Talanes

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by Talanes 5y ago
Except that "How Disney World deals with mosquitos" IS an answer to the "Why" in the headline. "Why Disney World Doesn't Want Mosquitos" is a separate question that has a self-evident answer to anyone who
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by Talanes 5y ago
Opposite directions. If you put a clean shirt and a dirty shirt in a bag together, the dirty shirt can rub off it'd dirtiness on the clean one, but the cleanness can't rub off and make the dirty shirt clean.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>but that rarely happens because the situation can be leveraged for votes (there's a lot of poor people) There's a massive difference hidden in that statement alone. Here the politicians just assume those people aren't vot
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by Talanes 5y ago
To further illustrate that point: I'm a barista.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>I think this is pretty straightforwardly what any social scientist would expect And statements like that are why I don't trust any social science without digging a few layers deeper than the data that's initially presented.
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by Talanes 5y ago
I'm not sure how that's obvious? School isn't where I learned about the Tuskegee experiment, so why would I assume that's the primary way people learn about it? That's a claim that actually needs some data to back i
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by Talanes 5y ago
I've read the post. I'm not guessing at the assumptions he's making, I'm saying they're ridiculous. He had six paragraphs, and somehow completely lost the thread halfway through.
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by Talanes 5y ago
That's way too big of a hypothetical to make any of the statistics derived from it worth anything.
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by Talanes 5y ago
> I would guess that awareness of the Tuskegee Experiment and black history more generally is greater among those with higher education than those with lower education. If this guess is right... He's starting with an assumption that
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by Talanes 5y ago
>I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away. By the standards you yourself set two posts above, we cannot know that yet.
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by Talanes 5y ago
The neighbor's window is a fixed consideration: you mentally map out who can see into your yard once and you're done. The possibility of a drone requires that mental calculation to be played out on a constantly repeated basis.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Because it was 2007: Guitar Hero and Call of Duty were huge, and Activision owned both.
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by Talanes 5y ago
>If you insist on using 3rd party interpretation rather than 1st party intent to decide the meaning of a statement, I've got 16 upvotes on my comments here so others seem to be reading it the same as I "Argument by upvote"
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by Talanes 5y ago
You said that GP "clearly" intended one thing, yet I've seen you in two other threads with people who did not share your reading of those words. It's fine to state your own reading of what they said and respond in kind,
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by Talanes 5y ago
"Clearly" is a bit too much, given that you've had to comment multiple times to people who didn't read it that way.
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by Talanes 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%E2%80%93US_extradition_trea... The US can extradite UK citizens for US crimes committed in the UK, but not vice-versa.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Your second paragraph invalidates the first. What if all 50 of those people agree with you, but are downvoting you for another reason?
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by Talanes 5y ago
The purpose of that anecdote was to demonstrate that there was no database at that time.
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by Talanes 5y ago
World of Warcraft is a subscription-based product, so delays do directly lead to lost revenue as players get bored and cancel.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Lupin III has been airing new series semi-consistently up to the present, but I believe each part is a separate production.
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by Talanes 5y ago
It doesn't need to be fear, necessarily. They live on an island of 120 people with whoever did it. Like the guy or hate him, they're gonna be seeing him every week from here til the end. Why turn on him for some bloke who doesn&#x
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by Talanes 5y ago
>having grown their wealth themselves. >and employ lots of people doing productive work. I think we may have different definitions of "themselves."
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by Talanes 5y ago
>The consumers have no choice here For the choices that matter to the arbitration firm, they absolutely do. Without a customer who is willing to initiate arbitration proceedings, there are no fees to be collected. If there is a huge upfr
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by Talanes 5y ago
>The point is that it takes more than just a few people to validate a stereotype; otherwise, I could make up any stereotype I want, and by your admission, it would be valid. But that isn't how sterotypes work. The point wasn't
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by Talanes 5y ago
>As pointed out, Kapoor has purposefully and publicly violated the terms of sale Or someone affiliated with Kapoor did, if he didn't purchase it himself he's not bound to any terms.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Because the state wants to make their ability to use force against rule-breakers as strong as possible. Some states even make the use of body armor while committing one crime it's own separate crime.
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by Talanes 5y ago
We do regulate body armor though.
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by Talanes 5y ago
Lousy lenses?
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by Talanes 5y ago
Shoe size is an inherent byproduct of having feet of a certain dimension. A prescription has to be prescribed. If we're doing dumb analogies, it's like you're trying to insist a homeless man must have an address.
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by Talanes 5y ago
How does "It's art" exempt it from outrage? Sometimes that's even the point of art.

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