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by drekk 3y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. The young aren't a new commodity for nouveau riche narcissists upset about entropy. Plenty of very exciting anti-aging research going on right now without subjecting your child to plasmapheres
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by drekk 3y ago
I worked at [undisclosed Fintech] and their solution was pretty funny. They had a rack of mobile phones on 3G/4G running Android to poll [undisclosed throttle-happy bank]. Was an incredible hackathon project that lasted years.
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by drekk 3y ago
A labor union? 1/3 Americans were covered by one within living memory. Let people have a voice in their workplace. It's so funny to me how Americans wax poetic about republics and democracy until it comes time to talk about their
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by drekk 3y ago
If you live in the US you can do that, and you can and will be prosecuted under the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA). Other industrialized nations tend to have similar protections. People always have the choice to break the law, and if
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by drekk 3y ago
You're forgetting the part where the queen is never alone, being prodded along by workers to continue laying eggs at an acceptable pace. When the hive (not the queen!) decides it's time to swarm, they'll force the queen to mo
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by drekk 3y ago
The US has the grasp and reach to punish me based on things about my privately generated data. The CCP has the grasp but not the reach. They are entirely different threat models. Neither one is excusable, but the US spying on me is a lot mo
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by drekk 3y ago
“The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.” - Julius Nyerere, first president of Tanzania
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by drekk 3y ago
And so countries like the UK, US, Germany, France, etc. that subsidized their own national industrialization projects at the cost of global externalities should help "developing" countries industrialize without the interim step of
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by drekk 3y ago
You make decisions subconsciously before your conscious mind is aware of it. It's been experimentally demonstrated and at least calls into question the perception of free will. Each hemisphere of our brain is its own intelligence, but
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by drekk 3y ago
> Funneling children into the arms of private businesses is fundamentally socialist redistribution Mmm I'm going to take a very controversial stance here and say that no, privatizing education is not "fundamentally socialist di
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by drekk 3y ago
China implemented a nationwide high speed rail network while California debated maybe building a segment. It's possible to satisfy transit (and other) needs in a way that sustains growth and scales efficiently. Building more parking lo
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by drekk 4y ago
It's not an opinion, though. Reading some papers isn't a replacement for a proper medical education. There are some logical reasons to avoid a vaccination (being immunocompromised, being allergic to an ingredient, etc.) but that
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by drekk 4y ago
Unless your long-term monogamous partner cheats on you. My friend's mother caught syphilis that way. I'm sure shaming people helps lower STI rates though, right?
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by drekk 4y ago
Making corruption legal by calling it lobbying doesn't shield the OECD from critique.
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by drekk 4y ago
The US imprisons more of its own citizens per capita and in absolute terms than an "authoritarian" nation-state 4x its population. Remind us the last time China invaded a country as "liberators"? Seeing Americans of all
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by drekk 4y ago
There is more genetic variance within "races" than between them. Your imagination is neither necessary nor sufficient for it to be possible, let alone feasible. I also honestly do not understand why China is the bogeyman here give
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by drekk 4y ago
Is it really a HN discussion about race if someone doesn't mention the "Blacks, Jews"? What next, are we going to call someone an "Oriental"? Weird skull-caliper vocabulary. How controversial is it to say "geno
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by drekk 4y ago
I love that the American solution to fire is... fire? We tried putting grown-ups with guns in schools after Columbine, and somehow more guns hasn't solved the violence problem. I don't think putting a cop outside each store will s
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by drekk 4y ago
Our modern system of policing traces its roots to slave patrols and is a few hundred years old, at most. For the overwhelming majority of human history it was an ad-hoc community organization more akin to a watch. We get police from the Gre
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by drekk 4y ago
Tallow is absolutely not better for you than frying in oils. Tallow also has trans fats. Margarine is lower in saturated fats than butter with none of the cholesterol. None are good for you versus a liquid oil like canola. Eating more fruit
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by drekk 4y ago
When I bake bread I use a pinch of sugar for an entire loaf. The yeast are just fine eating the flour. Thinking of a packet of sugar PER SLICE is insane to me. Especially for whole grain
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by drekk 4y ago
The second statement is what is implied by Rowling's call for "biological women only restrooms". The first statement is not fact. "Not really women" according to whom? Do we have to test all "women" for k
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by drekk 4y ago
"Unjustly accused of transphobia" I think it's cool how cis people get to determine what is and is not transphobic. Forget about her writing a novel in which the protagonist is a male dressing as a woman to kill people. Forge
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by drekk 4y ago
You don't support their right to live freely without abuse or harassment if you call them "cross-dressing men". You can't have it both ways. There's no way to say "I think trans women are perverted deviant men
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by drekk 4y ago
A solid chunk of the US population lives in a food desert. They're lucky to even have a Walmart within driving distance. You've clearly never had to walk a few miles on highway to reach the nearest grocery store. I can tell you fr
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by drekk 4y ago
It doesn't matter how cheap or easy it is. It's easily an hour of prep work followed by an hour of cooking. Add in dishes/cleanup and you're at nearly 3 hours for the simple "baked pasta dish". Now go shop for
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by drekk 4y ago
All due respect I don't think you've been poor. They don't care if it has fillers. They want a full stomach. They're going to optimize for the cheapest ways to fill those calories. You know what's subsidized? It&#x2
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by drekk 4y ago
We have very specific regulations regarding the storing and preparation of raw fish. Just like we do for raw milk and other foodstuffs that can kill people. Some might find the "red tape" annoying, but it's why we've all
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by drekk 4y ago
I'm sure the dead person's family is put at peace by the Amish farmer's intention. He didn't mean to kill him—he just didn't follow food safety procedures that were established for the specific reason of preventing
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by drekk 4y ago
"Eating fruits and veggies makes you obese, sickly, and weak" is probably the most American take I have seen ANYWHERE. Clearly the fact that the US has so many diabetic and overweight citizens has nothing to do with being the larg

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