GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Being an especially rabid minority does not make a majority.
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Not everything is a grand conspiracy. Sometimes society really isn't okay with what you're doing.
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I was focused on the etymology; the actual usage of "ultrasonic" is generally confined to high pitches, not low. Worthwhile point still, though I wouldn't have responded had the commenter not stated a specific incorrect def
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
No, it means "beyond." Like you point out, "across" means something else. The Latin for "above" is supra or super . > ultra- , prefix: > 1. Signifying ‘lying spatially beyond or on the other side of’
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The author might not like Pinker's writing, but this hardly speaks against Pinker's advice. I have a feeling he read the first chapter of The Sense of Style and decided the whole thing is bullshit because it's about style
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> You cant really be using a letter from the company that dropped them as a source. Sure you can. That letter almost certainly was vetted by Amazon's legal department. Not everything is a grand conspiracy.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> From my understanding Parler has been taking down explicit calls for violence but the bar is just high. Amazon pulled the plug specifically because they were not doing so. https://www.gadgetsnow.com/tech-news/read-
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
"We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling." - Senator Marco Rubio, R-FL, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chair https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2020/8/rubio-s.
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Transporting these patients (the ones whose pulse hasn't returned in the field) appears to worsen their chances.[0] States vary widely in what protocols they require, but normal procedure in a lot of places is to not transport if resus
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In emergency medicine, you've got patients who are dead, and patients who are dead dead. Patients who are just dead might still be brought back. This isn't about them. Patients who are dead dead because they haven't respo
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Can you describe how? Advanced Cardiac Life Support protocols (ACLS) are fairly standard in both pre-hospital and hospital settings. Specifically because it's critical, paramedics are trained in ACLS. EMT-Bs aren't, but the BLS am
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That's not broadly true. Anyone has sufficient medical training to declare a beheaded person deceased. States have more and less sane approaches to this. Obviously, many things are not as clear-cut as beheading. But there are states th
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You're saying the possibility of unlimited returns from others' labor is the only incentive people have to invest capital?
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You're not within your rights as a juror to nullify. You can do so as a matter of practice. Jury nullification looks great for laws you disagree with. It's not so great when it's used to let people off the hook for lynchi
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That's the water we swim in, but can you actually make an argument for why things should be that way? We allow infinite returns to "shareholders" long after their risk has been reasonably rewarded. Why should we?
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Because mixing units but keeping coefficients 1:1 means there's no math, as long as you measure your bodyweight in pounds and have a way of measuring your protein in grams (which food packaging does, even in the U.S.). Mixing coefficie
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Sure, but they're not denying access to competitors. They're setting rules for use of the facility. "You can't promote illicit drug use in our facility" is a reasonable rule. Whether the name "Amphetamine"
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I always look at negative reviews. From those you can tell if there's a consistent concern, if someone got a fake, or if there was just a preference mismatch for someone.
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Even prior to the pandemic, real wages were stagnant for decades. Wealth inequality has been a growing problem since before many of us have been alive, at this point. We are definitely making progress in absolute terms, but there is plenty
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Since they're crowdsourcing, yes, at least without disclosing what commitments they'll make about freedom. It's also just unfortunate to splinter things away from established open technologies.
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That likely was true in that case. Your ex's anger treated you as someone capable of recognizing having done wrong, because if you didn't, you wouldn't be manipulable. (That's not the same thing as saying you actuall
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That's factually incorrect. The vast majority of voters on both sides viewed Trump's election as legitimate. [0] There is a substantial difference between claiming that you lost for reasons that are problematic (i.e. propaganda an
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> removing the public's focus on the more evenly distributed measures we are already employing How is this focus "removed" and why is there any reason to think that evenly distributed measures along with targeted ones wo
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"No more a fiction than" might better convey your meaning here.
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It makes perfect sense. It's just not the only viable or legitimate way to do things. As I said above: people are free to give up their citizenship. They'll pay the taxes that have been deferred (and then, only above a high thresh
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Nah, that means adding unnecessary adornment. "Gilding" is explicitly about form. It would be a stretch to use that for a change that worsens something's substance.
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Of course. Your capital gains would be taxed upon sale if you didn't leave; should fleeing the country allow you to avoid that? Letting people take advantage of all the US offers while paying no tax on their growing wealth, and then le
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> Because you are effectively not a member of that community anymore People have the choice of giving up their U.S. citizenship. > Yet simply to retain the right to return the US at some point, they must pay taxes every year in the mi
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I don't think they should be routine, but given the highly unbalanced taxing environment of the past few decades which allowed for such massive wealth to accumulate (and rapidly grow during the pandemic) I see them as a reasonable corr
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Holding the patent allow the government to recoup its investment to some degree. Governments don't necessarily have to treat patents the same way as private companies do, either. Legislation can require a fairly open licensing scheme f

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