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by quinnchr 13y ago
If my landlord breaks the terms of my lease I am more than free to move, but I don't get to stay there for free just because he broke the contract. You can nullify the contract by leaving any time you like. Or you can attempt to hold t
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by quinnchr 13y ago
You sign it every day by choosing to live here... You challenge/nullify the parts you disagree with using this nifty tool we call, "The Democratic Process". The specific terms of the contract are available here: http:/&
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by quinnchr 13y ago
I mean yeah if you don't care about understanding the nature of existence, the distinction doesn't matter. If all you're concerned with is making useful predictions, there is no point in quibbling about the subjectivity of ex
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by quinnchr 13y ago
I wasn't necessarily saying that solipsism is a good philosophical framework. I personally think it's rather limiting. My point was simply that you can't refute centuries of philosophical thought with a story, you actually ha
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Why would a solipsist have no objection to jumping off a cliff? Just because you believe reality doesn't exist outside your own mind doesn't mean you can't die.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Then go ahead and make the argument. Also, unless you are an anarchist who rejects all forms of capitalism, then I would argue you do support the use of violence and force, you just support a different kind of authoritarianism.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Yes all of those things exist and can make predictions about "reality," but that doesn't mean reality exists outside of my own experience. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(philosophy)
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Hmmm... yes let's disregard the last century of philosophical thought and the postmodernism movement as a whole because the dude who write's Harry Potter fan fic wrote a cute story. How would you convince a Solipsist that there is
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Except that your culture, job, and home are there largely because of the services your tax dollars support. So yes if you're not willing to give up those things you just accepted that newfangled thingy we call "The Social Contract
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by quinnchr 13y ago
If you think their is such a thing as objective truth in this world you must be some sort of postmodern miracle.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Looking at GDP per capita over the past century it looks like it rises sharply around WWII and there is a slight rise in the 80s, but for the most part it has steady growth. Considering WWII and the 80s saw the highest increases in deficit
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by quinnchr 13y ago
No sorry. The labor movement and state initiatives have brought much more wellness and brought up much more people from poorness than any kind of investor. Also, historically speaking, state initiatives have created the most economic growth
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by quinnchr 13y ago
I don't see what's wrong with my argument that choosing a pass phrase will have less entropy... Does less entropy not mean less secure? Or am I just reasoning about the entropy all wrong?
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Yes this is true. This is why password crackers will scrape twitter/facebook/whatever for modern slang, common mispellings, neolgisms, etc for their word lists.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Except when people create phrases like that they aren't choosing random words from a dictionary, they're most likely choosing words from their own vocabulary which will be significantly less than 100k words. Additionally the distr
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Do you really honestly think the way in which you communicate with people has no impact? I completely agree, as a white dude having to worry about the way in which people receive my communication is just so unfair. I mean I call one guy a n
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Well I've seen your comments such as "Men are raped too" in reference to women being raped, which says to me you're goal is to marginalize women's issues, which seems pretty sexist to me. If you'd like to defen
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Ask the man who wrote it.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
I completely agree that it's the combination of social conditioning, selection bias, etc that contribute to gender bias. But you can't just throw up your hands and accept the status quo because it's ingrained in our society.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
You're misrepresenting what he said. He's clearly trying to troll as hard as possible. So congratulations on agreeing with an intentionally inflammatory and sexist post I guess?
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by quinnchr 13y ago
So you don't think there's any merit to the argument that women might not want to work with a piece of software called rape-me?
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Are you seriously asserting poverty is not a known vector for stunted childhood development? Do you realize there are millions of impoverished people in this country who can't afford to eat healthily? You are aware of the effect nutrit
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by quinnchr 13y ago
No assuming that the simplest explanation is that women are genetically less suited is sexist. Gender imbalances in society is just as simple of an explanation. Your use of Occam's razor here is essentially just a sexist "common s
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Because the real world isn't Econ 101. Not all goods are perfectly elastic. Take a look at the research surrounding the minimum wage. If we were to increase the minimum wage by $0.50 (~6.7%) we'd only have about a 1% increase in f
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by quinnchr 13y ago
I don't think that's true at all. According to this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2909426/ The number of new medicine journal publications significantly outpaces the number of n
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Yes you know what attracts you, but do you know why those things are attractive to you? I am by know mean speaking for transgendered people and if you want the best answer you should ask them. As far as I am aware it is mostly about identif
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by quinnchr 13y ago
No I'm sorry, but the attraction thing has nothing to do with biology. It has everything to do with gender roles. The role of pursuer is intricately tied to traditional views of masculinity. Our gender roles are set up so that men are
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by quinnchr 13y ago
Ah so if you think you have the right to the fruit of your labor, I assume that means you're a communist? That seems pretty in step with the GPL.
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by quinnchr 13y ago
And you're talking to Unitarian! I've interacted with plenty of Quakers, and I have to say I'm a big fan. I didn't mean it as a personal attack, I'm sorry if came across that way. I just don't think it's f
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by quinnchr 13y ago
That's like asking why gay people chose to be gay. Or me asking why you chose to be straight. The feminist mindset is that biological sex, gender, and sexuality do not depend on each other. edit: To clarify you do not choose the gender

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