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by chmod600 5y ago
I think decades of diluting the word "science" with observational studies and other psuedoscientific junk was a mistake. Vaccine efficacy and safety is one of the few things mentioned in the media as science that really is actuall
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by chmod600 5y ago
What are the implications for a vegan diet?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Let's say it's 2000 years ago and building boats is the next big thing, and you are a boat builder. It's exciting, and you and everyone else are building a lot of boats. It seems very productive, until one day there are just
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by chmod600 5y ago
If boom/bust is conquered, does that mean that there is no more boom either? What economic function does a boom or bust perform, and why doesn't China need those functions? I guess you can smooth them out a lot and limit the human
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by chmod600 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_Japanese_invasion_o... You might want to consider some counterfactuals where the US kept more to itself.
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by chmod600 5y ago
"Cant the "roots" be also in" Maybe, but it's not relevant. Let's all fix the root problems, but let's not create a dependency on it. If we want to solve a problem, we have to solve the problem in the real
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by chmod600 5y ago
The poster to whom I replied was citing averages, which are useless in the context of a large, diverse place like the US with a non-uniform distribution. The average murder rate in the US is a distraction, except to point out (as I did) tha
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by chmod600 5y ago
Ignore averages. They are often deceptive, and here as well. Most places in the US have zero gangs, and many places have zero murders. The question is: why are murders so out of control in certain areas? And the answer is: local policing an
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by chmod600 5y ago
"I wish Americans could get a feeling of how different a society without a perpetual feeling of danger and paranoia feels like." I don't feel paranoia. Maybe most people are fine except people who consume too much fear-driven
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by chmod600 5y ago
A rational person compares risks on an absolute scale first. Out of all the things that could happen on a given day, is getting murdered a real concern? For people in the U.S., it's not really worth worrying about unless you have some
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by chmod600 5y ago
I've only known one person to use a gun in self defense. She didn't fire it.
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by chmod600 5y ago
There's something admirable about the idea that a government would not take away all the guns. The idea that people should not have to give up all of their ability to fight. The idea that people should not be entirely dependent on poli
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by chmod600 5y ago
I'm not sure that inventors always understand the consequences of their inventions. Often, they are either focused on first-order capabilities and neglect the larger significance; or focused on visions of the future but unable to turn
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by chmod600 5y ago
"As a culture we adore beauty, wealth, power." Don't you mean "as a species"? Culture is one of the few tools we have to overcome these natural inclinations. Religion, too.
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by chmod600 5y ago
The question is: do we want to learn the lessons of history the easy way, or the hard way?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Censorship is bad data, because it is selectively excluded data. If gamma rays randomly excluded one post in a thousand, that would be mussing data. Censors excluding one post in ten thousand is worrying because they have motivations of t
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by chmod600 5y ago
Censorship is always abused. Maybe this time or maybe not. But it's always abused. And yes, it's worse than misinformation.
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by chmod600 5y ago
If Bobby Tables gets involved, this will get worse before it gets better: https://m.xkcd.com/327/
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by chmod600 5y ago
What are the numbers?
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by chmod600 5y ago
This is an interesting subject. Most people would be pretty worried about a drunk 747 pilot, and want laws and policies to prevent that from happening. A high delivery driver -- better, but a lot of people still don't like that idea. B
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by chmod600 5y ago
A lot of optical illusions seem to play with relative color, so are we really so good at identifying absolute color?
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by chmod600 5y ago
It doesn't just require taking the story as gospel, you'd also have to take the officers' words as deterministic of their actions (which is dubious at best), and you'd also have to interpret them in the worst possible wa
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by chmod600 5y ago
I simply disagree. "Intent" without any positive step toward realizing that intent, much less carry it out to completion, means little in comparison to a real action. I don't claim that words mean nothing, but we seem to be w
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by chmod600 5y ago
As far as I can tell, that's about right. But to be clear, that says nothing about whether the police shootings are justifiable or not. It could be that, in many of those incidents, lethal force prevented the deaths of other people. Bu
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by chmod600 5y ago
The facts presented are that, despite a frantic call about viscious dogs, the responding officers were able to assess that the threat level was low, and avoid shooting the dogs. But you seem to be holding them accountable not for their acti
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by chmod600 5y ago
That is either misleading or outright false. You are referring to the Dickey Amendment, which which mandated that "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD
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by chmod600 5y ago
Isn't it kind of hard to shoot a dog, especially a dangerous one? They move around a lot faster than humans. Maybe a lot of them are just barking and looking scary, but don't know enough to be afraid of a gun, so stand still?
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by chmod600 5y ago
"estimates that 25 to 30 pet dogs are killed daily by police" Approximately 10000 per year, which is about equal to the number of human murder victims, and about ten times the number of humans killed by police (justifiably or not)
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by chmod600 5y ago
Agreed, but why do they move in lockstep? Is it a conspiracy among elite banks (or whatever other businesses)? Or is it a rational response to their political vulnerability? Or something else?
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by chmod600 5y ago
I'm skeptical that honey consumption among hunter gatherers would come close to matching a diet with processed foods and hidden sugar, let alone the non-so-hidden sugar. Do you have a source?

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