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If you think we are going to bring world emissions to zero in 5 years you are hopelessly idealistic.

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The shape of the jawline differing between men and women is not a stereotype.

Does your body have abnormal electrical resistance or capacitance? To me it seems more likely that you are being delusional than your electrical properties being so far out of the …

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Consider these 2 possible opinions of folks who don't care too much about fighting climate change: 1. Climate change is an unsolvable problem, requiring coordination on a massive s…

When I see this, I wonder if the shaving industry is fated to always have high margins, just due to the fact that brand power is very strong in the shaving industry. People don't t…

Agreed, especially given that U.S. income per capita is higher, making it true that taxes are even lower for two people of equal income. The double-edged sword: when income per cap…

I see that you hate the rich, and that you think everyone else should hate the rich too. Most evil acts in this world happen through apathy and shortsightedness, not through malice…

For every 100 people that say we need climate impact labeling on our food, 80 of them are only virtue signaling.

>This time, organizers said they based the budget on “real” dollars, looking across the next decade to predict expenses and revenues in terms of when the money is actually spent or…

When posts mentioning obesity crop up on HN, some people advocate personal responsibility to prevent your own obesity (taking the individualistic position) and some people argue th…

Do you regret how much you drink?

The U.S. has more rich suckers to prey on.

If you go to a high level of abstraction, you remove useful distinctions. That is not a productive line of thought. Not all income is the same, and not all expenses are the same. E…

Let's say you run a gas station, which is a notoriously low margin business. You have $1,050,000 in revenue this year, and $1,000,000 in expenses, so you make $50,000. Let's say yo…

No, and I don't think you did a decent job trying to interpret what he said.

Most bosses that retaliate do not view it as retaliation. I know that when I have acted immorally in my own past, I felt justified about it. It is not true that he stated women are…

Saying "trans women are not women" is not transphobic. You can disagree with a tentative definition without being a bigot. I do not know the entire corpus of Notch's statements on …

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