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> You really believe that is what Chesterton meant?

I have no idea what he meant. I do not have ESP, and given that Chesterton is long dead, it probably wouldn't be effective even if I did. All I know is what the text says.

> First, if that is true, then how can you so vehemently deny something (the fact of sin) that you claim hasn't even been defined?

I deny that there exists a single Fact of Sin that is so privileged that it can be coherently referred to as THE fact of sin in a rational argument. The phrase "the fact of sin" is non-sensical, a turn of phrase cunningly designed to make you think it has a referent when in fact it does not. The rhetoric of Christianity is rife with such linguistic ploys. They are necessary to cover up the fact that Christianity is both logically incoherent and inconsistent with the laws of physics. It is the longest of long cons.

> from a cursory reading of the text, I think it's pretty easy to infer.

Yes, I know you think so, but you are wrong. Like I said, "the fact of sin" is a turn of phrase cunningly designed to make you think it has, not only a referent, but a self-evident one. But it doesn't. There is no self-evident "fact of sin", including:

> It's pretty obvious that when he says the fact of sin, he means the fact that sin exists.

That is far from obvious, because from that premise his conclusion does not follow. What does it even mean that "sin exists"? Does it mean that at some point in history some person committed a sin? Does it mean that at any given time there is at least one person committing a sin? Does it mean that humans have within them the potential to commit sins at any time even thought there could be times when they don't act on that potential? Don't bother answering, those are rhetorical questions. The point is that the idea that "sin exists" is another one of those phrases that is cunningly designed to make you think that it means something, and that you understand what it means, when in fact it is utter nonsense (because of its ambiguity).

> Backing up your claims with evidence

LOL. Can you show me any evidence that there is an afterlife?

There is no evidence for Christianity. None. Zero. And many of its claims are absurd on their face. Do you really believe that zombies walked the streets of Jerusalem and not a single person thought it was worthy of note other than the author of Matthew? Or that Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead and not a single person thought this was worthy of note other than the author of John? It's just ridiculous. These are transparent fictions.

A critical examination of the Bible reveals it to be nothing more than human mythology of the sort regularly produced by humans [1]. Christianity just happened to get a boost by being in the right place at the right time when Rome fell and created a power vacuum for the church to step in to.

Read Carrier's "Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus" and then come back and we can talk.

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[1] Note: I in no way mean to denigrate or disparage the value of mythology. But it is important not to conflate it with reality.
This is incredible work.
I recently attended Westpoint and got out for reasons beyond my control, this is basically a recipe for that whole system. Every. Single. Point. Describes what I went through to a T.
Seeing this laundry list for the abuse I went through is chilling, but it's nice to be gone. Hopefully people read this and avoid those situations, it's a pretty horrible thing to get involved with.
Offshore wind is also a lot less intermittent and tends to produce when onshore isnt (& vice versa).

This wind farm was about half the cost per MWh of hinkley point C as opposed to onshore which is 1/4-1/3. However, the output is a lot more stable than onshore.
If I had a dollar for every HN story about how technically illegal drugs are being used for psychiatric purposes and we're just on the verge of them going mainstream and legal and licit, I could fund a bunch of YC startups.
Brava, you've drawn a line from "Politifact exists" to "AHHH WE'LL ALL BE IN REEDUCATION CAMPS". When you've calmed down, consider that there are reasons we should compare claims against reality (i.e. fact check) that are not "suppress[ing] undesired opinions or truths".
> "Experts" are just people with their own inherent biases.

This is an absurd and false statement, and is a perfect summation of why so much mis/disinformation floats around and is so popular in today's online world.

Experts do indeed have their own inherent biases. This part is a glib truism because experts are people, and all people have biases which both consciously and unconsciously influence their decision making.

But that is not "just" what experts are. Experts are people who have, by definition, expertise in a given subject matter. Unless you too are an equal expert in a given topic, experts--once again by definition--know more than you do in that field.

It doesn't mean you need to take what they say as gospel, so to speak, but it does mean that when the choice is to listen to 'random person on the internet' versus 'someone who has studied something for years and has made valued contributions to the field', the two-despite both having biases-are not on equal footing.
And at the end of the day, the underlying issue is the intent of sharing this info on social media in the first place. Susan Rosenberg's position as vice chair of the board of directors for Thousand Currents is intended to imply that BLM itself is a terrorist organization. No amount of fact checking is going to help in this scenario.
Was a /s intended here?
Get paid for it. If I’m billing $100-$150 / hr I don’t need my work to be entertaining.
No, I'm still an atheist. There's no reason to believe in god nor any evidence that we define reality through our beliefs and experiences (and a lot of evidence that this has zero impact at all, a la the entire pool of continuously disappointed "The Secret" devotees).

