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by riggins 13y ago
Thanks for the recommendation.
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by riggins 13y ago
That's a comment that probably merited further delving into. There are some decent sub-reddits. It's a totally different thing if he's following the programming subreddit than say the gonewild subreddit.
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by riggins 13y ago
this made me think of an editorial I read during the Iraq war (maybe someone else will remember the author's name). The author was a university professor who was urging his son not to join the military. One of the points he made is tha
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by riggins 13y ago
Our government is sending gangs of armed men to perfectly innocent citizens' doors to interrogate them I don't think hyperbole is necessary. In this case the facts are scary enough (i.e. most people don't consider the polic
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by riggins 13y ago
I'm worried. Presumably there are few people comfortable with the government having such fine grained detail on your activities.
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by riggins 13y ago
I find that to be a weird nitpick. Most people would say the state that's responsible for his miserable situation is also responsible for his suicide to some degree. Furthermore, IMO, this thread probably isn't the place to pursue
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by riggins 13y ago
Isn't it enough that the British state is responsible Safe to say that for me, I find your comments unclear. let's recap. Here's how the thread started. This may in fact be true, but this claim is leveled with the implicat
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by riggins 13y ago
How about Alan Turing?
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by riggins 13y ago
No one else bears any responsibility for his death. that's a black and white view of the world. One that I also don't think would hold up to the slightest logical scrutiny. Can we delve into your comment a bit. Is your claim tha
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by riggins 13y ago
there's a book called The Truth Machine that thinks about what the world might look like if we had a 100% accurate lie detector. Fun book.
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by riggins 13y ago
Military–industrial complex, etc. this is off-topic, but did you see that article in Businessweek about the bomb detector. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-... Ok, that's pretty o
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by riggins 13y ago
If I'm supposed to care, I'm failing. I don't think you're supposed to care. I just think its an interesting observation for a couple reasons. One, there's modest historical significance to the hippie movement, es
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by riggins 13y ago
He didn't quit his job. He even wrote a follow up about how HN had misinterpreted what he said. http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2011/07/hacker-news-fires-st... Separately, he also wrote a post that was critic
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by riggins 13y ago
http://www.rankboards.com/ my unscientific response.
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by riggins 13y ago
Hmmm ... I'm pretty sure I've seen Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Sebastian Thrun, Marissa Mayer referred to as blindingly intelligent. Doesn't seem to be a handicap. Edit: upon further reflection, I think the operative
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by riggins 13y ago
I suppose you could consider that a form of insecurity not really. One of my favorite results from pysch research was that large, physically aggressive men are not in fact covering up insecurity. In general, they tend to have very good se
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by riggins 13y ago
a) District 9 was a great movie both as entertainment and as something to think about b) having grown up in South Africa, Blomkamp may have some unique insights about human nature. it's certainly interesting to contemplate what's
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by riggins 13y ago
You're confusing me having a high opinion of what humans are capable of with not having empathy. Two different things. My opinion is that humans are capable of incredible self control if they choose to exercise it. The more they'r
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by riggins 13y ago
we'll have to agree to disagree. The fundamental claim that I simply don't accept is that people can't handle words. I disagree. People have the capacity to handle anything that is said to them. Psychological abuse is just a
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by riggins 13y ago
The reality is that most people (probably even including you) cannot do this 100%. All people definitely can do this. They just choose not to. I won't say that I always do, but I try to keep it mind. Its a lesson I really try to inte
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by riggins 13y ago
I love what Linus is saying here. I feel like some people haven't really internalized the lesson of the schoolyard saying 'sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me'. I think that saying is deeper tha
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by riggins 13y ago
I'm thinking that of the things that get glorified, hard work is probably one of the better choices. Better than athletes, getting hammered, drugs, 'balling', and Britney Spears.
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by riggins 13y ago
That's right, it's still Bush's fault. We're in Obama's 2nd term, this is getting old. This article doesn't make any claims about anything being Bush's fault. As far as I can tell, this article is report
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by riggins 13y ago
It's understandable why DanBC was confused. You wrote: The Axis, for example, always erred on the side of not hurting any civilians. I have no idea where you got that idea. Hitler used collective punishment against civilian populatio
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by riggins 13y ago
I'm not trying to have it both ways. I used to be in the WTC on a weekly basis (although I wasn't there on 9/11). I don't expect anything from others that I don't expect from myself. I'm not sure I understand w
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by riggins 13y ago
while I like the sentiment, I don't think Carter's framing of the issue will be successful. right now the issue is framed as: sacrifice liberties = being 'tough on terrorists'. what's needed is some rhetorical jiu-j
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by riggins 13y ago
this reminds me of this chris rock skit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIv4phFcAAs
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by riggins 13y ago
my beef with your post. "There is no evidence that anyone died as a result of the leaked information...". Contrast with "The information that Bradley gave to the public has been a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the
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by riggins 13y ago
OP didn't say government is doing x,y,z. OP said, if you want to persuade people, frame this as government could do x,y,z.
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by riggins 13y ago
Fear causes people to think irrationally. this is the most amazing thing I've read all day. someone using the argument that 'fear causes people to think irrationally' to justify government snooping. Let's step back to

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