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by Udik 6y ago
> I had always assumed that clearly recognizable traits that children inherit from parents are simply based on the large influence of certain small pieces of DNA I never understood this position from the logical point of view. Say that y
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by Udik 6y ago
It's actually four sections, each longer than the entire Maeslantkering.
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No, as far as I know it's because closing the barriers too often would reduce too much the exchange of water between the lagoon and the sea, damaging the lagoon's ecosystem. So it was decided to use it only when strictly necessary
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> Ah, but what about the landscape! Ah but what about the fact that the Maeslantkering closes a canal that is 360 metres wide, the total width of the MOSE is 1.6km...
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> shady corporation conspiring with the system Was "the system" also put on trial? Or it's just Purdue?
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by Udik 6y ago
The point is that the widely used services and applications in the US are either from the US or from countries that are safely within the US's sphere of influence. TikTok is an exception as it comes from a country that is as much outsi
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Flood barrier successfully protects Venice from high tide(reuters.com)
1 points by Udik 6y ago|0 comments
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by Udik 6y ago
> they never don't end up getting killed. That only seems to happen in the US But then is the problem racism or simply police violence, which is both a product and a demand of the whole of American society?
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by Udik 6y ago
It's a good hypothesis, but don't you think it should be tested? It's not enough to vaguely propose a possible alternative explanation for the numbers, you should also check whether it's right. Missing more data, the nul
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It's a statement about reality. It can be true or false. Racist/ not-racist is not a category of reality, it's an attribute of human intentions and actions.
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A statistic is a calculation. Are you saying that the result of a calculation can be racist? It can be produced with a racist intent, or it can be interpreted as such. You can talk of the result of the calculation in a racist way, or derive
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by Udik 6y ago
> Facts taken out of context can obviously be racist. A fact is a statement about reality. It can induce racism, but cannot be racist in itself. Facts are scientific, and science is not political. > More crime than who? Of non-Abori
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The funniest thing to me is the discourse about "white privilege" when it's transplanted into countries where basically everyone used to be white. How can that be a privilege to be the same as everyone else? But people will r
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by Udik 6y ago
Ok, so climate change is an existential threat. So why instead of talking about how we should stop reproducing and live frugally- which we all know it's not going to happen- we don't replace 100% of our non-renewable power generat
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by Udik 6y ago
If you're familiar with the case you surely know that Romano Prodi, who was going to become minister of the Industry a few months later (and much later became Italy's prime minister), tipped the police about the possible location
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Ah, we have no shortage in Italy of people who claim to have been the kingpin of this or that plot central to the history of the nation. Whatever Pieczenik might have said there are most probably others who gave a different version (Italy&#
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by Udik 6y ago
Just to make a minor point clear, since it seems the article is a bit vague about it: in the "years of lead" in Italy it was mostly the far left that was engaging in terrorism and political violence. Just one sentence that seems a
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by Udik 6y ago
Written in 2015, it feels from a century ago. Just consider the second paragraph: "The concern in the West about China's growing economic and geopolitical influence is not unjustified, although "concern" is probably not
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President Xi Slept Here: 1985 Trip to Iowa Changed U.S.-China Relations (2015)(thestreet.com)
4 points by Udik 6y ago|1 comments
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I don't mean to dismiss human lives; what I mean is that we used to worry about how to lift people out of poverty, and now instead we ask for global changes so that they can keep living in the same poverty as before. It's an examp
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by Udik 6y ago
My impression is that much of the left has become focused on a few systemic issues (feminism and gender, racism, climate change) and has entirely renounced observing and interpreting reality in terms of more immediate causes and responsibil
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Not very funny or insightful. It's not nice to say it, but RM for the moment is mostly out of fresh ideas. His obsession with lists, intersecting lists, mixed up lists, made up lists... It feels like he's stuck in some feverish th
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by Udik 6y ago
Oh come on. When you meet your friends, you meet them in groups. When you talk to them, it's usually to sub groups or one to one. There's the nice colleagues from work, there's the childhood friends, there's the friends
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by Udik 6y ago
I have the same feeling- sometimes I joke with friends that it feels we've taken the wrong turn of history somewhere, and we're now in some alternate-history fiction. But a few considerations. One, I think it's an age thing.
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The Guardian’s New Statement Betrays Both Julian Assange and Journalism(counterpunch.org)
83 points by Udik 6y ago|6 comments
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Until a few years ago the Uighurs were exempt- as minority- from the one-child policy applied to the rest of China. Would you say they were being racist against the Han then?
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The UK has just finished building the Hornsea Project 1 offshore wind farm. [1] It had a projected cost of $5.2 billion for a nameplate capacity of 1.2GW and an actual average output of 0.46GW. Scaled to the output of the Flamanville mess (
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I wanted to check up your reasoning. Actual calculations can be pretty complicated so I relied on a real world example: the largest solar array project under construction in the world, Australia's Sun Cable. https://www.theg
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Which parts exactly? Because usually it is claimed (in popular and mainstream media) that ipcc reports are toned down for consensus and political support.
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> The reality that science shows is far worse than what has permeated mainstream culture I'm really curious where did you get this information from. I suppose it must not be popular or mainstream media, because of course msm telling

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