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by creato 4y ago
Many imports are banned or heavily tariffed at the whim of the executive branch, I don’t see how this is any different.
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by creato 4y ago
> If that’s true then we might not need to fight the environmental battles on pumped storage (which for the record I do agree could be used more). Are pumped storage environmental battles really that much less of an obstacle than those f
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by creato 4y ago
My anecdotal experience with progressive family is that racism is the root cause of almost any problem you can think of.
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by creato 4y ago
A tiny minority of people ruin things like this for everyone, and the US doesn’t have the political will to deal with them (they likely need involuntary commitment to mental institutions). When I lived in SF, I couldn’t believe the amount o
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by creato 4y ago
Knowing about the virus ahead of time wouldn’t help much. By far the most expensive (in time and money) part of a publicly available vaccine is testing it. It is impossible to test a vaccine under any reasonable procedure we have today be
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by creato 4y ago
Why is that valuable? It takes weeks if not days to synthesize a vaccine for a new strain. It then takes months if not years, and massive investment, to test it for safety and efficacy. How the hell does shortening the weeks part of this at
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by creato 4y ago
Not only do they survive, it seems like the worst mosquitoes I experience are in areas with spring snowmelt in progress, even when there is no obvious standing water anywhere nearby.
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by creato 4y ago
Which is the case because there is not enough housing being built. That’s the real issue.
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by creato 4y ago
Around 10 comments in this thread and not one remembers or points out that 94% effectiveness was for OG covid or whatever was circulating at the time. Then came delta, then came omicron. It's a different virus now (both in severity and
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by creato 4y ago
I guess MS should just pick people to hire in a lottery then.
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by creato 4y ago
As much as I can’t stand any company involved here, if apple does what you suggest it would be far more offensive than any other supposed antitrust violations alleged over the last few years.
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by creato 4y ago
Phone companies are regulated, and the solution to this problem is basically for google to allow itself to become vulnerable to social engineering, just like phone companies are.
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by creato 4y ago
I bet twitter could have (and maybe still could) cut down toxicity massively by only showing tweets in an algorithmic feed that are not replies to an existing tweet. I think the big problem with twitter is that people are often only exposed
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by creato 4y ago
TBH I didn’t even notice the fight for most of the video. I thought the subject was the heroin hangers, the guy beating the sidewalk with a broom, and people otherwise not knowing what planet they’re on. So you would have stepped in and bro
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by creato 4y ago
I don't see how this changes the argument. x% improvement on the issue of sunscreen in the ocean can be made by removing the shower, where x is probably small.
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by creato 4y ago
I don't understand how this argument has any traction at all. My understanding is we had the COVID vaccines formulated within weeks of the initial outbreak. The problem is, it then took many months of large scale testing, and then scal
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by creato 4y ago
When you say "send so much foreign aid", how much do you think we send? It's around 1% of the federal budget (maybe not this year, but until 2021 at least). In contrast, the federal government "sends" 16% of its bud
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by creato 4y ago
TeX rendering (example from the parent of this thread) is highly non-linear though. Even a negligible difference in some computation can result in changes that cause an entire document to render completely differently. TeX layout is a globa
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by creato 4y ago
You think people are pooping on the sidewalk because they don’t know any better? Their first grade teacher failed them?
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by creato 4y ago
If you can’t comply with the law that says you can’t urinate or defecate in public, you should be institutionalized somehow (drug treatment, mental health treatment).
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by creato 4y ago
> In contrast, the care that people get from Medicare is substantially worse than what you get from private insurance in the US. I don’t think they are comparable. Medicare exists because private insurers refuse to cover old people at a
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by creato 4y ago
All china has to do to have a serious negative impact on our society is give a slight boost to moronic, antisocial content (tide pod challenge or mass robbery anyone?), and a slight penalty to constructive, educational content. It would be
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by creato 4y ago
I fully believe abortion should be reasonably legal, and if it were more accessible it may have prevented a lot of the tragedy of this case. But given the details in this article, it seems like this case would be criminal even in that hypot
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by creato 4y ago
Sounds just like buying a stolen bike, knowingly or not.
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by creato 4y ago
The burden of proof here is on pphysch. If he or you want to be taken seriously, point to something specific.
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by creato 4y ago
Sounds like a good place to put solar panels then?
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by creato 4y ago
Or the backlash if it suggests code that only allows for two values.
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by creato 4y ago
“Don’t build this because of environmental impact” is a very different argument than “don’t build this or else California won’t change its ways”.
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by creato 4y ago
That isn’t the argument being made in the comment I replied to.
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by creato 4y ago
Just about every region requires some human intervention for comfortable living. Would you say the “fatal flaw” of living in CO is the lack of heat? Or the lack of AC in Texas?

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