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I moved money out of CB on the 22nd and it's in my bank account now.

It's probably important to remember that despite the anti-Catholic hysteria the Church did have a few issues. For example: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-mass-grave-ireland-201…

TAD EDC. It's extremely overbuilt but between the integrated dry bag laptop sleeve and the MOLLE attachment points it's worth it. http://store.tripleaughtdesign.com/FAST-Pack-EDC

Germany has free speech, except if you want to criticize foreign dictators [1]. I think I'll stick with our extremist variant, thanks. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%B6hmer…

I've always used example.com for this purpose, but this is cool. Thanks!

Not that I take the whole Bostrom superintelligence argument too seriously, but this is an incredibly weak argument (or more accurately, bundle of barely-related arguments thrown a…

I'd prefer links to stories about new ventures, their strategic impact, etc, but given that anything worth discussing usually produces multiple stories it's better that all the dis…

The Culture themselves aren't terribly interesting. What really makes the books shine (for me) are their interactions with lower-tech societies.

I'm confident that heavily armed hicks trying to found some sort of confederacy 2.0 could offer at least as much resistance as the Taliban. The US government doesn't exactly have a…

Thanks for putting this together! As someone interested in cognitive biases, I wonder: how many of these effects have survived the recent replication crisis intact?

Based on your inability to provide a citation my immediate assumption is that your assertion is untrue. This is generally a reasonable heuristic. If only for the sake of convincing…

There's an extension called Delayed Gratification that just introduces a 30-second delay for the initial loading of sites for which it is enabled.

L-Theanine (amino acid found in green tea) supplements solve that problem.

Right, right of course. Your totally secular belief system is what led you to a moral viewpoint in which it is immoral to rent the mouth, vagina or anus, of another human being, bu…

Maybe you can start purifying your soul (because clearly there's some sort of puritanical religious thing going on here) by abstaining from the use of electronic devices: https://e…

Where would all the sex workers who disagree be without you to tell them how they really feel!

If you're deliberately misinterpreting my post, we're done. If you're not, I see no point in engaging further with you. Once again, if only for the peanut gallery: you are assertin…

>some of the people ignorant of the shifting nature of prostitution are actually prostitutes and prostitutors themselves Sounds awful paternalistic. Have you considered the possibi…

Then replace selling fruit with backbreaking manual labor: coal mining, digging ditches, whatever. Something that causes real and permanent damage to one's body over time. Is selli…

When you say resistance, you mean 'implementing a locally controlled version of the problematic US-controlled system they're resisting', right?

That's absolutely right. I suggest a simple experiment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420407 It should be possible to come up with ~10 'clone' games (slap trump/hilla…

For those flagging this, why not try an experiment? Put together two pallette-swapped games, perhaps 'Slap Hillary with a fish' and 'Slap Trump with a fish'. Submit these games to …

If it were just a matter of creating two political apps, one anti-red and one anti-blue, and observing that the anti-blue one is banned, I'd agree. The article cites 3 different ga…

I try to center myself. For example, I focus fully on breath for a few breaths, think 'I am breathing in, I am breathing out'. Focus on how your feet/bum/spine are supporting your …