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I made my original post as an invitation to discuss my current views (which I admitted weren't settled). I was hoping to find any faults in my views' logic so I could replace them …

FWIW, I think you may have misunderstood what I was trying to say. I apologize for my post's confusing wording.

Thanks for that. It sounds like I did a terrible job of expressing my thoughts. Perhaps one of my mistakes was using HIV as an example. If someone only skimmed my post, they may ha…

> You can flip peoples' tribal affiliations on this topic by changing the disease to COVID. Do red-state antimaskers deserve treatment? Should responsible Americans pay for their r…

Thanks very much for engaging the content of my post. I was disheartened to have shared my inner conflict on the issue, only to be downvoted into oblivion.

From a now-dead comment: > He’s a bigoted right-wing conservative who doesn’t want to hear about interesting scientific developments that he views as benefiting people with lifesty…

Funny coincidence. Around 2000, I worked for a company that coined the term "Norway problem" for a different software problem. Their product used an MVCC database (I think ObjectSt…

Depending on the processor, it can also be the difference between instructions in a tight loop only needing to be decoded once (because of micro-op caching) vs. decoded each loop i…

> that is a stupid comment. It's possible to strongly disagree with a comment without inflammatory language. E.g.: "I really disagree with that comment." It helps keep the conversa…

I don't understand why the identity of the guidelines' author matters. I would think their suitability is independent of that.

It's awesome how the spring reverb is a sneaky way to somewhat simulate polyphony beyond 3 voices.

Agreed. Hitachi makes a rather famous "muscle relaxer" called the Magic Wand.

IIUC, this particular article deals only with keeping a camera on the ballot box after it's been sealed, and on the subsequent vote-counting. So I don't think this poses a risk to …

Amazon's proposal may be entirely reasonable. But I could easily imagine that it's part of a very sophisticated strategy on Amazon's part to ultimately undermine a legitimate vote.…

I don't think that policy is ridiculous at all. It's mine as well, and IIRC it was Billy Graham's. It minimizes the chances of (a) false accusations of inappropriate behavior, and …

Can you give more info on that podcast? I'm finding a bunch with that name.

"Everything is sex." - Robert California

I'm pretty uninformed on this topic. Can some explain why the parent comment would get downvoted?

A submarine.

You make an interesting point. I suspect the post is downvoted only because of the second-to-last sentence.

Once again, brevity is the soul of wit. Well played.

If a man steals a pizza from his neighbor, and then gives 3/4 of it as a tax-deductible "gift" to his favorite causes, shall we call him a hero?

> Also this is an oral drug! Asking as a layman: Would that be a problem for patients who are unconscious or with breathing tubes?

I've been trying to figure out why this topic in particular triggers exceptionally passionate discussion on HN. I have some pet theories, but they're really speculative, and I'm no…