> I doubt that’s the problem. I don't know, it seems like it's a weird argument but it's definitely a thought I've had too. When I was eyeballing the Egyptian dynasties I was bit shocked to notice how short lived they…
I don't care about accusations of xenophobia. I don't like it because I don't like pointless historical revisionism. It's been called Gulf of Mexico since the 17th century, before there was a USA. And I don't like the…
50 years is honestly not that long. When you look at historical dynasties even the shorter ones tend to be ~100 years, if they don't immediately implode. That was a lot of suffering and chaos of what's actually a fairly…
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you are implying membership of Hezbollah is deep dark shameful secret in Lebanon. The designation of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization" is great for outside…
I have never heard anyone refer to Neanderthal as a human unless they are talking in a "those are cavemen, early humans" way that's wrong. Where is this coming from? Is it a non-English world thing? Generally…
It seems to me nearly every story about robots that gain sentience in human storymaking has them eventually turning against their human creators. Even the word robot itself comes from a Czech play were men develop an…
Depends on where you were. I was an American fan of anime before it was really socially acceptable and I've been of the mind that its popularity was probably inevitable once enough old guard culturally sneering at it…
Are you so sure that was a legitimate and real comment? I'm not a woman so I can't know the truth personally. But people are very performative on Reddit. They also like narratives of victimization and offense. If you…
Well maybe it's just because I'm an unpopular weirdo, but I think "invite only" is cancer. In fact it's another head of the hydra killing the Internet. Whatever alternatives exist to the spam wasteland are strangled in…
Twitch "pays" streamers with a cut of the money they made off them though. The paycheck is 1/2 a cut of money given to the streamer by a third party with no work from Twitch, and 1/2 a cut from ad revenues that were…
This has been a talking point pretty much from the day the Brexit vote happened. The usual suspects then repeatedly publish that same line in the usual papers (The Guardian for one) hoping to reify the "belief" into…
Side debate: the USA "ceasing to exist" from the view of a native American, in a manner analogous to Palestinians, would be the status quo that already exists today. In opposition to a racially exclusive "white…
Why would you need violent state enforcement of voluntary contracts?
> This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties Why blame "government" and not capitalism? Canadian Gosplan didn't conspire to set housing prices at insane and rising levels. It was the market…
I would say it's more male sexuality (primarily hetero) and female sexuality that is seen as threatening and uncontrolled that is categorized as grotesque. Things like OnlyFans has never been more normal.
> When Napoleon Chagnon told his Marxist colleagues that the Yanomamö made war over women, the Marxists faced a choice: Either revise the whole foundation of what they thought they knew about humanity. Or declare that…
> Only assholes think like that. Only assholes doubt credentials because we are now trying to explicitly defy our biases. And/or people capable of unpopular rational thinking and noticing patterns. You can't aim to…
> Can't blame him for being friends with people who asked for it. If he has not denounced those Libertarian friends, yes you can. If he has not lobbied the government with his disproportionate power and privilege to not…
Are people on HN of all places pretending to be cutely ignorant about doxxing? Back in the days of Internet forums it was understood to be a bad thing to publish someone's home adress or a picture of it. It's not that…
> overabundance of evidence that the COVID vaccines are safe, effective, and that they decrease hospitalizations and death "evidence" that comes from tightly controlled information sources with clear non-truth oriented…
In the time when the 1st amendment was written (which is not a holy document that decides all morality. Nor is the U.S. the center of the universe) corporations as we understand them did not really exist. The people…
Undoubtedly? I've never seen any real proof of it. It's just kind of a mantra. Housing pricing continues to be a problem in every first world country's urban center. Do they all have the exact same "zoning?" And why…
> Have humans lost the ability to tolerate the knowledge that someone, somewhere, may disagree with them? Maybe the majority never had it. That's what I've been thinking recently. In the past, a person could mold…
> Were they really? I'm no linguist, but every time I've looked into this the answer has been yes. Though there is this weird trend to heavily suggest otherwise even in supposed serious sources, which has given me a…
> The Aztecs (or Mexica) also have a written history from before the Europeans came. This might come off as a dick reply, but I kind of doubt that seeing as how, as far as I know, the Aztecs were an illiterate…
