reagency

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by reagency 11y ago
If someone had never been born, someone similar would likely have been born shortly later, perhaps without the same disease. So your reasoning for treasuring his life over other possibilities doesn't hold.
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by reagency 11y ago
all-caps doesn't help.
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by reagency 11y ago
By your logic, I could breed slaves to suffer and die for my benefit, with no moral quandary, as long as I never let them make any decisions. This was in fact USA law for decades.
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by reagency 11y ago
This comment is thoughtful, polite, and not redundant. It should not be downgrayed
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by reagency 11y ago
Guerilla warfare can change who wins, but it won't stop you from losing. A war has more than two sides.
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by reagency 11y ago
That statement has 0 persuasive value to the target audience. Of course they see these equivalently. Try feel normal and they don't care about fringe people.
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by reagency 11y ago
It is also naive to think yor gun can save you. Do you know where criminals guns? By taking them from people like you
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by reagency 11y ago
This is basic journalistic ethics, to post a log of corrections made to an article.
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by reagency 11y ago
How are categories equivalent to group representations?
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by reagency 11y ago
A reference is a brief reminder and links to primary sources. We don't hate cars because they aren't boats.
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by reagency 11y ago
You wrote the same quote twice.
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by reagency 11y ago
The real shame is that academia funds a lot of research, but not a lot of scientific "scholarship". We should have academics dedicated to high quality exposition of advanced material. You don't see much of that beyond the nev
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by reagency 11y ago
Is thst possible, in general? If someone published an open source app to Play, could I compare the Play downloaded app to a local build, and set config appropriately, and get a match?
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by reagency 11y ago
With the gun-toting police and a prosecutor in the room, there is not such thing as "voluntary".
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by reagency 11y ago
Columbo pretty much did that, with a toll road camera and a face mask.
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by reagency 11y ago
It isn't a scam, it is making the best of an utter garbage star rating system.
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by reagency 11y ago
Funny to see this adjacent to the Kipling article on HN. In Kipling's Jungle Book (fiction), wolves hate monkeys, considering them self-important creatures who never follow throilugh on their grand plans.
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by reagency 11y ago
That sounds like a textbook case of p-value hacking and hypothesis fishing. Is there a solid statistical analysis on the space of hypotheses considered and the size of effects measured?
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by reagency 11y ago
Because our Android devices and web apps are really bad at proper offline sync.
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by reagency 11y ago
Yeah the screens suck, but BYOD with no in-Seat USB charger sucks.
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by reagency 11y ago
Is Gogo vs Boingo basically business vs consumer? Or..? I just realized I never realized they were different, since the name is so similar.
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by reagency 11y ago
Emotions motivate you to act to improve your situation instead of do nothing. They may be illogical, but they kickstart the thinking process. Logic is useless if you don't wake up and use it. Emotions are the first past filter to bring
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by reagency 11y ago
Wtf does schneier use Windows for, outside the lab?
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by reagency 11y ago
You seem to be conflating "security" with "insecure communications"
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by reagency 11y ago
Relatively new? Guerilla war and resistance is centuries old.
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by reagency 11y ago
But if you just hit the docs as needed, you will automatically be doing spaced repitition on anything that isn't a one-off need.
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by reagency 11y ago
You'll pay extra for Jet Blue, to avoid paying $10 for WiFi??
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by reagency 11y ago
Note: this is a podcast transcript, but the transcript is missing all the words spoken by people they interviewed. Click Listen/Download for the full interviews.
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by reagency 11y ago
That is "instinct", a different concept from "intuition", thought overlapping in some aspect.
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by reagency 11y ago
The table has tension, though. Ad opposed to a table made of paper which would not exert force on the book--the book would overcome the table's tension and set the table in motion until the floor exerted an upward force.

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