Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | JakeFromTexas's commentslogin

What a strange question.

It was a traumatic event in his father’s life. There is no illogic in despising the people and organizations that brought about that misery on his father.

The answer to this question is so obvious I have trouble believing you are asking in good faith.


No, I'm genuinely curious.


And that means we shouldn’t be skeptical because…?


> Additionally, the less capable the childbearer is of childcare, the more inconvenience the born child will have.

So we should just terminate the baby to prevent any possible inconvenience she might experience? That is some twisted logic.


Look up the relationship between mass adoption of SSRIs and mass shootings. It seems to me like there is clearly some relationship there.


Do you know what A/B testing is? I don’t think you know what A/B testing is.


Wheel slippage is probably far more significant.


You should be 100 times more worried about fertilizer runoff into storm drains than some random farmer drilling a well and then ruining it by pouring used motor oil into it.


How do you reconcile this kind of thinking with driving a car?


Are you seriously thinking that someone is incapable to drive a car if they are not incorrectly convinced that an incorrect math computation is correct?

The large majority of things in life is "impossible to statistically prove". I had no proof that I will not burn my toast for breakfast this morning. Yet I had breakfast without problem AND I did not pretend that "since I've used this toaster 5 times and did not burn a toast, it implies that burning a toast will never occur" (this sentence is incorrect: the observations are compatible with the fact that my setting is very good and reduce the risk of burning the toast very low, but also compatible with another realistic hypothesis: my toaster burn a toast about 1 time over 10, and so far I was just "lucky").

But why would I not make a toast or take my car? I just don't know if it will work or not, but I also don't know if it will not work or yes. You cannot say "if you are not sure of X, you should act as if non-X is sure", because if you set Y=non-X, you will say "if you are not sure of Y, you should act as if non-Y is sure", and you end up saying you should both act as if both X and non-X are sure.

Nobody here is saying nuclear is not a solution (I mean: if you think I'm saying that, you are dead wrong). But it is tiring to see pro-nuclear people making pseudo-scientific claims to entertain their own belief (belief that may turn out to be right). If you are so confident in your belief, just say so: "I know we cannot properly tell that nuclear is 'safer' than X or Y, it does not make any sense to do so, but yet I believe it is still a good option. You are free to disagree with me, but you also have no ground to pretend it is 'less safe' than X or Y, so your position is as legitimate as mine".


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: