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by blix 4y ago
If you're doing a 600 mile road trip in the USA, it's already hard enough at times to find worthwhile places to eat without also limiting your choices to those with fast chargers nearby. Same for lodging if it's a really long
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by blix 4y ago
A society composed of 99% peasants, who all earn and own about the same amount, and 1% nobles (who dont 'earn wages' and own many times more than all peasants combined) would look very good through many social mobility metrics.
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by blix 4y ago
I don't think this shows the entire picture. The USA has larger disparaties across quintiles, in large parts due to its history as a country of (sometimes involuntary) immigrants. I think it will be interesting to see how Sweden's
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by blix 4y ago
I've never heard this before. Can you point me some place where I can read more?
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by blix 4y ago
Apparently adding a new member to a group text with an android user is a much less pleasant experience than if everyone is on imessage. I'm the android user causing problems so I dont really know the details :P But honestly that the gu
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by blix 4y ago
I'm pretty certain that a lot more interaction occurs through phones than through jeans. As an adult, some of my friends have asked me to switch to an iphone so they could use imessage features in a group chat. It's not hard to im
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by blix 4y ago
When I was an undergrad looking for internships, many of the most desriable had hard GPA cutoffs. I'm pretty sure these were not flexibly adjusted for every single applicant depending on their university and specific course load.
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by blix 4y ago
Tomato tomahto. The important thing is establishing that one group has too many resources which rightfully belong to some other group. The rest is implementation detail.
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by blix 4y ago
It's a good thing we aren't using updated updated-on-the-fly computer systems for controlling powerplants, chemical refineries, trading on finacial markets or driving cars!
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by blix 4y ago
I wonder if there are any historical examples of racial discrimination justified by invoking evolution. This argument is hilarious but this is not a turn I expected it to take.
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by blix 4y ago
Each train would have a sensor which would be able to detect changes and update the database. Maps could easily be regional.
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by blix 4y ago
I feel your doctor pain. I hope you find an answer. Actually, doctors may be one the more guilty professions when it comes to shallow knowledge without application. I like to see how many times I can ask a doctor 'why' or 'ho
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by blix 4y ago
Dialogue has several distinct advantages over reading when it comes to learning. I think we both agree that applied knowledge is best, but this can only be gained through application. Dialogue forces you synthesize ideas into new statements
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by blix 4y ago
> He mentioned instruction, but he fails to notice that reading and hearing can both happen, as they do happen without instruction. > ... they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when
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by blix 4y ago
Is Ammon not absolutely right? New information technology induces changes with how we interface with information, almost certainly a mixed bag of good and bad. Writing is directly associated with the decline of memory-based oral traditions.
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by blix 4y ago
OK, but why choose any one system over any others? Why chose base 10 over base 2? Why choose the current definition of the meter as opposed to some other length?
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by blix 4y ago
There are an infinite number of possible coherent unit systems, all of them totally arbitrary. Why should any system be preferred over the rest?
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by blix 4y ago
I think you can value Life without maximizing number of total deaths (or total lives lived, same thing). At some point quality matters as well as quantity. If maximizing the total number of lives is really all that's important, we shou
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by blix 4y ago
That's great, but it makes even less sense to accuse someone of lying about their experiences if it is something that should be reasonably expected. What a strange reaction.
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by blix 4y ago
I don't think I've ever heard someone proclaim such trust in the CPD. The original comment just says the cops refused to chase... which you yourself acknowledge as likely in a child comment. If you believe that carjackings happen
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by blix 4y ago
I'm sorry I'm trying to follow your argument here. Are you saying that because you have never been carjacked or mugged in the loop that it has never happened to anyone else? Or that because you had one rapid response by the police
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by blix 4y ago
> In reality, the vast majority of his predictions over the past two decades have not come true e.g. saying China, Russia, and Canada would all break up by 2020. Two decades? Is there some other source for these predictions other than th
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by blix 4y ago
> Quartz is not amorphous silica, and unlike amorphous silica, it's carcinogenic if you inhale it. Crystalline silica is still silica. > You don't get nanometer-sized structural changes in teflon by scraping it off your skil
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by blix 4y ago
Science discussion here is often lacking. I'm not sure where the right forum is for that :P I think the topological bond analysis is actually really cool, and I think it might have wide-reaching implications in the study of liquids. I
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by blix 4y ago
The two comment threads are the same discussion so I'm merging my responses. > I bet you can't find a study demonstrating natural selection in the split-leaf philodendron, either, but that isn't a good reason to go around
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by blix 4y ago
It's the tone of the press release. The title style "Evidence shows water does X" tends to make people think "there is concrete evidence that physical water does X", rather than "an abstracted model of spheres
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by blix 4y ago
> yet without giving away the slightest hint at the expected temperature and pressure ranges at which these forms are expected to actually occur. If it makes you feel better, this information isn't even clearly presented in the pape
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by blix 4y ago
Make some car windows out of silica gel and let me know how it goes :) I think you will find nanometer-sized pores can actually matter a lot! I'm not sure dismissing all research that disagrees with me as witch-burning would be a good
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by blix 4y ago
If it's truly such a well established claim it should be trivial to find and link a study actually demonstrating its safety when ingesting small amounts over a large period of time. No such study was linked. Probably because longitudin
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by blix 4y ago
What about larger sizes :) Physical effects can matter as much as chemical. Diatomacious earth has conflicting evidence anyway. Silica gel and glass aren't really the same thing. I did mean TiO2. There is a reason the EU considers it a

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