AlecSchueler

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by AlecSchueler 6d ago
Why is that notable?
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by AlecSchueler 7d ago
For a smith to operate at all there has to be a level of societal stability that could well be too much of a starting assumption in this scenario.
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by AlecSchueler 8d ago
> the culture has not been stolen - it's still there It's there in much diminished market, one that has been saturated overnight on a scale previously unfathomable. Their art is still there but it has been used against them to
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by AlecSchueler 11d ago
> one that unfairly singles out the United Kingdom and ignores the global systems of inequality The UK was spoken of in the particular because of its long and violent history in Iran. We could point to any number of things like Anglo-Pe
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by AlecSchueler 11d ago
> Do you not believe the rest of the world will not move in this direction to decouple from the US? Sure, but that will require more than 20 people, 5 million USD and the sole will of the Iranian government.
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by AlecSchueler 11d ago
> Why stop there? Why not go back to when the Greeks made Darius mad and started the Greco-Persian wars? People often ask these questions as if they're unanswerable or as if any answer would essentially be arbitrary. What you need t
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by AlecSchueler 15d ago
> But I'm very prone to learn things by understanding first principles and building from there. I'm the same but never had an issue with music theory, because I came to it backwards from just playing. I learned to play by havin
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by AlecSchueler 15d ago
Not really a device or a service, but I'd recommend learning the names of the notes and then just tinkering around. If you notice some patterns or wonder about specific things that come up in the course of that, look it up. If your han
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by AlecSchueler 18d ago
Those are other benefits but the literal topic at hand--and the reason going barefoot was brought up in the first place--is to have contact with the earth.
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by AlecSchueler 21d ago
> Vagrancy is a crime in many places. It is. The Romani aren't vagrants and they're doing nothing illegal. Calling them vagrants is charged and misleading. > Vagrants and transients are often dangerous and mentally ill. That
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by AlecSchueler 23d ago
You asked if it was immoral, not if it was a crime.
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by AlecSchueler 23d ago
> Cue the gypsies in Copenhagen, and their increasingly brazen behavior, after the city legalized overnight sleeping in parks and other green areas last year. Because "it shouldn't be illegal to be homeless" ... > This
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
We've been harming children for even longer
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
ICCs? Internal combustion cigarettes
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> the same stories orally for 40,000 years How is this confirmed without records?
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
What are you trying to say with this?
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> I don't think you get to abdicate responsibilty I made no such suggestion, only that China isn't solely responsible for the future of humanity, which was the claim I responded to.
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> i don't accept arguments in the form of B Feel free to share why not. At the end of the China is still part of a global system dominated by capitalism and they have to play the markets game in order to survive. They could easily f
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> NATO, police forces and intelligence agencies use it Is there anywhere to read more about this?
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
By "modern art" they mean things like abstract expressionism.
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
The bad news is we're all reliant on global supply chains. And even ignoring the human side your ecosystem is probably reliant in some way on things like the migrations of birds and fish etc etc
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> I am glad that I live far away from the effects I've heard it said that we'll all be watching a series of disasters play out on our phones until it comes time to see one play out through our windows.
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
The top 5%/over 60s. The overlap is almost total.
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
Because "why not?" Do we understand that humanity includes Chinese people? Do we also understand A) the steps they're already taking to reduce emissions and B) how much of their emissions historically and today are in service
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> there is generally widespread support for liberal social ideas I'd encourage you to look at any HN discussion about women's issues.
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> there's other places to discuss political news There are, that's why we discuss most political news elsewhere. But there's no more informed place to discuss tech news, that's why we want to discuss crossover topics
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> N02 is a very hazardous air pollutant which doesn’t get a ton of attention. The main sources are combustion engines and gas stoves. Asthma looks to be mostly caused by gas stoves That makes sense but the unverified claim is that gas st
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> What's the difference of the vast rare books in private collections There's little difference and I would suggest there's a pity in knowledge being hoarded by collectors. If we were getting into the differences, though,
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
If you take the only remaining copy of book X and take it home to digitally scan it, then destroy the book and never share the scan, what has been lost?
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by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
When did the WFP eradicate famine?

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