> I doubt that’s the problem. I don't know, it seems like it's a weird argument but it's definitely a thought I've had too. When I was eyeballing the Egyptian dynasties I was bit shocked to notice how short lived they…
I don't care about accusations of xenophobia. I don't like it because I don't like pointless historical revisionism. It's been called Gulf of Mexico since the 17th century, before there was a USA. And I don't like the…
50 years is honestly not that long. When you look at historical dynasties even the shorter ones tend to be ~100 years, if they don't immediately implode. That was a lot of suffering and chaos of what's actually a fairly…
I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding but it sounds like you are implying membership of Hezbollah is deep dark shameful secret in Lebanon. The designation of Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization" is great for outside…
I have never heard anyone refer to Neanderthal as a human unless they are talking in a "those are cavemen, early humans" way that's wrong. Where is this coming from? Is it a non-English world thing? Generally…
It seems to me nearly every story about robots that gain sentience in human storymaking has them eventually turning against their human creators. Even the word robot itself comes from a Czech play were men develop an…
Depends on where you were. I was an American fan of anime before it was really socially acceptable and I've been of the mind that its popularity was probably inevitable once enough old guard culturally sneering at it…
Are you so sure that was a legitimate and real comment? I'm not a woman so I can't know the truth personally. But people are very performative on Reddit. They also like narratives of victimization and offense. If you…
Well maybe it's just because I'm an unpopular weirdo, but I think "invite only" is cancer. In fact it's another head of the hydra killing the Internet. Whatever alternatives exist to the spam wasteland are strangled in…
Twitch "pays" streamers with a cut of the money they made off them though. The paycheck is 1/2 a cut of money given to the streamer by a third party with no work from Twitch, and 1/2 a cut from ad revenues that were…
This has been a talking point pretty much from the day the Brexit vote happened. The usual suspects then repeatedly publish that same line in the usual papers (The Guardian for one) hoping to reify the "belief" into…
Side debate: the USA "ceasing to exist" from the view of a native American, in a manner analogous to Palestinians, would be the status quo that already exists today. In opposition to a racially exclusive "white…
Why would you need violent state enforcement of voluntary contracts?
> This is a problem created by multiple governments over various parties Why blame "government" and not capitalism? Canadian Gosplan didn't conspire to set housing prices at insane and rising levels. It was the market…
I would say it's more male sexuality (primarily hetero) and female sexuality that is seen as threatening and uncontrolled that is categorized as grotesque. Things like OnlyFans has never been more normal.
> When Napoleon Chagnon told his Marxist colleagues that the Yanomamö made war over women, the Marxists faced a choice: Either revise the whole foundation of what they thought they knew about humanity. Or declare that…
> Only assholes think like that. Only assholes doubt credentials because we are now trying to explicitly defy our biases. And/or people capable of unpopular rational thinking and noticing patterns. You can't aim to…
> Can't blame him for being friends with people who asked for it. If he has not denounced those Libertarian friends, yes you can. If he has not lobbied the government with his disproportionate power and privilege to not…
Are people on HN of all places pretending to be cutely ignorant about doxxing? Back in the days of Internet forums it was understood to be a bad thing to publish someone's home adress or a picture of it. It's not that…
> overabundance of evidence that the COVID vaccines are safe, effective, and that they decrease hospitalizations and death "evidence" that comes from tightly controlled information sources with clear non-truth oriented…
In the time when the 1st amendment was written (which is not a holy document that decides all morality. Nor is the U.S. the center of the universe) corporations as we understand them did not really exist. The people…
Undoubtedly? I've never seen any real proof of it. It's just kind of a mantra. Housing pricing continues to be a problem in every first world country's urban center. Do they all have the exact same "zoning?" And why…
> Have humans lost the ability to tolerate the knowledge that someone, somewhere, may disagree with them? Maybe the majority never had it. That's what I've been thinking recently. In the past, a person could mold…
> Were they really? I'm no linguist, but every time I've looked into this the answer has been yes. Though there is this weird trend to heavily suggest otherwise even in supposed serious sources, which has given me a…
> The Aztecs (or Mexica) also have a written history from before the Europeans came. This might come off as a dick reply, but I kind of doubt that seeing as how, as far as I know, the Aztecs were an illiterate…