So your basic literary objection to "On The Beach" is that it isn't the book that YOU would have written. Fair enough, ultimately irrelevant for anyone except you. But since you're couching your objections in terms of…
Your reply strikes me as snarky and rude. You could have phrased your comment differently, and made the exact same point, but without being disrespectful to everyone who has to read your reply. *…
I believe the explanation is in the 3rd-to-last paragraph: > In healthy volunteers and right- but not left-onset patients, religious belief-scores significantly increased following the aesthetic prime consisting of the…
Cocaine makes you the BEST person, way better than everybody else.
Oh, you again! It's like I mention "Cadillac Desert" and you pop out of the bathroom mirror like Bloody Mary. I'm glad you're working on finding a more polite way to talk about things you disagree with... Your new…
We could imagine an infinity of possible theories that might explain why these Russian people reacted with fear at Gagarin's landing. But being possible doesn't mean something is correct, or even plausible. Rather than…
> It’s hyperbolic trash though. This is rude, and unnecessary. If your own counter-argument is actually sound, why are you bothering to label Reisner's as trash? It doesn't make you more believable--it mostly just…
You should read "Cadillac Desert", if you live in the American Southwestern state--California, Arizona, and Nevada in particular. It has significant implications for the future survivability of large-scale civilization…
I have some friends who've done week-long ski tours in remote parts of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Their guides all carried serious rifles or shotguns with slugs, and made sure everyone in the party knew how to…
No, you misunderstand... by "bad faith" I meant that your original comment was not intended as an earnest, respectful, positive contribution. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, under the section "In…
So was your original post in bad faith, or not? Your question has an obvious, widely accepted answer... Whether that answer is right or wrong, your failure to reference it comes off as deliberately provocative. And by…
I think your inference may be backwards... Sovereign Citizen types sound like this because they're aping "legalese" in an attempt to sound authoritative to ignorant people. But this weird, kinda archaic, jargony,…
I get why it sounds funny to us, but it's mainly a highly jargon-y form of language used for motions in court. When you're writing this stuff, you're expected to phrase yourself in the appropriate fashion. There are…
> You not only have to verify that a review is coming from an actual current or former employee, but then you have to ensure that the same employee cannot write multiple reviews. If you discard all links between a…
Their proof (or lack thereof) would generally be evaluated at the trial stage. This is a pre-trial procedure, so it's mostly take at face value. If another party so moves, they could ask the court to stop the plaintiff,…
Honestly trying to clarify... Are you aware that altering existing, stable ecosystems has potentially massive, unpredictable, long-term costs that other humans will have to pay, potentially far outweighing any of the…
Can't speak for Canada, but in the US, the jury process is a mix of black-letter law (explicit legislative acts) and administrative law (rules made by the court system under broad powers granted to it by legislation).…
Is there something in how Canadian or English courts work that would make it impossible to just delay jury selection for the pending trials, for a week or a month, or however long it takes to mail out the next round of…
You should really make the effort to learn the math of SR, because I believe it would help keep your reasoning a little more grounded, here. At the very least, I think it would help you understand why SR still…
> First off -- and this should be enough by itself -- the research the Wuhan lab did hasn't appeared to have helped in a material way to fight the COVID pandemic. So they gambled, lost, and there is nothing to show for…
Yeah... I'm trying to work out how to fit it in, later this year. I have a 40hr cert that's expiring, later this year, but the stuff I'm really interested in doing requires the full 80hr WFR. I hope that more of these…
Most of the wilderness FA certs have a 3-year expiration. IDK if this was always true, but it's definitely a thing now. If you're using your certification to qualify for a professional or volunteer position, then they…
> ...because surely nobody would be stupid enough to make new SARS virus strains on purpose. They’re worthless as biological weapons, and the risks are insane. If we wait until the next pandemic hits, we will be months…
Primordial black holes are another possible way (besides star collapse) that BHs could form. The theory is that during the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, the distribution of mass-energy became chaotic, with local…
"...but I don't share the government's concerns about things like laundering." I get that you, personally, aren't concerned about money laundering... But can you at least understand, in principle, why governments are…
So your basic literary objection to "On The Beach" is that it isn't the book that YOU would have written. Fair enough, ultimately irrelevant for anyone except you. But since you're couching your objections in terms of…
Your reply strikes me as snarky and rude. You could have phrased your comment differently, and made the exact same point, but without being disrespectful to everyone who has to read your reply. *…
I believe the explanation is in the 3rd-to-last paragraph: > In healthy volunteers and right- but not left-onset patients, religious belief-scores significantly increased following the aesthetic prime consisting of the…
Cocaine makes you the BEST person, way better than everybody else.
