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How To Create Knowledge (1)	2018/11/18	Anonymous	This. Was. Amazing. Thank you so so much for writing this, it really helped in visualizing the production of knowledge. Have a nice day :)
Open Discussion (555)	2018/11/17	PAS	You're right that DNA is different in some of the ways you mention from past stuff. I think that's part of how we're talking past each other, since I thought I was clear in my original comment that DNA is different in some ways. I don't think the ways
Induction & Perception Discord Discussion (7)	2018/11/16	Anonymous	The perceptual level is *a portion of* the pre-conscious levels. You cannot judge what is given *by the perceptual level* using the information of what is given to your conscious level (which is given by the sum total of all the pre-conscious levels).
Bad Scholarship on VDare (9)	2018/11/12	Alisa	Today, Ann Coulter [RT'd](https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1062055518225752065) the VDARE post, saying: > But they're NATURAL REPUBLICANS! From 80 to 60 Percent White: How to Lose a Congressional District
Justin Kalef vs. Paths Forward (3)	2018/11/08	Previous student of Justin	Not surprising
Globalism (3)	2018/11/07	FF	Are you okay with China becoming a superpower because of freetrade?
Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations (26)	2018/11/04	Dagny	The claims you're making are not DD's claims and they don't interest me much. I don't think they constitute a thought-out system, and I don't see what problem they are even trying to solve that I don't already have a better solution to.
Jordan Peterson is a Traitor (9)	2018/11/01	Anonymous	> I Was Wrong About Jordan Peterson (And Vox Day Was Right) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKS8QM2S-A The thing about Peterson, from my perspective, is that *all* the intellectuals are badly wrong and don't have Paths Forward. And the critics
By Any Means Necessary: A Violent Marxist Cult (66)	2018/10/27	Justin Mallone	Hey Alex, I'm a co-author on this piece. Glad to hear you appreciated us sharing your story.
Learn Super Smash Brothers Melee and Philosophy! (32)	2018/10/22	Anonymous	#11318 play some and watch some. don't play a different game if you want to play melee.

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Title or First Words	Author	Post	Date
This. Was. Amazing. Thank you so so much for writing this, it really helped in visualizing the production of knowledge. Have a nice day :)	Anonymous	How To Create Knowledge	2018/11/18
You're right that DNA is different in some of the ways you mention from past stuff. I think that's part of how we're talking past each other, since I thought I was clear in my original comment that DNA is different in some ways. I don't think the ways	PAS	Open Discussion	2018/11/17
I was talking about a problem, not proposing a solution, let alone choosing between different government bans as the solution candidates. You also compared the DNA thing to some past stuff, and I pointed out some ways they were different. I wasn	Dagny	Open Discussion	2018/11/17
#11372 and #11373 I think we're talking past each other so I'll try a different approach. In #11370 anonymous quoted: > How DNA Databases Violate Everyone's Privacy ...and your (Dagny) statements seem to imply you agree that DNA Databases violat	PAS	Open Discussion	2018/11/17
The perceptual level is *a portion of* the pre-conscious levels. You cannot judge what is given *by the perceptual level* using the information of what is given to your conscious level (which is given by the sum total of all the pre-conscious levels).	Anonymous	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/16
>What important epistemological implication? I indicated some in the preceding response: >>As the basis of all subsequent knowledge, precisely what is given on the perceptual level has implications not only for its own validity, but also for co	Scuro	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/16
> I think the claim that we perceive distinct entities through an automatic and uncontrolled process has important epistemological implication, as does a claim to the contrary. Whichever is the case, it's important to know. What important epistemol	Anonymous	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/16
Response	Scuro	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/16
it's like: don't attack the person, only the ideas. but the ideas are the most important part of the person. criticizing their ideas is *especially* threatening. kinda like: don't attack the toes, only the brain.	Anonymous	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/15
Ad Hominem	curi	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/15
Discord Replies	curi	Induction & Perception Discord Discussion	2018/11/15
*see* the magnets in the new ipad pro. cool short vid using "magnet paper" – looks like transparent plastic with tiny bits of metal which can move around and show magnet locations: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1062368253316603905	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/15
