ABCLAW

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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Why is a molecules with high energy density so difficult to break down? Generally, even if a given reaction is energetically favourable, if the activation energy or enabling conditions for the reaction to occur are high/rare respec
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Your compassion is distilled to crystal purity through these words. Thank you for sharing.
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>4chan sucks because it is too moderated in everything but the speech. >I would prefer just having rules about what speech is allowed or not I'm not sure if you're serious. 4chan has an incredibly tiny amount of rules, one o
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>the rich usually want a free world... There are plenty of Kleptocrats that aren't concerned with the world being free and fair; they're just happy to sit atop the pile, regardless of what the pile is.
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>The IRS would have come down on him with a hammer already Part of my work is in financial investigations. The finances of large, multi-entity organizations are expensive to create, difficult to parse, and require extensive periods of ti
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>"How is Thiel investing in his own company not considered a prohibited investment?" It should be, but the IRS doesn't catch every cheat, and as with most other white collar crime, the responsibility can be laundered throu
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
There are many legal traditions in the world, and most of them (both by number, volume of territory, amount of people governed, etc) take the opposite approach. Only a very narrow English line of black letter law that ascribes to the black
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
The idea that the experience is equivalent as a result of substitution is incorrect, though, and the author's original heavy implication that Brave's substitution is malicious and selfishly designed does not hold up. Brave basical
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
The issue isn't the content of the data. It's the context of the release. You're trying to threaten a slippery slope wherein all information needs to be state sanctioned, but the definition of disinformation makes it clear th
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
Because the center has to be qualitatively different from the others in order to escape the cycle of critique presented in the original argument. Otherwise, why is critique of the center different from attacking the left or the right? Why w
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>If a policy is effective and correct, I would not call it extreme. >I guess it depends on the definition of extreme, but I would not think "good" policy would be extreme The issue is that you've begged the question in
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>It's not that I don't want ANYONE to enact change, I just don't want people with extreme views enacting change. This position sounds fine until you realize all it has done is shift discussion away from the effectiveness a
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
A lot of investor-relations style astroturfing began in the lead-up to the 2016 election. We did some threat tracking for certain organizations as a result of the growing extreme rhetoric in some of these communities and with social media a
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Anyway yeah, I'm a centrist and it's not because I'm trying to be neutral, it's because both sides are terrifying cesspools You aren't being neutral. Your position is a very strong affirmative for the current st
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Yes and it's disturbing that you (and many others) have no interest in understanding other people. There's an infinite number of ways you can be wrong; it isn't on everyone to hermetically disprove all wrongs to meaningfu
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Instead of breaking them up though, we should simply be more stringent with anti trust hearings and merger approvals. There have been a few mergers recently that absolutely shouldn’t have been approved. Recently? Competition bureaus hav
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
I think the point is that you used the service when VC money was being used to subsidize your ride. This is zero sum. Obviously the market for rides increases once the cost is artificially depressed. From the UX perspective, Uber combines p
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
This has a LOT to do with the fact that inherited wealth is distributed amongst a number of heirs and held in trusts that they aren't the full beneficiaries of. The argument that the top few have self-generated wealth doesn't in a
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>the development side of a project, while the most fundamental There's an entire world of industries in which software is a 'nice-to-have' enabler of various levels of business logic, not the product itself. The assumption
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
One of the postulated reasons for why older people have worse reaction times and think slower than their younger counterparts is that the neural networks they use draw upon more stored information, thus making routine evaluations take longe
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>some sequences which will cause a ribosome to transcribe the surrounding genes differently Not to be a negative nancy here, but if we're being precise, ribosomes do not transcribe. They translate. Under the fairly reductive central
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
I think the only real takeaways on the coding/biology comparison are applying base-level informatic systems ideas to explain some biological developments, and in reverse looking at biological system mechanics as inspiration for designe
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
I think with the more fulsome context you've provided that the prior post's attempt to reduce his statement as critical of Israelis alone is a bit reductionist; his argument here extends to the diaspora that also unwaveringly supp
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Companies are diverse as a side effect of hiring for competence. I mean, unless factors you evaluate for competence are just 'similarity to current decision makers'. Which is what people largely do in practice. This is why we
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
I wonder how much of this effect is because of the specific chemical action of mushrooms, and how much is caused by the fact that mushrooms are commonly used to replace meat in dishes.
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>this fallacy It's a garden variety false equivalence.
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I don't think this really addresses the core issue, being that experimentation is used as an excuse to not apply the results of the experiments after they've been performed. I don't think the idea is that experimentation is d
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>Why do you suppose that under conditions of perfect fairness we would see perfect equality? That's just not the case. Human talent is not sprinkled in the proportion in each person. You can achieve equality only through Harrison Be
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My statement isn't that Americans are still drowning in cheaper than milk corn-booze. It's that there's a shared history regarding alcohol consumption which is uniquely American in nature. Prohibition is part of that unique e
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by ABCLAW 5y ago
>It's hard to reduce the US to a single culture. The US had a very particular set of economic conditions in respect of infrastructure quality, volume of arable land for corn production, and corn vs corn mash distillate transport cos

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