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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I'm glad the TSA exists and does what it does. I don't feel like my liberty is being taken away in the slightest. If you truly believe that, would you be opposed to TSA style x-ray machines, genital pat downs, and strip search
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Ask HN: How do you use social media?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>a) you're using legal definitions when the question is about morality You don't think the legal differences between those two things were based on perceived immorality?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The hubristic disconnect between the technical minded people here on HN and the general masses of users is startling and indicative of the problem.
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>My question was whether it's just as immoral a choice to not use one's potential to help people as it is to use one's talent to overtly harm people. Is the answer to that not obvious? It's the difference between negl
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Mainstream media/news is the fast food of information. It's super cheap, easy to get, and it gives you a quick high like you get from all the sugar and fat in fast food, but you'll invetably feel worse after doing so. Cookin
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Knowledge is a good unto itself This is a fallacious claim in an age of information overload.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Being aloof to the gossip, rumors, and controversies of the "news" seems pro-social to me because it allows you to discuss these issues with people in a more civil manner simply because you are not so emotionally charged over the
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>It's like an ant trying to understand a black hole by crawling around a library. Your analagy is akin to The Cloud of Unknowing , a spiritual guide to becoming closer to god by "unknowing", written by a 14th century chri
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Not having a "soul" seems like a poor reason to rejoice in the failure of such an affordable and efficient home, especially considering how many people live in "cookie cutter" houses, bland apartments, not to mention out
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The rules of the algo which flag, hide, and demonetize videos are hidden.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How is it then that different states infringe on the right to bear arms to different degrees? And it was indeed the case well before 2008-2010. See United States v. Cruikshank (1875), Presser v. Illinois (1886), Miller v. Texas (1894).
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If you're so worried about the world destroying itself with its own weapons, how are you going to enforce your weapons ban without using weapons?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
That's not necessarily true. The Supreme Court has ruled that the 2nd amendment only prohibits the federal government from "infringing" on your right to bear arms, and not the states. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows, and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simpl
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." Can we honestly and objectively say that being extremely health conscious is a sickness while habitually eating extremely unhealthy food to the point o
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
National boundaries are kaput on the World Wide Web.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>We have "censorship" in Europe and we don't have people murdering others because of it. Europe has a long history of mass murder intertwined with censorship. This history was the basis for the US Bill of Rights, notably t
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Should people's motives not be inspected simply because they were willing to kill over them? Following that maxim would give us an infantile understanding of human history.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Diagnosing mental illness based on someone's poor UI skills is dangerous pseudoscience.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I've never heard of othorexia until today. Funny that in a country with an obesity epidemic whose number one killer is heart disease that obsessing about eating healthy food is considered a mental illness.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Often times when someone commits an act of violence against powerful institutions in society they are automatically labeled insane/schizophrenic. It helps to shield the institution from any criticism and keeps the individual's mot
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Why do we consider murderous individuals mentally ill, but not murderous groups of individuals once they're beyond a certain level of political and/or economic influence? Because "might makes right" is an implicit vi
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Indeed, how can they sell you stuff you don't need if you're content with the way you are?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
That depends on how define psychotic. YT's algorithm has a habit of recommending extremist content because it captivates users and keeps them on the platform.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
At least according to her website, she claimed her videos were hidden from search results.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Why is there no such strong push for preventing falls as there is for guns?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I learned from your article that I'm more likely to die by "falling" than by being shot.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
BTC is primarily used as a speculative asset pinned to fiat currency ($) rather than a viable medium of exchange. So it's value is intimately dependent on the very thing it sought to obsolesce. BTC also was supposed to eliminate the ma
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The question to ask then is why does that happen? Because women, more typically than men, raise children as their full time job.

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