Also questioning witnesses is pretty limited and hard. You have to find them, then a person has a conversation they interpret, miscommunication happens, etc. Human interaction isn't cheap and doesn't scale well. But marketers or whoever could automate	Dagny	Open Discussion	2018/11/15
DNA can be found years later, after you left. It can leave traces in many places around the world, info you didn't want saved. And it can do this in private places where no one would have seen you (or at least no one that you don't trust) – e.g. in	Dagny	Open Discussion	2018/11/15
To do a DNA match with these databases they still have to have some of your DNA to match with, right? They need something like one of your hairs left at a crime scene. The database just tells them "that hair came from Joe" where without it they'd j	PAS	Open Discussion	2018/11/15
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2018/1115.html > How DNA Databases Violate Everyone's Privacy > [2018.10.15] If you're an American of European descent, there's a 60% chance you can be uniquely identified by public information in DN	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/15
That's good.	Alisa	Open Discussion	2018/11/13
#11366 they don’t have *integrity*.	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/12
There's also "one-sided" and "biased"	Alisa	Open Discussion	2018/11/12
Democrats often make claims 'without evidence,' but you'll rarely see it mentioned in the headline	Alisa	Open Discussion	2018/11/12
Today, Ann Coulter [RT'd](https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/1062055518225752065) the VDARE post, saying: > But they're NATURAL REPUBLICANS! From 80 to 60 Percent White: How to Lose a Congressional District	Alisa	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/12
https://vdare.com/posts/from-80-to-60-percent-white-how-to-lose-a-congressional-district-no-matter-what-kind-of-republican-you-are >In 2008, Virginia’s seventh congressional district was 79 percent white. Today, it is 65 percent white. ...	Anonymous	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/11
Overwatch teams hire new players primarily using *work sample tests* – they do *tryouts* where they see you *play the game*. Work sample tests are what patio11 and other wise people advise tech companies to use.	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/10
#11361 > Independent sellers who offer new and used Apple products on Amazon will have their listings removed after January 4, 2019, under the new deal. Those sellers will need to apply to become Apple authorized resellers on Amazon to continue to	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/10
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/11/09/apple-amazon-new-product-deal/ > Amazon Inks Deal to Sell New Apple Products Like iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and 2018 iPad Pro	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/10
https://twitter.com/AudaciousEpigon [image] Then in comments, he claims: > I'm a lot better at this than you are--that's fine, I've been doing it for a long time It's easy to discover that I hav	curi	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
Even giving the answer as 75% would be questionable. It's a reasonable estimate that comes from math which makes sense (unlike the 75.1% which is just an error), but I don't think it's exact.	curi	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
Even if all 18778 were dems (they aren't), then 239 variation is over 1% variance. So Audacious Epigone is incorrect to give an answer to a tenth of a percent.	curi	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
[CNN](https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/exit-polls): 18778 respondants, 41% say whites are favored, 87% of those are dems. How many of those respondents are dems? We can't know exactly but we can calculate a range. The *minimum* is: ceil(ceil(18778	curi	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
AE, regarding point 3, you could use a footnote. Doesn't have to be in the body. It's important to show your original work in order to get mistakes corrected, which is something your *best* readers might help with. Regarding SPLC etc, it is help	Anonymous	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
If a book has a chart on page 54 with no source in that chapter, but on page 33 there is an unrelated comment with a source which happens to be the same source from the page 54 chart ... is that reasonable? Is the chart sourced? No. There is nothing s	Dagny	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
anepigone.blogspot.com	Audacious Epigone	Bad Scholarship on VDare	2018/11/10
Not surprising	Previous student of Justin	Justin Kalef vs. Paths Forward	2018/11/08
Overwatch League players are not allowed to have pepe emotes. Dafran just quit OWL and put his emotes back up. Here's a mention of it (there's many, and this came up months ago when they made sinatraa take a tweet down): https://www.reddit.com/r/Co	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/07
3min tour of new esports facility for gen.g (south korean esports team). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAIVRR4Ss0U	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/11/07
Are you okay with China becoming a superpower because of freetrade?	FF	Globalism	2018/11/07
