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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
If you’re homeless then moving isn’t easy, unless you really like to walk or can scrounge money for a bus or two. Then you’re in a new place you’ve never been, which means any of the tricks and connections you had have to be rebuilt from sc
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
I think the question is who’s responsibility it is to protect the woman in your hypothetical. Is it the landlord? New tenants? Some people from Amazon looking to expand? The new cafe charging $5 for rainbow bagels? The state or federal gove
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Sure when certain classes aren’t protected, other classes roadhaul them and keep them from integrating into schools and neighborhoods? From the end of slavery through Jim Crow, until the civil rights movement there was a big experiment of n
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
The problem is that a city lacks the resources to manage a country-wide problem. A lack of social support, especially mental healthcare means that you have more than half a million schizophrenics aloe on the streets. The war on drugs create
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Some people feel that the communities have a right to a place, others feel that whoever ends up owning the place has those rights. I don’t know what the answer is by the way, I’m just calling the perspectives as I see them. Obviously if you
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
GoDaddy also has a right to free expression, which they exercised. Forcing them to broadcast Spencer isn’t compatible with freedom of expression either. At some point absolutes fail and you have to accept the individual’s/entity’s righ
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
The wrong circumstances required to catastrophically release all of that energy in an ICE car is pretty extreme, requiring the fuel to atomize and thoroughly mix with air. Otherwise you have a fire, not a bomb. Hydrogen by contrast just nee
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
A very smart guy named Alfred Korzybski said, “The map is not the territory.” It’s important to not get too hung up on epistemological implications of our models of reality, because they are just models. On a practical level a field is some
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Well those 18th-19th century anything didn’t have a concept of entanglement or FTL, they were struggling with the notion that light, gravity, and other forces could propagate without a medium. They saw that waves could be transmitted throug
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
This is already essentially how it works. A new theory has to be complementary to old ones. This is often said in terms of “matching the predictions of...” another theory. There are more standards of course, but that’s the baseline. A lot o
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
It also makes researching what they talked about much much easier. I can google “demyelination” while some metaphorical treatment of the topic involving insulated wires may be substantially less amenable to that.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
When you think about particles as excitations of a field, the indistinguishable nature of said particles stops being such a puzzle.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
A fun drinking game is to ask them to rigorously define what “Hegelian” is, and every time the explanation becomes pointlessly vague or self-referential, drink. I take no responsibility for the inevitable stomach pumping though.
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Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines(daily.jstor.org)
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
When did, “A few keyboard warriors Tweeted,” become “Stirs furor” exactly? This is a non-story, and the few people aware of it will have forgotten about it in a week. It’s not even compelling as nontroversies go, because it has no substance
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
On one hand I agree with you, but on the other... why is this Amazon’s place? I don’t agree with how China censors, but what gives a private US entity the right to try and override that in this way? Their place is to choose to, or not to do
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
In the US what happens if someone on that list kills themselves? Lawsuit from hell probably, at the very least.
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Relax and Improve Your Sleep with Natural Calm Magnesium If that’s your version of very clear, maybe you shouldn’t be giving people advice.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Sure, but it’s also a non sequitur in the conversation you decided to enter, and a point that was never up for debate or disagreement. Obvious, yet unhelpful in other words.
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Maybe, but since I was responding to, The first year of a new car design of any model of any brand having qc problems is actually so common that sometimes buyers will actively avoid them... it doesn’t actually apply here.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
It's because so many people don't know, forgot, or choose to ignore that the US was founded on enlightenment principles of individualism. Unless you were a child, woman, native, or a slave, right? It also helped to own land. Com
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
If I call something “Elephant scale” and then claim I meant “an elephant’s hair” you’d laugh at me, and rightly so.
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Or even better, active lane control/assist, but of course Tesla is all about marketing to the hilt. If the “Gigafactory” were being honest it would be, “Panasonic with a Tesla sicker.”
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
I’d be fascinated if you could find three examples of panel gaps needing 40% improvement over one year from a major manufacturer.
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Nutrition research is famously bad, worse than social science research. I would want to see a lot of replication before I took it with even a grain of delicious salt. The history of such research is a disappointing one after all. Humans are
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Approaches the human scale? This experiment was done on 10^12 supercooled atoms in a vacuum. That is at least FIFTEEN orders of magnitude away from the scale of the average human body, which is not supercooled or in a vacuum. This experimen
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by dbasedweeb 8y ago
Objective and originalist are different things, and the constitution has never been immutable, hence the large number of amendments.
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I’m not disagreeing with the majority decision, just the argument for originalism.
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I agree with the decision actually, I just disagree with the originalist viewpoint.

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