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by a_shovel 4y ago
The term "unborn child" presupposes personhood, and "fault" is too strong a term even in quotes. If a person poisons another person deliberately and causes their kidneys to fail, it is not an acceptable punishment to tak
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This comment could easily be adapted into a form letter to oppose the majority of Supreme-Court-decided expansions of civil rights of the past century.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
It'd have to be a lot different. Free-to-upload and free-to-watch video hosting is just not a profitable model, even for YouTube. Google only keeps it to feed the data to its AIs. They can't afford the appropriate order of magnitu
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Arguably the largest company in the world is depleting its own potential labor pool around all of its facilities, due to the sheer cruelty of how it treats its workers. The assumption has been that there's always more workers, so who c
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by a_shovel 4y ago
1. Every time someone posts one of Foone's threads to HN, a Twitter bot that just reposts HN links will link to the thread, which notifies them, which is annoying. They always block all of them, but there always seems to be a new one.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
There was a discussion about this a few days ago, and this comment thread [0] featured some criticism from experts on these claims. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31642424
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I see. There's no problem with having a couple dozen tabs up at a time when you're only looking at a couple of them, especially if they have incomplete forms, or have a certain ctrl-F term highlighted, or are for Stack Overflow. I
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I don't get what people have against bookmarks.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The author's implicit complaint seems to be that the face of disability advocacy is decreasingly the poor, helpless wretch who cannot care for themself, cannot live independently, cannot communicate with others, must be advocated for b
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> It's an impressive effect for the time, as the lighting on the ridges will shift and match the sun's angle even as the suns dynamically move through the sky. Bump mapping like this wouldn't become common until the next
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Replacement theory seems to just be the lightly sanitized version of the long-standing "white genocide" theory, which is a central pillar of white supremacist ideology. The difference is that replacement theory doesn't go so
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The article considers the environmental impact of reusable bags in terms of climate change, but I would speculate that's not how most people would frame the benefit, they'd see it as a benefit because it reduces the amount of plas
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by a_shovel 4y ago
This one [1] isn't very long, but I think it shows that the cat (Billi) does associate the buttons with a meaning. The owner is playing with Billi with a toy on a string, then drops it on her back. She then quickly (within 10 seconds)
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by a_shovel 4y ago
And in turn, your comment is a pretty common disingenuous representation of the bill from its supporters. No, it is not about "sex", it is about "sexual orientation", which is generally understood to be whether one is
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Yeah, that's my position as well. People make fun of leftists for infighting and "cancel culture" and "eating their own", but the alternative seems to be allowing the worst parts of "your side" to keep and
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'm referring to neutrality in the sense of not taking a side in a disagreement, and I think you're referring to neutrality in the sense of having a single, consistent standard applied to everyone equally. They're slightly di
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by a_shovel 4y ago
The debacle with the Depp/Heard case is really concerning, I'll say that right up front. That whole event is a good argument for the article's point. But many of the other criticisms are the same ones that didn't convinc
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> In Texas, the mandate for the supremacy of roads comes via the state constitution, which requires that highways are funded to the exclusion of almost anything else that moves people around. About 97% of the $30bn a year the state gives
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Unfortunately, I was unable to obtain the paper's text. However, that site has a responses tab that contained the relevant information. > Dear Editor > On reading the study mentioned in the first paragraph an excerpt in the dis
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I've seen quite a few currently-transgender people say they knew they were trans when they were five, or that they likely would have realized if the vocabulary was available to them. Perception of one's own gender seems to come pr
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'm a little bit honored that you created an account just to argue with me. If puberty blockers weren't reversible, doctors wouldn't give them to kids who started puberty too early. Hormone Replacement Therapy isn't reve
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Anti-trans activists like to use an old, discredited study that found 80% of trans kids retransitioned back to their gender assigned at birth to argue that minors shouldn't be allowed to take puberty blockers or hormones, because it&#x
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Actively filtering out sexists (, racists, etc.) from your hiring process is a practical necessity for any company. If your company will hire programmers who refuse to acknowledge that women can be technically skilled, imagine what the sale
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by a_shovel 4y ago
Well, at least now you know you shouldn't assume that.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
He didn't, though, he clarified that he meant making eye contact with the man but not the woman.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I presume this means that the puzzle doesn't actually have a solution. I wonder what kind of information was in the packs.
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by a_shovel 4y ago
A lot of people seem to see "female" as a strictly biological term, whereas "woman" is a gender term. While this would be convenient, I'd like to point out that lots of people use "female" to refer to gend
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by a_shovel 4y ago
I'm not going to bother because I don't believe the questions are being asked in good faith. When the author asks "Why is there no all-cause mortality benefit from the COVID vaccines?", he didn't write that so he co
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> ... there is no all-cause mortality benefit from the mRNA vaccines. It is ZERO. Why are we mandating a vaccine that at best doesn’t save ANY LIVES???? This is anti-vax garbage. Why hasn't it been flagged yet? Ctrl-F tells me tha
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by a_shovel 4y ago
> "We are making this change now (i.e. ahead of cryptographically-relevant quantum computers) to prevent 'capture now, decrypt later' attacks where an adversary who can record and store SSH session ciphertext would be abl

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