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by bedobi 5y ago
For that very reason, most businesses who accept bitcoin and other crypto (including Tesla, probably) don't actually keep the crypto, they immediately convert to traditional currency. On the other hand, Tesla is unique in that it liter
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by bedobi 5y ago
True, done :) thanks!
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by bedobi 5y ago
Good point, thanks!
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by bedobi 5y ago
"Imagine that you’ve got a million people farming in Antarctica. They’re eking out this bare subsistence in agriculture in the snow," "Obviously, if you let those farmers leave Antarctica and go someplace else to farm, the fa
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by bedobi 5y ago
Critique my resume? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xKLSoiRCl5eJbUR6-seefyGJ... I'm sure there are people who think it's the worst ever, but I'm pretty happy with it. It has served me well over
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by bedobi 5y ago
> how to survive a toxic workplace Don't! Cut your losses and move on. Life is too short to spend any significant amounts of time around toxic people, no matter the context.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Not at all. I think Chomsky's claims and using armchair philosophizing to support them are fundamentally unscientific. You can't argue things into existence. It's empty rhetoric, not actual science.
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by bedobi 5y ago
No. This species is invasive everywhere outside Africa, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't fill any meaningful ecological role anywhere.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Even ignoring this species is invasive everywhere outside Africa, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't fill any meaningful ecological role anywhere... The rest of the planet that has
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by bedobi 5y ago
This species is invasive everywhere outside Africa, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't fill any meaningful ecological role anywhere.
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by bedobi 5y ago
This is an invasive species, it didn't evolve there
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by bedobi 5y ago
Fun fact, these mosquitoes are not pollinators, they're an invasive species, constitute only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and don't fill any meaningful ecological role.
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by bedobi 5y ago
The mosquitoes in question are invasive species brought to these ecosystems by European colonizers.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Then you will be glad to hear that no one is proposing eradicating mosquitoes! What's being proposed it eradicating a single invasive mosquito species that doesn't belong in the ecosystem in question, constitutes only a tiny fract
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by bedobi 5y ago
If you think getting rid of invasive species is good, then you should have no problem getting rid of this invasive mosquito species.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Even talking only about deliberate mosquito eradication, we've been doing that for a long, long time too, overwhelmingly with far more devastating methods than this targeted one.
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by bedobi 5y ago
I care deeply, everyone does! The question is, out of all the species that go extinct on literally a daily basis, why on god's green earth would you pick this one to protect? What is it about it that is so vital we can't afford to
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by bedobi 5y ago
I'm not surprised at this argument at all, it's guaranteed to come up given the nature of hacker news commenters. Which is why I said even the armchair criticism from cynical misanthropes who consider human deaths resulting from t
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by bedobi 5y ago
You do realize this is an invasive species that doesn't even belong in the ecosystem in question? Would you also oppose controlling fox and deer populations in Australia?
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by bedobi 5y ago
Sadly I think you're right. People who have an intuitive, intense opposition reaction to this idea probably think anyone who advocates it are literally Jurassic Park style insane evil villains who want to genetically destroy the planet
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by bedobi 5y ago
We're already inadvertently causing the extinction of countless species anyway. What is it about this one that's so vital we can't afford to lose this one?
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by bedobi 5y ago
> existed in an ecosystem for tens of millions of years without evolving into some sort of important niche These mosquitos are a man-brought invasive species, so that argument doesn't fly. + You're already mentioning we don&#x2
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by bedobi 5y ago
I encourage everyone to read up on it themselves. Other commenters have already pointed out this species is invasive everywhere outside Africa, constitutes only a tiny fraction of the mosquito population where they exist, and doesn't f
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by bedobi 5y ago
Mosquitoes do play a role in the environment. This particular one doesn't really though. No need to take the word of some stranger on the internet, there's plenty of very knowledgeable, very environmentally minded people who agree
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by bedobi 5y ago
Countless species are already going extinct all the time, both known to us and completely unknown to us, and both "naturally" and from human impact, and no one really cares. Here's a rare case of a species that there is very
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by bedobi 6y ago
But don't you see how you've just made the hypothesis unfalsifiable?
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by bedobi 6y ago
I don't think it's trivial, I just think it's often applied in an unproductive and straight up incorrect way, devolving any discussion into uncharitable, pedantic, needless and pointless arguing about semantics. I would happi
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by bedobi 6y ago
"Universal laws about human language and culture are impossible" Ah, but the above is a universal law, so it's self refuting! Therefore, universal laws about human language are possible. Checkmate, skeptics! Anyone who actual
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by bedobi 6y ago
I'm not the one making claims about universal laws governing human languages and cultures. Extraordinary claims like that require extraordinary, in your face, irrefutable evidence. I'm simply saying that to me the whole notion of
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by bedobi 6y ago
> this is pseudo-science Couldn't agree more. It's barely even that, it's kind of just armchair philosophizing. (which is fun and often actually useful, but not sufficient to make claims about universal laws)

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