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Russia threatens to fine Wikipedia if it doesn't remove details about the war(npr.org)
10 points by awb 5y ago|0 comments
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by awb 5y ago
The author frames the problem less as a wheat production problem and more as a shipping problem. > Again, specific places are facing EXTREMELY REAL wheat supply problems. MENA usually sources from Ukraine. Switching supply chains to Indi
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by awb 5y ago
> He (not depicted in video but described in text) had sexual intercourse with the person in his care while the patient was on MDMA. It sounds like there was “intimate contact” during the session (maybe the spooning?) but the sex was not
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by awb 5y ago
Tweet has been deleted. Anyone have a screenshot or archive?
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by awb 5y ago
> My parents were right. I am right. This majority of people who want me to chop my kids off at the knees are wrong. I’m glad they were the right parents for you. I’m a parent too, and I wouldn’t be ready to call a parent right or wrong
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by awb 5y ago
The same goes for the inverse. It can be discouraging for kids behind in reading to be assigned content based on their age (or grade) only for it to be far too challenging. It’s a hard problem though because categorization makes it easy to
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by awb 5y ago
I don’t think “constant supervision” is considered moral by the majority of people. Most people I know consider it moral to supervise kids in new or dangerous situations. Parenting from my experience is many shades of grey rather than “righ
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by awb 5y ago
> In fact, there are many things that violate present morality which are nonetheless right. Such as?
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by awb 5y ago
It’s an interesting dilemma because they are consenting, but to what extent are they being influenced by the money compared to their career opportunities outside of the sport? Many athletes in dangerous sports come from lower class backgrou
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by awb 5y ago
Tradition and money.
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by awb 5y ago
> Again, the "absence of belief" is identical to "not believing:" "the evidence has not convinced you, so you do not believe it," I really don’t think so. Today you probably have an absence of belief in rain
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by awb 5y ago
Price tends to be a big persuader.
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by awb 5y ago
> If you think you are in pain, no matter the source of the pain, then you are in pain That sounds like a philosophy where thinking an experience is real is equivalent to it being real. Which sounds a lot like faith.
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by awb 5y ago
Sure, but your brain is telling you your leg is in pain, when in fact you have no leg. That’s what I mean when I say that you have to have trust at nearly every level of belief since our own brains can deceive us. Very few things are knowab
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by awb 5y ago
> Clearly, the absence of belief in God is the very same as believing God does not exist. Not in my opinion. You were born with an absence in the belief of an infinite number of things. Absence of belief is a default state. Presumably yo
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by awb 5y ago
> I see examples of people demanding citations for reasoning that is part of a work, of people just not understanding something, or of only really being able to blindly follow based on province or authority without trying to reconcile ba
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by awb 5y ago
I’ve seen “Source?” used as a concise critique against what I consider to be epistemically illegible arguments.
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by awb 5y ago
Without belaboring the point of refuting all of this: > It is not possible to mistake pain, because if you think you are in pain, then you are in pain Phantom pain. You can trust that your amputated leg is in pain, or you can doubt it. T
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by awb 5y ago
> On the contrary, that is precisely the atheists' claim Not 100% correct. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism > Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.[1][2]
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by awb 5y ago
2 things: age & language 1 - age > As he grows older, he has noticed it becomes increasingly difficult to find work, even though he would love to continue working for the years to come. There’s a significant age bias in the tech comm
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by awb 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot > the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others. I think you’
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by awb 5y ago
> Atheists make precisely the same mistake as deists, claiming to know the unknowable. At every meaningful level we have to have trust in something. When we say the Earth is round we have to trust our instruments, our faculties, our obse
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by awb 5y ago
> I suspect that all but one or two of those civilizations ended disaster within about 100 years All sorts of biological / ecological factors would come into play like average lifespan, the size of life in relation to the size of th
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Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the GIF, Dies(cnet.com)
1 points by awb 5y ago|0 comments
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Russia faces a smartphone shortage as Apple and Samsung exit and China retreats(fortune.com)
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by awb 5y ago
> the homes were absurdly overpriced That’s saying a lot for a red hot real estate market. I still get updates from Zillow every month saying my home increased 5% in value in the last 30 days and up 30% over the last 12 months. Something
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Putin says Russia must undergo a 'self-cleansing of society' to purge 'traitors'(businessinsider.com)
2 points by awb 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Did HN posting frequency limits change?
1 points by awb 5y ago|3 comments
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by awb 5y ago
> I don't think the Government was fully aware of the consequence of their actions. I remember the news pre-sanctions about the US & Europe deliberating. They were also discussing the burden each country would have to bear, so I
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by awb 5y ago
Is there meaningful opposition? A separation of powers? Free and fair elections? A free press? If his desires become actions without resistance then Putin == Russia Maybe you mean Putin != All Russians

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