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by sofal 6y ago
You're asking for citations for the non-existence of a secret group that you claim, with no evidence, is "the armed wing of the Democrat party". You have the burden of proof here, and you cannot be taken seriously until you&#
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by sofal 6y ago
And Thursday is literally named after the god Thor. What's your point?
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by sofal 6y ago
You're exactly correct, and the complete lack of attempt to do (1) means that if you're a perfectly qualified candidate, then getting an offer is very much a crapshoot. It's actually quite easy to get into a FAANG company o
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by sofal 6y ago
There are 3 basic ways in which you might see an IAM/Identity related issue: 1. Control plane problems - these will manifest as latency or errors when calling the IAM service itself to make updates/additions/deletions of user
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by sofal 6y ago
It was just a bald assertion that one should have freedom to do what they want because we live in a free society. If we live in a free society then we should be free to do what we want to do, because otherwise we wouldn't live in a fre
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by sofal 6y ago
The title literally says "generate abstract paintings in one click" and it is not doing that. I clicked on it expecting it to generate abstract paintings in one click, and now my disappointment is uncharitable?
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by sofal 6y ago
I would go further and even say that on HN you see these extremes. People that previously consumed massive, unhealthy amounts of coffee now authoring testimonials and blog posts about how life is better without coffee. People that previousl
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by sofal 6y ago
Interesting. I never drank coffee in my twenties, and only started in my thirties. I now realize that I would have had a better time during undergrad, grad school, and part of my career had I drank coffee in my twenties as well.
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by sofal 6y ago
> If life isn’t exciting then you may want to change it. I, like many people, need to exchange my time for a paycheck. During this time I often have to pay close attention to minute details in a text document, and think through implicati
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by sofal 6y ago
I think we're a long way from a good understanding of how consciousness works, but I also think a lot of people are going to subscribe to a sort of consciousness-of-the-gaps idea no matter how much progress is made in understanding the
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by sofal 7y ago
Using a metaphor of "used care dealer" is gratuitously provocative according to you? Does that standard apply consistently? It's not a flattering comparison, but it is not even remotely gratuitous. Used car dealers are real
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by sofal 7y ago
I don't see how the metaphor was pejorative, and I don't see how that could be worse than "a distillation of disgruntled exmembers", which has been the constant categorization of people who have left the church. That bei
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by sofal 7y ago
I disagree with this categorization. Rephrasing to "people constantly come along..." could make that sentence less personal, sure, but is there anything else about the comment that you would say is not substantive or thoughtful?
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by sofal 7y ago
I see the problem of /r/exmormon differently. Since I'm no longer at a point where I feel personally attacked when Mormonism is criticized, I can appreciate some of the more harsh stories that people have to tell, and can und
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by sofal 7y ago
I'm not sure why you think the genuineness of a belief is relevant when it comes to scrutinizing harmful actions based on those beliefs. Lots of people genuinely believe in a lot of harmful things. Some people genuinely believe they ne
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by sofal 7y ago
It's always the term "disgruntled" that is used when attempting to discount the experiences related by people who left an organization. What exactly does "disgruntled" mean to you? Take me, for example. I've sp
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by sofal 7y ago
One reason why it is difficult for me to tell is that I personally know a lot of people who say the same thing, i.e. that they are in favor of gay rights, but then they donate thousands of dollars a year to an extremely powerful and wealthy
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by sofal 7y ago
What I tend to do in that situation is to do a master's thesis level of research of every forum post and review I can find until 2 weeks and 750 browser tabs later the existential angst wipes out all my desire to buy the item and/
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by sofal 7y ago
The wider selection is very often knockoff, quasi-fraudulent garbage dressed up in fake reviews that will drown out most of the transparent information you were hoping to find.
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by sofal 7y ago
I've seen this sentiment on HN several times before. Just about any time there is an article discussing problems with the state of news, the most prevalent conversations on HN are always about how much better life is when you don'
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by sofal 8y ago
The comment you responded to literally gave an argument about where the line could be drawn. Do you not agree? I see this "where do you draw the line?" question asked a lot, and it seems that the usual intended purpose of it is to
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by sofal 8y ago
So you stepped from “people are downvoting my comment” to “people are bristling at the suggestion to have more gratitude”, and then you jumped from there to “more people should show gratitude”. Both of those are non-sequiturs and therefore
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by sofal 8y ago
Could you go ahead and help us through the logical steps you took that got you from "my comment is being downvoted" to "therefore my comment is correct"? Thanks.
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by sofal 8y ago
I agree with another commenter who said that C.S. Lewis is likely more well-known for the Chronicles of Narnia, at least in the broader secular sense. He was a talented writer. That being said, Mere Christianity is pretty clearly preaching
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by sofal 8y ago
I think in order to really feel comfortable with Git you have reverse that and think about the DAG as the actual interface and the CLI as the clunky implementation you use to modify the DAG.
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by sofal 8y ago
Are you talking about the argument outlined in the article? I don't see where you're getting that from. The article in the OP is about the argument that the explanation of characteristic biological functions by physics is impossi
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by sofal 8y ago
The author of the article pointed out the circular reasoning in the argument, so that's probably a good place to start.
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by sofal 8y ago
Science's "assumption" is that you can understand the world through repeated and verifiable observation. Faith, on the other hand, is the excuse people give for believing in something when they don't have a good reason.
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by sofal 8y ago
Consciousness is only unfalsifiable if you define in such a way that there is an undetectable and magical component to it, which is an unjustified and unfalsifiable assumption. Otherwise the most you could say is that it can sometimes be ha
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by sofal 8y ago
I don't understand why it is weird to believe in a young Earth, but it is not weird to believe that a god literally became a blood sacrifice to himself in order to save us from his wrath or any of the other stories from the Bible that

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