dabbernaught420

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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Sounds about right to me. I started using reddit about nine years ago, and I remember thinking that I had missed out on "good reddit" at the time. Of course, it's gotten much worse still, since then.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
I'm sure it's more than happy to teach you about the great game of Pot Limited Omaha But after you're done with that, at result number 11, you get this interesting web-site: https://abbaszaki.plo.ps/
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
What about a student who excels in some areas but is bad at writing, or has trouble making friends, or doesn't understand much about politics and stuff that goes on in the world (you can probably tell I didn't spend much time in h
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
The only point I've made is that something being addictive and harmful is a reasonable quality to ban something for. This was in response to the user who said "there are plenty of reasons to ban tiktok, but this ain't it&quot
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
There's already a ban on them for a large portion of the population.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
He didn't say he should be the one to decide. Anyway, there are lots of things that people can get addicted to which aren't healthy. Banning things for that reason is an option.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Works on my machine.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Your friends sound like they probably believe that admission is a privilege - it's just that they also believe they deserve and have earned that privilege.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
>It doesn't matter if they grow out of it or not Especially true considering that some of these people accused of wrongthink might actually be onto something. It's not a good idea to assume that popular views are certainly the
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
I don't think universities should only be for people who share popular views. Seventy years ago universities had very different views. If they had had an effective way of screening out students whose views they considered dangerous or
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Think of the people behind creating wealth and think about the people who actually get wealth. You will find that the two groups differ drastically.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
>Personally, a system that generally rewards competency and is based on voluntary transactions to me is trending towards System A because people who amass power in such a system and maintain it generally do so because they are good at ge
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
> Someone a lot better a doing good were not apparently good enough at getting the resources to do good. Yes, that is pretty close to my point. We have created a system in which good people are not the people who get a lot of resources.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
A person or group with immense power can trivially achieve great good. However, if you consider systems A and B, where system A is a bit better at using immense power for good than system B, you will notice that system A will result in a lo
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Wealth gives a person power. The people who get very wealthy (in our current system) are not generally the people who will do the best things with power. This seems like a situation which could be improved on.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
I meant my comment to read like this: [My opinion on trusting DDG] - [Reason for my opinion on trusting DDG].[More information about the reason] In this case, because I don't use the "personal attack" to reach my conclusion t
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
I'm talking about situations where no fallacy has actually occurred, not situations where a fallacy has occurred but a correct conclusion has been arrived at anyway.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
A common fallacy I see, though I don't know if there's a name for it, is assuming that just because what someone is doing can be described by the name of a fallacy that what the person is doing is fallacious.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
In my view, anyone who trusts ddg is a bit silly - founder has a bad track record on user privacy. Founded Names Database[1], a social media website designed to collect user information as aggressively as possible, before selling all the in
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Here's a classic article from Nick Land as to why racism isn't something worth spending too much time thinking about: http://www.xenosystems.net/hyper-racism/ The article is perhaps extreme and overly perform
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
rationalwiki has a reputation for being extraordinarily bad for exploring arguments on controversial subjects. See: http://nathancofnas.com/comments-on-my-rationalwiki-page/ and https://medium.com/@No
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Why not just use Firefox?
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
Just make sure your handle isn't tied to your real name.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
There's a lot of stuff, language for example, that's mostly genetic. Humans aren't learning these things from scratch, generally they're just filling in some blanks and helping guide the development of the brain. see: h
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
>10 years seems like a short amount of time to have found the treasure Yes, that seems like a good reason to doubt the claim.
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by dabbernaught420 6y ago
FAANG talking down on other FAANG seems funny.
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by dabbernaught420 7y ago
>I'm sure some clueless Linux Desktop evangelist will try to claim otherwise ubuntu just werks
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by dabbernaught420 7y ago
dislike this guy's comedy it's like he thought very hard about how to be a popular comedian and not so much about how to be funny
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by dabbernaught420 7y ago
Wasn't my experience taking courses in political science and political philosophy. Was exposed to a lot more viewpoints discussing with working class family, reading literature myself (reading primary sources and focused secondary sour
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by dabbernaught420 7y ago
At worst they can be used to restrict and exclude minority groups and to reinforce existing hierarchies (which are often unjustified).

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