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by Edman274 5y ago
I took issue with the quoted part: "it is unclear why it is important for us to preserve the view that biological humanness is both necessary and sufficient for full moral status." Notice how they said both "necessary and
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by Edman274 5y ago
From my perspective, the fact someone could say that a line is drawn "arbitrarily" is absolutely a worthless red herring. You could argue that the difference between pre-birth and post-birth fetuses is fuzzy and arbitrary, but we
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by Edman274 5y ago
I'm not confused about why people are upset at the researchers that introduced bugs and did it irresponsibly. I'm confused about why people aren't upset that an organization managing critical infrastructure is so under prepar
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by Edman274 5y ago
Everyone has been saying "This affects software that runs on billions of machines and could cause untold amounts of damage and even loss of human life! What were the researchers thinking?!" and I guess a follow-up thought, which i
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by Edman274 5y ago
"These topsoil crisis stories have been running ever since that time that topsoil crisis killed thousands and caused widespread food insecurity. Utter hogwash. Well, it would be hogwash if any of the hogs had anything to eat."
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by Edman274 6y ago
I think the difference here would be that the "point" of Google copying the API was not to make Oracle's Java be irrelevant, but rather to get a pool of developers that already knew the platform. Whether Oracle's Java st
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by Edman274 6y ago
You said that "health care costs are spiraling out of control". Your justification for that is that you spend more money on health insurance than you used to back when you used to spend nothing because you got nothing. Making a bl
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by Edman274 6y ago
I have a hunch that you're mixing up bits and bytes in that memory, because I very distinctly remember seeing the internet explorer 4 download progress indicator telling me that I was getting 4.5 "KBPS" down on a 48K link, wh
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by Edman274 6y ago
The price has been "spiraling out of control" for the past 30 years, at the same rate almost the entire time. Saying that it's the ACA's fault is to lie by omission, because you're blaming the past 10 years on somet
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by Edman274 6y ago
I also might feel disappointment, but I think that the greater disappointment would come from learning that foundational principles in physics had been overturned, because what it would mean is that we've all done a really, unacceptabl
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by Edman274 6y ago
It is very easy to win an argument if you change what it is you're arguing in the middle of a discussion. You said that "Prices have been spiraling out of control". I said that the rate of price increases in healthcare in
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by Edman274 6y ago
The graph of "how much does healthcare cost over time" on the link that you provided yourself to prove that costs have been "spiraling out of control" has had the same steepness since 1990. If it's spiraling out o
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by Edman274 6y ago
This is very good visualization but I'm very surprised by how the author didn't understand that the 2020 cars had their prices set by the monthly payment or by the down payment rather than the total price of the vehicle, since all
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by Edman274 6y ago
That's half the unicity distance of English for even very simple monoalphabetic substitution ciphers. It's probably impossible even in theory to decode that using any amount of computing power.
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by Edman274 6y ago
Normally, when you encrypt a message, you have a recipient in mind. When it's one government to another government, or one person to another person, it's safe to assume that the message is authentic and meaningful, and not just de
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by Edman274 6y ago
In fairness, if you didn't have to worry about where your next meal was coming from, it might be easier to not want to violate your ethics to get ahead in life. This is not an endorsement of socialism, rather, a defense of criticism of
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by Edman274 6y ago
Using a salutation, and addressing someone by name is not a conspiracy to make people trust you. The things that you should care about are the banality of evil, and that no one believes that they've done anything wrong. I live in the M
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by Edman274 6y ago
1. They also shut down schools and bars and restaurants. It was not only churches. 2. It is possible to hear the word of God without physically going into a church. It is not possible to move from one place to another without being in a veh
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by Edman274 6y ago
Have you heard the expression "Freedom isn't free"? People aren't saying "Liberty isn't liberty", they're saying "Liberty isn't free of charge." Similarly, this person is saying "L
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by Edman274 6y ago
Do you have an example of what testing they do actually use?
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by Edman274 6y ago
That correlation disappears once you control for wealth. People go for instant gratification once they've learned that they can't trust that the thing they're delaying gratification for will ever come. People like to make fun
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by Edman274 6y ago
Are you of the impression that if everyone just ate beef, chicken, cheese and milk that we would cut emissions drastically? You know that animals eat food, and the food they eat is grown in crops, and the crops use fertilizer ... right? Eve
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by Edman274 7y ago
Hold on. Here is the literal word for word question that I replied to: "Why is the government in the business of disapproving prices in the first place?" My answer was long winded and did not directly answer that question, but req
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by Edman274 7y ago
Almost all state governments made it so that you can't drive a car unless you have insurance. The reason they did this is so that if you hit someone and cause physical injury to them or to their property, it's possible to pay them
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by Edman274 7y ago
(PDF Warning) https://www.naic.org/documents/topic_insurance_industry_snap... The United States' property and casualty industry's total profit margin on the whole was about nine tenths of a percent in 2018, w
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by Edman274 7y ago
A document on his computer saying that he paid a supposed hitman and they ran with the cash, and chatlogs of him talking to the hitman, and an "immutable public ledger" with a record of the payment whose time and amount matches up
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by Edman274 7y ago
This sounds like Cave Johnson from Portal 2. "All these spheres are made of asbestos, by the way. Keeps out the rats. Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistent dry cough, or your heart stopping. Because that's no
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by Edman274 7y ago
I think it would be a lot quicker and easier to just start off the post with a meme of "the Virgin Samsung Android phone vs. the CHAD iPhone" and then to stop beating us with Apple cheerleading for paragraph after paragraph.
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by Edman274 7y ago
In the linked article, the quote that starts it is the following: "Whenever you look at a problem somebody’s been working on for a week or a month or maybe years and propose a simple, obvious solution that just happens to be the first
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by Edman274 7y ago
I'm not saying "don't ask questions." I'm saying "Don't ask that specific question that specific way. Get the same information by asking about the problem that's trying to be solved for long enough th

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