ultramundane8

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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The fact that you're retreating to the semantics of the word narrative and ignoring all surrounding words is a dead giveaway that your blinders are growing longer.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The author also says this, but also basically claims literacy hasn't improved humanity. So you repeated him without adding anything (in fact subtracting much), and I repeated myself. If anything, we've either supported my point or
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
This is a really interesting piece. I've been wanting to rage against illiteracy lately but I'm not too active in public discourse (even this). That said, I don't think it's some secret key to improving humanity. I think
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The parent comment never endorsed Gall-Peters. It's unclear whether they were simply made aware of different projections through the show or if they thought Gall-Peters was the ultimate solution, as you assumed.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The problem with this line of thinking is that a state is not a person is not a company is not an x. (Let's put aside any tangential Citizens United rebuttal.) Or more simply, why is California one of the wealthiest economies? Is it be
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
I've been over these stats 4 times and reread the parent comment and its post but still have no clue how one is supposed to tie to the other. I think the point I'm having difficulty with is the thin majorities in the study. Does t
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The short answer is that Fox News has been outrageously successful and dragging all discourse into the mud for almost two decades now.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
Just from experience, I'm not sure I'd trust a military-style assessment to accurately identify skills. For example, I scored off the charts on linguistic comprehension (the Defense Language Aptitude Battery DLAB) and had a job as
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
Literally your entire comment is based on the assumption that I advocated "a single, winner-take-all-bloc." Elementary reading comprehension in all its scarcity reveals that I never said that. What is your point exactly?
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
"More representationally elected" does NOT equate to any of the absolute garbage you are assuming are my views. Please respond to actual comments rather than your vivid imagination. I mean, seriously, try to find evidence of your
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
I really can't grant that first paragraph in good faith without some evidence. How could you possibly divine the intent of the 2016 Trump campaign? We still can't agree on a vast number of its actions, let alone its strategy.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
I think you're right about the outrage that the electoral college gets, but not its actual faults. To be sure, it's silly to oppose the electoral college due to personal political leanings. But arguably, the president wouldn'
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
Sadly, "burden of proof" has never gained traction despite its essential nature. I really wish I were intelligent enough to systematize it, but billions of dollars have so far failed to establish procedures for sound reasoning. Or
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
I think laws are extremely far-reaching. Imagine you're a group of like-minded people in power in the world's most powerful country right now. What's to stop you from dismantling a company? Or in other terms, do you think tha
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
Could you elaborate on a plan (of course a really rough sketch) for "creating infrastructure jobs" during a global pandemic? I agree with the premise, but I would like to know how to accomplish something like this. Especially if y
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The key phrase you failed to comprehend was "root cause" two posts up. That's where it was asserted that it is about healthcare. Your comment is therefore out of context.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
I don't know a lot about Freeman Dyson so I read that article, but don't quite get it yet. So he was a very outspoken mathematician and physicist, and people like his sci-fi ideas? Regardless, blaming all critique on a "curre
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
Are they not also carbon based fuels coming out of the ground? The farts are a byproduct of digested organic matter like corn and grass, and contain some unusable or "un-harvest-able" fuel(s)?
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
This thread is absolutely bananas. I actually read most of it at 759 comments. The short version is that people with kids are insanely defensive about it. In many cases, they have literally rewritten their brains to see reproduction as excl
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
According to this article: Blockchain, big data, cloud computing, AI, and magic are roughly equivalent. Don't waste your time reading it even if blockchain is weak.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
Thank you! I don't like admitting to this behavior, but I can't trust a headline (any headline).
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
The net beneficial effect mentioned refers to some kind of societal net benefit. The sentence doesn't stand independently from the rest of the post.
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by ultramundane8 6y ago
I believe the simplest perjury in this case is that the officer necessarily lied about their probable cause.
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by ultramundane8 8y ago
I think the explanation there is as simple as "there are lots of different people." I can't write software half as well as a significant percentage (maybe a majority) of HN users, but the average person can't write softw
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by ultramundane8 13y ago
I don't completely follow this line of reasoning. Something like "a minor enhancement like this would have been selected for by now, so it not being selected means it has a drawback?" I'm no evolutionary biologist, but
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by ultramundane8 13y ago
Haha, yes it would. But likely my ability would at least enable me to convince others of this discovery!
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by ultramundane8 13y ago
This reads like a form of faith. I don't share it. Is there literally no potential for artificial selection to outpace natural selection? I know this thinking can be dangerous and contains serious ethical problems, but the factual si
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by ultramundane8 13y ago
I may run into a lot of experts (from multiple fields) here on HN with strong opinions to the contrary, but here are my two cents. If I could double my cognitive ability for 5 years, then die from an unknown complication with this type of t
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by ultramundane8 13y ago
Thanks, I didn't know what the article was referring to either. Your link is a clear demonstration, and I think I get it. I now feel like anyone who cares about this is unhealthily nitpicking.
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by ultramundane8 13y ago
Fact: If you think that everyone who wants money wants it in order to "create the biggest impact possible," you are either incorrect or have an unusual definition of "biggest impact possible." Opinion: It's almost nice and idealist for you

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