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card_zero · 2026-01-13T17:22:53 1768324973

No one is less tolerant of attacks than the dead.

card_zero · 2026-01-13T17:21:20 1768324880

Well, if you think of person as a bunch of ideas, maybe with a mind attached, then by attacking a dead person you're attacking a bunch of vulnerable ideas that no longer have a mind to defend them. You can still call it a person, if you like.

twixfel · 2026-01-13T18:57:23 1768330643

>You can still call it a person, if you like.

No thanks, because a person is not a group of ideas + a mind.

card_zero · 2026-01-13T16:43:11 1768322591

I suppose you shouldn't jeer at them for being dead, for a start, and you should make allowances for their being dead when judging their actions. Treat them fairly.

tremon · 2026-01-13T16:49:44 1768322984

They weren't dead yet when they did the actions for which they are judged, right?

card_zero · 2026-01-13T17:26:24 1768325184

Actions, inactions, same difference.

card_zero · 2026-01-13T07:48:28 1768290508

You mean to say (emotively) that humans drive that way all the time?

CamperBob2 · 2026-01-13T17:01:50 1768323710

No, I'm saying (factually) that demanding perfection from self-driving cars costs lives.

card_zero · 2026-01-12T19:01:54 1768244514

Regime change might not be beneficial to the US, it might be too much trouble.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cj691w2e840t?post=asset%3A8b0d...

"... there will be plenty of voices around Trump advising him to be careful if he does go down that route. The Trump administration would be careful, because the consequences of regime change would be extremely complex ..."

SoftTalker · 2026-01-12T19:13:04 1768245184

Trump is going to be careful all of a sudden? That's not his MO, whether you think that's good or bad.

card_zero · 2026-01-12T19:17:14 1768245434

True. He's been talking about "negotiations", though.

card_zero · 2026-01-12T13:46:09 1768225569

Sensuality is crucial to intelligence maybe?

card_zero · 2026-01-12T13:39:41 1768225181

That would be an interesting point, if it was.

card_zero · 2026-01-11T17:47:09 1768153629

I bet you also sometimes like to make music because the final result emerges from your intimate involvement with striking keys, no? That's the suggestion.

card_zero · 2026-01-11T10:20:59 1768126859

This is ridiculous. You're genuinely applying social pressure to close tags. I remember when this began, drove me nuts.

bell-cot · 2026-01-11T10:45:54 1768128354

An anonymous account on HN is applying social pressure?

Or am I pointing out that closing tags is a human social issue, with aspects ranging from practical & reasonable, to ridiculous & widely exploited?

card_zero · 2026-01-07T13:37:47 1767793067

Monopolies are unstable (too). They just last for an annoyingly long time.

thrance · 2026-01-08T00:12:42 1767831162

I mean, not really? They don't decay naturally, all the ones I can think of had to be manually dismantled through State interventions.