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mutant_glofish
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About mutant_glofish
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain." ― Frank Herbert, Dune
"Among the innumerable mortifications that waylay human arrogance on every side, may well be reckoned our ignorance of the most common objects and effects, a defect of which we become more sensible, by every attempt to supply it. Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things when they are shown their form or told their use; but the speculatist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity, and still as he inquires more, perceives only that he knows less." ― Samuel Johnson, The Idler
Apparently the HN moderator would like me to pretend that I don't really believe in anything (i.e. I don't have an ideology) when posting here.
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> such as rate-limiting, apply to accounts regardless of what ideological flavor they favor, so none of that is relevant I don't know, I can't even provide a sample larger than one…
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Comment #37385082
> For a list intended to finger-point at the other side, it's weak sauce. I'm not finger-pointing to the other side. I'm not saying that they are doing anything wrong by posting id…
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Comment #37384852
> requests to stop. *request, there was only a single request. Also, you had already applied a whole lot of restrictions to my account before the "request", without any warnings or…
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Comment #37383072
That's usually what the literal interpretation of the law would be. However, the courts have set the precedence so that it is more or less legal to consider race to increase "diver…
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Comment #37382554
To me, it seems that they are very closely related.
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Comment #37381944
No, it wasn't. That was only a joke by Shapely [1]: > Pickering’s successor as director, Harlow Shapley, jokingly quantified the work in terms of the number of ‘kilo-girl hours’ it…
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Comment #37377309
Here you go: https://archive.is/pTJY0 (or alternatively: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newstatesman.com%2... )
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Comment #37375649
I hope somebody does that for paid street-side parking too. (I'm aware of Shoup's book on costs of free parking. I'm not buying his arguments though.)
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Comment #37368174
Also, you seem to have applied yet another restriction to my account. I tried to submit the following link: https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2023/08/31/medical-school-... This was…
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Comment #37368087
Sure, I probably don't have a choice anyway. I'm not sure that I see the particular comment you are replying to as being very "ideological" though. Also, can I have my downvoting, …
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Comment #37366842
It would be more appropriate of the title was "The invention of 'homosexuality'".
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Comment #37362685
> ADL is a PR firm It's not just a PR firm, it's a pressure group. And they absolutely suck. They literally classify 17% of the numbers between 1 to 100 as "hate symbols": 9, 11, 1…
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