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by smhost 9y ago
https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSkwEJHTLV...
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Yeah, same, I don't really care either. What actually bothers me is the concept that your personal opinion is a sufficient justification for perpetuating the status quo, regardless of the rigor of reasoning behind the proposal for the
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> in my personal opinion, continents are large land masses The point is that your personal opinion is badly formed. Your definition of a continent is almost completely useless, which is obvious when you just look at a map. How large is &
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It's the definition of IQ. 15 points is 1 standard deviation, so about 15% of the population has an IQ of 85 or below by definition.
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If you label something as evil, as the anti-Christ, and as an assault on the Kingdom of God, there's nothing you can't justify. If you listen to conservative radio, you'll hear people very soberly talking about how the litera
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disinvited to social events, placed lower on the mate selection hierarchy, opinions not taken seriously, media makes fun of them, all the normal ways culture shapes behavior.
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We own this document.
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That seems like a distinction without a difference. Would you be happier with a system that pushed disproportionately more "true" speech at the vulnerable (ignorant) demographic?
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But the fear of censorship is that truth will be obscured. If free speech is being abused to do what we're afraid censorship will do, doesn't that create a contradiction in your logic? And to be clear, what we mean by "fake n
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As a non-science person who occasionally watches PBS documentaries, could this have any implications for Hawking radiation?
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Yeah where I live, if there are no cars the lights don't change.
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When feminists say that women should have control over their bodies, do they literally mean that women should shape their own biology by restructuring society?
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> This is incredibly disingenuous. > Much of the left considers simple disagreement to be micro-aggression... Tone down on the hypocrisy. If you want your side's arguments to be evaluated fairly, don't make ridiculous oversi
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It would go something like: > Zero is offensive and ungodly. With "five", at least there's something there to abstract. With zero, there's not even anything! How can nothing be something? Cue angry biting of thumbs
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Wasn't that always true though? The earliest internet I knew was through AOL cd's, but it still seems like the internet as we know it was born of cancerous (mostly pornographic) ads.
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When I used to wait tables, I kicked out plenty of people for being too drunk or for refusing to shut up their screaming toddlers throwing food everywhere. You're going to tell me what I can and can't do?
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by smhost 9y ago
> So it is okay to remove stuff just because somebody was offended? Yep.
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bunnie is a famous hacker, and this is his personal blog.
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I'm surprised the article didn't mention SFM (thanks, gaben).
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It's just an old school style of writing. We've moved on from the elitist styles to a more democratic one. The cool thing to do now is to use simple sentence structures with excellent word choices, rather than trying to weave some
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It's almost as if communities have inside jokes or something.
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In what theory would that make even remote sense? If there's no selective pressure for a will to emerge, a will will not emerge (barring some infinitely improbable random event).
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> Games generally have to be enjoyable to the player, and making your enemies too realistic can hinder that. If you're talking about inducing gambling addiction in the player, it shouldn't matter whether the enemies are too rea
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It's not just that. GP's analogy would only make sense if one of your neighbors was a superintelligent alien whose larger motives are hidden from you, whose livelihood lies in having an intimate understanding of your psychology an
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It this implying that America's informants in Russia are all being killed right now, or am I reading too much into it?
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I mean, it's also art. I would want it in my city just for that pissing-contest factor of 'hey, look at this cool shit we've got'. We deserve to make our cities beautiful and to build monuments to be proud of.
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Outdoor fires (which include wildfires) result in ~50 deaths annually in the U.S.[0] You want to ban trees for that? I'm curious about your thoughts on how we should deal with the actual problems we have. For example, cooking-related r
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Are you asking me how to quantify culture? You could go buy services like what WGSN offers, or you can just not be a socially inept corporate econometrics data clown and leave your house once in a while, interact with young people, and use
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They've gotten better at culture, as in, trying to understand different cultures and branching out their own interests and experiences beyond what is American.
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The stereotype is pass around among restaurant owners as well. It's not a secret that the American palate is picky and easy to understand. Avoid foods that are mushy, gooey, slimy, or "weird" (even though most food is like th

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