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And a third reason is simply because pepperonis can't be bothered to wget
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I'm a religious person, but I don't think "demonic possession" has any place in any type of mental illness classification. Proving the existence of God is impossible. Proving the existence of demons and/or evil spir
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Well done. Who knew that what basically amounts to a searchable cloud-based chat service could reach a billion dollar valuation. Amazing.
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Hmm, well I was able to correctly identify every single sonnet. The machine generated ones I would read and think "What the heck was that poem about? It just rambled on about random things" whereas the human ones you could tell th
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The US does not use terror as a weapon in the same way terrorists do. The US Military does not purposely target the innocent.
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> a clean, simple, easy to use image hosting service that everyone could use for free How do you monetize such a site without bloating into the current Imgur? It seems like the only way to have a "clean, simple, easy" image hos
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Ugg, stop turning Hacker News into a political platform. We get it, lots of people want gun control, including gun owners. Can we just stick to technology news, please and leave bipartisan debates to other sites?
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In my mind, DUI "accidents" are not actually accidents. Someone deliberately made a choice to drive under the influence of drugs, and that choice is tantamount to murder in my mind.
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> I think what a lot of people disagree with is the laws allowing possession of an AR-15 assault rifle What's the difference between an AR-15 "assault rifle" (whatever that means) and a hunting rifle used in Alaska? Likely
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> Humans are more afraid of gun violence than car accidents. Well maybe we wouldn't be so afraid of gun violence if the media wasn't such a fear-mongering agenda-driven political entity. Maybe we should regulate the media inste
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> The other side says that guns designed with the obvious and explicit goal of effectively killing numerous people are necessary, in keeping with the Constitutional amendment which was drafted to ensure that if it ever became necessary t
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Ah, but priorities, priorities. Which should we regulate first? The media is leading me to believe that the "gun crisis" is the most pressing issue and that aggressive regulation will lead to the greatest gains in terms of prevent
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Can I get some stats on what America's softly regulated medical malpractice crisis looks like?
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> what kinds of systems have people found to address it as an adult? Most people find a "permanent friend" aka significant other aka spouse. I realize this is hard for some people, but that is what the majority of humans do.
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I was being sarcastic. I didn't think I needed the "/s" but apparently I was wrong.
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That's because if you dislike the trailer, it's obviously because you dislike women (or at least movies empowering women), which makes you misogynistic.
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How can the world's ultimate nanny state function without proper censorship?
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You reap what you sow: https://xkcd.com/1357/ "Twitter and Facebook aren't violating your free speech rights. They just think you are an a hole and are showing you the door."
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What if a black person says "To all my n*ggers out there, x,y,z" on twitter, vs. a white person saying the same thing. Will the white person's tweet be removed, or both?
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It's like people who think after many years of programming that "char" is actually pronounced "care". Nope. In real life people just read things. "char" the stick in the fire all day long.
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[sic] indicates a spelling error in context, not a political correctness "error" that is still being debated
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Literally anyone leaking classified information would be regarded as a hero whistleblower. At what point are you betraying your country and leaking secrets to enemies? "I feel morally obligated to blow the whistle on this new secret su
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> Biological sex isn't binary For the vast, vast majority of people, it is. Which is what makes it a useful metric.
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What's the point of titles, adjectives, pronouns if they can be manipulated by the subject? Statement: "Dr. Smith ran across the street. She was terrified of what would happen next" What actually happened: "A burly trans
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> The correct pronoun is 'her', not 'him/her' The correct pronoun is whatever people deem the correct pronoun is. Personally, I don't see a lot of value in referring to people as their preferred gender. I se
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> or who are against gender identity equality "Anyone who doesn't agree with my ultra progressive views that people should be able to define their own gender identity is a hateful bigot and needs to be silenced"
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> No, I've been very clear how to deterministically determine it Oh yes, you've been very clear indeed. "All" I have to do is prove that consciousness is supernatural in order to be right. And how do I do that? You&#x
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This whole argument is silly. Apparently the burden of proof is on whomever you want it to be on. The burden of proof is on you? Simply rephrase the argument and suddenly it's on the other person. OP's original claim was "Con
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Let me put it this way: Consciousness is definitely not deterministic.
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> So whichever side is on the side of "X is true" suffers the burden of proof, never the side that says "X is false". Fish definitely don't have dreams. Dark Matter isn't real There are no undiscovered artif

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