How about "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

A Republican constructing some argument based on a God-reference is not that much of a new phenomenon.

Yes, now I know. I could've sworn my domain was registered with Media Temple, however. I transferred it 6 months ago. Taking care of that now.

At any rate, I'm sure we all understand that guilt by association is a gross logical fallacy, and that I in no way endorse the killing of elephants. This must be what it feels like to be a politician...

I was not blaming you at anything as I know most people are not aware of that incident. I transferred my Go Daddy domains as soon as I heard about it and so I thought you would probably like to do the same, considering the subject of your posting.

Ah, sorry, you're right, it's the Planck length.

Would you agree at least that, even if there is a mind, that it requires a brain in order to manifest itself, such that "mind-minus-brain" makes no sense at all?

No because nobody has any idea what the 'soul' or 'mind' is. For all we know it may be possible to completely remove our soul from our body and exist in a different way and enter into another. Nobody knows

But this whole "liberty" concept confuses me. Can't we just say it's a bad example because we'd be violating her right to life? Because when we bring liberty into the picture, we are in fact saying that her liberty is more important than the persecutor's liberty. So it's not really liberty that has the final say, but life. And then, even if we say that, its not always the case that violating the right to life is ALWAYS bad (think trolley example). So I think "consequentialism" suffices.

Consider it my response to people who say "How are you not using ifttt? It's so good!" Well, here's why. It's not completely pointless -- I wanted to figure out how I felt about the service, and now I know. If my comments are useful to others, then great. If it's pointless to you, then that's fine as well.

Also, given your attitude toward pointlessly knocking something for the heck of it, where does that put your comment?

Chris, I did read it. But then I don't see why you posted it to HN.

I suppose you'd be in the minority if you found relevance in my specific concerns, or if you found it pertinent to your situation. But I didn't think that should forbid me from posting it.

I can understand why it seems pointless, and I suppose HN was not the best venue.

Thanks for the feedback. The problem with having all the posts there is that it's difficult to order them in a way that makes sense. I argued against reverse chronological order in the post.

Maybe you could show a list of post titles and short excerpts, and clicking on any post expands the content in place.

I simply separate my RSS feeds into two folders - A list and B list. A list is for independent writers who only post a couple times a day. B list is for news-centric websites. I do not hesitate to simply mark the entire B list as read.

I second this. Triageing feeds is the way to go. Also don't think you can read it all.

I think you're missing his point: he separates his feeds into high- and low-volume, and is willing to triage the high-volume subset without missing out on the rest.

I've been doing something similar for a couple of years now. I built http://readwarp.com to manage my high-volume sites, and now my google reader's dropped from 1500 feeds to 100 low-volume must-see feeds that generate 10 stories a day.

Yea, I don't think I did mis-understand the comment, but I glad you found a place to plug your site.

Wow, that is some nasty sarcasm you've got there.

Readwarp's an ancient hobby that I don't work on anymore. Did it seem like I was trying to convert traffic? We all know how to build landing pages with big, bright call-to-action buttons, you know.

I've long since pruned most features on the site. There's no way to import feeds, etc. It only really works for me anymore. I linked to it because it's hard to make sense of custom reading solutions without pointers to try them out.