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by pamqzl 9y ago
That's pretty common on both sides of politics these days, sadly.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
>Hating people for who they are or what they look like/etc isn't anything to do with politics. Of course it is. I would cynically claim that it's about one third of politics (with the other two thirds being about whining t
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by pamqzl 9y ago
At least we know how to get to Mars, and roughly what new technologies we'd need for a colony. For AGI we have no clue even roughly how difficult it is. My own suspicion (and hope) is that we will eventually find we're able to bui
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by pamqzl 9y ago
What are those, if not political positions? That's quite aside from the recent vogue for labelling all sorts of things under the ill-defined term "hate speech".
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by pamqzl 9y ago
I'm not sure I'd be donating to the campaign of the guy who says "please send me money to hire a private army, and I will definitely use them for upright and noble purposes, I promise!"
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by pamqzl 9y ago
You'd think it would be cheaper and more productive to just buy the books and put them in the British Library or something.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Not a real problem, you'll only lose the outermost layers going through the atmosphere. The biggest problem is what happens when it lands. And also what happens to whatever it lands on.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
On one hand I'll be happy when this happens. On the other hand the huge downside is that it's not really compatible with the fresh fruit and veg section where things are sold by weight. I assume it would lead to more prepackaged f
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by pamqzl 9y ago
The headline reminds me a little of Troy McLure's educational film "Firecrackers: the Silent Killer". Which is my roundabout way of saying that anyone considering backyard chickens really ought to know about salmonella alre
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by pamqzl 9y ago
I wonder how many of those in this thread wondering "why don't they evacuate?" live in California's earthquake zone.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Fines aren't a particularly effective punishment, especially when applied to people who are already struggling financially. My controversial idea is that we should be thinking more about corporal punishment as an alternative to prison
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Does it prove the village is more than ten thousand years old? Or just that there was a village on the same site ten thousand years ago? I don't mean this just in a nitpicking ship-of-Theseus sense, the village could have been nonexist
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Did he learn the Javanese alphabet just for this purpose?
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by pamqzl 9y ago
> Charter schools seem to be quite misunderstood in our country for reasons I have yet to understand It's one of those ideas that Republicans support, so Democrats feel bound to oppose it.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Because people who are in love want to get married, like their parents and grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great-parents and [etc] did, not "start something like company for the holding of joint assets". Getting mar
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by pamqzl 9y ago
>There are people who go to Applebees and enjoy it, too. >Doesn't make it a good restaurant. Ah, good old fashioned snobbery. Never change, HN. >(There are, of course, likely to be some genuinely phenomenal charter schools. Th
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Well, okay, closest I could find was this $279 one with a lockable door but no window, but I haven't looked all that hard.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
This reads like someone set out to write an article on "why charter schools are bad" and then went off to cherrypick some evidence, rather than someone set out to write an article which investigates how Michigan's experiment
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by pamqzl 9y ago
> Stay humble. You don't know as much as you think you do. The other related takeaway I got from this is that programming looks very different from other corners of it. Some things that one programmer thinks are required knowledge
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by pamqzl 9y ago
What a silly point they think they're making. Nobody thinks that their country shouldn't have foreign goods . But many do think that foreign people and/or foreign cultures should stay in foreign countries.
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by pamqzl 9y ago
I can buy a metal garden shed for a couple of hundred bucks, assemble it myself, and it'll stand for decades without needing much if any maintenance. I could get one with a window, and a door that locks. It wouldn't give me any Wh
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by pamqzl 9y ago
What's the point in hosting a discussion then?
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by pamqzl 9y ago
If there's one neologism I'd love to get rid of, it's the use of "toxic" to describe speech that you dislike. It's all over this thread. Think about what the metaphor of "toxicity" does for speech. By
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by pamqzl 9y ago
> Sure it is, leftism occupies a spectrum of economic and social ideals, which the US left (led by the DNC) falls uniformly outside that spectrum No it doesn't. I mean the single-axis "left" and "right" classific
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by pamqzl 9y ago
> That's just how it is. Each country gets to choose its policies But without democracy, it is in no sense "the country" that chooses the policy, it's just whatever group of thugs happens to be in control of the capit
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Imagine a toy truck that, as you drive it back and forth, plots the first and second derivatives of its position with respect to time on a little screen on the side. Hmm, that's not the worst idea...
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by pamqzl 9y ago
If someone wants to live without the benefit of a whole lot of things which are really really nice to have, like plumbing, then they have my blessing. But even if that is your desire, then a dome is a ridiculous way to achieve it, compare
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by pamqzl 9y ago
> First Nation Australians Please don't do that. Describing tribes as "nations" is a silly neologism when they did it in North America, and it's even sillier when applied to the even more primitive social structures t
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by pamqzl 9y ago
> left anarchists know the state grows out of the conflicting class interests of the working class and capitalist class > Propertarians believe that if you got rid of the government, the free market will sort things out because it&#x2
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by pamqzl 9y ago
Two dimensions is certainly better than one, although I note that almost nobody would self-identify as "authoritarian" which makes half of the chart a bit useless. The vast majority of people, at least in western countries, agree

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