Oh, you again! It's like I mention "Cadillac Desert" and you pop out of the bathroom mirror like Bloody Mary. I'm glad you're working on finding a more polite way to talk about things you disagree with... Your new…
We could imagine an infinity of possible theories that might explain why these Russian people reacted with fear at Gagarin's landing. But being possible doesn't mean something is correct, or even plausible. Rather than…
> It’s hyperbolic trash though. This is rude, and unnecessary. If your own counter-argument is actually sound, why are you bothering to label Reisner's as trash? It doesn't make you more believable--it mostly just…
You should read "Cadillac Desert", if you live in the American Southwestern state--California, Arizona, and Nevada in particular. It has significant implications for the future survivability of large-scale civilization…
I have some friends who've done week-long ski tours in remote parts of Siberia and the Russian Far East. Their guides all carried serious rifles or shotguns with slugs, and made sure everyone in the party knew how to…
No, you misunderstand... by "bad faith" I meant that your original comment was not intended as an earnest, respectful, positive contribution. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, under the section "In…
So was your original post in bad faith, or not? Your question has an obvious, widely accepted answer... Whether that answer is right or wrong, your failure to reference it comes off as deliberately provocative. And by…
I think your inference may be backwards... Sovereign Citizen types sound like this because they're aping "legalese" in an attempt to sound authoritative to ignorant people. But this weird, kinda archaic, jargony,…
I get why it sounds funny to us, but it's mainly a highly jargon-y form of language used for motions in court. When you're writing this stuff, you're expected to phrase yourself in the appropriate fashion. There are…
> You not only have to verify that a review is coming from an actual current or former employee, but then you have to ensure that the same employee cannot write multiple reviews. If you discard all links between a…
Their proof (or lack thereof) would generally be evaluated at the trial stage. This is a pre-trial procedure, so it's mostly take at face value. If another party so moves, they could ask the court to stop the plaintiff,…
Honestly trying to clarify... Are you aware that altering existing, stable ecosystems has potentially massive, unpredictable, long-term costs that other humans will have to pay, potentially far outweighing any of the…
Can't speak for Canada, but in the US, the jury process is a mix of black-letter law (explicit legislative acts) and administrative law (rules made by the court system under broad powers granted to it by legislation).…
Is there something in how Canadian or English courts work that would make it impossible to just delay jury selection for the pending trials, for a week or a month, or however long it takes to mail out the next round of…
You should really make the effort to learn the math of SR, because I believe it would help keep your reasoning a little more grounded, here. At the very least, I think it would help you understand why SR still…
> First off -- and this should be enough by itself -- the research the Wuhan lab did hasn't appeared to have helped in a material way to fight the COVID pandemic. So they gambled, lost, and there is nothing to show for…
Yeah... I'm trying to work out how to fit it in, later this year. I have a 40hr cert that's expiring, later this year, but the stuff I'm really interested in doing requires the full 80hr WFR. I hope that more of these…
Most of the wilderness FA certs have a 3-year expiration. IDK if this was always true, but it's definitely a thing now. If you're using your certification to qualify for a professional or volunteer position, then they…
> ...because surely nobody would be stupid enough to make new SARS virus strains on purpose. They’re worthless as biological weapons, and the risks are insane. If we wait until the next pandemic hits, we will be months…
Primordial black holes are another possible way (besides star collapse) that BHs could form. The theory is that during the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang, the distribution of mass-energy became chaotic, with local…
"...but I don't share the government's concerns about things like laundering." I get that you, personally, aren't concerned about money laundering... But can you at least understand, in principle, why governments are…