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Sounds about right to me. I started using reddit about nine years ago, and I remember thinking that I had missed out on "good reddit" at the time. Of course, it's gotten much worse…

I'm sure it's more than happy to teach you about the great game of Pot Limited Omaha But after you're done with that, at result number 11, you get this interesting web-site: https:…

What about a student who excels in some areas but is bad at writing, or has trouble making friends, or doesn't understand much about politics and stuff that goes on in the world (y…

The only point I've made is that something being addictive and harmful is a reasonable quality to ban something for. This was in response to the user who said "there are plenty of …

There's already a ban on them for a large portion of the population.

He didn't say he should be the one to decide. Anyway, there are lots of things that people can get addicted to which aren't healthy. Banning things for that reason is an option.

Works on my machine.

Your friends sound like they probably believe that admission is a privilege - it's just that they also believe they deserve and have earned that privilege.

>It doesn't matter if they grow out of it or not Especially true considering that some of these people accused of wrongthink might actually be onto something. It's not a good idea …

I don't think universities should only be for people who share popular views. Seventy years ago universities had very different views. If they had had an effective way of screening…

Think of the people behind creating wealth and think about the people who actually get wealth. You will find that the two groups differ drastically.

>Personally, a system that generally rewards competency and is based on voluntary transactions to me is trending towards System A because people who amass power in such a system an…

> Someone a lot better a doing good were not apparently good enough at getting the resources to do good. Yes, that is pretty close to my point. We have created a system in which go…

A person or group with immense power can trivially achieve great good. However, if you consider systems A and B, where system A is a bit better at using immense power for good than…

Wealth gives a person power. The people who get very wealthy (in our current system) are not generally the people who will do the best things with power. This seems like a situatio…

I meant my comment to read like this: [My opinion on trusting DDG] - [Reason for my opinion on trusting DDG].[More information about the reason] In this case, because I don't use t…

I'm talking about situations where no fallacy has actually occurred, not situations where a fallacy has occurred but a correct conclusion has been arrived at anyway.

A common fallacy I see, though I don't know if there's a name for it, is assuming that just because what someone is doing can be described by the name of a fallacy that what the pe…

In my view, anyone who trusts ddg is a bit silly - founder has a bad track record on user privacy. Founded Names Database[1], a social media website designed to collect user inform…

Here's a classic article from Nick Land as to why racism isn't something worth spending too much time thinking about: http://www.xenosystems.net/hyper-racism/ The article is perhap…

rationalwiki has a reputation for being extraordinarily bad for exploring arguments on controversial subjects. See: http://nathancofnas.com/comments-on-my-rationalwiki-page/ and ht…

Why not just use Firefox?

Just make sure your handle isn't tied to your real name.

There's a lot of stuff, language for example, that's mostly genetic. Humans aren't learning these things from scratch, generally they're just filling in some blanks and helping gui…