Amezarak

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by Amezarak 2y ago
Do you think lions and tigers are the same species, then? Wolves and coyotes? Horses and donkeys? Camels and llamas? “Can interbreed” is a fuzzy line too, the probability decreases as genetic distance increases but it doesn’t just suddenly
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Darwin himself noted in the Origin of Species that there is not really any such thing as a "species." It is a poor abstraction we use to describe a group of closely related organisms, but the classifications are necessarily arbitr
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The wider Anglosphere is pushing this too. One organization behind it in both the UK and the US is the UK Labour Party. Yes, you read that correctly - high level Labour party operatives formed a nonprofit in the US to lobby for misinformati
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Germany is a stable constitutional federal republic with proportional representation and power vested in the Bundestag. No reason why the US can't have the same. Germany's second most popular party is labeled a "suspecte
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The US government(s) spend about as much money per capita on health care as the average European country. Obviously US health care costs are out of control for other reasons than the existence of private insurance. To be clear because that&
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by Amezarak 2y ago
You will see very quickly whether or not the person understood Nietzsche to have been writing almost entirely prescriptively or descriptively. The former almost always holds a caricature of Nietzsche's thought as the edgy truth. GoM is
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I find a good follow up question is oh? what do you think he's all about? And if they start talking about master/slave morality or the ubermensch, then change the subject and move on,
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by Amezarak 2y ago
If you are counting stone circles, it seems unfair not to count 5000 year old mounds in the US.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Unfortunately, the reality is probably just that plastic itself is bad, and you can put different lipsticks on the pig and some of them are less bad than others, but you're not really solving the problem. Of course I agree that we shou
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by Amezarak 2y ago
This is really easy to avoid; cooking and eating at home is much cheaper and does not really take any more time unless you want to make something special.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
I don't think this of use as a general discriminator. At least in the US, some native trees kill or prevent the growth of pretty much anything under their canopy via shade and the volume/density of leaf litter.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
That's the official story. According to reporting by Seymour Hersh and others, what actually happened was: - Pakistan's ISI was keeping bin Laden as a "guest" at the compound after having captured him. - A senior ISI off
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> Great, now take out a mortgage at a good time, predict interest rate and house prices Nobody can do this. It’s not part of basic financial literacy. A few people who make careers out of investing or real estate attempt it and many of t
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by Amezarak 2y ago
This is not my experience at all. And I’ve been quite shocked by what farmers I know have told me about how pigs treat injured brothers (eating them alive). And yea, they weren’t starving. I am basically an animal intelligence/emotiona
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Financial literacy for the average person consists of two things: do not buy things you don't really need / don't spend more than you have, and compound interest. I can't speak for anyone else but I did learn what compou
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Unconventional Case Study of Neoadjuvant Oncolytic Virotherapy for Breast Cancer(mdpi.com)
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by Amezarak 2y ago
There is an “argument” because that does seem like common sense. It is nevertheless clearly illegal. The ruling clearly addresses this in the section about the application of fair use to the idea of the CDL (that is, where the lending is co
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by Amezarak 2y ago
It is clearly illegal. It doesn’t matter whether you have a physical copy backing it. It doesn’t matter if you have control over your digital lending. Making a copy (digitization or ctrl + paste) and distributing it is illegal by default wi
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Under US copyright law controlled digital lending was clearly illegal. This case did not establish any new precedent, it's a plain reading of the law and the decision reflects that. You and I can both not like it, we can wish the law w
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The people that would borrow the game from the library to play it might at best pirate it if they couldn’t get it from the library. Maybe they’d pay a few bucks tops rather than $60-80. Library game borrowers are not big game buyers in the
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> If that were the case then each copy would need to sell for thousands of dollars for content creators to afford food. We have an enormous surplus of content creators and most of the content is not very good. I don't see why we nee
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Your immune system has different "compartments." The mucosal immune compartment produces its own antibodies and its own immune response. The "jab" did not immunize the mucosal immune compartment, so people could and did
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by Amezarak 2y ago
> I've known many people who own trucks and many who own SUVs, including 5 seat crossover SUVs. Out of almost everyone I have met, none of them need those vehicles and bought them for truly no reason. Five-seat crossover SUVs like t
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Thanks for the link, I've been looking for that. Without reviewing it in depth - I appreciate any pointers - it looks like going by the tables on page 26, the requirement for "light trucks" (therefore including SUVs) is also
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The point is that motorcycles are well-established cultural icons. While road safety folks would likely be delighted to ban them, there would be a huge political backlash. Kei cars are not, there's very few people that even know what t
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by Amezarak 2y ago
The article doesn't really support that claim. Yes, larger vehicles have higher margins, just as higher trim levels do. But it is also true that small vehicle sales are consistently poor. Of course manufacturers aren't very intere
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by Amezarak 2y ago
This gets brought up on HN every time the subject comes up but it doesn't make sense. It is true that, sensibly, emissions regulations are more relaxed as vehicles get larger. But smaller vehicles are still cheaper to make and sell for
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by Amezarak 2y ago
That just makes people drive without insurance. And yeah, you can fine them and take their license away. Then they drive without a license.
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by Amezarak 2y ago
They are included. The standards just vary by vehicle size, which makes obvious sense: you can’t hold a station wagon to the same standard as a two-passenger compact. It’s also the case that cost already increases with vehicle size. As your
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by Amezarak 2y ago
Specifically what emissions laws are SUVs not subject to?

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