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I typed in "It was a dark and stormy night" and didn't get any reference to Paul Clifford or Washington Irving. I dig the project. I think it's cool. Would love to see it grow.

You know you can get the cloud implementation for free, right?

When you create a website, and it gets users, that's what you want, right? But now your massive number of users become a problem. You need to scale to handle the number of users. S…

Mirror: http://www.sdailynews.com/2018/08/27/researchers-replicate-j... For those who can't climb the paywall.

Is it just me or is this terrible advice?

What? Doctoral programs pay you through stipends. You shouldn't have to pay for any doctoral program, ever.

If they had a separate site, media.amazon.com or something, which led to this page: https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_2858778011_nav_shopall_aiv?r... then it'd fix the issue you're h…

Sure, but emissions testing after you've got the car would be utterly useless.

>it pisses off trade partners who may not act as rationally as you expect It forces trade partners to lower their own protections, resulting in freer trade than before. People resp…

Is your country not sharing in the spoils? I'm not saying that offensive wars are moral, but it is in keeping with your duties to the group. And certain offensive wars are for the …

Not what I'm referring to. I'm referring specifically to those who owned land and bore arms and were referred to as Citizens in Rome. I find both the notions that conscription=slav…

Was referring to the Romans. Perhaps I'm exaggerating. My point is that military service is a responsibility, not a chore foisted upon us. If it were, we would be subjects. But we …

All true. And yet still we have to grapple with the reality that our public square is in the private sector.

Citizenship has historically been defined by military service, in that you are not merely subject to the security apparatus of the state, but a part of it. Because you are a part o…

>There's a reason the ACLU has in the past defended neo-Nazis and other unpopular speakers, and it's not because they support these speakers' messages. It's because you need a cana…

That is, I'm afraid, against the law in this country.

>The right response is to ask how and why Trump won and address the problems, ideas, and arguments that led to it rationally. Absolutely. > If Jones' BS is more "viral," then more …

This doesn't work without a universal moral law, an assumption now deprecated in many circles.

#Try a different book Oftentimes the assigned textbooks are subpar. Less Wrong has a good list of textbooks. Quora questions have also been helpful #How much of your time studying …

>You knew that this was coming. Backlash is a great reason not to do something for a business, but a terrible reason for a forum comment. As brian-armstrong pointed out, large stak…

Fair enough. I'm guessing. An educated guess I think, with certain predictions made which, if the prove true, would increase the probability of my being right.

Is, not was. Spotify (along with Apple, Facebook, & YouTube) removed Alex Jones content a couple days ago. My speculative guess is that Warner, expecting backlash from Jones' rathe…

Thank you for at least saying why you disagree rather than simply reacting and hitting the downvote button.

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