I'm just saying that I think there is a sort of need in most people, probably an accident of evolution, even one that has some positive fitness value due to second order effects, to have something religion shaped. Atheists like me basically helped create the mess we were in by helping to destroy the more mainstream religions thereby creating an opportunity for straight up crazypants stuff to emerge with properties that are harder to deal with (nothing is written down, nothing is consistent - Q) by pointing out the flaws and obvious falseness. We acted as a selection function for an even more terrible set of ideas.

In a lot of ways the current situation is very similar to the second great awakening in the early 19th century which spawned a number of cult-like sects of Christianity.
Those were the days my friend. We thought they would never end...
Maybe not a tip, but a perspective. Someone posted it here, and I've tried to make it my life.

https://jacobian.org/2021/apr/7/embrace-the-grind/
Just because you claim to be a fact checker shouldn't allow you to censor others.

The inability to censor others in a public forum isn't censorship. They can still post as much as the next person.

The problem is that Facebook used fact checkers to censor others.
have you ever k-holed?

Nitrous is also a dissociative, with psychedelic properties.

Alcohol can even push this boundary.
I spent quite a bit of my late adolescence consuming mind-altering substances like LSD and mushrooms. It did expand my mind and made me appreciate certain things.

But it did not fix my depression or make me feel less alone. I might feel connected to the universe -- for a time. But it eventually fades, and the old demons come back.

Sooner or later, you need to deal with the issues at hand. The reason you feel this way.

For me, going to therapy allowed me to address some of the root issues -- generational trauma, a lack of affection, perhaps chemicals in my brain -- and allowed me to start rewriting my story of myself.

I enjoyed my experiments with psychedelics, and I would not discourage anyone from using them. But they are not the cure-all many claim, either.
The Venn diagram of NFT investors and Bitcoin enthusiasts is almost a circle.
Fact checkers are totally an enemy of free speech. They flag posts saying that is so called "information" is inaccurate and that people shouldn't be able to see it.

If it is false is it really right to flag the post. I mean yes it is false but as Americans we are suppost to have free speech when we don't.
> if it's something that's universally a good thing that should be required of every driver, it should be provided by the state and paid for with taxes / annual registration fees.

It's not, even in theory, in most places, though. It's just a convenient option to a liability bond that most drivers choose.

> Oh, and fun fact: the liability insurance isn't required to pay up anything unless the covered driver loses in court. They don't have to follow that the police report says regarding whose fault it is.

Well, yeah. It's liability insurance. It has to pay when a legal liability is established against the driver. That is, exactly when the driver would have to pay in the absence of insurance.

Determining legal liability is what we have courts for, not police. The cops doing the courts’ jobs is a phenomenally bad idea.
We finally know why stress turns your hair white (2020)
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Isn't that the problem with the canadian and American housing market?

Most people are all in on housing and can't afford to diversify after that, thus, the government cannot let the market crash without wiping out the wealth of the majority of its citizens
Sure. But that requires those people to actually be ready to dedicate their lives to the fight.

Currently, the US is the closest it's ever been to losing democracy, and the gun nuts are cheering on those who are destroying it. So not going to be expecting much out of them, I'm afraid.
Those 6 sessions are bundled with a long manuscript that relieves the clinic from all liability, so you're on your own anyway.
I think you’re right about the impact of many of these on the Baby Boomers especially divorce and birth control.

I also feel like in your defense of Baby Boomers you’re taking away from previous generations, especially with regards to the civil rights movement which my grandparents were involved in and experienced first-hand when my parents were too young or weren’t alive yet and my parents are Boomers.

Same with music like Rock and Roll. No doubt Boomers grew up with it but the people at the first shows weren’t Boomers.

The civil rights movement had the most impact on the Boomers, but how could they be on the streets when most of them weren’t born or weren’t old enough to be involved?
I can’t speak for the OP but as someone with mental health issues, I find a great deal of comfort in learning to cope. I honestly don’t know if I’d choose to magic away half of my issues tomorrow: I know myself today, I know how to get through the day… getting better can be exhausting, and scary. Better the pain you know.
Link to the Ketamine Erowid Vault: https://erowid.org/chemicals/ketamine/ketamine.shtml

Trip reports: https://erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ketamine.shtml
Eventually, the consumption of all recreational drugs will be medicalized. Turns out that taking drugs makes you feel good, and that if you can keep taking them, you'll keep feeling good unless the body physically adopts, like with heroin. I always wondered why people took them.