The claims you're making are not DD's claims and they don't interest me much. I don't think they constitute a thought-out system, and I don't see what problem they are even trying to solve that I don't already have a better solution to.	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/11/04
>If you add one thing and you don't get a variant, aren't you saying it's still the original thing, unchanged? Or are you claiming that adding one thing just make a new non-variant? If so, you'll really have to clarify what you think the rules are for	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/11/04
Ideas of the form "X or Y" where X and Y contradict seem like they should be ruled out as explanations (and therefore ruled out as variants of an explanation). If we can't solve conflicts between a set of N conflicting ideas, their union doesn't seem	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/11/04
Interesting. Related to your discussion: here Dr. Yoram Hazony also argues against one world government. https://mises.org/library/dr-yoram-hazony-liberalism-nationalism-and-globalism	Richard	Globalism	2018/11/04
Existing international institutions like the EU and the UN suck. They aren't really accountable to anyone but get to make rules and dispose of resources anyway. International projects backed by governments should be limited in scope to activities that	oh my god it's turpentine	Globalism	2018/11/03
> I Was Wrong About Jordan Peterson (And Vox Day Was Right) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dKS8QM2S-A The thing about Peterson, from my perspective, is that *all* the intellectuals are badly wrong and don't have Paths Forward. And the critics	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/10/then-they-came-for-youtube.html > Then they came for YouTube > And there was no one to defend it from the censors, because YouTube had already censored or suppressed everyone with the inclination to fight.	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
Wait, I got a bit lost. I was saying they are variants. You said: > It seems to me like adding crap doesn't produce a variant of the theory unless the crap contradicts parts of the theory. This seems to be a claim that "X or Y" is not a new or d	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/11/01
> I don't see where I used the idea that "X" and "X or Y" are the same theory. And adding some n=n+1 would prevent a theory from solving the problems it solves without the n=n+1 detail, so it's excluded by Deutsch's statement of the criterion. I do	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/11/01
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/10/this-explains-so-much.html When he was 14, Jordan Peterson wanted to be the head politician. So he said at an NDP event (New Democratic Party) and got in the news for. and Vox Day on Gab: https://voxday.blo	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/11/blair-white-outs-fake-conservatives.html > and it's very clear that they don't believe everything that they say that they believe when they're on camera. A lot of them just don't believe. they're just actors, th	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1iyRKjNlY0 Charles Tew edited a recent Jordan Peterson discussion video down to show how empty it is.	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
AGI/Education and what is a variant of a theory	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/11/01
Vox Day on Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCfEcDw_Dg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuUgS3TRQ9k Around 7min he talks about how the highest IQ people are weeded out of stuff b/c they are disruptive (not obedient followers, do thin	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
Owen Benjamin defends Jews. Good points. See the first few minutes of this video: > Jordan Peterson in the Belly of the Whale - Owen Benjamin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIgu0F7VhQE Benjamin says the IDW put him on the website, tried to i	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
Benjamain knows his shit. This video on his own channel talks about Alinsky and some more CAA handler stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HllDdQl7lI	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
Jordan Peterson Exposed (CAA Owen Benjamin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpA5AqQtByw	Anonymous	Jordan Peterson is a Traitor	2018/11/01
Curi, you can add external lists woth ublock origin. Go to settings and turn on the ones you like, imo many of the defaults are great. Other options at: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/31
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/29/apple-pencil-2-gestures-new-design/ > Apple Pencil 2 Rumored to Feature Gesture Support, New Charging Method and Minimalistic Design supposedly it can magnetically attach to the side of the ipad. that's nice.	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/29
Also general purpose hardware compute speed for single threaded code isn't increasing very fast now. So if you think AGIs can run shitty software and it'll just go 10x faster b/c of a 10x faster CPU ... I don't think that'll get us huge wins when we'r	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/28
