Asbostos

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by Asbostos 11y ago
It sounds like the risks of not using the medication properly weren't clearly communicated to her. "You'd better take it every day because it's important" doesn't count - people need to be able to make their ow
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The 35% is a meaningless number without more details. It's not shocking at all if a 1km column of smoke blocks more than 35% of the light passing along it. So we need to know more about the test to decide if it's shocking or not -
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by Asbostos 11y ago
And her husband doesn't mind?
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Could be summarized as "I murdered some people and felt guilty, then I flirted with a beautiful woman which saved me from suicide, then I forgave myself for my crimes, now I'm lonely so I want to meet that woman again." I don
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by Asbostos 11y ago
You don't eat meat and veges from the same farm and same processing plant every day. There's a wide variety. Also, food poisoning is always a risk when eating but it's not a life-shortening or baby-deforming kind of risk like
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Absolutely. Deciding on and preparing meals is the single biggest regular struggle and unpleasant time sink of my day. I wish I could get Soylent but they're still a bit slow and aren't selling directly to my country so I'd h
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by Asbostos 11y ago
I've heard this "generations of abuse" argument before to explain the low socioeconimic status of blacks in America and natives in other countries. But is there any evidence for it other than "blame the more successful c
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Any kind of improvement motivated by the test is kind of "gaming" the test. There's no clear boundary line between optimizing for test conditions and optimizing for something broader. I think the onus is on the designers of t
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How do his clients manage to spam the sites they find? Are they breaking spam laws or finding a way around them? It's common to send spam from countries without anti-spam laws but surely a lot of companies using this service will be in
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Any clearance there would result in backlash. I suppose you need some to allow for manufacturing tolerance though.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Yep. Straight cut gears are cheaper to make. Since people don't do as much reversing as going forward, it's probably a good compromise on cost vs comfort.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It only seems to work for reflected light, so you'd still see the object blocking the background. If you only want to make surface features invisible from the front, why not just paint it matt black or cover it with a curtain? Not to s
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by Asbostos 11y ago
No. I'm making an analogy to racism. It's not actually racism but only because of the arbitrary choice of classification. We usually think racism is bad so we should logically also think prejudice against foreigners is bad for the
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It's not technically racism, but it's the same kind of feeling. Discriminate against outsiders because they were born into a different class.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
"I have an interest in seeing my fellow white people do well compared to those of a darker skin tone." This is the same kind of feeling with the same kind of effect. The only difference is the choice of how to classify people.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This is a valuable point, though I don't agree with it. Inheritance is really more like giving gifts to people you like. That's part of freedom. Some people give their inheritance to charity or friends instead of their children. S
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The government already facilitates research and technology which takes jobs from people. Would you like to stop that too? Newborn babies spend 20 years preparing to take your job. Should the government stop that too? Don't forget that
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by Asbostos 11y ago
How come OOP was supposed to be the best way to code and now we need dependency injection to make it practical? Does that mean that before DI, OOP was never being done properly? It was a bad idea all along and everybody thought it was just
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Teachers will complain about absolutely every change that's imposed on them. Perhaps it's because there isn't really an undeniable way to know what's good and what's bad (unlike most jobs where profits make that cle
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by Asbostos 11y ago
This rule assumes that the most popular behavior is not being a jerk. What if you're the only black in a city full of racists whites? Are you a jerk because other people treat you badly? A less extreme example - what if you're the
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Communicating 10,000 years into the future is certainly a challenge but I just realized that this idea of warning people of a radioactive waste dump is surely not actually worth a huge effort. Being just one place, only a very small number
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Killing people to save animals is a bit perverse. Some problems aren't so severe that they should be solved at such extreme costs. The same was done during prohibition - and people kept drinking the methanol-spiked alcohol and kept dyi
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by Asbostos 11y ago
It almost sounds like the law is too weak. Despite all the cookie notices I've seen, I never knew they were only asking permission to track me across sites. If that's what the law is for, then perhaps the warnings need to be even
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Isn't that just a statement of contemporary popular standards? They're not rules set in stone. The definitions of "underage" and "consent" are not nearly as clear cut as you might hope. Lots of people (in coupl
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by Asbostos 11y ago
They needed to do 17 samples at a time to be financially viable. I suspect it's even worse than that and it's just cheaper if you already know what you're looking for and do it the normal way.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Exactly. It's amazing how many people don't realize that this is all you need to do. Antivirus is only for people who don't follow those two rules. Well JS is fine as long as the browser is up to date. Normal people aren&#x27
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by Asbostos 11y ago
You can't do anonymous mass dissemination with SD cards because of the cost. You can do it with CD-ROMs however. In China, people actually do this and sometimes you can find a CDROM with dissident political messages lying on the ground
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by Asbostos 11y ago
Except most people's color printers are inkjet instead of laser, so the DPI penalty more than compensates for the 3x gain with color.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
tldr: Government subsidies for wind power production exceeded the cost of "selling" at a negative price so it was profitable for wind farms to do so.
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by Asbostos 11y ago
The author is being a bit prejudiced by saying her severe examples are somehow not acceptable while more high functioning ones are. Most people are unable to care for themselves. We depend on others to help provide food and water for us, ac

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