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901.
by vacuity 3y ago
Except I'm not saying "only consider one instance of slavery that is bad". By all means, consider them all. Then there's the question of whether slavery can inherently be remotely good. Also, I said "instance of sla
902.
by vacuity 3y ago
What you called "liberalism" in the first part is probably libertarianism.
903.
by vacuity 3y ago
Sounds like Chesterton's fence. "Tear it down!" "OK, but can you give me a good reason to?" "...It's an obstruction." "Reeeeeal persuasive." Even if the other side has abysmal reasoning, you
904.
by vacuity 3y ago
If things were so obvious, we wouldn't need the debates. Your first line is most correct, in that many things are up to debate because even if the general tack is right, nuances matter .
905.
by vacuity 3y ago
I'm not sure that's the game plan here. The closest I can think of would be analytical reasoning and iteration. Perhaps schools are teaching those well, but I don't think they're transferable to critical thinking regardl
906.
by vacuity 3y ago
I'm a young person myself and I sometimes find myself thinking like a stereotypical conservative curmudgeon. Not really in terms of typical "US conservative values" but rather "I'm stubborn about my opinions".
907.
by vacuity 3y ago
Fair, but I think critical thinking, even given the lack of domain-specific knowledge, would be quite valuable to some discussions on HN and beyond.
908.
by vacuity 3y ago
What is a better alternative?
909.
by vacuity 3y ago
I'm pretty sure parent recognizes that and is criticizing competitive debate as "debate".
910.
by vacuity 3y ago
On the topic of bad arguments, is (b) supposed to suggest that any form of slavery was good to the slaves and not an unreasonable cruelty as US slavery was? Not sure how Mike Tyson is any more valid by describing a different instance of sla
911.
by vacuity 3y ago
Overly rosy description and/or low bar. As for Mike Tyson, it's convenient to appeal to history as how things must be, rather than just one path of how things were. To be fair, asking people to come up with reasonable arguments fo
912.
by vacuity 3y ago
I think parent's point is that some people seem to think being in a debate club means they're automatically "good" at arguing even when they aren't. Of course, we would all be served by having greater development of
913.
by vacuity 3y ago
I don't know about the Netherlands, but I'm definitely not doing that in the US if I have kids. Also, that might work most of the time, but it's going to hurt when a portion are addicted and can't easily recover.
914.
by vacuity 3y ago
Also, it's a whole lot more difficult getting out of addiction than getting in. If you just have a shovel you can dig deep, but climbing back up is a different story.
915.
by vacuity 3y ago
Wouldn't that be the opposite of irony?
916.
by vacuity 3y ago
This seems optimistic in terms of implementing ergonomic and performant memory safety. > Whereas with Val, we said, let’s get rid of references, because references are the issue and so we have a far simpler model. I'm somewhat inter
917.
by vacuity 3y ago
I don't exempt alcohol as a drug. At best, drugs are helpful in moderation. Social media, literal drugs, whatever potential object of addiction are trouble. There's enough trouble with society already.
918.
by vacuity 3y ago
Seems like a fixable problem.
919.
by vacuity 3y ago
Most people may be fine, but considering that the CDC reported nearly 92,000 drug overdose deaths in 2020[0], I think there is a problem. Granted, it's a low percentage of the population, but that feels like the whole reducing people t
920.
by vacuity 3y ago
I agree that the education system (at least in the US) is chafing at times. I had an idea about more freeform education paths with plenty of time for sports or whatever. I seriously doubt someone interested in a subject needs the better par
921.
by vacuity 3y ago
> they can remotely wipe your device That seems like a no-go. What are they wiping, exactly?
922.
by vacuity 3y ago
While that is unfortunate, it's not an argument against mass transit in general.
923.
by vacuity 3y ago
It's sad how addiction implies "be more tolerating because it'll happen anyways and be worse if you aren't", though. I'm not saying that addicted people should just be thrown aside. At the same time, since addi
924.
by vacuity 3y ago
What are the concrete uses of phones in enhancing education? I've only seen portable calculator: fair, but why write problems that rely on calculators searching things up: just note it down for later taking pictures of slides:
925.
by vacuity 3y ago
There is no rational distinction between positive and negative assertions in the general case. A positive assertion to a statement is equivalent to a negative assertion for the inverse of the statement. Numbers don't count (ha) becau
926.
by vacuity 3y ago
Ah, but you're overreaching. I agreed with you in the comment you replied to. However, your point about rationality isn't so clear cut in the case of religion. If a religious person tells me that the theory of evolution is just fl
927.
by vacuity 3y ago
As a Rust user, the RESF-type no-effort comments are very frustrating. Hopefully it dies down in a few years.
928.
by vacuity 3y ago
"Two pitbulls attack girl returning home from school" Wow, they grow up so fast!
929.
by vacuity 3y ago
Too long; didn't read.
930.
by vacuity 3y ago
If we're to be exact, we can't prove that if I throw an object upwards with 5 N of force right now, the gravitational field won't suddenly shift (for some reason) and send it out of the atmosphere. If you reduce it to a mathe

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