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From what I’ve seen PragerU is not really any more “garbage” than the condensed explainers that John Oliver and Stephen Colbert have been doing for much larger audiences. I find their clips pretty useful for honest summaries of what conserv
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Even in the cases where people dress differently than the global norm (ie the Middle East and parts of Africa), clothing is increasingly homogenized throughout the region and each constituent area's unique style has disappeared. I&#x27
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Here is a HN comment from 3 months ago that includes extensive research on the subject. More specifically, much of the plastic waste in the ocean looks to be from merchant shipping abuses, not single-use plastic litter. https://n
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This is what I've seen happen here in Seattle. Every place just gives out bulkier multiple use containers when anyone gets takeout salad or MealPal, and people just throw them away as per usual. There's a Korean Deli all you can f
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1) The early businesses suit was against the owner and alleged originator of the policies - Fred. There’s evidence of paternal racism, but no coherent “white nationalism”, especially since Jewish tenants were favored over whites. Donald in
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Steve Bannon was a close friend of Andrew Breitbart (who was Jewish and famously anti-racist), and was hired by Breitbart to be Editor. Bannon greatly expanded the Brietbart Israel office and managed a number of non-whites such as Raheem Ka
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I agree that these endemic procedural messes reveal that core parts of the EU may be illiberal, overly federalized, and could use reform. But how is acknowledging its weaknesses ammunition for illiberal systems in general? Out of all the al
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A popular argument for Net Neutrality posited that allowing non-government monopolies to exercise free-reign over what they've built will result in free speech being infringed. Here is an article and call-to-action from the EFF: https
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Thomas Hobbes was religious but I don't think religion is still the motivator for Hobbesian Europeans.
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Labor and wage regulations economically function akin to a "carbon tax" on labor. In addition to encouraging outsourcing, they are encouraging the early adoption of technological alternatives (robots/AI) that face no such res
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I don't see why you're being downvoted. Regardless of whether it's good or bad, regulations on resource extraction, manufacturing, wages, unions, pollution, among many other business practices are the reason why those jobs we
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I agree, but the list is focused on free apps. This should have been in the HN title
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I fully agree that the Earth could sustain over a hundred billion people (and even keep vast natural spaces) with proper advances in infrastructure, construction, and technology. However, people just tend not to have enough babies to make t
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Kickstarter's CEO (and the last of their original founders) also resigned this week: https://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/CE...
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The population will never be high enough for neo-Tokyo to exist, barring some kind of widespread program (public or private) creating babies in addition to those conceived normally. Even Hong Kong eventually found its Kowloon Walled City un
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There's a famous Channel 4 interview between Cathy Newman and Jordan Peterson that illustrates not just the flaws of being uncharitable but also how it can backfire spectacularly. Regardless of how one feels about Peterson, the nearly
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Anthropocene as a term focuses on the human-shaped nature of Earth in general. Overfishing qualifies as a component.
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I used to occasionally hop on and try LOTGD until dying in the same session. There was a similar non-terminal MUD-like game called Phantasia as well. Heavy LOTR themes, Java client, permadeath, players could ascend to become Steward, King,
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If you are able to pay, American healthcare can be higher quality and more timely than Canadian care. Especially the hospitals and doctors in and around Seattle. That's why wealthy Canadians come to the US for some treatments. The hope
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Empathy is an emotion experienced by both humans and animals. I don't dispute that. But I don't believe that empathy requires intellectual awareness of the inner life of other creatures, or generalizing that to all animals as we a
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I am not disputing the fact that many animals experience emotions and consciousness just as we do. I was taking issue with the parent comment's framing of our attitudes as "just human conceit". I am saying that conceitedness
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Isn't it also "human conceit" to think that other species should always be thought of as having emotions and consciousness? No other animal engages in such. Perhaps it's the other way around from how you put it. All anim
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The source says wages went up while dividend/interest income went down.
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People said the same about the chat rooms we used when we were kids. You could argue that those had much more potential than Youtube comments to lead to actual physical harm. In some cases, bad things really happened. Chris Hansen made a sh
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Like the parent comment said, there are. Insurance companies play that role. Hiring a negotiator without having to buy insurance would be valuable, though.
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Yes, there were people paid to blockade and prevent the construction of a new state-of-the-art science telescope on Mauna Kea. They were successful in pressuring the state to renege on the contract and block construction. I live in Seattle
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There have been no cases of GMO vegetable or animal tissue resulting in abnormal digestion when consumed. The nutrients are the same, and genetically modified organisms don't have any additional toxins (unless they have been specifical
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Imagine if American engineers had boycotted weapons development when they saw the effects of napalm in WW2/Vietnam and that's where progress stopped. Governments would still throw napalm and bodies at problems. Many more people wo
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Hedera Hashgraph uses the gossip protocol and simulated voting protocol to do it. It's possible, there are implementations like Hashgraph already doing a distributed ledger without a full blockchain.
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Newsom should be more gracious. That is tax money from all other states that the federal government decided to provide to California. Sad to see him be so entitled and speak so dismissively about the funding for the sake of local political

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