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by teachrdan 1y ago
> This would be a very good gotcha for a religion that believed the Bible was written by God Fair enough! But if God is all powerful and all knowing, he decided to make the bible incorrect. Why would he do that?
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> You may not directly see him, but the whole school would know about it, even if he was just there for 5 minutes. My question would be: If the Bible was written by an omniscient and all-powerful God, then why does it have so many inaccu
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by teachrdan 1y ago
I've heard the same said about German POWs in WWII. Towards the end of the war, when they were served tea and biscuits while their comrades in the field starved, they knew the British (and Allies more generally) were going to win.
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by teachrdan 1y ago
Link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Express_Flight_705 "On April 7, 1994, Federal Express Flight 705... was the subject of a hijack attempt by Auburn R. Calloway, a Federal Express employee fa
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by teachrdan 1y ago
Charles Darwin was independently wealthy and largely funded his own research into evolution.
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by teachrdan 1y ago
Before threatening small claims court (known to be a PITA for the plaintiff), I'll tell them that if they can't resolve it, then they should send me an email telling me so, which I'll forward to my credit card company so they
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Everyone should live in Iowa City at least once in their lives. This is trivially disprovable. The world has a population of ~8,000,000,000 people. Assuming an average life expectancy of 65 years, if everyone lived in Iowa City (pop. 7
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by teachrdan 1y ago
You misread the article, or perhaps failed to see the update. This is not "making false statements in a personal capacity." The judge was arrested for failing to do ICE's job for them. That is, ICE wanted to arrest someone an
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> Being a judge might just be circumstantial (sensational?). The arrest may be because of the person's personal actions; not their professional actions as a judge. I'm sure you're an intelligent person, but this response s
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by teachrdan 1y ago
> If anyone has any questions about GrowSF, feel free to ask! Then crickets when they're asked who funds their multi-million dollar campaigns. "Ask me anything! Except who I answer to!" GrowSF is a front group for wealthy
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by teachrdan 1y ago
It stands to reason that the biggest funders of an organization have the most influence over it. Who are GrowSF's biggest funders? How much money have they given?
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> They were invented to be used for good I don't know that that's true. It seems a lot of development -- probably most of it, in money and engineer-hours -- has gone towards the cynical deployment of AI for making money for use
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> shoes won't be so disposable and professions for cobblers and the like will be in higher demand. It doesn't necessarily follow that more expensive shoes will be easier to repair. It's more likely that shoes will simultan
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> Imagine if China decided to invade Taiwan like they've been threatening to do for a while. They would instantly cut off all exports to the US, because that's the smart thing to do. I think what you're getting at is that
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by teachrdan 2y ago
It will never stop being funny to me that these assholes self-righteously told government to step out of the way so that they (and by extension the rest of the Silicon Valley investor class) could show how they could build their way out of
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by teachrdan 2y ago
I've got a Lilygo T-Beam with a 18650 battery for backup power, an external battery, and a 3D printed case. It's fine for a stationary setup at home. For more portable use, you might go with something like a Lilygo Meshtastic T-Ec
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by teachrdan 2y ago
The tradeoff is that the higher you carry the bag (i.e. on your shoulders), the more space you have when maneuvering between cars. You can imagine how, if your bag was at the same level as the bike saddle, it would be more likely to get pin
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> and it will be billed at $80M a year. Why stop there? Musk can just have congress give SpaceX a monopoly on providing hurricane forecasting and he can charge a billion for it!
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by teachrdan 2y ago
I second this recommendation. Perhaps most interesting is that despite the author literally spending thousands of hours with literal gang members, the only time he's truly afraid is when he's describing the police gang that's
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by teachrdan 2y ago
I'm getting downvoted here but can't for the life of me guess why. If you've actually read Isaac Asimov and his peers, as I have, they wrote about robots with complex inner lives and space ships that traveled to alien civiliz
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> I feel like if you took some old science fiction writers from back in the day and showed them this article, you would find sheer awe in their faces too. I can't tell if this is satire. The science fiction writers from back in the
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by teachrdan 2y ago
Prions behave a bit like a biological version of ice-nine. It's a novel shape of protein that "teaches" other protein to be shaped like it. Obviously its scope is far more limited than all the world's water, but it'
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by teachrdan 2y ago
With all due respect, Hacker News is not the place for making blanket assertions with no references. Please post a citation if you have one. Otherwise please don't waste readers' time with unfounded rumors.
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by teachrdan 2y ago
We seem to live in a post-ironic moment. Look no further than the Boogaloo Boys. They want to start a second American civil war and are named after the 1984 movie "Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo". It would be a joke except the
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by teachrdan 2y ago
Eh, we've done a partially successful job constraining nuclear weapons beyond the US and the USSR/Russia. And, so far, we've constrained their use in war.
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by teachrdan 2y ago
For way more info about military patches, challenge coins, and how to decode them, check out "From the Archives of Peter Merlin, Aviation Archaeologist" by Trevor Paglen. He goes into detail about how patches with aliens indicate
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by teachrdan 2y ago
“the system” here is specifically referencing the web of government and corporate interests that benefit from a large and growing prison population. There is no reasonable reading of this which implies the author naively believes EVERYONE s
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> they’ve all been captured by the private prison industry This is a straw man argument, which is also discouraged on HN. Literally no one -- besides you and the sibling comments below -- has suggested that everyone has been captured by
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by teachrdan 2y ago
> It's been really eye-opening to start realizing just how many people refer to a collective as a unit. And how many beliefs are dependent on not inspecting that fallacious thinking. This is the top comment in a chain of siblings th
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by teachrdan 2y ago
>> Now I'm wondering why they wrote that... > Probably one of the usual suspects: projection or virtue signaling. Pretty sure the post you're referring to is wondering why the original caption referred to the "leisur

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