Medical ketamine for depression could potentially be an even greater windfall than methadone was. There are a lot more people that can be diagnosed as depressed than as heroin-addicted. I supposed this is all working towards massive state subsidy.
To be fair, if it really was “lethal” half of eighties kids wouldn’t be alive today.
Could you not inhibit the startup screen? I get wanting to have a "clean" setup but if anyone is using this there is a good chance they don't know emacs all that well already and links to the tutorial are good for them.
Every one of those languages in india have native speakers in the US, what's your point?

> it’s probably not anything profound.

Could say the same, just being pompous. We're not comparing third generation italians with all of india here, we are comparing them the whole of US where italians are one piece with india. If you want 1-to-1 check out immigrant communities in any major city and suburb. I've worked in a team of maybe 20 where at least 7 nationalities and 4-5 native langauges were represented. Unless of course you don't consider naturalized americans lr their children as real americans? I've met Chinese from different parts of china, mexicans from different parts if mexico, indians from different states speaking urdu, punjabi,etc... middle easter people with very different arabic dialects and somehow you think India or Brazil is more diverse? You don't have to have a long established native presence for your culture to count. Heck, ever heard of internet or hacker culture? It's real!
This line of thinking is how we end up with nonsensical UX like having to select "America/Los Angeles" to get US Pacific time. There are many use cases for datetimes and timezones, not all of them need a location and in some cases it's incorrect or misleading to include a location. You could certainly use a UTC timestamp and coordinates in your application but that doesn't work for many other use cases.
I tend to use sane emacs when Im on a new system and just need to be up and running real fast and dont have my current dotfiles, but this looks like it is pretty awesome! Good stuff and well done!
I don't believe Hershel was optical at all - pretty certain it was far infra-red
Please show your improved programs, along with the measurements which show the improvement, so we can confirm your claims.

The benchmarks game does show measurements which take OSR and warm up into account —

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Man, it must be nice to have that calendar only 1/4th full.
This all stuff reminds of two kids fighting in front of teacher.
What's your opinion on how a person should crack an egg :)

So much drama about such a basic concept. Yes it helps in general to stop the spread, maybe in some cases it's less effective, or not needed at all.

Why on earth people dedicate so much energy to discuss a tiny subset of mask application?

How's that a big deal?
I mean it would be interesting to see some scientific insight on what the effects of pigeonholing is.

I’m ready to agree with the author of the article here but his conclusion isn’t exactly more scientific than the book he’s writing about.
A wasp is at least an order of magnitude more complex than a tardigrade though (maybe even two orders?), and flying require quite complex intelligence so I would not put some for of consciousness for wasps. Though I would believe that their “brains” are entirely different from mammal brains, because to be honest, some mammals are really really dumb (and for a long time they were believed to be only “biological robots”?).
https://github.com/apache/incubator-seatunnel

https://flink.apache.org/
I try to trick or bribe myself mostly.

Either, do it and spend the time after doing something I like, or try to spin the boring thing as possibly interesting.

Like documenting a potential usecase and seeing how that would actually happen. Though I end up messing with the code/configs instead
https://time.com/collection/timepieces-nft/6115094/introduci...
I think it would be interesting if you could share some examples of what you believe to be real truths that never change.
> It is vital that you trust yourself enough to speak up. Yes, the professor is really smart, and knows more than you, but she didn't spend 3 weeks in the lab wrestling with some optical setup like you did and you know some things better then her, better than anyone in fact. It's hard to admit, I know.

It's really not. It was obvious to me about 9 months in that my advisor really didn't know all that much. The professors who really seemed to have technical chops were either new faculty still trying to get tenure, or the rare iconoclast who didn't play the game and had a single grad student. The tenured professors with large research labs were frankly better politicians than they were scientists.
If you are not the kind of person for whom inventing artificial rewards works, you probably can do the opposite, leverage Pavlov and associate the cup of coffee to getting started.

Don't sip before getting started though!

For getting in the task, I've noticed doing a little superficial manual linting on a code works quite well for me to get inside it (I've recently inherited some non linted code). I guess doing some (semi) automatic, mindless task can help to get started.

For documentation, maybe doing some boilerplate labor could work. If you don't have rules to follow when working on documentation, maybe create some so you have a framework in which you can build habit.

Maybe having a checklist on what step to follow when writing doc would help too? Like "read the function, add the doc string, the description of the parameters, followed by the return values, etc.