> I have to criticize your argument that people waste compute power today. Most people do, but we (AGI developers) know why they do. People that exist today get distracted by fields other than aging research, nuclear risk reduction, etc because of a c	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/28
Have vs sue	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/28
Dagny I would have said re:AGI's aren't *fundamentally* better at criticism (they wouldn't sue a different epistemology) that AGI's will just be better at compute power, but I have to criticize your argument that people waste compute power today. Most	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/28
> I don't think they'd have a fundamental advantage over humans at creating arguments, they'd just be good at it like humans. Isn't figuring out education necessary to figuring out AGI? Oh, then why would they solve aging or nuclear war? Wouldn't t	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/27
Disagreements with DD	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/27
>> I said nuclear disarmament because I agree with Deutsch that problems shouldn't be prevented but solved and didn't want to solve the apparent contradiction - can you? >You seem to be bringing some political ideas into this which you haven't expl	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/27
Ranking problems	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/27
Hey Alex, I'm a co-author on this piece. Glad to hear you appreciated us sharing your story.	Justin Mallone	By Any Means Necessary: A Violent Marxist Cult	2018/10/27
I'm glad that you appreciated us sharing this. I've fixed the gender pronouns in the article.	curi	By Any Means Necessary: A Violent Marxist Cult	2018/10/26
Thank you for sharing!	Alex from Detroit	By Any Means Necessary: A Violent Marxist Cult	2018/10/26
#11318 play some and watch some. don't play a different game if you want to play melee.	Anonymous	Learn Super Smash Brothers Melee and Philosophy!	2018/10/22
I'm interested in getting into Melee. I've a relatively large amount of experience with Brawl and even more experience with SSB4. I only have very basic knowledge of Melee and less of Project M, which I currently assume is a sort of "pseudo-Melee"/"Br	Anonymous	Learn Super Smash Brothers Melee and Philosophy!	2018/10/22
#11315 DD quit philosophy around the time I figured out https://yesornophilosophy.com (years before creating that educational material). I asked him to engage with it but he never engaged much. He chose not to learn and respond to it, I think for	curi	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
> Like, it's conceivable that solving the problem of how to make money is a sub-problem of someone's problem of how to do stuff that requires a stove. I don't think cooking and money making stuff offer strict subset/superset relationships. To make	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
Refutation	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
Quality vs quantity of explanation	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
from the dumb law archives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread#1943_U.S._ban_on_sliced_bread > During 1943, U.S. officials imposed a short-lived ban on sliced bread as a wartime conservation measure.[6][7] The ban was ordered by Claude R	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/21
>When two ideas contradict each other, then at least one is false. We can't determine that one is false by looking at their positive virtues (how wonderful are they, how useful are they, how much do they explain). Instead, we have to deal with contrad	Guilherme	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
> Also, why do you think that the solution to AGI solves aging and the problem of nuclear disarmament? He presumably thinks they will be superintelligent and rapidly self-improving and rapidly solve virtually all problems. That kinda view. ---	Anonymous	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
#11305 >>>a. Corollary 1-1: We should prefer theories that explain more over those that explain less. In other words, we should prefer theories that have fewer problems (things it can’t explain) over ones that have more problems. >>Don't judge	Guilherme	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/21
Daniel Pipes is skeptical of Trump's policy on Israel: http://www.danielpipes.org/18546/still-skeptical-of-trump-israel-policy > Question: The Trump administration seems to be following the logic of MEF's Israel Victory Project launched in Janua	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/21
> “Almost every old farmstead in my vicinity is no longer just a home for a single farm family. They are often now surrounded by trailers and lean-tos, in turn sub-rented out to dozens of others—violations of zoning laws and building codes of the	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/21
