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by ajuc 1y ago
Praise the effort not the result. And especially don't make it into identity of the child. Best: good job studying for that exam. Meh: good job passing that exam. Worst: you so smart, everything comes easy to you.
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For any given thing produced abroad USA could produce it domestically. But you simply cannot produce ALL the things domestically. Population matters. There's not enough Americans, not even going into how many want to work a blue-collar
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Jabber & XMPP was the peak of instant messaging. Since then it's been downhill.
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> Isn't that a thing everyone does? It's much more common when you're multilingual, because you think in combination of all the languages you know and you only realize you're missing the specific word when you get to
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At this point mostly hypocrisy.
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> Under this belief system, it might be okay to enslave or even kill humans This is actually what most christians believe (see Abraham's sacrifice). God is the ultimate source of morality, so if God wants you to kill your son - it&#
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Religions compete by "virality", like viruses they evolve towards encouraging reproduction. Even if you measure "better" as "more viral" - it's not "gods" who are better - it's cultural meme
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I'm pretty sure you could get statistically significant correlation and publish it (at least in psychology) if you really wanted to :)
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Haven't printed this telescope but I have printed some pretty big things for example a front rack for my wife's bike. It's on the 3rd version, the first one broke on small collision (the bike fell over while standing), the 2n
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Income inequality is not exactly the right metric. Wealth inequality is what matters. But I think that's what you meant because you talked about the bank account. But, anyway - it does matter, obviously. Money are a way for the society
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If West did it for real that would include decoupling, end of globalization and economic decline of China with all the turmoil on financial markets and in global corporations that would entail. What West did was slapping russia on hands (bu
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You can drone-bomb the factory and ban ASML from sending the next set of matrices to rebuilt it. That's just one scenario, there's others. The supply chains are REALLY long and touch basically every important country on Earth and
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Wars and wide-spread terrosism tend to have unintended consequences, yes.
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Things get very dark in few dozen years anyway - see established mainstream science about global warming. We know and ignore this because it's unpleasant and if we take it seriously it cuts the short term profits. Instead we worry abou
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Most of the work is in making electronics, batteries and engines. All requires typical long supply chains and big factories. Assembly is a very small part of the job. Currently there's no shortage of the components, but we could imagin
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> But none of this answers how something comes from nothing Why do you assume there was nothing?
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I like this simple model. There's 2 variables: - pleasure - achievements Both reset daily. Both can be changed by each activity. Well-being is calulated sth like this: def wellBeing(pleasureNow, pleasureSoFar, achievements):
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So you're thinking we shoud just hope they will do the unprofitable but noble thing?
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Who controls the media - controls the population. Who controls the population controls the government. Every democracy will become oligarchy eventually if we don't regulate social media. Most of them won't even be controlled domes
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There's 200 countries. You can move. There's democracy in many of them - you can vote people out. How many youtubes are there? How do I vote for the people running it? I'm not conflating, I'm abstracting from artificial
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by ajuc 1y ago
> We don't have to use YouTube and there's nothing stopping competitors from entering the market. There is - network effect. > If people cared that YouTube was a monopoly, or if people cared enough about the moderation polic
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> It doesn't matter what YouTube, or any other company or person, restricts. It matters what our government restricts If there is a monopoly - what the monopoly owner restricts matters just as much as what the government restricts.
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It's very hard to find a law without exceptions. It's forbidden to kill people. But if you are defending yourself it's not. And if you're a soldier you are indeed required to kill. It's forbidden to break other peop
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And still it's the "free-speech" USA that deports students for protesting against Israel war in Gaza and not UK. There's the wording of the law, and then there's the practice of the government. Most communist regime
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The debate shouldn't be "to remove or not". The debate should be "who should decide what to remove". We've had media laws for decades. Internet is underregulated to a crazy degree, so the people who make the de
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> Instead, users must verify their age using a credit card or a government-issued ID. This check must be carried out by an external service, not the porn site itself. > This system, referred to as “double anonymity”, means the porn si
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Would you defend using pound for force and mass because "it's often the same"?
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Logarithmic scale aligns with human experience. OP isn't criticizing logarithmic scale in general but dB in particular. If dB in particular aligned well with human experience - volume knobs would be labeled with dB values instead of 1-
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You can use logarithmic scale without making it a pseudo-unit that changes the factors depending on the application. Additionally - attacking people you don't know for ignorance because they have different opinions is very narrowminded
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> -3db is half loudness, +3dB is double It isn't tho. It's close but not exactly. And there's nothing about -3 behing half that makes sense except for familiarity (and it's not even wide-spread familiarity - most peop

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