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by xlm1717 11y ago
I've been noticing that as a nasty habit picking up steam on HN. It's usually the commenter talking down to a previous commenter.
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This is stupid...
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Simply breathtaking.
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Seems to me that the catuskoti was already a concept in western philosophy, only we didn't give the group a name because we prioritised true and false above the other two possibilities: contradiction and indeterminacy. Also seems to me
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Sounds like an explanation designed to make Buddhism palatable to secular audiences to me. Also seems like a stretch to me calling yourself a Buddhist if all you do is meditate to try to find yourself. There have been plenty of religions in
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by xlm1717 11y ago
It's not a sign of the dysfunction of a system. It's the system functioning as designed. In the history of the US, there have been only 27 amendments. Two of them cancel each other out, and 10 were introduced at the beginning, so
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Agreed. That the Civil War happened does not make the Constitution as a whole fragile. After the Civil War occurred, they removed the three-fifths rule and took away it's major weakness. >it's never been questioned since It&#x2
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by xlm1717 11y ago
People used to say the same 30 years ago of our current situation. "Who wants to be here in 30 years anyway? I don't want to live in a world of 7 billion people with little resources on a barely habitable world." Apocalyptic
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by xlm1717 11y ago
The kid was too smart for his own good. He broke away from the other mindless sheep and learned things on his own. Who knows what kind of subversive ideas he might come up with if he's allowed to continue to think for himself.
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That's some funny logic there.
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Texas at one point did have rebel troops in Mexico before seceding and stayed independent for a few years before joining the US. California tried something similar but then got swept up in the Mexican-American War. Even West Florida was &qu
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Maybe they couldn't convince higher-ups at CBS to upgrade the system until someone came in and fleeced them for $90K after taxes.
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by xlm1717 11y ago
As far as I can tell, R&B is firmly rooted in the western tradition and has stylistic influences from African American and Cuban music. R&B does not trace an origin back to Carnatic music, making Carnatic music not the original R&am
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This has been the state of things since Apple started offering different storage sizes on their iPhones. The bigger model has always been $100 more expensive. This is as much a part of the Apple brand as quality and uncompromisingly excelle
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by xlm1717 11y ago
It does seem like a random statement to make, but when you expand the definition of a crime so broadly that citizens, in this case students, start living in fear of accidentally committing a crime, you have the beginnings of a police state.
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Well, now instead of endorphins, they can say leptins.
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It does has to burn. This is why we have prescribed burns, to safely burn the forest and reduce future wildfire damages. The article says that the portion of the budget dedicated to fighting fires keeps increasing, giving less money to land
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by xlm1717 11y ago
It seems the military in general does not believe the initial painful period would be worth the ultimate goal of total integration. The article quotes a government study from 1992: A military unit at maximum combat effectiveness is a milita
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Alex is a bad name, doesn't describe at all what it does. More appropriate names, in my opinion, are: Ingsoc, Newspeak, or BB. Orwell's head would be spinning if he saw how the English language ended up today.
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Everyone learns physics by starting with Newton.
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Heaven forbid we talk about media misbehavior while Fox News is still around, especially if that media misbehavior is using our own biases against white men to manipulate our opinion.
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Believe it or not, there are still websites out there running Perl with CGI. Not even Danser or Mojolicious, CGI.pm.
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Whatsapp and Instagram were acquired by Facebook and Vine was acquired by Twitter. Tinder/Grindr are fads that are already fading. Snapchat, it's probably a matter of time before they get acquired or people get bored with it.
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I would doubt that we see one in the near future. The one that had the biggest potential, Instagram, was quickly bought out by Facebook. A competitor not only has to overcome the huge userbase, thereby convincing everyone and their mother
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I get that some eye scientists can find this problem uninteresting and prefer not to work on it. What I don't get is the need to bury the research when some scientists are interested in getting to the bottom of this eye pain. If this r
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by xlm1717 11y ago
The author did mention that his class did not have an attendance requirement ("In a class with no attendance grade...").
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"If he's pleasing them, he must be doing something wrong!" Quick way of pleasing students is not getting on them when they are viewing Breaking Bad in the middle of a lecture.
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That won't be the hard part about phasing in UBI without wrecking the economy. All those people that are now unemployed are now earning the UBI.
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Hmm, never heard of people on the right wanting a basic income to simplify government welfare.
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My mistake, I was remembering it incorrectly. Edited my previous reply to include a link to this: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.03733 Lee Smolin discusses a class of facts that are evoked: "I would like to propose tha

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