foobarbazqux

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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Alright, thanks for taking me seriously. I'm feeling a bit touchy today. I think the problem is that I'm using the words artist, job, rules, authority, and creativity in a very liberal way. I guess my general point is that to be
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
The problem is that you're talking down to me. If you can't or won't see this, I don't want to engage in a debate.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Okay, but that's not actually how cysts work if you look it up. They are sacs that can have cancerous tissue inside them, but they can also have fluid or air. The operational definition of benign and malignant tumors that doctors use
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Incivility is against the guidelines, I don't want to argue with it.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
That was unnecessarily condescending. Incivility is against the guidelines. What I have to say doesn't lose its validity simply because you shame me for my point of view. If you were sure enough of your position, you wouldn't n
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
I see what you're saying, but we probably don't have the same interpretation of the words 'job' and 'artist'. More broadly, the nature of creativity is to challenge authority. Look at any time period, any med
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Okay, fair point. I'll revise: the job of an artist is to break the rules intelligently. Also, I think you're conflating legality and morality. I can think of situations for all 8 cases of (legal|illegal)(moral|immoral)(agree|di
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
The job of an artist is to break the rules.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
So I think the general claim is that focusing on cancer is a middle ground between seeking treatments for obscure well-defined illnesses and searching for a panacea for illness or disease in general. Cancer has a precise operational defini
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Sorry, I don't understand. If you meant PaulHoule's comment I'm not sure how that answers my question, and I didn't find any other comments by you. Do you mean because cancer isn't a simple, isolated thing like po
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Why is it a waste of research effort? We've made dramatic non-palliative strides in the area of cancer treatment, and most importantly have been able to induce complete remission in a significant number of cases.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Social pressures both to differentiate and conform to a particular sub-group during adolescence, and the kinds of groups that girls and boys tend to form. At least in part.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
On reflection, maybe I got confused with the number of days you can go without water (also 7, at least according to my memory). I stayed awake for 5 days once and there was only a bare minimum of hallucination at the end. I could have sta
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
The thing about personal experience is that you can't really quantify it. His 3 anecdotes (3 SSDs over 3 years) are just as valid as your 13 anecdotes.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Oh shit, I totally misread your sentence! I think the problem is most people just aren't in touch with their bodies and the effect that having a body has on the mind.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Well, it's a testable hypothesis. We will probably never test it in humans or higher mammals due to ethical concerns.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
If you don't sleep for long enough (about 7 days), you'll start to have visual and auditory hallucinations and also delusional thinking. You'll also experience severely reduced effectiveness of just about every system in you
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Women are defined relative to men, just as men are defined relative to women. If there were no men, women would just be "people". In discussing one, you implicitly discuss the other. Whatever makes women into women, men are not
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> I always wince whenever I see a person espousing any inherent gender differences or preferences, because they are consistently ripped to pieces. Well, there are studies demonstrating the effect of sex hormones on cognition. Also, if t
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
You're not wrong about the percentages. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2175603 There was a similar poll this year with similar results but I can't find it.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
That's an interesting philosophy. I guess it's like that, with the exception that eventually I'll withdraw from a persistently hostile conversation because I know my own limits and I want to avoid getting destructively angry
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Sure, whenever there's a massive imbalance between the genders, it's going to be less productive than when there's a balance. It also doesn't help much if the sexism discussion occurs among a group of 95% females - whic
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> a lot of the factors that make HN a good place for technical discussions make it a horrible place for softer discussions like those about sexism. Such as being 5% female.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> The issue is that with some particular topics, HN is unable. Agreed, it's actually just impossible to have a non-polarized discussion if people identify too strongly with one of the poles. This isn't unique to HN, we essenti
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
My claim is simply that much as force causes legal rights to exist, belief causes n/h rights to exist. Since you cannot take away my belief (except through brainwashing, but even then I can recover it), you cannot take away my n/
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
All of these arguments for success implicitly appeal to our fear that we are not going to be able to have a good human experience if we don't have enough power over other people. You can succeed and you can fail, but you cannot be a su
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
It's also possible to have a large and clean non-spaghetti codebase that does not rely on some framework, be it pre-existing or ad-hoc. For example, Linux.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Incivility is against the guidelines. Civil arguments and debate are fine. Normally I'd be happy to discuss the nuances of aggression and passive aggression, but the tone of this conversation has become overly hostile and I don'
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> The reason they don't pay more comes down to simply business principles. The objective of a labor intensive business is to drive costs down the lowest possible amount legally. This is only true if you take the "corporations
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
A perspective doesn't have to be false for it to be myopic.

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