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by viridian 7y ago
Are you confusing Machiavelli for Hobbes? Machiavelli was largely a proponent of liberty, and his patrons whom he gifted the Prince, the Medicis, don't even make the top 5 list for inhumane behavior as far as powerful Italian ruling fa
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by viridian 7y ago
I think the originalist supreme court members cut a lot closer to the original truth than your interpretation, at least with regards to Madison, and Jefferson. Arguing that the 'well regulated militia' clause is a requirement rath
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by viridian 7y ago
The parent you replied to was about a total ban. It's not cherry picking to try to match apples to apples.
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by viridian 7y ago
Joe, I don't mean any offense, but I think your view of what the current field of working people looks like is severely out of date. In my age group slightly more women work than men, industry aside.
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by viridian 7y ago
While I think you are largely correct, there's also a more general effect that contributes and magnifies this, the "women are wonderful" effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_are_wonderful_effect
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by viridian 7y ago
Reading this comment thread hours after everyone else has posted, it sure is strange that a handful of individuals are defending the state from pretty much every objection by random commenters. I'm not a conspiracy guy, but this feels
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by viridian 7y ago
It's a very unpopular opinion w.r.t. to America. Gallup conducts a firearms poll every year, and the closest thing to a total ban question is a total ban on handguns. "Do you think there should or should not be a law that would ba
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by viridian 7y ago
Does that take in to account the difference between how many miles Americans drive a day versus Brits?
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by viridian 7y ago
cringe
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by viridian 7y ago
Fascism is a well defined political ideology that doesn't just boil down to authority = good, though. It's like if people equated having a strong head of state with monarchism. In doing so you throw away 95% of the ideology, and u
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by viridian 7y ago
Why do think that users with usernames like that have turned the site into trash? In my experience, Twitteer's problems seem more systematic, and related to their attempts to maximize your time on site, and thus ads viewed.
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by viridian 7y ago
A common joke on weightlifting and bodybuilding forums when someone asks how to get shredded abs to to tell them to add 'fork-putdowns x F' to their routine. x F is the format used to mean "repeat until failure", and it&
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by viridian 7y ago
You interpreted "employees of a company to use their corporate position to push what are private political goals" as "companies not push[ing] for political goals" in order to sarcastically respond. There is a difference
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by viridian 7y ago
Your comment is the least charitable possible interpretation of the above user's statement, and adds nothing except for biting sarcasm to the discussion. I hope that every user here tries to leave hacker news a better, more thoughtful
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by viridian 7y ago
I wouldn't call the F-150 a gas guzzler, in fact it has sort of the opposite reputation. It's a truck that's too small to be a proper work truck, and is a lifestyle vehicle. As someone from rural America, who did assistant ca
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by viridian 7y ago
It's some great irony that two minutes before you posted this, a man of straw himself appeared and agreed with the statement. I don't think you can call something a strawman if the idea seems to actually have wide support.
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by viridian 7y ago
Unfortunately sin taxes are always regressive, and it's pretty easy to make the case that they mostly just punish the poor for their own circumstances. Sin taxes are rarely, if ever levied against the sins of society's upper crust
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by viridian 7y ago
I know in the twitter thread that went viral, most of the "Amazon workers" were actually satirical accounts, that kept ramping up the outrage. The whole situation is shitty to be sure, and encouraging employees to defend you from
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by viridian 7y ago
Backing up the other comments, this also isn't true from anything I've seen in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, or Pennsylvania. Seems like an issue specific to places where the demand for milk far outstrips the regional creamery su
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by viridian 7y ago
I'll bite the bullet and give my opinion without any hedging. If someone's comment consists of just a pun, or other low effort content that doesn't lead to meaningful dialogue, I'm downvoting them. It's a housekeepi
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by viridian 7y ago
The screen being arbitrarily divided into two halves would give away a huge plot element pretty quickly, if you are paying attention, as well as some smaller stuff. You aren't actually controlling Junpei, as you are led to believe for
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by viridian 7y ago
[spoilers] 999 relies on the two screens for the actual purposes of constructing the narrative(s), as well as for the big reveal at the end. The story is unfortunately a layer shallower on the PC port of the game (not to mention that you ha
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by viridian 7y ago
The MSM people are most likely to consume (cable news, and random articles from large, reputable sources) are at a low in the US that hasn't been seen since at least the days following 9/11. I'm sure the modern political shoc
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by viridian 7y ago
Seems like the type of thing you'd find in a dystopian YA novel. Remembering back to being a kid, a lot of them have that kind of setup for disenfranchising the ideology the hero/heroine ends up aligning themselves to, and establi
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by viridian 8y ago
You don't need to necessarily have independent audio streams to have good audio, just independent sources. I did a podcast up until January, and as the person doing the editing, I found zero benefit to having one input stream per micro
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by viridian 8y ago
The problem is that replication studies are almost nonexistent for most discoveries. Science is to some extent a business, and very few people with a budget have any interest in allocating resources to replicating the work someone else did,
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by viridian 8y ago
That isn't what was said though. This entire conversation chain is painful to read, I would encourage you to read up on the principle of charity. It's a dialectic tactic that seems to be fast fading in the world of click bait and
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by viridian 8y ago
I also just wanted to let everyone know, that back when this article first came out, another HN user summed up my thoughts better than I could myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16135800
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by viridian 8y ago
Sure, and that's reasonable. I'm a fan of slatestarcodex.com, which posts a lot of long form content as well, the problem for me here was that the author didn't even outline the direction of the counterpoint in seven paragrap
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by viridian 8y ago
Ironically I think Ms. Schwartz could stand to improve her writing, and be more productive with her audience's time. I gave up 7 long paragraphs in, after realizing that: a) no real counterclaim had been made yet, and b) I was only 1&#

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