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by tedks 12y ago
My first thought. It's almost certainly this. SFians could probably check for these as well, given that California has been a medical state for a while.
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You wouldn't need a device, would you? Just a rooted Android phone and an app. Maybe a custom kernel.
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> Over generations the establishment has learned to game the system so perfectly that the elite will remain in charge no matter what happens. Even new "anti-establishment" parties are quickly absorbed or corrupted. Is this a bu
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> Instead, the intelligent, optimistic, apparently caring mind who wrote this, is rotting in jail: http://rossman.deviantart.com/journal/something-new-24987116... . People get hung up on the hired hit thing. At that
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An AR-15 is just a semiautomatic rifle, so the founding fathers basically had AR-15's. And I would find it very hard to believe that, given the notion of guns, a reasonably intelligent person wouldn't expand the concept to a gun t
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Progressive values are in fact the minority. Most people on hacker news (for example, but also in the world at large) do not believe women have rights to bodily integrity, to be respected as people rather than sex objects, and to be comfort
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I agree completely. In fact, I think that the only hacker values that are true hacker values are progressive, and that the people invoking "hacker values" to justify misogyny, objectification and sexualization of women, etc., are
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It's definitely spot-on. I think it has a great example of anti-feminist/male-privileged mindset: > Desire for civility and freedom from objectification is "censorship" > Wanting to not support misogynists/rap
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It's interesting how many anti-Yik Yak posts have been on HN recently. Maybe a competitor is trying to poison the well with some PR heckling.
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But decisions only come from ideology in a tertiary sense. Goals are the central contribution of any ideology. What criteria are you basing your decisions on? That is your ideology, and you can't just elide it; your goals come from s
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>you can't trust one person or a single "ideologized" organization on anything, ever All organizations are ideologized; if you can't see the ideology, that just means you agree with it.
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You live in a bubble. There are plenty of people who use Lenovo products that are not tech people. By saying this, even though you don't intend to, you are minimizing the effect of this and being an apologist for lenovo.
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I've literally never had that experience with Yik Yak. There's a report button if anyone makes an explicit threat; other than that, when you hold a mirror up to society, it's not the mirror's fault what's reflected.
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You can endlessly create emulators that only spam in a specific area. I only know about Fade because of yik yak spam. Yik Yak is anonymous and has no concept of users. Fighting spam is going to be hard.
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Fade was viciously spamming yik yak, on the other hand. It's pretty ludicrous of them to pretend like they're being oppressed (and to compare Yik Yak to North Korea!) for retaliation against that.
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Most Americans probably have no idea what the NSA is, even now. I'm sure most of my college friends who weren't computer science majors couldn't say what it was or what it did. Soviet citizens probably knew more about what wa
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Make sure to also read the same user's comment later on in the thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/comments/1rhn38/heroin_users_o... My favorite quote: >I used to torture some of the people I s
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by tedks 12y ago
This is not a problem. You can have any hypothesis and any test. If your test has validity it's a valid way to test the hypothesis. That's it. The scientific process is a social one, and if you feel that an experiment is construct
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>the Milgram experiments should be discredited for the same reason Actually, the original hypothesis Stanley Milgram had was that Germans were somehow predisposed to obedience as a culture or race. His studies in the United States were w
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by tedks 12y ago
I'm not going to respond to you other than to call you out as a reactionary and a racist.
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>In my personal experience, the less the opposing position acknowledges the values of its opponents, the more likely it is to be rejected. As far as I know regarding persuasion psychology, this is false. These are the psychological studi
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"Intellectually dishonest" is a great buzzword. If you care more about playing according to some conversational rulebook than furthering the development of a just society you really have your priorities in line. It's a litera
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>It seems to me there's a parallel to someone like Moxie Marlinspike who's vaguely in the same field, but seems to be doing very well for himself. Moxie Marlinspike was doing well for himself when he was squatting in pgh and tr
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Yes, this is precisely the indirect cost I alluded to in my immediately previous comment. That said, far more (several orders of magnitude more) people die from cheeseburgers than (directly or indirectly) from meth. In human lives, McDonald
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I guess the total cost of meth would be hard to calculate, but I'm totally confident that the health costs tied to obesity are far more damaging than meth. Meth just isn't as common as obesity.
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Personally, I think that structurelessness is much more possible in "our industry" because it's so culturally, racially, sexually, and class homogeneous. It's worth noting that this article is about feminist activist gro
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They killed two men, and shot at more people. Hampton's pregnant girlfriend could have been killed. But really, all we need is this: >I ... don't support... democracy You're the real terrorist.
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But he had millions of Bitcoin, and every reason to believe that Bitcoin would rise in value. He lived very modestly for what he had, so it's not like this is anything other than a number in a computer fro him. This was discussed in de
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It's worth pointing out that the author was a Stalinist, and so thought the solution to the problem of hierarchies forming implicitly was to make those hierarchies explicit and enshrine them. The article describes a real problem; it sp
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What if DPR believed he was being scammed?

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