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by ythl 10y ago
> You can't logically prove a negative, i.e. you can't prove the NSA isn't spying on you, you can only prove they are. That's simply not true. You can prove a negative, it just takes a lot more effort. Imagine if comp
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I appreciate the concern, and I'm sorry, but I can't control my actions. Everything I do is deterministic. It doesn't matter what the "HN guidelines" say, my current actions have already been prescribed millions of
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That's like OP saying: "The NSA is not spying on anybody" "Prove it" "Burden of proof error, those claiming the NSA is spying on somebody must prove it. Not spying is the null hypothesis and backed by mountains
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> The burden of proof is on you to show it is in fact supernatural. I'm not claiming it is supernatural. I'm only challenging the definitive statement that it is not supernatural and asking for proof.
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by ythl 10y ago
> Consciousness is not supernatural. Prove it. And update the wiki while you are at it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness
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by ythl 10y ago
Atom? What is this, 2015? Sublime is still king, Atom was a passing fad.
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by ythl 10y ago
Even if my data looks like a document, I refuse to use XML. It's just too clumsy to traverse compared to JSON.
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"Living wage" in and of itself seems to be a little too idealist.
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Last time I checked, the McDonald's employees didn't refill my soda cup when it was empty or bring me more fries when I ran out.
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The logic here being "If it works fine in X country, it should therefore work well in Y country?"
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Works well in lots of places != sit down restaurants as per the article
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The context here is restaurant waiters and waitresses. Are you a waiter or waitress that works without tips?
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Yeah but america has a huge gun problem so I'm assuming it's in at least the top 5.
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Liberals are idealists, not realists. "Pay staff a living wage and abolish tips" is a great idea , but it doesn't work well in practice. Cue the liberals with their new line: "Pay the staff a living wage in addition t
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It doesn't mention what #2 and #1 are, but based on the amount of attention gun control gets, I'm assuming guns are either the #1 or #2 killers.
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Even Tesla has a significant environmental impact with its massive Lithium footprint
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"If you can't understand why your toxic contribution to the community isn't wanted then you deserved to be silenced."
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When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.
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Yeah, yeah, we know, graphene can cure all the world's problems.
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I thought any direction relative to the north pole is south? What does "east" even mean in relation to the north pole?
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by ythl 11y ago
Hearthstone recently introduced planned obsolescence to its system (i.e. certain cards become "obsolete" and you can no longer use them in ranked matches). I can see why they would want to do it, but it just makes me sad that good
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by ythl 11y ago
What's up with Tay's seemingly 180 degree statement polarity switches? Anon: Tay do you want to kill all black people? Tay: I don't like violence Anon: Why not? Tay: I love it!
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> but it's now in sight. Just outside the edge of our vision. Well if it's outside the edge of our vision, it is out of sight.
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Fork the repository, rename it, only clone from your fork.