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by User23 3y ago
That and the two proposals GP offered are all compatible. Real life is complex and macro social trends can have multiple contributing causes.
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by User23 3y ago
This is because crime is caused by bad people not by bad real estate.
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by User23 3y ago
Are we really still pretending this is because of the pandemic?
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by User23 3y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by lumen lamp, but good old incandescent bulbs radiate with a spectrum quite close to that of the setting sun.
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by User23 3y ago
> Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.
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by User23 3y ago
Child labor is still not uncommon in agricultural communities in the USA. I believe the federal law is age 12 and up for farm work. And de facto if not de jure there is no age limit on children working their own family’s farm. Granted one m
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by User23 3y ago
LLMs have no concept of facts. They can hide this to an extent with alignment when it comes to sacred platitudes, but they certainly can't tell you if a singleton website with archaic HTML/CSS is accurate or not.
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by User23 3y ago
I like the Electric Mad Max truck marketing. But somehow I don't want my Electric Mad Max truck to have a remote kill switch.
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by User23 3y ago
> This makes no sense whatsoever. Correlation doesn't imply causation, thus correlation by itself cannot be considered evidence of anything. Correlation is evidence that there may be causation and thus further investigation to fin
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by User23 3y ago
The claim that you’re attacking was > The latter, the school boys, are nearly to a one on some kind of psychiatric drug. This is easily verified with some simple searching[1]. And before you start on the “muh causality” deflection, obser
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by User23 3y ago
You’ve offered nothing but snark and evasion in response to a simple question asking what standard of evidence you’d accept. You’ve made it clear that there isn’t one an you’re acting in bad faith. Feel free to pretend that’s funny if you l
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by User23 3y ago
Why would I or anyone else make the effort of finding evidence for you when you’re not even willing to state the standard of evidence that you would accept? That sounds like a total waste of time since you’re effectively indicating that you
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by User23 3y ago
> What did I miss? Evidentiary standards, it appears. You literally just admitted to not having any.
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by User23 3y ago
What evidentiary standard would that “proof” have to meet to satisfy you? Is there one? If not then you’re just expressing a political belief and not a scientific one.
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by User23 3y ago
The overwhelming majority of mass shooters are urban career criminals either actively engaging in some kind of crime or getting in stupid disputes over perceived disrespect. These stories pretty much only show up in local if-it-bleeds-it-le
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by User23 3y ago
Perhaps you should get your information someplace other than lying left wing partisans masquerading as comedians? Here[1] is the actual data. The USA's firearms homicides are higher than I'd like, but are by no means the world lea
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by User23 3y ago
Using climate change as justification for enshittification is a good way to feed denialist narratives.
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by User23 3y ago
The Bible, the Catechism, various works by Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Aquinas, to name a few, and the liturgical prayers of the Church to name just a few sources. I assume the Eva reference is meant to be mocking, but the Japanese artists
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by User23 3y ago
Batteries used to have cardboard instead of metal shells. Because of this batteries used to leak prolifically. Then an inventor patented the modern metal shelled battery. His competitors all started infringing so he sued. They claimed that
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by User23 3y ago
Help him get a free NLS[1] Bard[2][3] account! They provide high quality audiobooks of all sorts. Their library is extensive, and they also have some periodicals. There is no cost to users, but you do have to demonstrate eligibility. He can
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by User23 3y ago
> In Catholic Theology, philosophy always means "ontological interpretation" That's a rather bold claim. It implies that Catholic theologians are, among other things, uninterested in ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and ep
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by User23 3y ago
> I've seen plenty of horrible unit test driven developed code with a mess of unnecessary mocks. Mocks are an anti-pattern. They are a tool that either by design or unfortunate happenstance allows and encourages poor separation of c
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by User23 3y ago
Put simply, doing TDD properly leads to sensible separation of concerns.
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by User23 3y ago
Charitably I’m going to ascribe this to ignorance and not dishonesty. You may not be aware but Catholic dogma has no problem whatsoever with evolution, an old Earth, heliocentrism, or any number of other more or less fashionable opinions. T
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by User23 3y ago
Well the big thing is it contradicts quantum mechanics, which has far better experimental support.
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by User23 3y ago
Just a quibble, but that usage of “theory” is entirely correct. Nevertheless the point is taken that often in general usage “theory” means “scientific theory.” Anyhow, with some small consideration it should be clear that the latter is mere
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by User23 3y ago
Did Joule ever actually ever build a Brayton engine? It's one thing to publish papers about how a thing might be done, but it's another entirely to actually create an invention.
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by User23 3y ago
Emulation is legal in the USA and the copyright act allows those in US jurisdiction to make copies needed to run software, which includes dumping a ROM from a cartridge.
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by User23 3y ago
> At Harvard, 28% of students receive no aid at all. So they pay full sticker price. And legacies pay well above sticker price, when you count family donations. Which is why legacies are a thing. The other reason legacies are a thing is
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by User23 3y ago
> single-colour bulbs Incandescent light isn't single-color, it's all of them. Evidently that matters to some people. Things that don't matter to you might legitimately matter to other people.

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