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by Falling3 7y ago
At this point, I'm far more concerned about the long-term state of the environment than the long-term (or even short-term) state of our economy.
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by Falling3 7y ago
Well first, we're talking about the zip code one is raised in not the zip code one ends up in later in life. Second, we're discussing the efficacy of IQ as an actual measure of intelligence. You're assuming IQ is a good measu
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by Falling3 7y ago
That seems very unlikely. What seems more unlikely is that both IQ and zip code are proxies for something else.
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by Falling3 7y ago
You could likely make the same case for zip codes when children and parents are raised in different ones.
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by Falling3 7y ago
Zip code is also a very good predictor of success in life. IQ could be a great predictor, but that still doesn't mean it's measuring what we think it's measuring.
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by Falling3 7y ago
For the former, there's always ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute. For the latter, I think it's more complicated than that. There also is object-level mapping even for regular AR usage. If you do something like Foo.select(&quot
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by Falling3 7y ago
> Your diet is a personal choice and no amount of shaming is going to change that. I guess that depends on how you define personal choice. Climate change has certain changed the calculus, but diet was never merely a personal choice when
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by Falling3 7y ago
Who said our brains _needed_ consciousness to anticipate the future? The only claim I've seen is that it's (part of?) the particular mechanism our brains happen to use. This is akin to asking why birds need to flap their wings to
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by Falling3 7y ago
No, that's the definition of a hallucination. Illusions are misinterpretation's of objective reality by the brain (and I agree that's not a well-defined thing).
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by Falling3 7y ago
This explanation comes up frequently in these discussions. It makes a certain amount of sense on its face, but is there any evidence that this actually affects our perception of time?
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by Falling3 7y ago
I don't think anyone is saying ending life is necessarily cruel. We're saying unnecessarily ending life is cruel.
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by Falling3 8y ago
Do we really need to rehash the issues with moral relativism on HN?
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by Falling3 8y ago
We already know there are synergistic effects with certain nutrients. But what we're just as likely to find is that there are more beneficial combinations of nutrients than are found in nature. There's a strong possibility that (e
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by Falling3 8y ago
That depends very much on the cow. Plenty of animals never see the light of day until their trip to the slaughterhouse.
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by Falling3 8y ago
I've only ever had the pleasure of experiencing it with a lone goose. He started out protecting a flock of hens and perfectly fit the stereotype. Once he was separated from them, he did a complete 180.
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by Falling3 8y ago
>The assumption that determinism precludes moral responsibility has turned out to be false. When did this happen? I missed that memo.
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by Falling3 8y ago
Also a vegan and I'm very concerned about the human exploitation as well. Unfortunately, similar to "men's rights", this topic only seems to come up as an attempt at a rebuttal to veganism and very seldom mentioned in i
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by Falling3 8y ago
Don't underestimate the contribution of the "energy to grow the cow". Dairy cows don't start producing until they're 2 years old and are typically only kept around until age 5 or 6. That's a full third (or more
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by Falling3 8y ago
Geese are some of the most fiercely protective animals I've ever encountered. They're also incredibly sweet when they have no one they've tasked themselves with protecting. Their assholery is noble.
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by Falling3 8y ago
> If I buy chicken whose precise provenance is known, and which are raised in humane conditions with high-quality feed We're talking morals and we're surely going to have some differences in opinion, but I don't see how ra
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by Falling3 8y ago
What the parent was getting at is if you don't have an environment devoted to QA specifically, your production environment is your QA environment.
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by Falling3 8y ago
Such an important case that most people have no idea about.
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by Falling3 8y ago
> obviously it can be used in other contexts, but then again, so can basically any other word in any language if you're willing to warp semantics enough to suit your purposes. Sure. But this isn't about "warping semantics&
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by Falling3 8y ago
You're conflating the philosophical definition of self-awareness and a colloquial usage of the term.
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by Falling3 8y ago
I think imagine is probably not the best word to convey what the parent is talking about. Maybe "take seriously". We also have plenty of movies involved anthropomorphized inanimate objects, but (almost) no one believes they have a
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by Falling3 8y ago
Words have multiple meanings applicable in different contexts. Murder is not exclusively a legal term. Your parent comment clearly was not looking to make a legal argument. Was that not obvious?
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by Falling3 8y ago
I don't think anyone here will disagree with you on that either. But I fail to see the relevance of that in the context of this article.
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by Falling3 8y ago
>The problem with isolating the 'race' factor is that it promotes race hate How is your stance any different from the common and absurd refrain that discussing racism is racist? We can't discuss racism without looking at r
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by Falling3 8y ago
You cannot simultaneously claim that racism is a social construct and it has no relevance in analyzing social behaviors. I doubt anyone here disagrees with you on the biological reality of race and how it has far more to do with social conv
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by Falling3 8y ago
>A person with a knife and intent is just a lethal as someone with a gun Then why do the police need guns? Shouldn't knives be sufficient?

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