I'm not sure I follow. If antennas are the most likely thing to be struck by lightning in their immediate area, in what sense don't they "attract lightning"?

If I wandered into a programming-language-of-the-week thread and started posting about Syrian refugees, I'd rightly be chastised and modded down. In no way is that the appropriate forum to air my grievances.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that "no reasonable person" would think it's appropriate. So, yeah. Insane. Unable to grasp or understand social norms.

How do you even begin to make an argument against "nothing is infinite"? What evidence is there either way? And how could you prove it one way or the other?

I think the extraordinary claim here is that one could gather enough information to even form an informed opinion.

Maybe they have none of that technology.

One of my favourite short stories.

Nothing is infinite

[Citation Needed]

So its unacceptable for them to behave this way, but its ok if the state does it?

This argument has got to stop. I am 100% against the death penalty, and this statement hurts my position by associating me with morons.

Raping and killing a 6-year-old != Killing a rapist murderer who makes society a worse place

If you honestly can't see why some people would see a difference, please shut up simply as a favour to me. If you can understand the difference but think your argument still has merit, you'll need to write a lot more than a pithy one-liner to sway people to your point of view.

Presumably, this means that Criminal A destroyed twice as much property breaking in, endangered twice as many people during getaway, had a gun in twice as many people's faces. Sounds fair to me.

Yeah, it seems they're always trying to reduce the power of the state.

"Take a look at the commits"?! I barely read the summary, and like it that way!

..but yeah - thanks for providing a reality check on my knee-jerk reaction. From your description, it doesn't sound like the crazy-commit-fest I'd envisioned from the headline.

Does anyone else think that hundreds of commits in a week is a BAD thing?

I'm glad I'm not the only one with this reaction. Maybe I'm just a bad coder who's only worked with bad coders, but I've never seen a hundred commits that didn't introduce their fair share of bugs - let alone a hundred commits in a single week.

t;d

Excellent counterargument with examples. Gold star for you, too, sir.

I have a son. I allow him to play hockey even though it could result in a serious injury or even death. I let him date girls even though he could get his heart broken. When he was two, I let him work his way up and down flights of steps. And yet I love him and would give up my life for him. I see the big picture even when he doesn't.

You are not God. You cannot see all possible outcomes. If you could see the future and know for certain your son would die in his next hockey game, would you let him play?

God allows people to die in ridiculous misfortunes every day, and is ostensibly capable of preventing them. You say that God may have a different definition of "evil" than we do. That may be true. But the riddle was written in our language, using our definition, and I still fail to see a flaw.

Pretty sure it's not a left wing one either.

I still see people espousing all 3 viewpoints, and they're all still true. The collapse of the latest scam doesn't change what BitCoin is. It's just as trustworthy as before. Vendors are just as trustworthy (or untrustworthy) as before. And the math is the same as before.

I wouldn't judge BTC against the other currencies of the world. It's clearly not the same, and it's not trying to be the same. People who use it don't (or shouldn't, if they're smart) consider it to be the same. But that doesn't mean it's without merit or useless. It's just got a different risk profile than other currencies, but it also comes with different benefits.