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by briga 4y ago
How long would whale lifespans be if whales had the same level of medical care as humans? Humans today regular live well beyond our natural lifespans, if we were all dying at 30 cancer probably wouldn’t be much of an issue
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by briga 4y ago
All publicity is good publicity when you're in the game of monopolizing the world's attention market, c.f. the constant publicity stunts of figures like Trump and Kanye.
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by briga 4y ago
Think about it, what if Tinder’s algorithm somehow matched everyone directly with their soulmates. How many of those users would be on the app the next day? How many of those would continue paying for the app? Providing this sort of service
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by briga 4y ago
4-5 hours of interviews seems pretty standard even for companies you’ve never heard of. Nowadays every tech company pretends like they’re FAANG, and then they complain about how hard it is to hire new devs. As if the Leetcode rigamarole wer
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by briga 4y ago
I can’t help but feel like the region would become more livable if they did. California has too many people for its own good, or at least more people than its 50s-era suburban infrastructure can comfortably support
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by briga 4y ago
Pretty terrible name for an algorithm to be honest. Besides being unpronounceable, if the purpose is to acknowledge the discoverers of the algorithm it doesn’t even do a good job of that (who recognizes initials anyway?)
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by briga 4y ago
If every other post was like this I would concede the point. But that is not the case on this site
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by briga 4y ago
It's pretty different. Compare the BBC, for example, where basically every article on the front page seems to subtly or not-so-subtly imply that our planet is on the brink of full-blown catastrophe. While such articles occasionally gai
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by briga 4y ago
Have you tried to meet someone at a bar that wasn’t a part of your group?
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by briga 4y ago
Hasn’t that always been the way it has worked? For the longest time Canadian immigration was restricted to the British isles and Western Europe (look up the Chinese immigration restriction acts). Compared to then Canada has pretty much open
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by briga 4y ago
So where exactly does the money go after Meta has paid the fine? To the Irish GDPR commission? Towards Irish public services? Into some commissioner's pockets?
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by briga 4y ago
It helps if you have a nice park to run through. I think this is why I've always had an easier time consistently doing cardio than someone who might only do cardio on a stationary bike or treadmill. My friends don't believe me whe
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by briga 4y ago
I think that’s an important point, and not all texts are made equal. Reading and understanding 200 pages of Heidegger is very different than reading 200 pages of Harry Potter. Part of reading well is know what to spend the time on.
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by briga 4y ago
Some people are just really gifted readers. Whether through some combination of learning to read early or just being able to skip the ‘sub-vocalization’ part of reading, many are able to get through hundreds of books a year. It’s a kind of
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by briga 4y ago
Seems to me like he’s gotten along just fine without any ‘media training’, whatever that is. Calling him a grifter seems a little unwarranted
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by briga 4y ago
Just so you're aware this email returns an "Address not found" error
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by briga 4y ago
Look at Alaska’s natural resource industry and tell me that wasn’t a good investment for the US
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by briga 4y ago
American politicians and capitalists realized how valuable the western half of the continent before British Canada did and they acted on it. If you look as the west coast it’s mostly American coast, it’s kind of surprising that Americans di
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by briga 4y ago
Public transit is already heavily subsidized. The revenue generated by ticket sales isn’t nearly enough to cover overall expenses. That money has to come from somewhere, and unless you’re going to raise taxes that means taking away from oth
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by briga 4y ago
Just curious, what evidence do we have that humans are sentient, other than our own conscious observations? Is there any physical feature or process in the human brain you can point to where you can say, “aha, that’s it, this is where the l
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by briga 4y ago
>When you have no interesting hobbies, you’re spending a lot of your time dabbling. You don’t have the discipline to force yourself to stick with something you’re not good at and you don’t see any benefit from I think it’s time to find s
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by briga 4y ago
Ok you're right. I just think about how empires like Rome that collapsed in on themselves at the height of their power and can't help but see parallels with what is happening now. An affluent apathetic population that just let thi
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by briga 4y ago
Like I said, there were still issues back then. You're right, happiness is individual, not cultural. But one culture can be happier, on average, than another. And if I'm not just romanticizing the past it does genuinely seem like
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by briga 4y ago
The 50s were a sort of golden era for North America, it really did seem like opportunities were boundless for a while there. An average family could expect to own their own home and a car in the suburbs. The cities weren't as grossly o
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by briga 4y ago
Have you used his Chromecast or connected to his wifi? I’ve noticed lots of misdirected targeted ads after doing this
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by briga 4y ago
Why, to please you? You aren’t really adding anything to this discussion
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by briga 4y ago
Well I mean obviously political beliefs are not heritable. But this guy does seem to have made a name for himself as an internet socialist, judging by his other publications
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by briga 4y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by briga 4y ago
Oh to be sure there are all sorts of problems with the internet today. And the government certainly has a role to play in making the internet better. I’m just not convinced that the solution is centralizing and socializing the tech giants.
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by briga 4y ago
You mean like the entirety of my post after that quip?

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