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How on Earth is that guy not rate limited?

Are you seriously claiming that Neville Chamberlain and the UK were pacifists?

You said He is arguing that the government of Michigan's laws are bad because the Nazis had bad laws. Which simply isn’t true. He actually said outright: If you use the state as a …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759428 Following that through, you clearly hate being backed into a corner, and don’t mind engaging in “innacuracy” when it suits you.

He is arguing that the government of Michigan's laws are bad because the Nazis had bad laws. There's dishonesty for you. Yes, you’re being dishonest. If you use the state as a metr…

The degree to which something interferes in someone’s life, their ability to function, etc. If you’re suicidally depressed, or psychotic, it’s a clear distinction for obvious reaso…

This I just wrong from the start. If there’s a single overarching definition of mental illness, it’s “clinical significance” and not deviation from the norm. Of course it’s not tha…

It’s a warning sign for delusional and paranoid ideation, which can be the result of a pretty startling number of issues. Drugs can cause delusions/paranoia, schizophrenia, schizoi…

Credit to the mods who brought it back to the front page though.

CBS just showed a body under yellow tarp, so at least one fatality on the scene. SFGH reporting casualties as well. Good luck YouTube staff, hang in there.

Why? What do they lose? Equifax for example is doing just fine. They don’t feel the pain, we do.

Don’t forget, “We’re sorry,” “We’ll do better,” and my personal favorite, “Trust us!” I’d prefer crippling fines.

My pleasure, and by the way, I really enjoy your blog. You have an interesting perspective and you write very well.

First I just want to say that I agree with you, that was an explosion; explosion and detonation aren’t necessarily the same thing. Loud noise and rapidly expanding gas = explosion.…

Caffeine is cheaply synthesized, and that’s almost certainly what soda manufacturers use in their products.

You may not be aware of this, but typically you don’t enter a nursing home at 50. Either way, Sinclair is also well into streaming services, which you could have discovered with ev…

The problem is that they’re the single largest television broadcaster. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, the company is the largest television station operator in the United …

If you’re right that might explain why this article was just flagged so much it went from near the top of the front page, to near the bottom of the second. Edit now the third page.…

It’s worth pointing out that we don’t know if we live in an infinite or finite universe, so that’s an assumption made by the authors.

These do contain nicotine, that’s the first paragraph of the article with the kid asking about nicotine gum.

Adulterating food with cheap alternatives is a way to disproportionately screw over poor people. Everyone else will just add beef to their “buy organic 100%...” list of products an…

This seems like a duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16700065

...just that it should be held to modern western moral standards and accountability with regards to human rights. . You remember posting that, right? Israel does have a drone assas…

Street level sales of crack shouldn’t lead to deportation to a notorious war zone. He paid his debt to society anyway, this is essentially adding a death sentence on top of it.

By those modern standards, they’re already doing better than the US and UK for example. They didn’t invade Afghanistan and Iraq, they didn’t destabilize Libya, and they don’t have …