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> I think that life extension is dangerous and wrong and therefore people dedicating their lives to it today are unethical people. > I haven't shut down any argument by saying this…

> It's a facts based argument and I'm the only one in this discussion so far that is actually using facts. Your facts-based argument is that people in Detroit would move to Canada …

> why do you believe this? Because why say it otherwise? Facebook could've easily left all of that out and just said "Introducing messenger for kids! We're making sure it's careful…

> which is why Canada has so few hispanic and black people, and why it's nearly 80% white. Er, or it's not bordered by Mexico and doesn't have nearly the extensive history with Afr…

I actually agree with you that this is "drug dealer" tactics but for totally different reasons. I think this is a classic "the first hit is free" move. It's a long-term play. I bel…

I mean, I'm not sure what your price range is but this is literally the top result on Craigslist right now: https://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/abo/d/fantastic-1-bdr-apt... Granted …

Ehhh not expensive if you go out to, say, Brownsville. Brooklyn is much, much more than just Williamsburg and Park Slope.

> The problem is the rent control apartments in NYC skew the data and does make it apple to apple Last time I checked, rent controlled apartments make up ~1% of housing units in th…

Yeah, I mean it's easy to forget about places in NY with low costs of living like Binghamton. Even in the city, it's easy to forget that most people don't live in Manhattan/the exp…

I'm not sure I buy that attorneys are significantly better educated, especially in some more traditional firms (e.g. MS) where a masters isn't unusual. It's only an additional year…

> My guess is that the popularity of these professions is that they are all relatively low-qualified ones suitable to people working while studying or "filling gaps" before getting…

Yeah, and I think that's the interesting divide to me: I did receive a formal education, and even a Master's, in CS. Despite that, there's very little difference between myself and…

> Most people have way more taxing jobs than IT. I've been in construction for 3 years, and that work is no joke. There's some discussion of this above, but I think it's interestin…

Er, those are both insanely large industries with untold amounts of money flowing through them (well, radio not so much but in its heyday). If FB is an industry on the level of TV …

> It is seriously gross that a tax reform bill that is by basically all accounts enormously, even proudly regressive is being sold to tech nerds with a marginal improvement in stoc…

Here's what's confusing me: Why would this make any sense, at all? From the government's point of view, they were trying to maximize tax revenue, right? And theoretically that occu…

It's also worth noting that you can smoke heroin, which probably requires a significantly lower mental barrier to cross. And once you're in the throes of addiction from smoking it,…

> Historically it was just cut with OTCs or detritus, which was a problem that could be solved in most cases by simply doing more. Well, until you get a more pure batch and you try…

I'd argue that's more the point of the internet in general, these days. It's extremely hard to remove something from the internet. We as rational humans though, can apply context t…

Sure, but I don't see how that relates to my intended point that things we say as teenagers probably shouldn't be held against us indefinitely. If you want to say "Zuckerberg is se…

Wasn't he like 19 when he said this? I sure as hell said some edgy stuff like this when I was 19.

> It's like comparing a mature company or even industry to one in its early days, when there is chaos, shifting goals day to day, and massive uncertainty. Sort of. The civil rights…

That's a goal that could, quite literally, take multiple generations given how supreme court appointments work. Very few movements have so much momentum that they can bide their ti…

Not to mention that the American Civil Rights Movement had relatively clear goals and a pretty singular focus: Ending explicit state-approved discrimination against black people. T…

> If you believe redundancy is irrelevant, we have different opinions on how people perceive communication. I'm starting to gather as such, and so continuing down this road is prob…