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This is America, you can just call 345 feet a football field.

The form of government matters a lot, when evaluating its security apparatus. I feel a lot differently about the death penalty in America than in Iran too.

No, I really mean atheists that crave religion.

Same as it ever was, but with more of them, people are a little warier about their own, I think.

That's almost word for word what I said...

When I read the article in its entirety, I was pretty disappointed in its top-level introspection. It seems to not be true, but I still maintain that it was obvious. Sometimes peop…

There are a lot of rationalists in this community. Pointing out that the entire thing is a cult attracts downvotes from people who wish to, for instance, avoid being identified wit…

Perhaps I will get downvoted to death again for saying so, but the obvious answer is because the name "rationalist" is structurally indistinguishable from the name "scientology" or…

probably add "in the negative", to that.

This system would make a lot more sense if the number of people you had to get to agree to a bill with a bunch of riders was more than 50%.

>I expect better science writing from them. based on what?

> Musk is a clearly brilliant man proof left as an exercise for the reader.

You are conflating civil law with international law. In a civil context, my right to self defense is very weak. If my neighbor is stockpiling weapons, and announcing his intention …

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What point of mine do you think you are attacking? The parent comment said that these rights were being given up "in order to squash anti-war sentiment". This was wrong on two coun…

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This is a deep misrepresentation of my core stance here. Claiming that you have the special sauce to finding the "Truth" is cult behavior. I'm saying neither that people, not group…

Then you should read the article.

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Terry is saying to stop bugging mathematicians for theorems about misinformation.

Breach of fiduciary duty is already extremely hard to prove when share prices are down . Mark has the added benefit of the doubt that arises from the fact that his incentives are f…

Putting your phone in the fridge seems like a pretty crazy thing to do, but we do it sometimes. Plane crashes are very rare. I don't fly a lot of planes, but I do know what muscle …

You are right, I was remembering the description of turning the switches back on.