Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
One of the weird critisisms I've heard (and reflected in your first link) is "but the reproduced study had some slight difference". If a slight difference can make an effect disappear then it's not such an interesting or
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What most people in the west neglect about Japan was what it was doing to China and south-east Asia during the war. Their killing of civilians was greater than what the atomic bombs did. That's where the good came from - saving the res
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Is this really different from what AdBlock already does on every platform? It looks like the key feature is that the adblocker app doesn't have to have access to your browsing data. But people will still have to install it, just like t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's not clear to me that he has any case at all with the trademark. You don't get to dictate how everyone uses your trademark. Some uses are acceptable without permission: "Usually it is permissible to use another person’s o
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With 1000 neurons per core running in series, that would eat up a lot of the speed advantage.
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Regarding giving out PIN numbers. Banks should make a better effort at informing customers that no other human should ever know their PIN or internet banking password, not even the bank's staff. As soon as you tell anybody your PIN, th
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I seem to remember that you can hear your own voice on a landline, so you can more comfortably regulate the volume. Talking on a cellphone is just randomly speaking and hoping the other person hear it right. I think this led to a lot of the
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That's very clear. It sounds like Wikipedia is following one of the loosest sets of rules available.
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Drug making instructions are a gray area. Most countries have laws restricting what you're allowed to publish - and they're all a bit arbitrary and different. It sounds like Wikipedia is trying to push American values onto everyon
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A key feature that seems to be missing is that the people making the decision about what course to take and even what students to send to university are still the students themselves who are notoriously bad at deciding that. With a proper e
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Yes. It's not reasonable to assume that all these people actually "care" in the common sense of the word. They just happen to work in the field of "healthcare".
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That sounds like a slippery slope argument. You might as well worry about the privatization of the NHS next. With this type of approach, arguments degenerate into political partisan rhetoric and achieve nothing.
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I wonder if there has been art that was acceptable or at least tolerated once but is now illegal or so out-of-fashion that even libraries won't keep it? This certainly doesn't seem to be such a thing though. An example might be if
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Can't you use normal healthcare? Soldiers aren't given insurance like other employees?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
severus_bro. I'm still not sure what you're suggesting. Is it that the Chinese government is allowing its people to be treated badly by employers? That may be true, but could they actually do much better? Improved working conditio
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The Chinese worker can't participate in the US market because as you said, it's too small even if he was allowed in. So that's not an alternative that might have happened. He couldn't do it in China because either becaus
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That Chinese worker may be worse off than the US worker he replaced, but he's better off than whatever else he would have done instead. That's why it's a win for the Chinese worker. It's also a win for the consumer who g
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I wonder though if high paid professionals are actually looking for lower hours or just more pay. That is, is it the employers or the employees driving it? Perhaps some companies are willing to hire part timers but can't find suitable
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Isn't a global labor market a net win? Lower pay than a closed US market, but higher than a closed Indian market. And more productive overall so better for the consumers.
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Apart from naive tribalism, is there any reason people so interested in "driving manufacturing back to the US"? Isn't it better to let it happen in whatever country buyers prefer to buy from? Maybe America doesn't need t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
That would make small countries look unfairly safer because of their shorter flights. Maybe deaths per passenger-kilometer? Unless the duration of the flight doesn't really affect the risk.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
If you spouse divorces you for irrational and unfounded reasons then anything else could trigger them too. You can't blame the messenger.
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You can't objectively label different cultures as not being advanced just because they're different. There could well be good reasons for enforcing monogamy on people that your society disregards. I'm just guessing here, but
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Yes, we have this weird notion that people "need" a job and "deserve" a job. But work is something people actually don't want! We might need or deserve an income, but not a job. I've worked hard to reduce the a
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The problem they were having wasn't Googling for the answer, it was pressing the "Hint" button right next to the question. That doesn't require any of the skills you mentioned, so it's probably not very helpful for
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A hacker does yes, but can a kid recreate the hash quickly without the teacher noticing? If some script appear on the net to automate that, Khan academy could react by changing their hash frequently.
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Those non-working "parasites" include most of the people how made the important scientific discoveries of the previous couple of centuries. You can't do that if you've all got the same job and live in a society that can&
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> 1. it does have the benefit that it's cross-cultural, you can actually talk to people outside your cultural bubble We already do that. Do you really? Whenever I hear an American telling the temperature of the weather, I have no id
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Unlikely. The metric units have a long history of never having been redefined in a way that breaks previous usage. As far as I'm aware, all redefinitions have just improved the precision, so they don't hurt previous users. Your pr
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More manufacturing is done in China, and the factories are used to the different international markets because they're often parts suppliers for foreign companies that have their designing done in various countries. So they're wel

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