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Your witty little strawmen with snappy names aren't helping your argument...

By all means dislike away, it's all about the qualia after all.

I'm glad you made this comment, it really illustrates the thesis of the essay Let's start with the line I find most telling: >...a person who has written something they feel passio…

They don't need much more incentive to arrogate power; I don't think there is much hope in changing that calculus. >Let us speak no more of faith in man, but bind him down from mis…

You can try and tax your way to culture shifts but since we aren't all Homo economicus it is often not as effective as directly appealing to morality and individual responsibility.…

In Which Eastendguy Obfuscates the Much Stronger Nature of the Link Between Profligate Western Meat Consumption Patterns and Climate Change

I didn't downvote you. Here's a vote for consensus.

Non sequitur. It means the reasons given by GP for him being a bad fit are flawed.

No he stated his moral position (that torture is wrong) first, and then at the end of his answer appended "and of course it is ineffective, but that is another story". Maybe listen…

Yeah, he seems like a great example of someone who bows to the populace and political climate based on his track record...

No. Like I said, he literally stated word for word that torture is both morally wrong in his eyes and ineffective, not to mention illegal. Paraphrasing here but I think his definit…

>He'd quite likely prefer that the FBI be legally allowed to torture suspects if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information. To law enforcement, the r…

> I mean I eat animals. I can't put myself on some high horse. At some point we make them to use so there is a balancing act going on Well I must say it is rare to see someone slid…

Sadness is also linked to creativity: http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2015/08/27/happy-sadne... Bunch of stuff out there to support it, anecdotally I would agree. If you're t…

You don't need the NSA to calculate that a couple million in donations (with added free publicity) is worth a shot at multi-billion-dollar public sector systems integration and ana…

You need to take the stick out of your ass. Give me a break I thought this was "hacker" news. You can't respond to comments unless they adhere to some kind of courtesy code?

I'm sorry but dozens, maybe hundreds of other questions were more deserving - this ama is about sending a rocket to mars not about their IT stack... We are all a bit scarred after …

Zubrin thinks we can get to Mars with current tech. He has thought that for decades, and his outreach efforts was one of the things that inspired Musk in the first place. He disagr…

Totally fair to be skeptical; not very impressive though unless you have detailed cause. Not quite as fair, or impressive to make comments like these with no effort or backing: >Gl…

I don't think you have looked very hard then. Here's Zubrin on the topic: >However, we already have data that shows that the accumulation of slow rates of cosmic ray radiation rece…

I am so glad /r/spacex had the chance to host the AMA. Even this thread shows a pretty depressing lack of understanding (so far) of what Elon has claimed and what SpaceX has actual…

Nice binary logic there. It's an attack vector therefore it can't be a solution to customer problems. The issues here are orthogonal.

Markov chains are bad at understanding context, and so is the GP. This post is about village women's rights in India, how did we get a thread several comments deep about the rights…

Umm, are you an MRM markov chain?

Meyers Briggs is meant to be descriptive, but the preponderance of evidence shows that it is not, at all. In the corporate world discussion of MBTI very quickly becomes idiotically…