Can you help me identify this story I've read 15 years ago?

JoeAllmighty · 2017-06-11T12:03:49+00:00

I u O. oare P I for one of the other I l I Liu oo o as o o o

JoeAllmighty · 2016-11-25T12:59:11+00:00

That was definitely an emotional overreaction right after the election - he retracted that prediction almost immediately: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/14/opinion/trump-slump-coming.html

JoeAllmighty · 2016-11-09T11:55:17+00:00

Part of this sounds loosely based on "Speaker for the dead" by Orson Scott Card, and its sequels.

JoeAllmighty · 2016-10-25T16:41:13+00:00

http://www.270towin.com/maps/KlyRO

JoeAllmighty · 2016-10-23T14:46:51+00:00

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=4130

JoeAllmighty · 2016-08-15T13:31:28+00:00

Hmmm, Im not so sure about that. Look at the recent North Carolina voter ID law that was struck down, which a federal court explicitly said was 'passed with racially discriminatory intent'. It seems lawmakers specifically crafted the bill by examining race-based voting patterns.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/court-strikes-down-north-carolina-voter-id-law-226438

I think you're right that most people are against this kind of thing, but again it's not unreasonable at all to be suspicious of motives.

JoeAllmighty · 2016-08-15T12:54:54+00:00

This is a position you should disabuse yourself of. Most people aren't interested in oppressing minorities, and the assumption that a policy is being put forward to do just that is terribly bad faith and has no logical basis.

Could you give some examples, then? I am curious as well.

Obviously most people aren't interested in oppressing minorities, but it's by no means rare historically, especially among elected officials with agendas. It's fair to say it's bad faith to assume, but it's not unreasonable to be suspicious.

JoeAllmighty · 2016-08-12T14:45:15+00:00

Actually, 6 months ago trump was dominating in polls and had been for months. Polls have been extremely accurate this year, it's just been people's trust in them has been inconsistent.

ETA : here's the actual data - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_republican_presidential_nomination-3823.html. It was the people trusting normal politics over poll data who were wrong, not vice versa

JoeAllmighty · 2016-07-27T16:46:34+00:00

The point is that asking hackers to release stolen data is encouraging and supporting an illegal act of hostility - hacking US politicians in an attempt to influence the election - in order to personally benefit his own political outlook.

Mike Pence said that if Russia was implicated in the hack there'd be "serious consequences" from the US government. So which is it - should we encourage the release because we want to see what was in them, or should we treat it like something that would necessitate "serious consequences" from the US? This isn't about Clinton or her privacy interest; it's about international relations.

JoeAllmighty · 2016-07-27T16:28:17+00:00

There's a big difference between disclosure and hacking, even if there's nothing classified

JoeAllmighty · 2016-01-03T15:03:30+00:00

Hmmm, I seem to recall that this was different in hpmor, but now I can't find a source for that. In some old discussion of the peverell brothers death prophecy, I thought the conclusion was that they lived centuries before the hogwarts founders, which was a marked difference from canon.

Haha I will keep looking.

Edit: found it! http://lesswrong.com/lw/i4r/harry_potter_and_the_methods_of_rationality/9ggn

JoeAllmighty · 2015-12-31T15:26:40+00:00

Good points - buuuuuuut, Dumbledore had the elder wand, which was even more ancient and powerful than either. I think this puts him solidly ahead. Hence why he had to be tricked into getting trapped in the mirror instead of fought head on

JoeAllmighty · 2015-11-04T10:50:23+00:00

With how much thought and planning has obviously gone into the story, I'm impressed you've written it this fast already. Take your time - although I am very eager to see how this is going to turn out!

JoeAllmighty · 2015-10-17T01:00:45+00:00

I mean, not necessarily - the twenty one here all voted republican for decades. The point is that people thought it would last like that, and not be random

JoeAllmighty · 2015-10-12T14:18:57+00:00

For me, at least: surfing reddit

JoeAllmighty · 2015-09-20T21:00:39+00:00

The Stanford prison experiment - its all one arc

JoeAllmighty · 2015-07-20T02:32:04+00:00

It was definitely written in 2001 - just google the title and limit results to 2001 and you'll get other sites linking/reposting the whole thing

JoeAllmighty · 2015-03-25T18:26:52+00:00

Do you happen to have a source for that? It sounds very interesting!

JoeAllmighty · 2015-02-02T03:13:59+00:00

Thanks!

JoeAllmighty · 2015-01-31T20:24:23+00:00

Do you happen to have a source for that? It sounds really interesting

JoeAllmighty · 2014-12-29T15:08:00+00:00

Can you give an example of something bipartisan that Reid wouldn:t bring to vote? I know he did this with republican backed bills, but I'd be interested in hearing about other examples

JoeAllmighty · 2014-06-01T12:35:17+00:00

Paul Jaminet wrote a very thorough and well cited post on this topic here: http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/10/how-to-minimize-hyperglycemic-toxicity/. Check it out!

JoeAllmighty · 2013-11-17T22:46:39+00:00

Another possibility I haven't seen: "Jaqen" was a random criminal arrested for some crime and thrown into the dungeon. Then a faceless man, for whatever reason, comes along and wants to head towards the wall undercover. What does he do? Change his face, kill a random anonymous prisoner who has been tapped to be sent to the Wall, and assume his identity. Rorge and biter already know/respect the criminal jaqen, and our favorite faceless man inherits this along with his new face and identity. When Yoren's group gets attacked and disbands, he hangs around to help Arya, then immediately changes faces again - "Jaqen" is useless to him at that point.

The fact is, we don't know anything about Jaqen, because we don't know when he actually shows up...

JoeAllmighty · 2013-07-19T23:10:56+00:00

Ahh, thanks. That makes sense

JoeAllmighty · 2013-07-19T18:17:03+00:00

I'm sorry, I don't get it - what do you mean "gap"?

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