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12 years ago
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on: Here's how I deal with users who steal
Be careful when trying to untangle correlation and causation: it may well be that poor people and criminals are more likely to turn to religion. After all, atheism is mainly found in more educated populations.
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12 years ago
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on: US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013, report claims
There are a ton of events which rival the Holocaust in horror. In fact, genocides are being committed as we speak.
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12 years ago
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on: US bugged Merkel's phone from 2002 until 2013, report claims
It's too easy to claim that citizens are not involved in what the government is doing. One reason these agencies are so bold is because Americans themselves are completely dismissive of the rights of foreigners, thanks to the old manifest destiny attitude.
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12 years ago
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on: A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves
Diversity isn't a magic pill that automatically improves everything. Students should be selected based on their merits. If this results in non-diverse samples, then so be it.
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12 years ago
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on: Confessions of a Drone Warrior
Sorry, if you are not putting your life on the line, you do not deserve to call yourself a "warrior" or any other term which implies duty and honor.
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12 years ago
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on: 12-year-old boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous
> they did not have the same chance to develop an ethic framework as adults had, because they had less years to learn.
Many people die without ever having found an ethical framework. In fact, it's possible to make ill-designed ethical frameworks of your own that can have disastrous effects on society. Believing that time is the equivalent of wisdom is unwise.
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12 years ago
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on: 12-year-old boy admits to hacking police and government sites for Anonymous
The reason "nihilists" aren't taken seriously is because they like to rely on an overly simplistic understanding of the world and ill-conceived metaphors.
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12 years ago
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on: How the Internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life
There are a number of alarming studies (as some other poster said, take a look at N. Carr's book) that show that screen time, especially in our formative years can have dramatically negative effects on brain development. So it's possible that some people who ended up zombified by the internet could actually have had significant lives. There are plenty of people whose otherwise adjusted lives have spiralled into failure due to drugs, so why couldn't the same thing happen with other dopamine releasing activities? I think the fact that people have literally died from screen overuse lends credence to the idea that there is some danger to integrating computers in every part of our lives and it's not necessarily our fault if we fall into the depths of online time-wasting.
In any case, I don't really like the idea that those people would been useless anyway as if it were in their nature to be unmotivated. Maybe I'm a bit naive but I believe good nurture can offset much of the problems of nature.
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12 years ago
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on: How the Internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life
Not necessarily. If like at least half of users you spend your time watching videos, memes and your facebook feed, you aren't going to become more literate or understand anything.
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12 years ago
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on: How the Internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life
People can choose things but that doesn't mean you should sometimes try to steer them in an other direction. That's the whole point of morality and other coercive measures which all have a different place on the scale of subtleness.
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12 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What meds, pills, vitamins do you take on a daily or almost daily basis?
If you are interested in such things, I suggest reading Transcend by R. Kurzweil. He takes the supplement craze up to 11.
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12 years ago
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on: OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review
It's named after Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Duh.
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12 years ago
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on: Elon Musk Calls Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars ‘Bullshit’
Obey the Musk!
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12 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?
They're just jealous of Bill Gates.
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12 years ago
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on: France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report
What he said.
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12 years ago
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on: France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report
1. Those are all allegations. In fact, the whole DSK mess is extremely unclear and the case presented against him is highly suspicious, although it is clear that he is a bit seedy. Some believe it to be a political machination for a number of reasons.
2. One politician's behavior means ALL politicians of that country behave wrongly?
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12 years ago
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on: How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
That's what scared me the most about that book: it's so plausible it's almost inevitable.
Maybe in the future, true power will be the ability to escape monitoring?
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12 years ago
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on: France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report
Really suspicious looking site, bro.
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12 years ago
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on: France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report
There's a huge difference between being spied upon by your own government and being spied upon by some manifest-destiny-following foreigner.
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12 years ago
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on: France summons U.S. ambassador over spying report
Please don't apply american fundamentalist puritan standards to everyone, please.
