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by SamPatt 6y ago
Folks like Stephen Pinker (Enlightenment Now), Matt Ridley (The Rational Optimist), and Max Roser (Our World in Data) have done a compelling job of presenting data that shows poverty has decreased substantially in recent generations.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
The entire point of protesting is people saying they believe something is unjust. You can't decide what other people think is unjust. You would be negating the entire point of protests. I think the quarantine of the healthy was unjust.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
I agree that's how these things start. Now doctors in the field and epidemiologists are being censored on YouTube for having unorthodox views on COVID-19.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
I second this. I was homeschooled and am homeschooling our children. The best part is the flexibility and adaptability. Embrace it. Learn through living. Having your kids alongside you is probably a more representative sample of what living
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Ultimate Chicken Horse is great.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
And that's when they're being "nice." Otherwise they would send armed men to steal your stuff.
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by SamPatt 6y ago
Well said. If we value the ability to experience consciousness ourselves, then surely the fact that 7 billion people exist is valuable in and of itself?
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Suppressors don't make any weapon quiet enough to be useful for hiding the sound of firing up close, as movies portray spies doing. It's more about protecting your own hearing.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I don't get the hate for 100 Watts on FT8 either. Use the power you need to make the contact. Keep an eye on the waterfall to make sure you aren't doubling. If you're getting a +5 SNR report then obviously dial it way back bu
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Inflation is just theft from savers.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
My phone screen locks quickly and uses a long PIN so it's terrible for recipes. I've been trying to think of a cheap simple alternative.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
It's cheaper and better for you, and you can cook for your own preferences once you understand the basics. It's a great time to learn!
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by SamPatt 7y ago
This looks neat. How does this differ from disaster.radio? More portable? I ask because I really think these are important projects and I'm not sure which to contribute my time towards.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Why unhealthy? Having rules for guests which make you more comfortable in your own home makes sense to me.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Just say "I have something to hide. Do you believe I should be able to?"
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by SamPatt 7y ago
True, but the hardware is cheap and extremely simple to setup. The entire process took me maybe one hour and cost probably $40 if you include the SD card and Ethernet cable too.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
>stop buying everything through Amazon Indeed. I'll plug OpenBazaar here, a p2p marketplace built on IPFS, as well as Haven, the mobile app version focusing on privacy.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Same. It works great and uses less RAM than Chrome.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Agreed. "Inheritors of the Earth" by Chris Thomas is an entire book on this subject.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
There are many great scientists in this field and we should take heed of their warnings. But this isn't an example of that happening. This is activism dressed up as science. Their use of charts is a textbook example of how to mislead.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Agreed. Keto is effective because it's an exclusionary diet, and while it does exclude some healthy foods, it also excludes the majority of junk food that makes modern diets so poor. The adaptability of humans makes me think the "
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I imagine dice, or some other physical object that introduces randomness, is a sure thing if intelligent life exists elsewhere.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
>he has also stated he thinks that civilisation has only a 50% chance of surviving this century. I can't understand this line of thinking. Human civilization has been around for ~10,000 years, and in the past two centuries nearly ev
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by SamPatt 7y ago
But Bitcoin has increased by 100% over the past year.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Those vaccines were pulled _eventually_. We cannot know if we're in the period where harm is being done but before it's realized and the vaccine then pulled.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
XPS 15 works great with Ubuntu 18.04 thus far. I've been running it for a year now without any problems I can recall.
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by SamPatt 7y ago
>if it was so clear cut and widespread, these vaccines would be pulled from the market yesterday That argument is empirically false, as there have been multiple medications and vaccinations which did widespread harm. Granted, nearly all
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by SamPatt 7y ago
Thanks for explaining that to me, a licensed amateur radio operator for more than 20 years. :p I meant the AM radio broadcast band as an example of a popular use case of radio in the early days when the "high frequency" designatio
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by SamPatt 7y ago
I thought that was obvious, yes. My point is that the basis for the designations were made in a period where AM radio was the primary use case for radio and so frequencies higher than the AM radio band are called "high frequency,"
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by SamPatt 7y ago
She's not wrong about the need to weigh against the risk. She's just wrong about assessing the risk.

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