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by s5300 5y ago
What? I simply do not understand how you came to this conclusion based on what was written, in the slightest. Unless English is not your first language, I'm genuinely worried for your comprehension and logical deduction skills. The par
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by s5300 5y ago
Thank you for writing this out. It is correct & much better than the reply I was giving to him. As for the difference being subtle, I do not so much agree - but >accurately representing other people's arguments is a key point of
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by s5300 5y ago
> What does "white washed form of eugenics" mean? Legitimately curious! Having the underlying intention of eugenics, but not outright saying "my true goals are eugenics" In his example, Autism Speaks - it is fairly we
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by s5300 5y ago
Uhh Stephen Miller, political advisor to the 2016 Trump Administration, whom is Jewish and descendent of Jewish refugees to the USA (from 1900's anti-jewish riots in Russian area) is a self proclaimed (but now "retracted") w
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I don't understand Bezos thought process in continuing to make himself look worse with this stance. Like, I get the whole of billionaire phallus swinging contests, but he has many other ways of attempting to do that with Musk if he so
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HN Guidelines: > don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you di
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>>this site is amazing sometimes. people have the knowledge of the world available at their fingertips, can read the experiences of people from all around the world and still end up making some strongly worded reply about how the impo
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What?
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No, not all statistics are intuitive, definitely a reason why there's statistics, and then engineering statistics in most colleges. However, the simpler parts/beginning of either course... really do seem like they should be intuit
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I swear dude. I cannot understand just why it is that the average person seems to be so incapable at understanding statistics and large numbers. It's mind boggling. Ever since my freshman engineering stats class, it's like everywh
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The fact that major conservative networks don't announce the daily suicide count of veterans that they claim to care for and respect so much and scream "why the fuck aren't we doing something meaningful about this" until
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> Quite a motte and bailey maneuver you're pulling here, given the broad scope of your earlier comments. You're accusing me of not knowing what I was referring to when I posted something. Both the parent, and grandparent, of wh
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by s5300 5y ago
No, I wouldn't, because I'm talking about the very recent decision to not winterize the Texas grid, even though all of the data presented pointed to the fact it would be a very good idea to winterize it. Specifically the Tex
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by s5300 5y ago
While you're missing the point, What was the $ damages/lost due to the recent grid failure vs the $ for the winterization of the wind & nat gas plants? Don't really care about exact numbers, ratio of the two is fine. I&#x
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by s5300 5y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought that was the pinephone (or at least their end goal) or a heavily modded Android
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by s5300 5y ago
It most certainly does not make sense not to prepare for it when scientists have been telling you this issue will be coming for a few decades now. Key words - prepare, and will be coming
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Friendly reminder: the average person (and likely more than the average person) literally does not care nor even consider something like that. I know most of us on HN do - but overwhelmingly, most people do not. The target demographic for t
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by s5300 5y ago
Drinking sea-turtle blood has been key to a few stranded at sea people's survival.
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by s5300 5y ago
You're in a place with some of the most neurodivergent people, often on the Autism/Asperger's spectrum (myself included), who also feel the need to be dwelling/posting on an online forum such as this. That said, discussi
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by s5300 5y ago
>You're not a soulless resource that can be used and tossed whenever your boss pleases. Hahaha. We Americans have this little term called "Human Capital"
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by s5300 5y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but I really want to be able to mostly correctly presume that the average HN user over the age of like... 20(?) probably has vague knowledge of the fact we don't understand the mechanism of things like acetaminoph
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by s5300 5y ago
Quite unfortunately, the general public, and thus elected officials, do not appear to be capable of this sort of logical deduction.
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by s5300 5y ago
Huh, look at that. I was somewhat right https://mobile.twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/142632472646... (Presuming it's actually followed through with)
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by s5300 5y ago
Main character syndrome appears to be fairly rampant amongst conspiracy theorists.
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> I can see that you are uninterested in engaging in good faith, because instead of keeping the debate to what it was about (the lab leak theory) you're changing the goalposts (demanding that everything he say be absolutely clear an
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>but the amount of people saying I was stupid and gullible has really stuck with me. The amount of people saying something about you on a mostly anonymous internet message board has really stuck with you? This is, probably for your own g
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by s5300 5y ago
> In fact, he was pretty clear he thought I suspect you're being downvoted because of your insistence on Donald Trump being "pretty clear", among other things, when Donald Trump has a decades long history of being anything
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>that aren't brainwashed leftists agree. >Stop trying to play pretend and believe the truth. Just like Bush and his Dubya Em Deez, right? The other side is always brainwashed, and your side always "knows the truth" Why
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by s5300 5y ago
Baghdad, centuries ago, had better medical policies than the United States does in 2021. Unfortunately, the mongols came and burnt everything to the ground/left the city a literal pool of blood. Makes for good reading in the 21st centu
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We (the US) offered interpreters who worked with our troops in the middle of the absolute shit a path to citizenship and then left them literally in the dust so that they and their families can be tortured and killed. Maybe the Euro Countri

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