Damorian

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by Damorian 6y ago
It's not just wealth and life expectancy, it's pretty much every metric. Homicide rate and test scores are two big ones in my eyes, given the prevalence of firearms and a (seemingly?) subpar public school system. That being said,
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by Damorian 6y ago
They're still the same animal though (e.g. a butterfly caterpillar vs a moth caterpillar). The only distinction, which is specific to this case, is that the words caterpillar and butterfly imply a stage of development where the word hu
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by Damorian 6y ago
Forgive me for thinking "kill" and "human" are grade school vocab words with clear definitions. I really don't feel like I'm being too pedantic here (maybe a little, but for good reason). I think the biased and
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by Damorian 6y ago
To kill simply means to put a living thing to death. A fetus (human or otherwise) is a living thing. I don't know what the purpose of your link was, or how it has anything to do with the misuse of words above. Unless you think I'm
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by Damorian 6y ago
There is a common theme among people who argue over abortion; they choose particular words that are either unscientific or misleading, in a disingenuous way, to promote their side as being more rational. My initial assumption is that you w
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by Damorian 6y ago
Given the grammar mistakes, I'm assuming English is not your first language, and you aren't properly understanding what I'm saying. It's fine if you don't want to engage, but if you are going to engage, please do so
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by Damorian 6y ago
Except those links are exactly my point. "Human" is a species of intelligent animals. "Person", is an entity typically associated with traits humans have. They are different things and the distinction is important. The p
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by Damorian 6y ago
Posts like this confuse me. It is absolutely killing a human. This is a scientific fact. The moral question is whether or not they are a person, or otherwise, whether or not they deserve rights, at various points of development, and apparen
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by Damorian 6y ago
This is what frustrates me as well. I know two people who were told that their children will have down syndrome with almost complete certainty, and their kids ended up completely fine, at least in this regard. We're on our third child
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by Damorian 6y ago
"Pollsters say people don't lie to pollsters" is a bad argument. I ended up on some list and lied to every caller out of spite. These people are effectively telemarketers for corrupt propaganda companies interrupting my fam
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by Damorian 6y ago
Piggybacking onto this, since it looks like something the hivemind may disagree with and isn't sourced in your link, breaking down by family income, between $30,000-$150,000 is majority lean rep, outside those bounds is majority lean d
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by Damorian 6y ago
One particularly early, groggy morning I was walking into work and there were a few crows pecking around the grass by the sidewalk. Lost in my thoughts I hear a raspy old man say, "good morning". I look around and don't see a
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by Damorian 6y ago
As an EHR developer, this is the most correct comment I've read on the internet, maybe ever.
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by Damorian 6y ago
Not to defend the doctor, but common sense? Sex hormones obviously have a huge effect on behavior, and anyone who has interacted with both men and women can see these effects. I'll refer you to the following study to answer your questi
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by Damorian 6y ago
Oof, just started reading through and this is pretty cringeworthy. It seems the author has a made a few blog posts of your typical, infantile criticisms of religion that they simply link to throughout the text, which is deliberately taken o
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by Damorian 6y ago
Anecdote, but I once ran a blog for many years. Country breakdown for traffic was roughly 30% China, 30% Russia, and 30% US. Almost 100% of requests out of China and Russia were hacking attempts, I assume mostly by bots. They've earned
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by Damorian 6y ago
Unfortunately, I see this reaction all the time. The problem is bikes can do this, not just e-bikes, but the perception is that it's only e+bikes, which is why I fear they'll be legislated out of existence.
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by Damorian 6y ago
Not OP, but I fully agree with them. Incoming ballpark figures I and hand waving. If, today, with our current technology, we decided to explore/colonize every star and planet in our galaxy, launching 3 ships per day that travel at sing
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by Damorian 6y ago
Is this really bad though? If people like Alex Jones have bad ideas, it will be evident when they discuss them. I don't see how censorship is a better alternative.
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by Damorian 6y ago
My brief googling lead me to Wikipedia, which sources most of its statistics from the new York times, but I also read some stuff from the ACLU and other left-leaning news orgs. There's very little good data out there is my biggest take
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by Damorian 6y ago
I see a lot of people outraged and making emotional appeals. The wake of a tragedy isn't usually the best time to pass legislation, or even form a coherent opinion. There's an estimated 8000-50,000 no-knock raids per year (sources
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by Damorian 6y ago
I suppose it could be false advertising to say you support a standard but only in a way that's meaningful to your software? As a 3rd party developer, it's hard to demand another company build something into their API, based on sta
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by Damorian 6y ago
Agreed, but this is slowly changing. Of the doctors/nurses I've worked with (hundreds at this point), I'd say only half of them know how to type. The younger docs though, they can be real power users. Europe is notable in h
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by Damorian 6y ago
I work in health IT and I've turned down offers from two big-n companies because they couldn't match my current compensation. I'm sure there's some no-name health system in the middle of nowhere paying $40k/year for
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by Damorian 6y ago
If any of this were true you'd have tech giants, with their armies of "top" developers and massive legal teams disrupting the status quo but instead they announce a foray into healthcare, with much fanfare, only to scrap the
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by Damorian 6y ago
This is why I hate DICOM. DICOM itself is fine, it's just that every device manufacturer mucks it up. I remember once working with a device that claimed to meet a certain supplement. Got some sample data from a real world device, im
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by Damorian 6y ago
To clarify, the modern young Earth creationism that formed as an alternative to scientific consensus. We've had strong evidence that the Earth is very, very old for hundreds of years, which was the scientific and religiously backed con
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by Damorian 6y ago
Not particularly, in my opinion. Look at any group derided, not by the scientific community, but by the laymen who accept scientific consensus; Antivaxers, climate change deniers, YECs. They raise one or two, often valid, objections to the
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by Damorian 6y ago
No, this article predates young Earth creationism, which is fairly modern, by 50-100 years.
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by Damorian 6y ago
This post baffles me. Your first point accurately describes this article as misleading/wrong, then in your second point you wish it was easier to pay for their wrong opinions. If I'm paying for news and opinion pieces, it better b

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