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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   One might respond to this challenge by developing a tradition for guiding children away from nihilism.
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   Viruses are designed to infect, multiply and spread. Also humans are not viruses. I know that isn't what you meant since you specified "in the sense that...". But this kind of analogy seems to me to lead to bad thinking.
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   Yes but what do you want on this topic? Speculating about immortality is also baseless.
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   Underappreciated.
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   Alabama has one of the lowest homelessness rates in the country. What's wrong with Alabama? :)
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   Another questionable thing from today: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1361084482640560129
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   To be fair to her: he was gracious to the writer but at the expense of proposing it was really his editors who wanted him to write the story. I.e. he removes some responsibility from the writer. I think it is probably too charitable and the
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   I find it plausible they don't give much of a shit about what they write, as long as they keep getting work. I find it absolutely wild to claim they don't aim to "get" people. Here is an article by a New York Times write
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   by runsWphotons 6y ago

   I pretty much fully agree. I started noticing about five years ago that some people I knew for years were sometimes writing and talking in a way that was essentially gibberish to me. Now it has spread and become sort of what you describe ev
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    This has increasingly happened with topics I know about over the past five years at accelerating rate. [If you want to be uncomfortable, consider noticing this repeatedly is part of what has driven half of the US mad.]
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    Besides it seeming like this guy has a big conflict of interest (but do the other members of the team?) that quote from the paper is wild. On one hand I like it. On the other hand, the conspiratorial religious ideas start to look slightly l
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    As a matter of fact, some people do wait around for moments when they can get away with violent crime. I've met them and this is how some people think (maybe even most violent people are this way). During one weekend of the protests in
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    @xboxnolifes. As I posted elsewhere, watch this and tell me if it looks "economically motivated". Even in the cases where this violence is "economically motivated", does that mean hate isn't a factor? So as long as
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    https://www.ktvu.com/news/suspect-arrested-in-deadly-attack-...
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    Watch this video: https://www.ktvu.com/news/suspect-arrested-in-deadly-attack-... . Does economic motivation explain that?
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    You honestly think reduced police presence has no effect? If you put that in context with race-based rhetoric characterising Asians as part of "white supremacy", it makes as much sense as the other thing. How about a third hypothe
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    There are many criticisms of this book. (I don't know what to make of the debate, just wanted to bring up that many high profile scholars have criticized it harshly.)
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    Just because you don't remember doesn't mean it didn't happen. The conversation needs more specification here. Are we talking about the US? Europe? I'm not faulting your comment, the whole chain seems totally mixed up. L
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    So we have gone from the Congress people bringing pork to bringing exciting live streams. This feels like a challenge to the idea expressed elsewhere that this stems from material lack.
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    It's funny you bring up not debating your neighbours and posting online. This happened to me a few days ago. My neighbor who introduced myself to started asking lots of political questions. I didn't agree with the apparent viewpoi
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    What happens when we get into wars over weird minerals no one has heard of, or toxic chemicals leach from solar panels into drinking water? It seems there are harsh tradeoffs in any direction. Your questions are good (better than mine), but
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    Or that the sisters help?
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    It's a good point. But did it help that when you decided to prioritise those things, you actually had some idea how to execute?
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    There have been several discussions about this topic this year and there are lots of interesting anecdotes in the responses. Is anyone aware of a good longer form review of the difficulties obstructing better reproducibility and more honest
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    Some people are attributing the Georgia senate race outcomes to the fact that many republicans didn't bother to vote in the special election (because they heard it was "rigged"). If those people don't vote again then we
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    If you just hold bitcoins they just sit there too mostly. It takes energy to mine them just like it takes energy to mine gold. It seems it takes a bit more energy to mine a bitcoin than an ounce of gold, but bitcoins have other properties t
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    by runsWphotons 6y ago

    I guess everyone is down on blockchain ideas but this seems cool.