yelsgib

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by yelsgib 15y ago
WTF are you talking about? A body of research? Are you out of your mind? This response actually sounds like a form response for when anyone disagrees with you. To answer your question by deconstructing it: which one of my claims could possi
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by yelsgib 15y ago
I guess this comment is going to be pretty unpopular, given the comments that most have left before it, but I find this post creepy in the extreme. For one thing, it's naive. Any attempt to assert that "X is entirely my fault" is naive. How
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by yelsgib 15y ago
You have no idea whether the author has "met enough variety of people." You have no idea if people are innately able to program, learn calculus, or "think in three dimensions" (btw - driving is a 2d problem). I don't. You don't. No one does
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by yelsgib 15y ago
The point of the graph is that it doesn't matter how or why people die, after a certain age. This is clear from context, though not explicitly stated.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
A law is only a law if it is enforceable. Copyright is not enforceable since every copyrighted object is a requirement on the government's resources, and such objects are (basically) infinitely easy to create. Therefore, since the governmen
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by yelsgib 15y ago
In response to #3 - isn't it very very strange to you that J.K. Rowling is able to have a billion dollar Harry Potter empire? I don't think this defense of copyright actually stands up to any rigorous examination. Why do people need to be a
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by yelsgib 15y ago
You mention physical security, food availability, and shelter as this little boy's three major boons in life. But does he have access to an intellectual tradition? Does he have access to any figure who can teach him anything? Does he have h
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Where's the content?
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by yelsgib 15y ago
I'd like to hear more about why you think the culture of violence associated with drugs being illegal will not simply disappear after a generation? Doesn't most violence associated with these drug cartels take the form of fights over supply
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Who gets to decide which drugs are addictive? The main claim by anti-legalization politicians is that cannabis is addictive. Giving any small group of humans the right to decide which properties drugs have and how important/dangerous those
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Underlying your arguments is the belief that some people are better at making these sorts of decisions than others. The belief that any group of people (no matter how large) should dictate the consumption patterns of another group of people
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Sorry, actually, I don't feed trolls.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
I don't know what you're referring to w/r/t Somalia. Fill me in on your version of the events.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
This way of thinking doesn't make sense. No one is claiming that you're responsible as in you need to fix this. We're claiming that you're responsible in the sense that you're part of the cause (or, in the language of Nagarjuna the "dominan
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by yelsgib 15y ago
If you lived next to a diamond mine, you probably wouldn't buy diamond rings. I say this because I assume you are a compassionate/empathetic person to some degree, and I think it would be very difficult for you to separate out your feelings
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by yelsgib 15y ago
The people who make $1/day stop making $1/day. There is crisis. The crisis is caused by the cessation of a domination-based dependence relationship. The crisis could cause government collapse and mass-death. Out of the ashes will arise a (n
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by yelsgib 15y ago
What do you recommend reading to find out more about what's really going on in China/South-East Asia?
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Playing football involves running and jumping and being alive. Playing Farmville involves sitting still and clicking the same buttons over and over and over. Football breeds real, live, community. Farmville virtualizes community. Football i
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by yelsgib 15y ago
You are seriously conflating "social anxiety disorder" and "introversion." The idea that a concert would "drain you so much it will be hard to enjoy" or that an introvert would have a tough time interacting with a group long enough to go on
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by yelsgib 15y ago
I find posts like this very annoying. As swombat points out, the claim that you should "watch your thoughts" leaves one wondering: how do I do that? The answer I assume I would get, were I to ask the author this question, is: "Just do it!"
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Verified by science! Oh me oh my! But how do we regulate our metacognitive regulation? And can we regulate that regulation? And ... Biting your own teeth, indeed.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
My point is that you don't know his situation, so you can't judge his actions. You don't know how many "externalities" there are (whatever an "externality" is). The fact that you can't imagine a worthy justification (in terms of his value s
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by yelsgib 15y ago
You shouldn't pass judgement on the living.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
You can't criticize a decision outside of the context of the person who makes it.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
This comment makes me extremely angry. Do you know anything about this man or his family? Do you know anything about the reasons that he was climbing the mountain? Disrespectful in the extreme.
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by yelsgib 15y ago
Is sulfuric acid illegal in Ireland? I would rather have a gun pointed at me than a large man threaten to burn my face off.
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by yelsgib 16y ago
I think this statement is funnily self-negating: "I already understand grammatical structure, the relationships between subject/object/verb and the uses of prepositions." This guy must be learning Romance languages (e.g. surprise! he's lear
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by yelsgib 16y ago
What do you mean?
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by yelsgib 18y ago
I think that it's very important to separate casual sex as we observe it in our culture and casual sex as it could be. All of your points only make sense if we make tons of cultural assumptions. Casual sex in and of itself is obviously neit
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by yelsgib 18y ago
"wouldn't it make much more sense to study economics and complex systems to get an idea of what the outcomes of any particular choice of social structure are?" Ok, well, this is a fine idea in theory, but there are tons of problems: 1.) Act

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