mtempleton

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by mtempleton 7y ago
I didn't know the title was difficult to decipher, but the reason for it sounding unnatural is that title lengths are limited on HN. But thanks for all the suggestions.
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Ask HN: I dream to build my own game by myself, but I'm not becoming proficient
4 points by mtempleton 7y ago|2 comments
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by mtempleton 7y ago
He said without engineering everything. The way your comment is written it is technically a straw man fallacy.
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by mtempleton 9y ago
It would not be the highest priced item on all pizzas, but by volume * price this appears to be true.
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>then the government loses tax revenue. Actually, this would not always be true. Yes, in many cases would, but it would depend on the elasticity of supply and demand. The total size of the tax incidence would be government revenue from t
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>If students have to generate their own power, they are much less likely to waste it. How far would students go to reduce their efforts? Would hot showers go out of fashion? The article's discussion of human power and incentives to
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by mtempleton 9y ago
I've travelled to many countries and the US is the only country I've been to where citizens have a legitimate and real fear of their government using force against them for something that most people would define as 'not doin
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>I'm sure you can find someone to deny the genocide of Native Americans It has never been officially recognized by the US government. It's not "simply a false statement," it's a fact. Yes, we both learned about t
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by mtempleton 9y ago
This comes across as unreasonable to me. Of course I am not trolling. I am responding directly to the comment above me, and I'm not aware of why you would say something so accusatory. Yes, I could be wrong about this, and I'm awar
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by mtempleton 9y ago
Hi, I can't respond to your comment below. I just want you to know it's not correct. I also learned of the Trail of Tears, but the US Government paid per head for killing Native Americans, and never formally recognized or apologiz
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by mtempleton 9y ago
I'm also aware of Pol Pot, but to be honest, I have to admit I don't really know a lot about his rise to power and the genocide of ethnic groups in Cambodia. I would bet money most people don't know who Pol Pot is. I don&#x27
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by mtempleton 9y ago
Feynman was a particularly interesting, intelligent, but also a very moral person. He said in an interview in his older years, while tearing up: 'I know the difference between right and wrong.' Of science, my favorite bit from him
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by mtempleton 9y ago
OK I can see now this is going down a dark road to that line of thinking and that was not my intention. This is a very controversial topic* and I wasn't aware of this. I didn't mean to open up a bucket of worms. I'm still a b
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by mtempleton 9y ago
OK, well I don't claim to be an authority on this subject. It just really appears to look like two methods that reached the same result; though one sounds more unnatural than the other to us (i.e. in 2016 the US dropped 26,000+ bombs o
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>Is it possible you are just not well versed on the subject? Well I took required history classes in high school and university and scored well enough in those courses. This is what I was taught. That's what my statement is about. I
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>You can't compare the number of dead and conclude anything meaningful from that alone. Of course you can. The number of innocent people murdered is a very meaningful number. I never disagreed with the rest of what you said. I don&#
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>Interesting to note that nazis killed as much ethnic poles as polish jews Wow. Why is the holocaust taught with such a focus on one ethnic group of victims? I thought Jews were the only significant group of victims, but that's clea
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by mtempleton 9y ago
To be fair, there are more people worried about how they can afford healthcare and home ownership than worried about increasing the number of millionaires and wealthy corporations in America--we already lead the world there, while we trail
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by mtempleton 9y ago
You're being downvoted, but dissenting opinions should be allowed, even when it comes to climate change. There is a reasonable argument to be made that climate change alarmism is not productive. I saw Bill Nye answer the question of &#
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>If you are someone who wants more wind power to be produced, you want it to be cheap. You should be rooting for cheaper wind prices, which come with increased efficiency (including less employees per unit of energy produced). This is a
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>We have been transported back to the early 20th century >Brandeis wanted to eliminate monopolies, because (in the words of his biographer Melvin Urofsky) “in a democratic society the existence of large centers of private power is dan
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>better than 50% This wording reminds me of that which Obama also used with respect to gender in STEM & education: >In fact, more women as a whole now graduate from college than men. This is a great accomplishment -Barack Obama So
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by mtempleton 9y ago
Yes, and you're not even mentioning any of the particularly comically-sad, egregious examples, such as last year police using a military helicopter to seize a marijuana plant from an 81 year old woman[1]. The goal of this kind of thing
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>the guy "fell into" a shot intended for the torso. I really don't know how they said that with a straight face. Oh this sort of thing happens all the time. Haven't you seen the documentary, The Matrix? It is like whe
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by mtempleton 9y ago
Police brutalize and bloody a man in process of ejecting him from plane: outcome > corporation to blame Police shoot, mutilate and nearly kill man sleeping at home during hoax: outcome
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by mtempleton 9y ago
>I'm not so much baffled about actually showing up with a SWAT team before the threat could be identified as a hoax, but rather how an allegedly sleeping man could be shot twice. Once in the face. It is actually not baffling. What i