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by csours 4y ago
Depends on where you draw the lines. Exhaustion of resources stopped WW1. Those resources include money, material, and men.
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by csours 4y ago
I absolutely adore French Bulldogs, but I would never buy or adopt one due to this. If they were more common and proven to be healthy, I might consider a mix, but getting a 'hype' dog has it's own ethical problems.
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by csours 4y ago
> Carbs are terrible for diets Excess, over-processed carbs are terrible. The right amount of carbs from whole or minimally processed foods are just fine. Over-processed: white flour, refined or concentrated sugar, carb heavy snack food
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by csours 4y ago
Ah yes, the four humors: DEBG INFO WARN ERRR
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by csours 4y ago
But how to tell the difference between old wisdom and old bullshit?
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by csours 4y ago
I feel a certain sadness whenever I hear of a fantastic species that lived concurrent with modern humans (within the last 4000 year or so), but has gone extinct before I could see it.
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by csours 4y ago
What presumption! The author doesn't know how useful I find Goodhart's Law! Seriously though, Goodhart's Law means that the world is more complex in a way that you may not have realized. Saying it is wrong, and that the world
818.
by csours 4y ago
Oi! 'Ave you got a loicense for that 'oody?
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by csours 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding
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by csours 4y ago
5th Risk by Michael Lewis has a very good discussion of that trope. In brief, some politicians complain that government isn't run like a private business, and then write rules that forbid those agencies from providing services to citiz
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by csours 4y ago
Words are for communication, not being correct. It is good to have different words for the same concept if someone has some difficulty processing your words - be it understanding or emotional response. Technical debt is fine for talking to
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by csours 4y ago
I have extremely low confidence that we will ever be satisfied about the pathway that led to the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. I feel strongly that it was not tied to malicious intent, but other than that, I don't have strong feelings. Maliciou
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by csours 4y ago
That is the nature of a "dog whistle" - it has a legitimate meaning, and some people use the legitimate meaning. That legitimacy gives malicious people plausible deniability. Social media sites cannot tell the difference, and quit
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by csours 4y ago
People want to live next to green spaces. What if our developed areas had boulevards of trees (or other native plants)? You may have to sell fewer units or (shudder) increase density, but then people would have access to the kind of environ
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by csours 4y ago
I apparently got signed up for some company on my work email and now I get a series of emails from some B2B company. I unsubscribe. Next day, another company. Unsubscribe. Next day, another company. Its trivial, but it's so fucking ann
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by csours 4y ago
You would also have to match with the skill and preference of the player
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by csours 4y ago
I'm curious about falsifiable models.
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by csours 4y ago
It's not liquidity, it's fraud protection
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by csours 4y ago
Pink and Purple mean BAD. There is no good Pink or Purple weather
830.
by csours 4y ago
> That's problematic right there. Yes. I can't completely square the circle. There's a lot of undefined area, a lot of discomfort, but I am comfortable with my level of discomfort and ignorance for now. --- I don't th
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by csours 4y ago
It's very hard for the self to see hypocrisy when the subject is not falsifiable. In many faiths it is perceived to be sinful to question a divine plan or commandment. I was raised in such a faith. Hypocrisy does not enter into it, bec
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by csours 4y ago
My comment is not meant to preclude that. I do not expect to get a complete analysis of a situation from internet comments.
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by csours 4y ago
Or it's an effort to show that a fetus is not automatically a person from conception. I think almost every reasonable person would agree that any fetus who can survive outside a mother is a person, and that personhood starts at some po
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by csours 4y ago
Aaaargh, why do people do such stupid things?? Because they started doing it a long time ago when it wasn't stupid.
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by csours 4y ago
When I buy orange juice, I don't want to be served Tang. Or, when I buy fresh-squeezed, I don't want reconstituted.
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by csours 4y ago
I'm very happy to see that the author has included more than one factor in their analysis: > "The main goal of climate controls is to make the passengers comfortable. PO Fanger defines thermal comfort as being influenced by six
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by csours 4y ago
> Aren't solar panels already more efficient at creating energy than photosynthesis? Solar panels convert light to electricity. Photosynthesis uses light to rebuild molecules into sugars. Plants are about 1-2% efficient - https:&#x
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by csours 4y ago
> I try to fully rationalize the opposing viewpoints. Edit: "Both Sides"-ing an issue can be dangerous. Many times, there is actual harm on one side, and mere discomfort on the other. You may not be describing "both sides&
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by csours 4y ago
The human mind appears to have evolved in a tribal system, and it appears to be predisposed to tribal thinking. As for myself, I try to think of my tribe as all of humanity. You're all my cousins; some of you are knuckleheads, some of
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by csours 4y ago
Yes, someone somewhere will be making this decision. It could be insurance, a doctor, nurse, hospital administrator, or family member, or even the affected individual.

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