ago
Yes. Subs had moderators and they got rid of spam, but that was about it. The mods themselves were heavily pro free speech just like the founders and corporate. Back then, reddit was predominatly american and we all adopted the free speech
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by oilchange 3y ago
> I hope the people currently in charge of Reddit know how that event played out... People have been saying this for 10+ years. No reddit alternative has proven to be viable. So the people at reddit know that "mass migration"
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by oilchange 3y ago
> You'd need a bunch of dangs to mod every conceivable interest group, like soccer and German politics. People forget that reddit was popular and succeeded during the digg migration because it was pro free speech and minimally moder
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by oilchange 3y ago
> Sure about the trending part? Yes. I could see and experience it myself. > In past there was much less options what to consume, do, read, watch. We all have the same diverse options. "Same" being the key point here. Sure,
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by oilchange 3y ago
> Infanticide was very common in ancient times pre-Christianity: But christianity allows for infanticide. God himself did wipe out all the first born infant sons of egypt after all. > What many in the West think of as 'obvious&#x
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by oilchange 3y ago
> Yeah, that isn't really happening. The era of the US exporting food preferences was short lived, mostly at the 90's. I've traveled a bit since the 90s ended and I can say your statement is simply false. The proliferation
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by oilchange 3y ago
> In central jersey, it costs at least $20/person for a round trip ticket. If you go with your family or a group of friends filling a 5 seat car, the train costs $100 just to get into the city and then get hit with whatever addition
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by oilchange 3y ago
Like how everyone is using the same social media? Drinking the same shit at starbucks. Living in the same cities with the same stores? Wearing the same clothes. Talking in the same language. Watching the same shows/movies. We've b
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by oilchange 3y ago
> blood Iraqis lost a lot of blood, not americans. 99% of the people killed were innocent iraqis.
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by oilchange 3y ago
> I can understand the desire to gather intelligence from every other nation, even allies. But I do believe it's a bad idea. Intelligence agencies primarily spy on 'allies'. The biggest spy rings in the US are our "al
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by oilchange 3y ago
> since consciousness appears to be an emergent property rather than a thing that can be pinned down and measured. Emergent properties can be pinned down and measured. Molecules have measurable emergent properties. The viscosity of water
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by oilchange 3y ago
Which helped china industrialize and develop nukes... The primary concern for china at that time was being invaded and/or nuked by the US and/or the Soviet Union. Also, it's silly to blame or praise Mao or Kissinger or anyone
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by oilchange 3y ago
You can try drinking coffee through a straw.
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by oilchange 3y ago
> NAFTA + China-WTO accession really did not help American manufacturing. American manufacturing was declining way before NAFTA or China. The anti-japanese/asian period of 70s and 80s existed for a reason. The way we are attacking c
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by oilchange 3y ago
> We're still a lot of dots away from going "Well, we found this DNA by accident, it was clearly and obvious Bob was there." Once they have a relative, it isn't that difficult to narrow it down to Bob. Think about it,
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by oilchange 3y ago
> It is more difficult to measure a human trait, than to measure a temperature. You might want to read up on the history of thermodynamics. It took decades to figure out how to define and measure temperature. It's far more difficult
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by oilchange 3y ago
> This is a sad but inevitable consequences of tech people having no grounding in ethics. And really no education in or respect for the humanities at all. I'm going to bet a significant portion of "tech people" have some b
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by oilchange 3y ago
> On the other side, I've also noticed it appears to be aggressively pruning its index in the past few years In terms of breadth and depth, the quality of google search has declined noticeably. They don't have any real competit
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by oilchange 3y ago
> One of my favorite ideas in Structure is Kuhn's observation that contradictory evidence seldom suffices to overturn a scientific theory. That's not Kuhn's observation. Evidence immediately overturns a theory. What eviden
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by oilchange 3y ago
I understand why Big Oil wants to manipulate the way we think about climate change. What I don't understand is why Big News is so invested in manipulating the way we think about climate change. Must be a lot of money and power at stake

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