minority-one

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by minority-one 11y ago
Can you touch on the Hammurapi (however you spell it) and its lack of animal food prohibition (or as far as I can remember, pork at least was not prohibited)? > It deepened my faith but I must say most are terrified at learning too much
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by minority-one 11y ago
And it's weird how people bring up the idea of an elevator to the moon more often than they bring up putting cars to run on rails. They could be 100% self-driving that way, and accidents would probably be nil.
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by minority-one 11y ago
> How does it hurt men, hurt competition, for women to have their own prize? This has already been answered and I'd like to hear your rebuttal. It hurts men and competition by devaluing the prizes. To quote jstanley again: "She
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by minority-one 11y ago
Sometimes it does. Fight fire with fire, an eye for an eye, history is replete with references to common sense refuting what you are saying.
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by minority-one 11y ago
How is it derailing the conversation? Are we keeping you from having your arguments in other branches of the comment section? Why should there be a section for people who want to talk about the aspects you want to talk about, but not a se
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by minority-one 11y ago
> I do think that legislation should be avoided if it's not necessary. In other words: if legislation.necessary? then enact else avoid. > On the other hand, if an issue is important and legislation can get the job done, we should
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by minority-one 11y ago
I really meant reify, as in "turn an abstract thing into a marketable thing". Monetize would mean something else. > Is this really a workable view of criminality and justice? It worked for 400 years in Medieval Iceland. If you
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by minority-one 11y ago
Again I must take offense at your misconstruing what I said. If I actually had said that Jews are trying to destroy the world, you'd be able to quote that. In fact I do not think Jews are trying to destroy the world, and this can be ea
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by minority-one 11y ago
On the other hand, there's a consensus in the scientific community that IQ is the best predictor of outcome in life, despite the factors you've mentioned. In other words, all being taken into consideration, it turns out IQ has an
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by minority-one 11y ago
Thank you, dang, I appreciate the concrete guidelines. I was actually thinking of emailing you over this. I promise you I will try to behave as you have proposed here. I think those are fair guidelines. In fact I very much appreciate your l
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by minority-one 11y ago
What did you expect from making schools Gun-Free Zones? Did you expect criminals to obey the sign? How many school shootings do you think we would have per year if schools were full of security guards? How many bank shootings have we had th
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by minority-one 11y ago
I take issue with your accusing me of trolling on the other comment. I am being playful but I am not trolling. What I am talking about is a concerted effort that began with Psychoanalysis in the beginning of the 20th century and moved on to
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by minority-one 11y ago
The movement for the better brain started much before half a century ago. If you study Jewish history you will find out they have been doing this all along. For instance, as a very literate culture, they would encourage the less capable of
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by minority-one 11y ago
Let's put together a bunch of what you said, because you are indeed so close to guessing, and I don't doubt you can, as a fellow anarchist. Behavior patterns of Group X (that is then passed on to other groups): - being a special
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by minority-one 11y ago
Who started it? Who is the group X that started the routine of saying "we are group X and we are special and isolated from the rest of human kind because of our unique suffering and/or significance"? I'll give you a
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by minority-one 11y ago
If you're being serious then I'll give you a serious answer. Exempli gratia, let's pretend I was raped. I should be able to reify my victimhood and sell it to a lawyer, thereby transferring to that lawyer the right to extract
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by minority-one 11y ago
I'm pretty sure pmlnr meant "the only way to peacefully/morally force companies is by spending your money somewhere else". We all know violence and threat (what you suggest) works. Some of us are trying to decrease the a
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by minority-one 11y ago
> Once you believe those few things, it's easy to understand why politicians aren't evil, they're just vested in their group So you judge politicians based not on their actions but on their supposed intentions? > Maybe
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by minority-one 11y ago
That's because vectors are unitless. I've had to constantly explain this to graphic designers I've worked with...
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by minority-one 11y ago
That's because what tantalor left out is that anglophones started misspelling that word in the 17th century, when it was actually spelled "key" from old French "kay". So it's not so much a word that you go &quo
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by minority-one 11y ago
So the only thing you can think of to explain this is cultural factor? You don't think genetics could be a factor here at all?
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by minority-one 11y ago
You're the only voice of reason on this thread. What we should be really scared of is a population whose majority clamors for democracy yet prefers to trust government over holding representatives accountable. The problem is the people
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by minority-one 11y ago
Where do people get this idea that HN is full of libertarians? If you hang around you will see most people's reactions are far to the left and libertarian answers get consistently downvoted.