curiousgeorgio

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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
Perhaps you could re-read the article this discussion is about. You're misrepresenting (and projecting other ideas onto) a viewpoint that you seem to fundamentally misunderstand. Semantics do matter, especially when specifics are use
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> The statement is only raised for the purpose of preventing action from being taken or change being made, in regard to investigation into and prevention of unnecessary deaths of black people. Have you considered the possibility that a l
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
Hannah Fry's book, "Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine" explores this topic in a balanced and thoughtful way. Of course algorithms aren't perfect, but they are definitely useful tools that should be c
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
That's one interpretation. Another is that a certain percentage of Americans live in areas where crime is not just more prevalent, but (unfortunately) it's also the only thing some people living there have ever known. Areas with h
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
As un-civilized and rotten as the news portrays things to be, for 99% of the rest of us Americans, this isn't really a common problem. That's not to say it isn't a problem for the few that do experience it (and that problem a
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
I'm not going to address your numerous disagreements with Trump's policies, but instead respond to the one quote you actually pointed to, which was this: "We should be standing up straight and tall, ideally with a salute, or
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
I'd love to see what you think is the #1 most racist, violent, and hateful tweet from president Trump. Really, go ahead and find it, then let me know what it is. Note: I do not support racism, violence, or hateful actions. I don&#x27
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
I've seen a lot of copyrighted media shared by people on Twitter who are not the owners, and this is the first time I've seen the copyright notice as shown on the president's tweet. I've seen tweets taken down at the req
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
I was originally responding to the claim that "it's still 524 times higher than the effect of the moon's gravity which creates the tides" - that's why I mentioned tidal forces. If the ice creates that much direct, l
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> The forces still apply, they're just not shifting daily. No, the forces are completely different. If we have an object on the surface of the earth that has enough mass to roughly produce the same nearby gravitational acceleration
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
It's the gradient applied over the whole ocean that causes the tides. In other words, the forces are not enough to create any kind of local change in the depth of the ocean. It's not a gravitational "pulling" as we&#x2
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
Gotcha. I thought the article was referring to polar ice in general, not just specifically ice sheets (over land areas). Still, the gravity produced by that mass doesn't seem to be enough to make a real difference (see my other comment
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
Not only that, but I think the whole idea here is just plain wrong. From the article: > this gravitational attraction that the ice sheet exerts on the surrounding water diminishes. As a consequence, water migrates away from the ice sheet
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> Doesn't sound like a lot but it's still 524 times higher than the effect of the moon's gravity which creates the tides. Contrary to common belief, tides are not caused by the direct influence of the moon's gravity (
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> Most people have seen enough coverage of police officers doing unreasonable things in order to make a judgement call Bingo! That's the problem. People are making "judgement calls" based on highly publicized, recent cases
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
I know this is meta, but... seriously people, what's with all the downvotes? How could more information/context around a current event be a bad thing? I've been watching what happens, at they always come almost exactly 2 minu
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> I don't think the bill of rights, nor the people that wrote it, gets to stand on its own laurels. Agreed, but I'm talking specifically about free speech, not any other parts of the constitution or the people who wrote it. I&#
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> You're right, context is huge. The area had already been cleared of protesters. There was no imminent threat of any kind. I'm asking if you or anyone else has video proof of that. Are national news organizations exempt from a
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
Context is huge in cases like this, and I still haven't seen a video showing the beginning of the reporters' confrontation[1]. Does anyone have a link to a video that shows what happened prior to the videos that are being widely p
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> However, it's not "just speech." As I linked elsewhere, studies show that after every dogwhistle-ridden Trump speech, violence against minorities increase. We've strayed into Sticks and Stones territory. Studies wou
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> But I think it's very important that the employees of companies are allowed to exercise their own value systems by denying users of hate speech a platform. I completely agree. That doesn't mean I have to agree with their valu
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> it can't even get started on a reasonable footing if some of the participants don't know enough history to be able to answer this question. Perhaps you're conflating hate speech with hateful (and harmful) actions . Hi
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The same laws I described, along with pricing. While the laws don't directly prohibit private delivery to those areas, they greatly reduce the economic incentive to do so by (1) prohibiting delivery to regular mailboxes and, (2) allowi
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
Literal or not, it amounts to being the same for their bottom line, and we all pay for it through taxes.
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by curiousgeorgio 6y ago
> No one else does what the USPS does They certainly could if it weren't for laws preventing them from delivering to people's mailboxes.
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by curiousgeorgio 7y ago
As an American, the freedom is mine (as it is for other US citizens) to do what I choose with the money I earn, regardless of the amount. Wealth is relative, after all.
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by curiousgeorgio 7y ago
> So Gates is not actually going to do anything to help with this pandemic? Again, not what I said. Contributing resources and expertise is not an all-or-nothing scenario. Each dollar spent by Gates fighting COVID-19 will (in my opinion)
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by curiousgeorgio 7y ago
> So you'd bet that the US is going to deal with the pandemic more effectively than China has? No, that's not what I said.
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by curiousgeorgio 7y ago
Perhaps this should be viewed as just more evidence that in many cases, private enterprise tends to be more productive than government-sponsored initiatives. Granted, that may not always be the case (China being a counterexample here), bu
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by curiousgeorgio 7y ago
> So they jacked up the prices from high (few people can buy) to infinity (nobody can buy). If nobody can buy, the sellers don't sell any (and lose potential profits), so they'll be forced to sell for more reasonable prices. Se

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