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by Thorrez 1y ago
Lina claims she let the vast majority of deals through. I wonder what the data shows. >While her aggressive stance led to intense criticism from corners of the tech industry, she defended her approach by saying that only a tiny percentag
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>The difference is "clear" to you because you are reasoning backwards from a desired conclusion. You want to claim that the zygote is a person and the unfertilized egg is not, so of course the merger of DNA is the "clear&q
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>In my opinion, they’re legally and morally treated as a person because it works in society, not because it expresses something fundamental about child development. It’s not an argument against abortion. Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Are you saying the 6 NSF-funded math institutes (IPAM being one) are engaging in politics?
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by Thorrez 1y ago
My first sentence is saying "I'm not saying the prices are reasonable." How does my second sentence say the prices are reasonable? My second sentence is saying chasebank's friend did something that doesn't make sens
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>But if an unfertilized egg dies due to not being fertilized, I'm sure you would argue that "not being fertilized" doesn't count as a problem; or alternatively, that the fertilized egg is a different entity from the u
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by Thorrez 1y ago
I'm wary of classifying any group as partial people. That's been used as a justification throughout history for causing harm to groups of people. >We don’t initially, as infants, know the difference between our body and the wor
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Is personhood development a continuum? Or does it happen in an instant? If it's a continuum, then for a period of time you have someone who's a partial person. That doesn't make sense to me. How can someone be a partial perso
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>These dumb pipes use QUIC over a magic socket. It may be dumb, but it still has all the features of a full QUIC connection: UDP-based, stream-multiplexing and encrypted. How is multiplexing used here? On the surface it looks like a sing
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Fetal/child development is a continuum. The only 2 instances of big change are fertilization and birth, but birth is more a change of environment, not a change of the child. The way that wants are experienced changes over time. The way
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>If a definition exists that avoids all these edge cases, please provide it. I am not aware of a definition of "organism" that would resolve all the problems in your stance. One way to define a human is any living entity that i
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by Thorrez 1y ago
What's the difference between "Religious" and "Traditional-religious"? Is "Traditional-religious" a strict subset of "Religious"? Is Ultra-orthodox a strict subset of "Traditional-religious&
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by Thorrez 1y ago
I'm not saying capitalism is perfect. All I'm saying is that it's better than communism. This was the comment I was replying to: >In political-left world, everybody has health care, access to housing and a liveable salary.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Does the kidney meet the scientific definition of an organism? If we were to survey those biologists, what would they say? Same regarding an infertile person, and cancer. I think scientists have already resolved the questions you're po
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Previously you said "I think what we should care about isn’t human life, but human consciousness." Now you're saying something different about past memories, and I think even that an unconscious preemie shouldn't be kill
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by Thorrez 1y ago
I'm not saying the prices are reasonable. I'm saying $2.2M for a "shithole 1300sqft" doesn't make sense when you can pay $2M for a nice 2279sqft.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Here's a $2M 4-3 2279sqft very-nice-looking home in Santa Barbara: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5436-Agana-Dr-Santa-Barba...
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by Thorrez 1y ago
If you know of a communist country that has had good civil rights and good prosperity, let me know.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
36% of millennials in the US have a favorable view of communism. 35% for marxism. 50% for capitalism. >Around one-in-five Millennials think society would be better off if all private property were abolished. https://www.indepe
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by Thorrez 1y ago
I would say it's similar to one person dying and another person getting a ton of transplants from that person.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>So what if that's some, very narrow definition of life? It's not just some definition. It's the scientific definition. Lots of people have the motto "I believe in science" but then reject the scientific definiti
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by Thorrez 1y ago
"Never again" has been said in other contexts as well. E.g. slavery in the US. US slavery didn't exactly meet the definition of ethnic cleansing or genocide. The primary goal was economic. Just because something isn't et
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by Thorrez 1y ago
What about someone who is unconscious but will recover? Is it ok the pull the plug on that person? There won't be any suffering (unless friends or relatives mourn, but let's assume this person has no friends or relatives). Regardi
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by Thorrez 1y ago
I agree the personhood question is more complicated than the definition of life. And I agree that ethics are more complicated than just the definition of personhood. However, regarding the question of personhood, I wonder, when does it begi
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by Thorrez 1y ago
It's a unique living organism. A life. Different from a skin cell which isn't a unique organism.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
You say that as if that's an accepted fact. Many people agree with what you say. Many disagree. There's no scientific evidence for what you're saying.
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by Thorrez 1y ago
>Biologists from 1,058 academic institutions around the world assessed survey items on when a human's life begins and, overall, 96% (5337 out of 5577) affirmed the fertilization view. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
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by Thorrez 1y ago
Most communist countries haven't been such a utopia as you describe. >He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "ther
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by Thorrez 1y ago
A lot of the discussion in the comments here is about gun mechanisms. This could be considered gun tech. Note that HN doesn't require posts to be tech related, although this post might be a little borderline regarding the "If they
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by Thorrez 1y ago
None of the apartments I've lived at had a 120V outlet near my parking spot that I could use.

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