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Doesn't look deleted, or do you mean a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31862258

I agree, but I'd also like to defend Jackson on this one. He was brought in after Del Toro dropped out and the movies had been in production for years already. He had no prep time …

If I really need to remember something I use spaced repetition, Anki being one of the more well known tools for that. Spaced repetition is particularly useful if you need to retain…

As far as I understand, we do have the physical capability of housing that many people, but a significant number of the homeless are drug addicted, have mental illness, or both, an…

Unfortunately, if this is serious, it just makes me lose respect for him. The Enlightenment was the greatest period of human history ever with regards to philosophical and intellec…

I think the focus on sentience is misplaced. Rather, the value should be rationality, meaning here the ability use one's mind to survive and to live by reason alone. This is valuab…

But at the same time, I think it's doing a really good job of what it's trying to do. Google search is not trying to be a repository for all the world's information. It's just tryi…

Exactly, so this would be a legitimate reason for us to support biodiversity.

Yes, but if biodiversity loss and changes in the land caused by some action we've taken leads to civilizational collapse, then obviously that's not good for our lives and we should…

> The good news is that what is good for humans is to maintain biodiversity and what's good for biodiversity is good for animals. Exactly, which is why I'm generally in support of …

This is going to come across as a nitpick on the title, the idea is taken farther in the article and I think it's an important distinction. No, we should not build for wildlife. We…

Why abolish patents rather than just fix their implementation? Patents are very important. Without them, incentive to bring things to market falls as all your hard work of designin…

I'll give a perspective, although my specific knowledge of math is not very deep at all, I've thought a lot about concepts and abstractions. I think the difference here is that mat…

The only two options are not either that the FDA screens and approves drugs or it being down to individuals (or even these individuals' doctors). We could have private screening an…

Do they attack education through funding or through rhetoric? I imagine funding is where they would have more power. I already believed that education should be outside of the purv…

I would say in the event of experimenting on non-voluntary humans, specifically prisoners, the issue is mostly about the fallibility of the law and setting a dangerous precedent. I…

Yes, given that the evidence in support of it being cleaner is not only slim, but has been shown to suffer from extreme methodological errors, the resulting situation is that of cu…

It of course matters how far they went in interacting with him, but if all it takes for someone to try to bomb a building is another person online going, "do it, I'll sell you a bo…

Regarding weather and showering, I think the person is thinking more about the times of year when it is 100 degrees F outside and 60% humidity for 1/3 of the year.

If you literally mean in a checking account, I'm curious what your reasoning is for keeping seven figures in liquid assets. Aren't you just losing money to inflation?

I would argue that the original original sin is the fact that the government would bail out the banks writing these mortgages. The fact that the banks knew this encourages them to …

For what reason are we considering these platforms "conduits of free speech"? They are simply private services, private property. In the same way you can legally remove people from…

If the first amendment and your concept of freedom of speech don't line up, then one or the other need to change I would think. If a right is not recognized by others/the governmen…

> This is a distinction without a difference. I disagree, there is an extreme difference there. Freedom of speech is specifically in regards to the government giving you the negati…

I wouldn't say no signal at all. If I have data that they are the best doctor from my options and are obese, yeah totally, I'll go for them. But if I just see a lineup of doctors a…