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Whenever someone tells you this, ask them if they think religious texts make people violent.

> the view seems quite unhinged when read together, but really I would view it as one misstep/lack of step on the way to interesting truth. Why "unhinged"? I don't know philosophy …

>There is absolutely a solid sense of morality baked into (at the very least) primate brains. No, there isn't. > Give this a read. The science is solid: https://righteousmind.com/ …

> Emotions are how we humans do morality. First of all, there is no such thing as "morality". It's just a way for elites to control commoners so that they behave in predictable way…

In everything it does? Most poor people vote liberal but NONE of the leaders are poor. Knowing this, it makes political sense for them to keep the people poor. What will their prio…

No they aren't. More new religions and sects are being created than ever before. Also, just because you believe your set of looney beliefs is not a religion does not mean that it's…

I'm sure they've made some contributions but I'm not sure if they've done "wonders". But thats the beauty of the BSD license. Not only do you have freedom to use the software, you …

Except everything is "poison" in a big enough dose if ingested.

Committed experts are basically activists, they are people with grandiose delusions who think that particular thing is so important that they committed their lives to it. Our bodie…

YT premium is free of ads that Google serves. But most YouTube shows are funded by other ads embedded in the shows themselves. I wish Ad Blockers could remove them. How hard would …

I don't remember if I've seen a coke ad in the last year but I'm pretty sure I bought at least 100 litres of it.

He just means that you have certain cultural norms which make you think the way you do. There is nothing else to it. Previously, westerners thought animals were just automatons, wi…

That's true. GPL2 is better for commercialization than GPL3 is. However, BSD, MIT, Apache are much much better than any GPL version, including AGPL.

And China is not? Taiwan's official name is "Republic of China".

Have you tried using OLEDs? I can't imagine how eInk would be different from an OLED on grayscale and low brightness settings... other than the fact that OLED will be better in ter…

Why Taiwan? China has had even fewer deaths per capita and much larger much more connected population.

Those traits persisted in us through all these hundreds of millions of years of evolution because those were the traits that helped us survive.

Because that would be against the site guidelines.

I will never go vegetarian and will never eat fake meat, whether it's fabricated or cultured. I think it's ethical to kill living beings you can get away with. You may choose to li…

If you're building a hardware and have to ship it with an OS, Linux is the obvious choice for most... but the GPL licensing makes it very difficult for a lot others. There's a reas…

So, you're discriminating against deaf people? Boy, you're going down big. You have no idea.

You can, if you wait long enough.

> Cooking is useful, rewarding and attractive. Not so much if you don't enjoy it. I love cooking occasionally. For example, I will spend a week trying to perfect a dish I just lear…

The reality that they have created for Foxconn workers is that they have a job that they would die than quit. It's that important to them. Why do you assume that it has to be Apple…

Remember folks, - Eating them: bad - Mutilating their genetials so that they behave well and you can call them your friend or child: good