SkittyDog

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by SkittyDog 3y ago
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Your reply strikes me as snarky and rude. You could have phrased your comment differently, and made the exact same point, but without being disrespectful to everyone who has to read your reply. * https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> To me the original Woodstock vibe was the peace and free love part of the 60s counterculture. peace and love is not a feeling you get from korn in those times You're not wrong about the difference in vibes. And there were plenty o
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
You might want to read up on the concept of priming, and how it's used in psychological & neurological research. You can markedly change people's behavior by bringing up (or avoiding) particular topics that our minds can conne
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I believe the explanation is in the 3rd-to-last paragraph: > In healthy volunteers and right- but not left-onset patients, religious belief-scores significantly increased following the aesthetic prime consisting of the ocean view (a wond
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Cocaine makes you the BEST person, way better than everybody else.
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Oh, you again! It's like I mention "Cadillac Desert" and you pop out of the bathroom mirror like Bloody Mary. I'm glad you're working on finding a more polite way to talk about things you disagree with... Your new c
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_nurse A nurse with a Bachelor's degree, more or less
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Oh man... ANOTHER "Cadillac Desert" reference. I just finished re-reading it, a month ago, and this is like the 20th time I've overheard some random comment about something related to the book. Might not just be the Frequency
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
The "state" is not a unitary actor that somehow magically intuits and implements the desires of a majority of voters. All state policy, but especially legislation, is a massive hodge-podge of independent actors motivated by all so
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
We could imagine an infinity of possible theories that might explain why these Russian people reacted with fear at Gagarin's landing. But being possible doesn't mean something is correct, or even plausible. Rather than space ali
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> It’s hyperbolic trash though. This is rude, and unnecessary. If your own counter-argument is actually sound, why are you bothering to label Reisner's as trash? It doesn't make you more believable--it mostly just undermines yo
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
That is a pretty good counter-example, I have got to admit... I'm not convinced, but yeah, you got a hell of a point there. I think the US in 1938 was maybe in a distinct situation, though... For one, the US in the 30s may have been pr
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
You should read "Cadillac Desert", if you live in the American Southwestern state--California, Arizona, and Nevada in particular. It has significant implications for the future survivability of large-scale civilization in the regi
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I have some friends who've done week-long ski tours in remote parts of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Their guides all carried serious rifles or shotguns with slugs, and made sure everyone in the party knew how to shoot. Their close
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> In the early days, even just a humble farmer might think you're a space alien, or worse, an American. When Yuri Gagarin's flight re-entered he ejected and landed a little off the target zone. The first people who encountered
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
No, you misunderstand... by "bad faith" I meant that your original comment was not intended as an earnest, respectful, positive contribution. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html , under the sectio
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
So was your original post in bad faith, or not? Your question has an obvious, widely accepted answer... Whether that answer is right or wrong, your failure to reference it comes off as deliberately provocative. And by your response, it seem
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I think your inference may be backwards... Sovereign Citizen types sound like this because they're aping "legalese" in an attempt to sound authoritative to ignorant people. But this weird, kinda archaic, jargony, overly-speci
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I get why it sounds funny to us, but it's mainly a highly jargon-y form of language used for motions in court. When you're writing this stuff, you're expected to phrase yourself in the appropriate fashion. There are also cert
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> You not only have to verify that a review is coming from an actual current or former employee, but then you have to ensure that the same employee cannot write multiple reviews. If you discard all links between a reviewer account and a
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Their proof (or lack thereof) would generally be evaluated at the trial stage. This is a pre-trial procedure, so it's mostly take at face value. If another party so moves, they could ask the court to stop the plaintiff, and the judge w
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Honestly trying to clarify... Are you aware that altering existing, stable ecosystems has potentially massive, unpredictable, long-term costs that other humans will have to pay, potentially far outweighing any of the economic benefits of
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Can't speak for Canada, but in the US, the jury process is a mix of black-letter law (explicit legislative acts) and administrative law (rules made by the court system under broad powers granted to it by legislation). Tradition and pre
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Is there something in how Canadian or English courts work that would make it impossible to just delay jury selection for the pending trials, for a week or a month, or however long it takes to mail out the next round of jury summonses? Bec
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
You should really make the effort to learn the math of SR, because I believe it would help keep your reasoning a little more grounded, here. At the very least, I think it would help you understand why SR still constrains FTL, even though we
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
I don't know where you got the idea that our universe doesn't obey special relativity? That's an odd thing to have learned... SR is a subset of general relatively. So SR can be used perfectly well in situations that obey th
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
So just to start with... Every legitimate physicist accepts that time travel and other major causality paradoxes are an inevitable result of ANY mechanism that provides a meaningful version of FTL travel or communication. This is provable f
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
> First off -- and this should be enough by itself -- the research the Wuhan lab did hasn't appeared to have helped in a material way to fight the COVID pandemic. So they gambled, lost, and there is nothing to show for it. You can&#
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by SkittyDog 4y ago
Yeah... I'm trying to work out how to fit it in, later this year. I have a 40hr cert that's expiring, later this year, but the stuff I'm really interested in doing requires the full 80hr WFR. I hope that more of these courses

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