Food for thoughts, untested, not a lawyer, not a physician, etc.
I busted out the 3-MEO-PCP that I had literally buried - at the time, I had thought it was too manic, to schizophrenic.

10 day regime of a small bump for breakfast had be happy for weeks.

do drugs, people
Its not too difficult to just ignore all search results that reference "bandit" or "overthewire", and thus have an identical experience to before. I suspect there were places on the internet in 2012 where people discussed and disseminated bash tips and tricks.
I wholly agree with you, although I think it's worth pointing out that the specific risk here (America's dangerous socket design) is purely incidental.

The underlying problem (Amazon appears to be naively scraping information from the information and automatically applying truth judgments to it) needs to be resolved.
Jamie Metzl lays out an incredible delusional narrative constructed by health experts about the Pangolin/intermediate host theory for Sars-COV-2 origins, 4 hours of in-depth discussion, highly recommend. Experts made a U-turn but not because of typical respectful scientific protocol of discovering new facts (and therefore changing their minds), but rather due to peer-pressure, politics and group-think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K78jqx9fx2I
Do you mean you've been approved/are able to get clinically administered MDMA taken with a therapist -- or is this self-administered?

I had similar very positive + life-changing experiences from taking MDMA but it wasn't clinical.
Esketamine isn't "technically illegal" or "on the verge". It has been approved by the FDA. It's available legally now.
"Fence prices" or 10% of market value, as far as I know. Value it as if you'd paid a thief for it.

When its bigger or corporations are involved you get to say things like "non-monetary compensation" and so on.

Don't forget you can deduct the expenses incurred too, tho: if it cost $20 to buy the masks and water pistols and all you got was a couple of candy bars, that's probably a loss you could carry forward to next year.
"In short, "fact checkers" don't actually understand the definition of what a fact is, but are quick to declare them, and this is contrary to my experience of real, actual truth."

Fact checkers know exactly what a fact is rather they don't like people to know the truth, they instead want to push information that benefits them in some way.
I think what I'm trying to say is that because absolute truth is so hard to determine, it is imperative that people have the ability to decide for themselves from the data what they believe to be true, even if it is "wrong" (because sometimes what is "wrong" turns out to be true in the end).
Get an O'Reilly subscription.
The most funny that whatever you call a media bias... Media is catered towards what people want to discuss. Sadly that's what's people think is important.
Agreed, it would also be nice to see varying workloads which seems to be missing from any benchmark I’ve ever read.

Maybe a future weekend project :)
What did I just read O_O That's incredible when you consider the sheer amount of work that's gone into that. Just the index page is bigger than most web sites.
> It's sort of like the slow eroding of freedoms and transition to fascism that people seem to be fine with because "protect us against COVID"

Oh, come the heck on. I don't know how a reasonable person should be expected to take this seriously. We've been forcing people to vaccinate for a good long time now and I don't think I'm living in a fascist dystopia. Correct me if I'm wrong! Should I buy some jackboots so I can fit into my new reality?
It's the same as the Ministry of Truth. Orwellian and arrogant to the extreme and will always be abused by those in power.

Who fact checks the fact checkers?
Are you talking about the SponsorBlock that removes sponsored content in YouTube videos?
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I'll take 1. Imagine the FOMO when someone tells you a child made more money that you ever could in your entire life. This is textbook NFT hype.
I stuck a table knife into the outlet when I was little. I only did it because everyone kept telling me not to. I have this memory of it jumping out at me, I'm genuinely curious if I actually touched the hot side or it's just my imagination.
You know that the BBC is not American, right? It's the British Broadcasting Company. Could you please stop calling all English-speakers Americans? ;-)
Case numbers are meaningless for comparisons between states due to inconsistencies in testing. If you want to make a valid comparison then look at hospitalizations and deaths, then adjust for differences in population demographics.
I strongly disagree with your first sentiment and strongly agree with the 2nd.

It isn't a matter of knowledge or irrationality. Someone with a difficult life can be happy without the expectation of improvement.
have you checked out the prices for esketamine, the FDA-approved version? the markup is about 10000%.
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In addition to ringing true, this seems largely in line with Thomas Kuhn's thesis in his Structure of Scientific Revolutions [0], a book which despite its shortcomings, should be required reading for anyone in a STEM field.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Re...
I live brazil and earn in BRL. In the USD/BRL pair, the dollar price keeps increasing when you look at the historical data.
Does that mean that holding USD is enough and investing these dollars to make more dollars is ultimately a waste of time?