> “Before the summer coup of 2016, Turkey was said to have 50,000 political prisoners. Many of them were members of the country’s oppressed Kurdish minority which is deprived of its most basic civil rights. These include even the use of their own	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/21
#11304 > By "rejected", do you mean "thrown away"? Throwing away ideas for how to solve a problem just because they don't work disables you from modifying them to find a solution. no you don't throw it away, and for the reason you said. you can	Dagny	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/20
Quality vs quantity of explanation	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/20
Refutation	Evan	Critical Rationalism Epistemology Explanations	2018/10/20
breaks	curi	Open Discussion	2018/10/20
ad blocking	curi	Open Discussion	2018/10/20
Thanks [Alan Forrester](https://conjecturesandrefutations.com) for finding these quotes.	curi	Turgot on Criticism and Parenting	2018/10/19
I have noticed at least some salespeople have two additional tactics: (1) Assume the close: Instead of getting you to say yes or no, they slowly and carefully move from the pitch into finalizing the transaction as if you said yes. They only stop if	PAS	Product Release: Yes or No Philosophy	2018/10/19
patio11 on yes or no answers	curi	Product Release: Yes or No Philosophy	2018/10/18
https://twitter.com/GGReisman/status/1052024953803919360 > If Elizabeth Warren had been Jewish in Nazi Germany, her 1/64th, ancestry, let alone 1/1024th, would have been considered too small to keep her out of the Nazi Party or the SS. That’s how	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/15
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/411377-warren-dna-test-shows-strong-evidence-of-native-american-ancestor > Bustamante said that Warren’s test results show the “vast majority” of her ancestry is European, but that “the results strongly s	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/15
Ritualized lying: https://spitfire.overwatchleague.com/en-us/news/thank-you-closer	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/15
https://twitter.com/morganknutson/status/1049523067506966529 Long, interesting story about how awful working at Google+ was. Office politics and crap. Notably, they had to bribe other parts of the company to do G+ integration by paying them lots	curi	Open Discussion	2018/10/15
http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/019182/crowd-counting-through-walls-wifi You can count people moving around a room (or other space) with only one wifi transmitter and one wifi receiver (which can be behind walls). All it takes is math and monitoring	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/14
> But I think the basic issue is leftists think that non-leftists are too dumb to see the brilliant genius of left-wing policies and need to be forced for their own good by the state. I don't think many of them think that. And if they do, it's a co	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
The Left Doesn't Focus on Persuasion	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhS4a11jZOg >> The Legend of Korra is Garbage and Here's Why > 1.6 million views. I thought Avatar The Last Airbender was amazing, but Korra was only OK (not garbage, though!). The video description begins: >	Justin	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhS4a11jZOg > The Legend of Korra is Garbage and Here's Why 1.6 million views. I thought Avatar The Last Airbender was amazing, but Korra was only OK (not garbage, though!). The video description begins: > Reup	curi	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
> The sources noted that the morning Barr’s tweet exploded on the internet, Barr had even offered to issue public apologies and make the rounds on every talk and news show in order to make amends. > “Ben and Channing weren’t having any of tha	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/11/arm-v83-javascript > LATEST REVISION TO ARM INSTRUCTION SET INCLUDES OPTIMIZATIONS JUST FOR JAVASCRIPT Apple did some CPU design specifically aimed at javascript performance, cuz javascript matters th	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
BTW I put links to the source videos in the description, in case people either wanted more context or wanted to use them for their own vids or whatever. I plan on doing that from now on since it's very little work to do so and adds some real value to	Justin	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
> The Stakes (America vs. The Mob Part 2) by Justin > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvVRDZVq3-0 actual GOP ads are just edits of my vids now ;-DDD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlMIyae9-ZU&frags=pl%2Cwn	Justin	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
The Stakes (America vs. The Mob Part 2) by Justin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvVRDZVq3-0	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/12
> “Another Republican president might have lost his nerve amid all this. More than one elite conservative pundit called on Trump to ditch Kavanaugh and appoint Amy Coney Barrett instead. She was a woman, you see, so she’d be immune to criticism. E	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/11
