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by bsanr2 6y ago
Local gov't trades reach and power for proximity and savvy. This manifests as fairly equal amounts of influence from each level of the "hierarchy". I think it's funny that you would use torture as your example, consideri
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Again, this is a canard. Local government in some areas have been shown to make bad decisions that trample on explicit and enumerated rights (rather than the arbitrary or vague "rights" that are conjured to impede reform). Speakin
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The people we put in place to protect us think they're gonna make it out just fine either way. It doesn't matter who wins, because the real battle the next few years will be about defining the new rules, not playing by the old one
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That's what I mean. On the one hand: plausible. On the other: terrifying. And just that, from a cosmological perspective, the chances of us being hit by a gamma ray burst after the kind of technological advancements described but befor
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I've not read Diaspora (and do not intend to, as it trips several of my phobias), but from what I understand about it, it makes most contemporary spacefareing sci-fi look like depictions of 2001 that featured bodycon jumpsuits and flyi
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by bsanr2 6y ago
I think the general consensus is that unless you own an OLED (in which case you want to stay in the native environment for the features that will help preserve the display's longevity), it's better to grab an Android TV box and ru
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My guess is that there is some amount of overlap between the crypto/WSB crowd and, say, the people who kickstarted (read: were structurally prohibited from investing in) Oculus.
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>Over the last 90 years we have repeatedly learned very difficult lessons about the individual and societal costs of unregulated securities markets and made changes to mitigate those risks. And then mostly dismantled those changes, in an
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The problem isn't so much an AI involved in military planning so much as an AI raised by the military, similar to how we are more okay with children who grow up to join the military rather than child soldiers (or children raised to b
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>You make it sound as though developers have some grand scheme against Android. No, it's simply the same sort of tribalism that drives so much of American culture. The black-and-white, good-vs-evil format warring is nothing new; as
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As a Navy brat who's spent much of his life on the periphery of the culture described in this article, I find it utterly familiar and darkly amusing. I don't envy the people who will eventually be tasked with changing that culture
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The uncomfortable truth is that authorities regularly misidentify black men as being bigger/taller/older/darker than they actually are. Whether that's an issue specific to police indoctrination or to American culture in
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In fact, the vast majority of US wealth is tied up in private companies (and, of those, in a few extremely large companies). A wealth tax would not be ruinous for the entities paying it.
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It is wholly fair. Developers have treated Android users like second-class citizens from Day 1. Android apps come out months after their iOS counterparts, with hobbled features that never reach parity. Customers have responded with second-c
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I'm not sure where people get this idea. Chrome on my old Note 8 is as fast as Safari on my newer iPad, and doesn't need to reload tabs as I switch between them nearly as often. On top of that, the Safari interface is completely u
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This assumes that gender dysphoria is exclusively physiological, an impossibility given that gender itself is partially socially- and psychologically-constructed. As mentioned, perhaps hormone treatment could still benefit people who don&#x
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You'll have to take it up with the APA, the authority on psychiatric disorders in the US and the author of that page. As a dead comment stated, nobody asked you.
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https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/gender-dysphori...
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I wonder if studying gender affirmation among cis people wouldn't help to solidify the science behind transitioning and well-being. With presentation of gender being as much of a spectrum as gender itself, it would stand to reason that
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I posted a while ago about how chilling it was to me how dysfunctional Google Search (and really, every search engine) is these days. It is still your best-bet "front door to the web," and it's been fundamentally broken by th
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I'm currently dealing with a situation as an Amazon seller where I think the buyer is trying to scam me (claiming I sent the product wrong/late, hoping they can manipulate the return process to both get a refund and keep the produ
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I don't see the problem. The questions anthropology seeks to answer are heavily influenced by politics and subjectivity; attempting to erase the imprecision with which humanity engages with reality paints an imprecise picture of humani
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The point is to incentivize local spending, not just spending on local goods. Money that circulates within a community stimulates more local activity. Local producers are more likely to undercharge for the value of their goods and services
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"It's not FOR you," he sniffed, nose pointed precisely at 10 o'clock.
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You get to paint your half. Unless their dwelling completely enclosed yours, I don't see the problem.
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Ask HN: What accounts for the update-happy nature of modern tech?
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The most obvious answer would be to give money to people who need it to make rent, go back to school, buy porn, etc. Compared to the complete collapse of the economy, pretty much any stimulative use is preferable.
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The banks charge a fee for deposits that reset the expiration.
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I think this is negated by the fact that the expiration date resets when the money is exchanged hands.
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I think the whole point is that you can't convert easily.

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