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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16759428
Following that through, you clearly hate being backed into a corner, and don’t mind engaging in “innacuracy” when it suits you.
Comment · 8 years ago
He is arguing that the government of Michigan's laws are bad because the Nazis had bad laws.
There's dishonesty for you.
Yes, you’re being dishonest.
If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
He spelled it out in the post you’re aggressively misinterpreting and it’s decidedly not the fiction you’re peddling. So are you really losing track of what’s been said, in which case it’s time to step back, or are you being dishonest? You don’t seem like you’re losing track, so...
Comment · 8 years ago
The degree to which something interferes in someone’s life, their ability to function, etc. If you’re suicidally depressed, or psychotic, it’s a clear distinction for obvious reasons. It’s not about comparing to some standard, you can believe strange things, be unhappy, and so on, but if it starts to make you unable to live your life, it might be a problem.
Comment · 8 years ago
This I just wrong from the start. If there’s a single overarching definition of mental illness, it’s “clinical significance” and not deviation from the norm. Of course it’s not that simple either, but it is a common thread throughout all of them.
Comment · 8 years ago
It’s a warning sign for delusional and paranoid ideation, which can be the result of a pretty startling number of issues. Drugs can cause delusions/paranoia, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder, delusional disorder, mania, and so on can all present in that way. It’s important to remember that it’s quite rare for that kind of person to be a threat to anyone other than themselves though. Most poled who think like her, or think they’re being “gang stalked” or any of a myriad of strange-to-delusional beliefs are just miserable, exhausted people, not a threat.
However it’s also true that of the small number of mentally ill people who on to harm others, people with paranoid ideation are one of the two groups who are more likely to be violent. The other group are people who are psychotic, and may harm people under the instructions of “voices” or in extreme cases, just not have any idea what they’re doing.
Again however, those “likely” groups are still seriously unlikely to be violent against anyone other than themselves, in general.
Comment · 8 years ago
Credit to the mods who brought it back to the front page though.
Comment · 8 years ago
CBS just showed a body under yellow tarp, so at least one fatality on the scene. SFGH reporting casualties as well.
Good luck YouTube staff, hang in there.
Comment · 8 years ago
Why? What do they lose? Equifax for example is doing just fine. They don’t feel the pain, we do.
Comment · 8 years ago
Don’t forget, “We’re sorry,” “We’ll do better,” and my personal favorite, “Trust us!”
I’d prefer crippling fines.
Comment · 8 years ago
My pleasure, and by the way, I really enjoy your blog. You have an interesting perspective and you write very well.
Comment · 8 years ago
First I just want to say that I agree with you, that was an explosion; explosion and detonation aren’t necessarily the same thing. Loud noise and rapidly expanding gas = explosion. One correction though, which is that a shockwave is supersonic, and just judging by the fact that burning fragments were on the floor and not punching through the wall, I’ll guess it wasn’t supersonic.
Still an explosion!
Comment · 8 years ago
Caffeine is cheaply synthesized, and that’s almost certainly what soda manufacturers use in their products.
Which simply isn’t true. He actually said outright:
If you use the state as a metric for ethics you'll end up disappointed.
Now, you may think that’s garbage, but you’re not free to pretend that he said completely different things he didn’t actually say. Remember how you hate inaccuracy? Do you think that what you were doing before was accurate? How about playing semantic games now with the word “state,” is that accurate?
It isn’t, it’s evasive. So, what are you evading?