If it weren't for double standards, the left would have no standards at all.	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/11
#11281 Disorganized. Condescending ranting that doesn't really attempt rigor or seriousness. More interested in social dynamics and DHVs than changing the world or educating anyone or clarity. Knows less than he pretends to. Not a philosopher. Lacks p	curi	Open Discussion	2018/10/09
Thoughts on Moldbuggery, Curi? https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/09
RIP Google+ (the consumer version) + data breach https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/08/google-plus-shutting-down-data-breach/	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/08
[image]	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/07
Rothbard in *An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought*: > While Aristotle was critical of money-making, he still opposed any limitation – such as Plato had advocated – on an individual's accumulation of private property. Inste	curi	Rothbard's Bad Scholarship on Godwin and Popper	2018/10/06
> “Kavanaugh, for the first time, used language in his testimony to make it implicitly clear to the people whose support he needed—people who would pressure wavering senators—that he was being assaulted by the very forces Republicans and conserv	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/06
guides to going pro in overwatch – general stuff and role specific. https://www.reddit.com/r/Competitiveoverwatch/comments/9lnfl7/beginningyourpathtopro_main_support/	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/05
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/05/anandtech-iphone-xs-review/ > AnandTech Calls A12 Bionic in iPhone XS 'Just Margins Off' Best Desktop CPUs in New Review also > As part of the review, AnandTech also offered a look at how Apple has improve	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/05
#11272 apple and amazon have denied it. https://daringfireball.net/2018/10/bloomberg_the_big_hack https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/10/04/what-businessweek-got-wrong-about-apple	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/04
A guy runs down the origin of a fake title for Federalist 78 in this twitter thread https://twitter.com/derektmuller/status/1047902874762502144?s=21	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/04
> “There are two ways for spies to alter the guts of computer equipment. One, known as interdiction, consists of manipulating devices as they’re in transit from manufacturer to customer. This approach is favored by U.S. spy agencies, according to	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/04
> On campus, all can present equally valid narratives. What privileges one story over another is not necessarily any semblance to reality, at least as established by evidence and facts. Instead, powerful victimizers supposedly “construct” truths b	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/04
Meant to set the voat.co title to the title here. It's: "UBISOFT leaks: company mandates diversity training for white employees, HR drones brag about hiring based on skin color! Anti-white propaganda to be implemented in all games"	Alisa	Open Discussion	2018/10/03
https://voat.co/v/gaming/2762495	Alisa	Open Discussion	2018/10/03
> “At other times, we scoured the existing grievance studies literature to see where it was already going awry and then tried to magnify those problems. Feminist glaciology? Okay, we’ll copy it and write a feminist astronomy paper that argues femi	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/03
> “Our paper-writing methodology always followed a specific pattern: it started with an idea that spoke to our epistemological or ethical concerns with the field and then sought to bend the existing scholarship to support it. The goal was always to	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/03
Mill advocating communism as a way of reducing the number of living human beings: http://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP14.html#II.1.13 > The Communistic scheme, instead of being peculiarly open to the objection drawn from danger of over-popula	curi	Open Discussion	2018/10/03
https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1047239328013930497 [image]	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/02
>ON FRIDAY, FACEBOOK revealed that it had suffered a security breach that impacted at least 50 million of its users, and possibly as many as 90 million. What it failed to mention initially, but revealed in a followup call Friday afternoon, is that the	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/10/01
AirPower charging pads may be stalled due to intellectual property legal issues. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/09/17/is-apples-airpower-wireless-charging-pad-late-because-of-something-besides-technical-challenges	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/30
>“Ten years ago, the $999 price of iPhone X would not have bought a state of the art camera, a pocketable computer, a personal audio player, portable TV and a cellular phone, let alone paid for any of the new key features of iPhone X. Add in inflati	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/30
