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by reflexive 10y ago
> it doesn't hold for a definition of 'satisfied' that aligns with 'I consider it done/enough'. Which is literally what satisfied means (Latin satis "enough")
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by reflexive 10y ago
> I disagreed with your assertion that they are the only people who will contribute substantially and therefore the only people whose educations matter. Wrong. I did not assert this. I asserted that resources should be focused on improvi
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by reflexive 10y ago
> I just said that some plants are among the most nutrient dense foods available. To be honest, that's not what you said. You clearly stated that the most nutrient rich foods are plants, which is false. > "Plants" c
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by reflexive 10y ago
"Plants" covers a diverse group of foods, some of which are the most nutrient rich available to us. Yet the ones he recommends for us to eat -- grains -- are toxic and not suitable for human digestion. He's perhaps the pat
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by reflexive 10y ago
> You're wilfully misrepresenting Pollan's argument. I'm not. His argument is very simply that we should eat less meat and more grains. From TFA: it might be wise to eat more plants and less meat. most of the plants we
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by reflexive 10y ago
Pollan's famous "maxim" manages to be condescending, unhelpful and inaccurate - all at the same time. Eat food: duh Not too much: again, thanks? Mostly plants: Oh you mean like, sugars and starches - the most toxic constituen
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by reflexive 10y ago
If we're trading intuitions, my intuition is that "the leaders of the next generation" will have mostly negative effects on society. It's hard for me to take what you're saying seriously. You are disagreeing with
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by reflexive 10y ago
> The worst schools will never get better if all the talent is sucked out of them. You're already lost if you're relying on the worst schools to get better. We only need a tiny fraction of the population (1% or less) to be the
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by reflexive 10y ago
> It is indeed proprietary because it does indeed have an owner. You are using the term proprietary incorrectly, probably out of simple ignorance. The software does not have an "owner" who has power of the users; the LGPL mea
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by reflexive 10y ago
> Systemd is the opposite. It is inflexible and clunky, monolithic and proprietary The other points can be debated, but please don't call it proprietary. It is free software as in "freedom" (LGPL).
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by reflexive 10y ago
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me. Conversely, just because they're out to get you doesn't mean you're not paranoid.
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by reflexive 10y ago
Anecdotal evidence: Kurt Vonnegut's son Mark wrote a fascinating book ("The Eden Express", 1975) about his experience being schizophrenic and a prolonged psychotic episode triggered by marijuana consumption: https:/&#x2
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by reflexive 10y ago
Marijuana consumption forces many to maintain some form of social links Ironically, that's only true when marijuana is illegal, hence a poor argument for legalization. Legal substances may be easily purchased with minimal social inte
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by reflexive 10y ago
"2D animation software" and "multimedia authoring" are both pretty concrete terms. "Creator" suffers from vagueness more than anything.
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by reflexive 10y ago
The term “creator” as applied to authors implicitly compares them to a deity (“the creator”). The term is used by publishers to elevate authors' moral standing above that of ordinary people in order to justify giving them increased co
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by reflexive 10y ago
use-the-most-appropriate-tool-for-the-job-dammit Wow, and to think some fools think the most inappropriate tool should be used.
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by reflexive 10y ago
mini-project idea: HN discussion generator +1 - also an HN discussion auto-up/down-voter. What's useful about that? Personally, I've been struggling with the question of, are mega-services like Google and Facebook compati
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by reflexive 10y ago
I find this experiment a bit strange/disturbing, avoiding political subjects is a way of putting the head in the sand. To support your point, there's a press release circulating from Google and Facebook right now. They've l
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Web giants to cooperate on removal of extremist content(reuters.com)
15 points by reflexive 10y ago|8 comments
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by reflexive 10y ago
Agree. If topics and comments are going to be hidden because they're "political", there should be a way to view and upvote these if you want to "opt-in".
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by reflexive 10y ago
Maybe we should be addressing just that, the larger issue here, in addition to political comments. Yep. I feel like my first mistake on this site was to argue with every comment I disagreed with. Unless the comment leads to an instructive
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by reflexive 10y ago
Being downvoted for expressing an unpopular opinion here is the equivalent of being shoved out of a circle of friends. You should learn to take feedback less personally. It doesn't feel good and I don't come here to feel like c
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by reflexive 10y ago
I would suggest, if your critique proposes a particular remedy, you should expect people to question whether your proposed remedy is a good idea. If it does not propose a remedy, you should expect people to question whether your critique is
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by reflexive 10y ago
uncontroversial critiques of the status quo Hmm... Let me try to understand your reasoning. If everyone agreed with your critique of the "status quo", why would it be the status quo to begin with?
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by reflexive 10y ago
I'd wager political topics lead to emotionally charged, intellectually devoid arguments (much) more commonly than others. This may be partly because so many thoughtless people feel qualified to enter a political discussion (e.g., abo
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by reflexive 10y ago
I'd rather see HN go politics-free forever. Political discussions do not enjoy the same level of objectivity that technical and business discussions do. I'd like to point out that this site is called "Hacker News", not
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by reflexive 10y ago
Political discourse is antithetical to rational, intelligent discussion. In fact, what is antithetical to rational, intelligent discussion is: emotionally charged, poorly-considered, and dishonest discussion. The topic doesn't matter
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by reflexive 10y ago
Actually, the entire population disagrees with you, about something . The "realization" is that a lot of the things we disagree about, are actually kind of boring.
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by reflexive 10y ago
Based on Agnolia, these are the most popular stories from the past week on HN that might be construed as "political": #17 Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for a week https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by reflexive 10y ago
High confidence of a low correlation suggests other factors at work.. maybe variations in genetics, or in the particular type of processed meat. Not worth giving up bacon and sausage :-D

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