duedl0r

Stay positive! This is a good incentive to break out of this toxic tradition/behaviour. Now you have a good idea of what not to do. You might even tell your parents this conclusion.

"appeal to authority" is a good example in our current situation. How many doctors are talking crap about Covid? Here lies one of our problem about misinformation. Too many people are just regurgitate opinions of "doctors".

Generally speaking, I like to use fallacies for myself, just to be aware about certain pitfalls. Not so much about discrediting others, but rather not fall into one myself.

If I realize other people are using fallacies to support their argument, it helps me to build an argument against it. Just don't use it naively: "you're wrong because of fallacy number 42". Using it like this is a bad habit, because of the wast number of fallacies, you can probably kill any discussion.

How did you earn the money to invest?

I was going to write the same thing. WTH is this guy thinking. I would never work for such a company.

If you try to educate others, you probably have to ask first whether you're the one being wrong.

First, your quote is not from a post I answered.

Second, it's interesting to have a link to Jung's material. But stating "something is true, since Jung discusses it at length" is just a very bad argument. Why? Because duedl0r said so.

Third, actually, I share your opinion about the quote and all....but the way you wrote your post is not ok for me

It's ok to build strength and character, but that doesn't mean you have to be jerk or a liar at the same time. IMO if you have to lie or be a jerk, it's the opposite of a strong character.

Your argument started with "it's easier to get laid, if I'm a jerk". And now your argument is "it pays to be a jerk in harsh environments". First of all, I hope women aren't included in your harsh environment. Second, you're right. Absolute commitments without exceptions is rarely good advice. There are always exceptions. My criticism is about finding a balance of being a jerk. There is no balance to be attained. There might be exceptions, but not something to balance for.

I'm aware that I feel very strongly about it. That's why I couldn't hold myself back from writing a comment. For me this is very important, because I get the feeling, that humanity is drifting towards dishonesty. It's even expected to be lied at. For example, my co-workers lie to our customers if we missed something or implemented a bug in our software. It's not an option anymore to say to them straight, that we made an error! How stupid is that? The customers wants to be lied at! On the other hand, if they did something they're not supposed to do with our software, they lie about what they really did. This gets me so angry... Sorry, I'm going to stop now.. :)

That's a pretty stupid way of living. But hey, don't mind me, I'm old.. There is no balance to be attained in being a jerk/cheater or whatever. It's like saying: I have the option of breathing or not breathing, so let's get a good balance. No!

If you want to learn from bad people: Do it, but use it for good. For example in identifying people who are bad, or want to take advantage of you/others. But certainly not to get a balance.

And btw, I always hope, people with questionable opinions get screwed by someone with the same questionable view. Let's hope you'll learn your lesson.

a lier has the same arguments, he also believes noone will catch him in his lies...

IMO this is equally short-sighted as not being honest at all.

funny argument. you think it's a horrible idea, propose a flawed way to do it, and debunk it to serve your initial idea. :)

how you do think online voting is done? you really think a simple VPN is enough?

oh, and btw.. I send my tax statement online. let's hope the russians don't have a VPN connection to Switzerland :)

I get so angry about this shit. It's not possible to make a landing page, and actually describe what's going on.

Why do I have to search for information?

Why is it, that all those shitty, shiny looking new homepages are the same. NO CONTENT.

Ok, I'm done. Not interested anymore.

haha. very well informed..

I think that's readable just for you, if you're used to it. For me it's just noise. Why would you need it anyway? My take is, to minimize nesting and scope, so I can see right away where the scope starts and ends.

my son would be asleep after reading this

come on! give them some slack.. they probably aren't very experienced at managing their linux servers! ;)

Am I too stupid to even get an invite or is it taking so long to process? I tried multiple times, even analysing whether the email is in text and not html format..

welcome to Europe

bullshit

very ugly presentation....

this title makes me giggle.. ok, I know...I'm too lazy to even open this link..

Why on earth does this article have so many upvotes? Running time analysis is completely wrong... O(n) vs O(1) and such...tss..don't get me started..

Yes, you're right, but I think what you're describing is the current situation. It doesn't say anything about how we got there in the first place.

For me this process is compareable to education of children. If you let your child drink coke instead of water, it will do so. But since we're good parents, we don't allow that, do we?

Btw, this whole argumentation isn't restricted to media. E.g. clothing companies: they want to make us believe, we want our stuff from Bangladesh, where the mortality is significantly higher in a cloth company than anywhere else?

So you're saying there are groups of people here who want this?

I just refuse to believe that.

In the end I'm not the one who makes a fortune of all this, so I'm not willing to take the responsibility.

what do you mean by that? Can you be more concrete?

"We do X, because people want X" is the stupidest argument I've ever heard. The funny thing is, those arguments are always coming from CEOs making X.

How about we were made to like that, because CEOs of X can optimize their profits? But ok, everybody can tell me now that people can make their own choice. In fact, they can't.

IT'S THE TRUTH.

(btw ending a thought with "it's the truth" is yet another incredible stupid thing...oh boy)

duh.. a guy patented this more than hundred years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail

tsss...

how do you change the year?

this is clearly only one side of the coin. The money is not normalized: What if a google engineer has to work 15h for this salary?

this would be true if "western world" == USA. But it isn't. It's a subset of it, and certainly not true for all the western countries.

Apples vs Oranges: Apples taste like apples and oranges like oranges. if you want apples take apples, or else oranges..

so what??? I HATE sites with no description what they do/make/whatever... WTF