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by enkid 3y ago
The law is full of gray areas. If we couldn't have any laws that weren't ambiguous, we just wouldn't have laws.
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by enkid 3y ago
This seems like a good thing? Making software makers have liability for a shifty product should have happened a long time ago.
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by enkid 3y ago
Every system has built in waste. If you have no waste, you have no slack room, which means when a system faces a crisis.
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by enkid 3y ago
"The cat" has different information in it than "kot." That same sentence also translates to "A cat is on the table," but no English speaker would say "the cat" and "a cat" have the same mea
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by enkid 3y ago
The problem is that there are complex concepts that translate to a single syllable in some languages but requires a lot of context or explanation in other languages. Would these be "single instructions" or multiple? Then when yo
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by enkid 3y ago
Only because it was being used to control an EMP satellite set to destroy London.
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by enkid 3y ago
Yes, passive voice is used effectively all the time. The rule was created by grammarian's who didn't understand its effectiveness or overstated its necessity. Judgement should be used to determine when it works.
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by enkid 3y ago
The problem is that most people who say this don't know what the passive voice means. What they want to say is make the most important noun in the sentence the subject and keep the subject near the beginning of the sentence. That conc
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by enkid 3y ago
I have known several. I've also known an overwhelming number of people from public and private schools who hated those experiences.
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by enkid 3y ago
There is no and has never been any true evidence that home schooled kids are worse at socialization then the ones that go to a traditional school, at least as far as I can tell. It's a meme that people propagate because it is "co
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by enkid 3y ago
The Hubble tension is "bad" (i.e. shows a problem with) for current models of cosmology, hence strengthening it is making it "worse." Its like a hurricane, a strengthening hurricane is worse.
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by enkid 3y ago
This is absurd nihilism. If we change the meanings of words then any sentence can mean anything and stating "every government is democratic" is a clear example of that.
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by enkid 3y ago
Then this sentence makes absolutely no sense: "The Overthrow of the Shah then, was based on the requirement to not be beholden to anyone but the west when pricing Oil, to ensure the west had unmitigated control of how the largest oil
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by enkid 3y ago
The British and Soviet Union did invade and occupy Iran during the war. It was focused on controlling the railroads, but it led to the then Shah to abdicate.
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by enkid 3y ago
The US and UK didn't overthrow the Shah, they helped him stop from being overthrown. If you can't even get the basics of the historical events we're talking about correct, you shouldn't be making broad generalizations a
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by enkid 3y ago
The US and UK assisted a nationalist and westernized monarch retain and consolidate power. They did not install a theocratic government. The current theocratic government came into power as a reaction against the Shah the British and US ha
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by enkid 3y ago
This is a question with no answer, but even with two parts of Japan's military tried to stave a couple to ensure the war would continue. Either way, even if dropping the second bomb only decreased the likelihood that an invasion of Ja
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by enkid 3y ago
Zeihan says a lot of interesting stuff, but his track record is pretty spotty.
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by enkid 3y ago
Do you have any evidence of this? The more people you have the bigger the gap usually is.
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by enkid 3y ago
If your definition of "higher land usage" means a single hunter using "several hundred miles of territory" and a city and farmland on equivalent land is equal, then we just have fundamentally different definitions and t
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by enkid 3y ago
They weren't literally everywhere. Even today, with a much larger population and higher land usage, there is a lot of wilderness in the Southeastern United States. That's why finding a consistent indicator of an archeologicial s
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by enkid 3y ago
I don't see a meaningful distinction between "preventing disease" and "preventing spread of disease" in this context given we're talking about pathogens.
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by enkid 3y ago
That's specifically about doctors washing their hands to prevent disease. Plenty of cultures had traditions of washing before that
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by enkid 3y ago
People don't want to donate to fixing something old, they want to donate to making something new, even when fixing something old is way more effective.
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by enkid 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that Einstein proved that light (including radio) is not, in-fact, analog, but rather has discrete levels of energy in quantum steps.
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by enkid 3y ago
Economic projections like this are notoriously bad. For example, two editions of the same text book used the exact same graph showing the Soviet Union would pass the US is about 20 years... Despite the editions being twenty years apart. h
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by enkid 3y ago
In this thread: lots of people without any historical economic knowledge. Even in the 19th century, probably the peak of gold backed currency as we would consider it today, the world's economy was wracked by a boom bust cycle every t
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by enkid 3y ago
There are a lot of idiots who work for all those organizations.
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by enkid 3y ago
Aah yes, nothing is better for a gold backed currency then rapid deflation caused by a secret huge reserve of gold.
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by enkid 3y ago
There were plenty of examples of countries devaluing their currency before World War I. No one was ever really on the gold standard, that was just what the governments were willing to exchange it for at times. The government could always

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