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by tomkin 15y ago
> abolishing them will not cure the foundry cause which is the desire. No, but it makes it harder to execute when everyone thinks for themselves. If everyone was educated to think critically rather than handing over part of their brain'
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> Right, I am always skeptical of simple answers to problems when humans are involved. I like simplicity and elegance in solutions, but if there is one thing that I have realized in life is generally when humans become a variable in the
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I'm not sure if you're trying to prove me wrong or back me up here. You're saying a bunch of people acting as a single group of dumb terminals of a single ideology is a bad thing? I agree. And I agree that there are other forms of religion
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More dancing around the subject. As I said before, you're for large groups of people thinking together without critical thinking...or you're not. It's that simple. If you're for it, check the "socially acceptable" bullshit at the door a
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> I wouldn't be so smug The problem with HN is this. The sport of 1-uping each other to prove something. It's not a matter of being smug, at least not from my perspective. My point is - you either are against group/mob/religion thinkin
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> First, you start off with a promising statement about the correlation between slavery and dictatorship. Unfortunately, your following paragraphs have almost nothing to do with it. You quickly delve into a anti-religion rant which uses
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> Your comments are being downvoted because claiming religion is the cause of slavery and all of the worlds ills OK. Your claim is my argument sweeps wholesale opinion, but then you make a wholesale opinion of what I meant when I said X
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> I think religion is ingrained in humans. If all religions were gone today, people would would still be getting religious over something. Diluting religion into a fan club of sorts is a way to get around why actual religion is bad.
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> Religion inherently forces an idea on a person The problem with this conversation is that it dips in and out of respect of ones beliefs – which is a tricky platform to walk. If I say "No, people should throw away religious ideology",
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> atheism, which if the constant preaching of is any indication, seems to be turning into quite the religion... I've actually noted this. The whole "Bless You" debate squares that point. My point is more about critical thinking an
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Noticing some of my comments are being down-voted. No problem with opposing opinion or criticism, but when there is a void of space under my comment where your rebuttal should be and my comment was down-voted, I have to think that you just
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In a comment above, I mentioned the nature of these references at being weak at best. There is an inherit problem with sourcing this kind of data and/or being the "front man" for it for obvious reasons. The very nature of having a large gro
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> most of the people in the Red Army were atheists. Orthogonal. The Red Army, nor Nazis used their atheism as a "guiding light" or a tool to get people to do what they wanted – they used military force. > They instead deve
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The binary argument of Russia is an old one. Tried and true, but completely removed from a full understanding of what makes people violent. Russia and atheism are orthogonal relationships at best. > Suddenly telling peopl
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It's true that the correlation is weak, but the reluctance to actually do the studies is due to the implications of them. Atheists are, by nature, less violent. Not because they are somehow enlightened, but because there is at least one m
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> I believe religion in general does aid in providing some sense of moral compass. Here's the problem I have with that. Let's say that I am a member of the SS and being a member provides me with a *moral compass*. OK, wait...thos
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This problem, like many problems in the world are often examined only a few layers deep. The conclusions are always the same: Poverty/Slavery are the consequence of corruption, or an evil dictator of some kind. While it is true that dictato
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Well, I live in Ontario, Canada, and I don't know who Lamar Smith is exactly, but I do know if I saw that billboard that I'd get the idea. Or I'd go online and look up what it was all about. So now I am more informed than I'd be otherwise.
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While I do see it being possible sometime , I agree that it's probably true that we won't see that for a while. The Ikea model would work well at this stage where you'd expect a small booklet that guides you along the way: "When the printe
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Am I the only one who thinks about the implications of these 3D printers? I read somewhere that an entire cell phone built with a 3D printer (circuits & all) will be possible soon. No "put it together yourself" stuff, either - entirely
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This is funny. A few years ago I read somewhere that we were expected to accomplish the "minority report UI" before the cure for cancer and that the cure for cancer should have been achievable in shorter time. Funny how hellbent we are on
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Microsoft cuts touchscreen lag to 1ms, makes other panels look silly (video)(engadget.com)
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Vocre 2.0 for iOS brings live translation to video calls(engadget.com)
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The state of Chrome OS(extremetech.com)
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Damn. Nice catch.
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The "don't disassemble me" bit could have also been easily influenced by Short Circuit as well.
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So, the US collectively pays for the TSA. The TSA takes your money, buys into the accountability of body scanners - somehow miss (then deny) the vulnerability – one a terrorist could successfully overcome - and they're asking, what? That
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> It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go BOOM. This is uncharacteristic - for a national security organization - even as a blog post. When people question author
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> I think it's going to take centuries to understand it to the extent that we'll be able to intentionally influence it more than genetic drift and selection currently do If this process can be understood mathematically, computers at eve
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I am trying hard to see the point of this article. Is he suggesting that we stop using fonts as icons for buttons and menus? Or assuming that if we did use them, we wouldn't have the good sense to ensure they look essentially the same acros

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