thenmar

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by thenmar 11y ago
I don't really like the faux-investigative tone of the article either, but it's misleading to accuse him of calling for vigilantism. He drove around a rich neighborhood, concluded that he would not be able to knock on anyone'
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by thenmar 11y ago
Would you mind elaborating? What kind of views are you talking about?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Would you mind elaborating on this with specific examples?
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by thenmar 12y ago
I'd love to see what those exact same students would say if the prevailing attitude changed and a massive wave of right-wing ideology took over campus politics. I'm sure that they'd be crying about how their self-evident rig
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by thenmar 12y ago
Agreed. Just read the first paragraph. But their student brains have been replaced by brains bereft of critical faculties and programmed to conform. To the untrained eye, they seem like your average book-devouring, ideas-discussing, H&
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by thenmar 12y ago
UberX recently became available: https://www.uber.com/cities/philadelphia I've taken several in center city! (unsurprisingly, a much better experience than CC cabs...)
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by thenmar 12y ago
There is UberX in Philly now, although as far as I know there were no regulatory changes (and Black still operates legally). The PPA actually did a handful of "sting" operations against UberX drivers when the service started, call
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by thenmar 12y ago
I agree with your first point. Personally, I draw the line at the ability to suffer. It is well understood that dogs, pigs, cats, cows, orangutans, lambs, and many other animals feel pain the same way we humans do. Just like humans, I think
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by thenmar 12y ago
I don't think this sort of empty, dismissive comment helps anyone. Besides, is there even that much difference between someone who is genuinely hateful and someone who's just saying hateful things because they enjoy making other
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by thenmar 12y ago
Which crashes in particular were caused by attention to systems problems? I believe you - I'm just curious.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Were you recharging them?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Are they actually allocating resources for this? I read it as the police would no longer be giving people a free pass where they used to
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by thenmar 12y ago
It's not really a policy change though is it? Aren't they enforcing laws that cyclists previously were breaking with impunity? I would like them to show their work too, but I don't really see the policy conspiracy angle to th
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by thenmar 12y ago
I wasn't saying that meditation isn't measurable, or that it's a waste of time, I was talking about the idea of the brain as a "receiver of consciousness". Meditation is definitely interesting, but it is dangerously
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by thenmar 12y ago
I would be careful comparing the work of pseudo scientific "spiritualists" to that of neuroscience. Why do you think scientists don't embrace these ideas? Is it really because they're somehow spiritually devoid and foo
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by thenmar 12y ago
My point was that the game is specifically designed to remove the aspects of hardship, frustration, and uncertainty from the work. It's not an analogy for real world problems because the real world isn't designed to coddle you and
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by thenmar 12y ago
Is that a good thing? Aren't games like that designed to provide constant, positive, encouraging feedback for the player's "work"? There's no real risk of failure as long as you put enough time in, unlike the real w
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by thenmar 12y ago
It really sounds like you're trolling. If you're actually trying to have a debate in good faith, please read back over your posts and edit them to reflect that. Using dismissive language such as calling space probes "toys&q
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by thenmar 12y ago
Isn't the competition in Britain only possible because regulations require companies to share infrastructure?
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by thenmar 12y ago
Yes, the critical theory is what I'm talking about, and I think that knowledge is definitely associated with the political "left". The issue I had is that the skepticism is almost always ignorant and dismissive. It's jus
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by thenmar 12y ago
I don't really buy that... the only liberal views I can think of that are popular in the aggregate on reddit are about the war on drugs and sometimes socialized medicine. In general, reddit is pretty hostile towards women, skeptical of
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by thenmar 12y ago
Please don't respond to me with disrespectful and disruptive snark. Nobody was fired. Nobody went to jail. There was no "stifled discourse". If you'd like to elaborate specifically, then please do.
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by thenmar 12y ago
Brendan Eich donated money with the sole goal of denying equal rights to people based on their sexuality. There's nothing wrong with having an unpopular opinion, but I think there is something wrong with that. And I suspect you would t
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by thenmar 12y ago
Doesn't sound too great for the (disproportionately black and poor) victims of the drug war...
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by thenmar 12y ago
Mine is that I can't afford to hire a team of engineers for three years...
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by thenmar 12y ago
Thanks!
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by thenmar 12y ago
What does "full benefits" mean?
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by thenmar 12y ago
It's a very good reason to investigate causation. This comment gets tossed around all too often by armchair scientists with a political agenda.
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by thenmar 12y ago
So far: goatse, troll face, and rm -rf epic trolls, gamers...
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by thenmar 12y ago
Here's the wikipedia page for anyone curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit#Toxicity There are plenty of links to reliable sources there. Which page were you looking at?

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