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A dog’s breed doesn’t determine much about its behavior(theverge.com)
7 points by avastmick 4y ago|3 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
I agree. Those two works are an interesting takes on Victorian life from two different eras and world views. Thomas Hughes's contemporary novel was hugely popular, even until the mid to late 20th Century, as an ideal for the moral deve
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by avastmick 5y ago
I can trump that! Maybe 1990(ish) - I worked as a cycle courier in London and one of my regular clients was Crossrail where I carried plans from one office to another.
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by avastmick 5y ago
The article is not about the fall of the Roman Empire, but about the fall of the Roman Republic and its replacement with a dictatorship under Julius Caesar. The Empire expanded after that point. Rome was bloodily founded, with the forced su
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by avastmick 5y ago
I couldn't get any location information from the page, but I wonder if these are mostly rural? I live in New Zealand and while the vehicles are not seen here the makeup would seem to align with my experience - trucks (Utes as we call t
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Byzantine Political Economy (2017)(medium.com)
2 points by avastmick 5y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
As the Russian military build-up and invasion of Ukraine has unfolded, I have spent more time thinking about how much humanity tolerates the concentration of significant power (or its proxy, extreme wealth) in small groups of individuals. F
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by avastmick 5y ago
From a philosophical stance, this is history repeating for the same basic reason. 2022 AD and risk of war is still the same as it was in 1022 AD, or 22 AD. That reason is the accumulation of power (or by proxy, wealth) in a small set of ind
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Unrideable bike shows how bicycles work(cyclingtips.com)
1 points by avastmick 5y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
I’ve never understood why people find the force of chance so difficult to accept. I am lucky I am a white man born in the UK in 1969. So much of what I am is due just to that fact, irrespective of whether I am smart or not, hard working or
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by avastmick 5y ago
This is true, particularly in developed nations. [0] [0] https://ourworldindata.org/terrorism
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by avastmick 5y ago
The impact of sheep is under estimated. On Dartmoor in the UK sheep roam freely and there are very few trees. However, there are pockets of fenced areas that are thickly grown with upland oak and ash that would have presumably been what the
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by avastmick 5y ago
This site is interesting on the history. https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/history-a...
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by avastmick 5y ago
I’ve wondered this often during the crisis. Normally, to me anyway, in crisis, politicians fall back on a toolbox of propaganda. I’ve been waiting on the, “Anti- vaccination is un-American. And the conspiracy theories are all a (Russian&#x2
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by avastmick 5y ago
As per another comment, I’m unsure why you cut off at 12 years old. That said, the role of schools in child care is often overlooked for the less economically measurable benefits of education. Without the child care provided by schools, man
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Footprints suggest people reached America early(arstechnica.com)
4 points by avastmick 5y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
Totally agree with this. Appointing a jury is via a lottery. Most justice systems around the world see this as a via way of approaching the problem. Sure there are flaws, but few laid at the door of juries themselves. I think it would be gr
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by avastmick 5y ago
Sorry you feel so emotionally about this topic. However please refrain from ad hominem attacks: it doesn’t help constructive discussion. There are facts that do not readily line up with the scale of response to the failures that surround th
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by avastmick 5y ago
This is an excellent resource that consolidates data that is largely scattered. I wonder the motivation for those who are so anti-nuclear that they would distort the data or even lie in many cases. Surely, the fourth largest earthquake, plu
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'Negative intensification bias' and unintended meaning(bbc.com)
44 points by avastmick 5y ago|84 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
The vehicles have since restarted.[1] I think that Toyota's position on AVs is largely counter to the rest of the market, and the CE largely states this in his post-incident briefing. They see the AV market as more a tram-like shuttle
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Delta Airlines staff to pay surcharge if unvaccinated(arstechnica.com)
1 points by avastmick 5y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
> Why do we accept [the state telling people what to do with their bodies in some cases] but are suddenly outraged by vaccination? We're certainly not "suddenly outraged by vaccination". In fact, vaccines and anti-vaccine
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by avastmick 5y ago
I saw this roll out in China five years go when we lived there as a family for some years. The mobile platforms there are much more highly integrated than in the West, with in-built payments and reviews all in-app. So it was all very fricti
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by avastmick 5y ago
I thought this was a fascinating page that simply shows the history of anti-vaccination. It started right at the beginning and has never gone away. Interesting that ethics and public discourse (or lack thereof) can trigger the most adverse
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History of Anti-Vaccination (2018)(historyofvaccines.org)
2 points by avastmick 5y ago|1 comments
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by avastmick 5y ago
I have to largely agree with those who complain of the article’s Golden Ageist position. There is no empirical evidence in the piece. And this is obvious given that any evidence could only be subjective and interpretative based on behaviour
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by avastmick 7y ago
Not so much it seems [0]. The actual consumption of calories appears dependent on the source of the calories and what you eat those with. 0: https://www.1843magazine.com/features/death-of-the-calorie
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by avastmick 8y ago
Population growth is in decline in real terms [0], but as you say it will take decades, unless you advocate enforced involuntary euthenasia. Even plunging populations, as Japan is experiencing [1], brings other problems such as economic rec
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by avastmick 8y ago
This. The concept of consciousness assumes that (ethically) all humans are conscious. If that were not true, then we have to ask, what is the threshold - as we would of machines. If people cannot all pass the test, as you say, not all human

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