https://research.mozilla.org/files/2018/04/The-Effect-of-Ad-Blocking-on-User-Engagement-with-the-Web.pdf Mozilla looked at some web browsing data and found: > In the group that installed an ad blocker, we find significant increases in both activ	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/30
And Apple products are a major part of *the good life* today. Philosophers should care about the tools they use to read/write/watch/listen/record.	curi	Open Discussion	2018/09/30
Apple is wonderful and interesting. Though Cook is far worse than Jobs :(	curi	Open Discussion	2018/09/30
curi.us - Apple tech news (also objectivism)	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/30
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1045755377520766976.html [image]	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/29
The story of XQC (overwatch player/streamer): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1bgzFGyNuU	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/29
Comparison and criticism of speedrunning marathons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vjyy-UkZBY	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/29
Why do you damn Trump with faint praise? Eg."a few good things in relation to Israel". He's done better on Israel than other president. That good needs to be clearly called out like Netanyahu does: https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp	Anonymous	Don't Trust Trump, He's Not a Conservative	2018/09/28
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Found a Mojave bug: open 2 finder windows, A and B. open a 2nd tab in A. drag the 2nd tab to B. click the close button on window A. it leaves A open and closes B (both tabs). Repeatable.	curi	Open Discussion	2018/09/27
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/09/27/hill-facebook > The researchers also found that if User A, whom we’ll call Anna, shares her contacts with Facebook, including a previously unknown phone number for User B, whom we’ll call Ben, advert	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/27
#11249 No.	oh my god it's turpentine	Open Discussion	2018/09/26
Is this blog antisemitic?	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/26
New Coulter column: http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2018-09-26.html > NO MORE MR. WHITE GUY	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/26
https://brooksreview.net/2018/09/safari-content-blocker-evaluations-92618-edition/ > Safari Content Blocker Evaluations – 9/26/18 Edition > 1Blocker X is leagues better than the rest. That's what I was already using :)	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/26
What did I get wrong? Trump has done a few good things in relation to Israel but he remains squishy on Israel like he is also squishy on most other things, and he has in fact said awful things related to Israel, Islam, etc, fairly recently (e.g. his G	curi	Don't Trust Trump, He's Not a Conservative	2018/09/26
#5087 - Do you now admit Trump could write that speech without hired help and he meant what he said? The main post got many things wrong and Trump has been a good friend of Israel.	Anonymous	Don't Trust Trump, He's Not a Conservative	2018/09/26
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/26/apple-news-publishers-high-traffic-poor-revenue/ > Report Reveals Apple News Brings Publishers Much Higher Traffic But a Lot Less Ad Revenue > In a stark example, Slate revealed that it earns more money from	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/26
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/26/apple-watch-series-4-second-supplier-compal/ > Apple Watch Series 4 Expected to Gain Second Manufacturer Following 'Much Better Than Expected' Demand Just got mine yesterday. I like it.	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/26
http://www.displaymate.com/Diamond_41a.html [image]	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/24
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/24/iphone-storage-profitable/ > In research compiled by Bloomberg, the 64GB iPhone XS cost Apple $23.68 for the NAND storage specifically, the 256GB cost $66.24, and the 512GB cost $132.48. In terms of revenue, the	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/24
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/09/24/apple-shazam-acquisition-finalized/ > Apple Finalizes Shazam Acquisition, App Will Soon Become Ad-Free Also MacOS Mojave came out today. Back up your computer before updating!	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/24
what are some good productivity extensions for Chrome?	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/23
fucking racists	Anonymous	Open Discussion	2018/09/23
Discipline = Freedom	Anonymous	Open Discussion: Parenting, Babies, Education	2018/09/23
The standard TCS answer to this is: local anesthetic (e.g. emla cream). I don't object to a friendly atmosphere per se, and I think it's good to give the child some prior experience with things (like touching the child with the sheathed needle with	curi	Open Discussion: Parenting, Babies, Education	2018/09/23

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