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by wissler 14y ago
It's not "arbitrary" to decide e.g. that German society should not put Jews into a gas chamber. Your ideas here of not judging norms are just deranged and you should fix that, just like societies that have accepted deranged norms should fix
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by wissler 14y ago
So, you actually think that social norms are not a problem? Seriously? What about the norms that led Galileo to house arrest, or many to being burned at the stake, etc. etc.?
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by wissler 14y ago
There's no way I'd buy this given the "ultra" low screen resolution, but maybe that doesn't matter to some developers. They need to target a somewhat higher screen resolution than the MBA if they want to grab my attention.
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by wissler 14y ago
I think the root problem is that modern governments aren't trustworthy with our freedom of speech, which leads people to try to hide their perfectly legitimate free speech activity, but criminals want to hide too so it's an inherently dodgy
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by wissler 14y ago
... a completely pointless metric because no one really cares about it Bullshit. I care that they charge for text messages at all. I want my phone service to be mere plumbing and leave the services on the phone to me and third parties. Th
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by wissler 14y ago
YES. More importantly, the economy would be better off without the reason why an MBA has some value -- too much government-induced bureaucratization.
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by wissler 14y ago
I'm surprised by the opposite: I have come to expect this kind of negativity here at HN, but about half the comments are like yours.
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by wissler 14y ago
Isaac Newton went away for two years, by himself, to invent Calculus and modern physics.
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by wissler 14y ago
Heaven forbid that someone retain some individual control over their own medical choices. On the contrary, we need High Priests of Medicine to lord over us, to dictate to us what treatments we may and may not have access to.
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by wissler 14y ago
Would you like the red pill or the blue pill?
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by wissler 14y ago
Look, I get it. If you don't know why you believe it, it's a "fact on the ground." If you don't know why I believe it, then I have a burden of substantiating it for you. I know it went over your head, but the dispute here isn't about the ba
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by wissler 14y ago
You were the one who made a wildly unsubstantiated claim that the common man's attitude about science has more effect on the human race than the insights of actual scientists. None of what you've said since then has justified this wild clai
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by wissler 14y ago
Sure, the mob refraining from killing and attacking scientists is good. But the credit still goes to Galileo for his insight, not the common man for refraining from abusing Galileo. IOW, who you have decided to credit is morally perverse.
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by wissler 14y ago
"in terms of maximum effect on the human race, the "greatest" science is the man of the street who can't be bamboozled by an idea that has no supporting evidence." That's a rather grandiose claim. Where's your supporting evidence?
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by wissler 14y ago
"That would be an argument against science" No. Great science is done by people who are more like Newton and Tesla, not people like you and Edison.
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by wissler 14y ago
Yes, he said to try new principles, he also said not to expect them to really work, which undercuts the motivation for finding really difficult to discern principles.
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by wissler 14y ago
He underrates the power of principle. "Mass is awesome. What if every object in the Universe had mass?" "Liberty is awesome. What if there should be no such thing as slavery and every human being should be free?" If you pick the wrong princ
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by wissler 14y ago
Exactly. It means the pretense evaporates, and that the sheep wake up. I mean, if some government agent rifles through their stuff in the cloud, the sheep don't care. But if they knock on the sheep's door and do it, then the sheep is going
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by wissler 14y ago
Some of us have observed that the cloud was a stupid idea from the beginning. All the cloud should be is an encrypted data service for locally run and stored programs, without anyone but you having access to the data in unencrypted form.
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by wissler 14y ago
What makes you think it's fundamentally different anywhere else?
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by wissler 14y ago
Good point. For all practical purposes, for now , one can get the text of his speech. But it's probably not legal.
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by wissler 14y ago
Is this not a full copy of MLK's speech?: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/i-have-a-dream-spee...
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by wissler 14y ago
So, your assertions are unquestioned axioms, mine need substantiation. Yeah, we couldn't be friends.
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by wissler 14y ago
Is it your view that one may not express one's view without substantiating it? Because that is the premise implied by your remark, and -- guess what? -- it's an absolute statement you've failed to provide any support or reasoning for, which
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by wissler 14y ago
Useful idiots call for reform. The patent system is intrinsically evil and must be abolished.
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by wissler 14y ago
"if he has to do it often enough, maybe he'll quit." How is making someone with some decency quit a valuable objective, when he will only be replaced with someone with no decency?
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by wissler 14y ago
I think people generally prefer not to have answers to questions of this sort.
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by wissler 14y ago
I mean, I know there are idiots on the Internet, but at some point your assumption that someone is an idiot is idiotic. I know where this file came from and I haven't touched it. Dropbox hammered it.
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by wissler 14y ago
Obviously...
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by wissler 14y ago
At least one of my files was effected and not recoverable (hopefully the zero-size test is reliable).

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