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by endominus 2y ago
The philosopher in me immediately objects, "How can you tell if something is 'knowable'? What constitutes knowledge in this model?"
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by endominus 2y ago
What if someone did not have the physical strength to become a champion cyclist/baseball player, but found a medicinal way to overcome their limitations and achieve peak performance in their field? We've already come to a decisive
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by endominus 2y ago
For reference; the earthquake that caused the massive tsunami and Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster 13 years ago was magnitude 9.0. This earthquake was 7.1, roughly 100 times less energetic, though the article notes that seismologists in J
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by endominus 2y ago
>Use of stored energy is obviously allowed or else you couldn't make use of gravity when on a hill. You've walked past gold in search of silver. A biking competition that disallowed the use of gravity would be wild. What would
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by endominus 2y ago
I'm almost certain that's not true (at least, not in my own jurisdiction). Conspiracy to commit murder, perhaps. "Murder for hire" is apparently the DoJ term ( https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr&#x2
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by endominus 2y ago
This surprised me, as I'd heard otherwise. Per https://www.sarahwoodbury.com/how-tall-are-you/ , "the average height of people who lived in the 9-11th centuries was comparable to ours today. It then declined
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by endominus 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeWn3Sso2RE It's amazing that this South Park clip just gets more and more true every year. "Canada wants more money! Other countries get lots of money, we want some of that money.
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by endominus 2y ago
Seafood works well; tilapia is relatively cheap, can be frozen, and offers 28g of protein in 128 calories per 100g of meat. Shrimp has an even better protein/calorie ratio, but tends to be more expensive.
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by endominus 2y ago
She was originally sentenced to "over 11 years" in November of 2022, meaning that after 17 months, she has come 43 months closer to release. At this rate of reduction, she will likely be back on the streets and preying on Wall Str
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by endominus 2y ago
"The lower your prices, the more entitled the user base you seem to draw." Not literally, perhaps, but with a wider net you do catch more of the louder, more annoying or insulting voices. I've seen this repeated too many time
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by endominus 3y ago
Per Wikipedia [0], the Freakonomics analysis holds up. Levitt addressed the disagreement on a podcast as well [1]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime... [1]: https://freakonomi
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by endominus 3y ago
Have you looked into Georgism?
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by endominus 3y ago
"We don't have a solution to fix it so let's try the solution that makes it worse" is not a very compelling argument.
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by endominus 3y ago
As a critic of UBI, that's not what I expect at all. I expect all of these tests to have wonderful outcomes where people who get their share are able to make good choices, invest in their future, and become better off than their neighb
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by endominus 3y ago
Which makes GRRM's criticism of Tolkien's world-building even more bizarre. "Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philoso
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by endominus 3y ago
I've heard this before, and it seems reasonable enough (and also that a horse must be rested at least one day a week to recover from the march). Does it also hold true when the human is also carrying camping gear, food, extra clothes,
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by endominus 3y ago
And this is exactly why the point about Semites comes into play; Arabs and (Middle-Eastern) Jews are functionally the same race . A Jewish person who converted to Islam would no longer be dhimmi, and would no longer pay the jizya or any ot
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by endominus 3y ago
You realize that the evidence you bring up actually proves the argument I've been making, don't you? >Scholars don't blame the Ottoman anti-Semitism on economic malaise, but instead point to it being imported by Christian
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by endominus 3y ago
>By the end of the 11th century the Jewish population of Palestine had declined substantially. Holy shit that's burying the lede. Do you know what happened in Palestine, specifically Jerusalem, at the end of the 11th century? https
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by endominus 3y ago
This does not address any of the points I raised. You're just reiterating what you already wrote. Here's an abbreviated summary of the history; 1. Jews exist in a region. 2. Muslims take over. Conditions improve for the Jews. 3. T
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by endominus 3y ago
>Dhimmi status is bad! Except that doesn't seem to the be the case in the context of the time for specifically the Jewish communities living in Muslim-controlled regions? Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhim
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by endominus 3y ago
>the issue of anti-Semitism long pre-dates the establishment of Israel From your second source that seems to not be the case, at least not in serious degree. "Traditionally, Jews in the Muslim world were considered to be People of t
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by endominus 3y ago
>It seems like most Americans genuinely believe they have not only a right to break the law when it comes to speed limits, but an obligation to speed. Or at least they drive like it. "I'm following the flow of traffic" as
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by endominus 3y ago
I would encourage you to look up the history of feral children, but the results are quite saddening (confounded, of course, by the fact that any child raised this way would by definition have grown up in an abusive environment). https:&#x2
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by endominus 3y ago
From the Github description, a quote: "In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next. It
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by endominus 3y ago
I'm sorry, "unexpected"? Did no one in the team at the New York Times understand what was meant by the term "post-truth world"? People on this site alone were talking about how the advancement of AI tools would make
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by endominus 3y ago
>In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the "100 Greatest Britons". The person who "sponsored" Brunel on that list was Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear fame, who was given an hour on the BBC to
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by endominus 3y ago
Not to mention the Rocky Horror Picture Show as a singular example of an audience taking part in a showing (a friend of mine showed it to me and other friends at a party, beginning the night by apologizing that he alone would not be able to
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by endominus 3y ago
I find it difficult to trust Apple as a steward of its customers' data. Speaking second-hand here; my brother is an Apple devotee and a music buff. For many years, he collected recordings of live music shows. They were rare if not enti
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by endominus 3y ago
On the other hand again, an anecdote from my own middle school; one kid shoved another down as they were running through the halls. The person who got shoved fell and broke a tooth. School refused to punish anyone without evidence of wrongd

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