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it found nothing for me and I don't do anything pathological

chilling effects need to be kept in perspective; for example, while I'm completely fearless about telling off the govt whenever I wish, no way I'm going to reveal how I feel about …

no slippery slope argument is a fallacy when the underlying process can best be described as a slippery slope. "Slippery slope" is not a fallacy, it's an analogy. I'm in favor of c…

Thanks for the compliments. What I mean by "unprovoked" is, if the Palestinians would stop attempting violence, the Israelis would stop attempting violence. If the Israelis were to…

I grew up the same way :) ... except he rubs me the wrong way, I think he's not at all interesting or clever, a completely banal failed ironic, with a deep streak of hate inside.

the name may be intended to be ironic, but the irony of the irony is that if you are interested in communicating about conducting one or more felonies, I would in fact urge you to …

| "The less violent side"? As I said, click around wikipedia for number of rocket attacks, number of terror attacks, etc. initiated by the Palestinians, mostly against civilians. R…

but... but... Arabs living in Israel are first class citizens, they are not forced to live on reservations, and they participate in elections and are elected to the Knesset, Israel…

| not any more but damn fess up about the Armenian genocide already I read PP as talking about the Turks present day treatment of the Kurds, not their previously reprehensible trea…

| I think what bothers me the most about all of this is how criticism of the national policy of the state of Israel is reworked by certain opponents as anti-Semitic attacks... Why …

definitely interesting topic. Reading their analysis though, led me to believe they didn't control for enough obvious variables. Let me go through a scenario to give an example: ho…

3) when you want the liquid smooth feel for your 99% time, why don't you boot Linux and run an MSWin in the VM?

why the pseudo? it seems living rather than pseudo-living. it needs a particular environment, but that's true of a lot of living things.

my definition of "waaayyy too much of their life" in the context of this topic is, people who don't have much going on IRL due to social adjustment impairments and personality diso…

few things grind my gears like hipsters telling me how much THEY care about products being usable LIKE IT'S SOME SORT OF NEW IDEA, like they are the ONLY ONES WHO CARE. beards and …

Is pumped hydro dependent on geography? I'm no expert and I'm skipping over the research and calculation part, but I'd be somewhat surprised if solar panels on my house could gener…

That's not actually true in practice in the US: the morphine dosage used to treat pain for advanced cancers is given knowing full well it's a fatal dose. That it hastens death in a…

whoosh! you provided a Tim Cook response to a Steve Jobs comment.

A personality like Steve Jobs's would never tolerate having another Steve Jobs around, so this is what I always assumed. Steve was always laser focused on a small number of element…

you can put your hunger to work for you, but you need to remind yourself that, if you carry extra pounds, hunger is what weight loss feels like. That ravenous feeling if you can ke…

if we're going to quibble, it's "discounted /expected/ future cash flows"

investments in assets result in depreciations which are expenses that reduce profits; you don't write off the asset as a loss all in one year, but it all gets written off across a …

I thought this headline was referring to what I think is a more insidious form of moderation, the type that's practiced here on ycombinator with regard to style, for example, negat…

pro-tip: I've seen demonstrated, if you repeatedly whack the bottom of a bottle of wine with the heel of your shoe (or, in a similar manner, smack the bottom of a bottle of wine ag…