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xlnt
18y ago
You again? I told you to stop messaging me.
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18y ago
Screw that. How am I supposed to get in the mood without a little roleplaying?
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18y ago
Smart people might walk by your tree, too. In case you swing that way...
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18y ago
FYI i believe it's not too hard to change keyboard shortcuts (or add them) for anything in a menu on a native mac app using the xcode interface builder (maybe it got renamed recently, can't remember).
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18y ago
I didn't assume. Hence the question mark. So, if it's not true that someone is hurt by every movie download, then why are the movie downloads, where no one is hurt, ethically wrong? Why is "it's not hurting anyone" a bad ethical argument in
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18y ago
You gave "It's not hurting anybody." as a false counter-argument. I'm clarifying that you believe, as a matter of fact , that every single movie download hurts someone. After that clarification, I will ask for a clarification about who
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18y ago
But where would the wordplay be in tobacco selling?
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18y ago
that wouldn't be amusing.
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18y ago
upvote if you prefer coke edit: i don't think your english comprehension is very good :( if you prefer pepsi, upvote that other comment instead of downvoting this one.
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18y ago
So, you believe everyone single movie download hurts someone? Note that this is a factual, not ethical, issue.
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18y ago
if people aren't poor after you profit from them, you need a new business model
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18y ago
speculation done right consists of creating knowledge about what resources will be in what demand in the future, and then saving resources that are cheap now but will be expensive later. doing this raises the price a bit now (b/c you buy a
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18y ago
if the goal is to get rich, i absolutely agree with you.
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18y ago
When I present ideas about parenting people say "Are you a parent?" That is private and irrelevant information, but they keep pestering me about it. Can you make a start up to solve this problem please? i want more privacy. thanks :)
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18y ago
you only need about 20 or 25 karma to downvote. i upvoted you to help you on your way. please ignore my helpfulness and downvote my comment above anyway -- 16 people can't be wrong. pretty clearly i'm a troll who should probably be banned f
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18y ago
Why doesn't "build it and they will come" solve these issues?
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Ask YC: What should people want that they don't?
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18y ago
too plain looking for the wrong girls to notice you.
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18y ago
redefining words at random is a form of bad thinking
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18y ago
this site is for reddit refugees who already know how social news works. anyway, see the little arrows? click on those at random until you find a pattern. then google for the feature request thread and ask PG to make it possible to change y
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18y ago
What? Religion helped something? No way!!!11 edit: fine, be that way. i dare you to downvote this to -666. if you don't get all the way there though i'm gonna sue you.
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18y ago
i didn't.
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18y ago
Maybe pg should have been less negative about the abilities of 10 year olds in his essay. Of course it's hard to know very much by age 10 if your parents lie to you frequently. But that isn't the child's fault.
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18y ago
Maybe this is because excessive spending is caused by not thinking carefully and precisely about all the factors relevant to the startup, whereas frugality comes from trying to maximize everything to one's benefit. So even if the actual mon
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18y ago
i learned not to click them. so either brains aren't wired that way, or we can rewire them.
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Oops, I downvoted this prior to reading the parent. I'd change my vote if the interface allowed...
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18y ago
Which?
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18y ago
if the memes cause effects in the presence of certain trivial traits caused by genes then that issue is solved, isn't it? the genes work as predictors like the study thinks, but don't actually do much of anything.
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18y ago
very good link! thanks.
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18y ago
as far as i know, no one has done it or has a good way to. all the studies like this suffer from this problem. i think the researchers should be a lot more careful with what they say their study shows or not. what can be done is to use argu
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