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by enkid 5y ago
Hubris that what humans consider aesthetic is somehow important to the Universe.
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by enkid 5y ago
And that was a complete mess if a system when you start considering moons orbiting around planets orbiting around the sun orbiting around the Earth. Not to mention anything outside our solar system.
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by enkid 5y ago
I don't know what point you are making. That's how observation works... The observer is always at the center of their own universe.
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by enkid 5y ago
You just gave a non-aesthetic reason to explore symmetry. I'm not saying we should only look at theories that are not beautiful, but instead we should not use that to evaluate if a theory is worth exploring.
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by enkid 5y ago
Aesthetics should have nothing to do with science. Aesthetics is the reason we thought the Earth was at the center of the universe and everything outside the orbit of the moon was made of perfect spheres. It's why the Soviet Union pus
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by enkid 5y ago
Actually, a quick search shows the Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) of 21 has had a pretty significant impact in reducing drinking and drunk driving in those under 21. [0] [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20497803/
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by enkid 5y ago
All religions require adherence to some sort of dogma and have restricted behavior.
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by enkid 5y ago
The ability to rapidly sequence genes seems like it has been pretty revolutionary for medicine. Many cancers are treated based on their sequencing, and diseases are tracked through their genetic sequencing. For example, it's hard to
579.
by enkid 5y ago
Russia and Iran do cyberattacks all the time. We have good evidence of these attacks from many sources. Same with China. The idea that these attacks are just being made up or we don't have evidence who executed them is either willfu
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by enkid 5y ago
It's not "we know nothing." It's "we have low confidence in this thing." Which is exactly what you should be willing to say if you want an accurate view of the world. You can take action of knowing something w
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by enkid 5y ago
From what I've seen of this type of research, a vulnerability like these may be worked on and some one will refine it to make it exploitable, so even if it's not possible to use it in it's current form, it's important to
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by enkid 5y ago
The Matrix Reloaded was ok. It's Revolutions that was actively awful.
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by enkid 5y ago
How does a large company with million if images make sure there aren't very similar copies in not the training set and validation set? Seems like you could be accidentally over training if there's a lot of copies of very similar
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by enkid 5y ago
Something being a circle or an oval would depend on your relative velocity, meaning the idea of a physical circle doesn't really make sense.
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by enkid 5y ago
Liberalization in this context has nothing to do with the current usage in American politics.
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by enkid 5y ago
The period directly before the fall of the Soviet Union was one of liberalization and opening up. If any thing, the history of the Soviet Union was on of decreasing repression (in fits and with some set backs) after Stalin's death. Y
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by enkid 5y ago
Sure. I just don't think it's accurate to think science comes to a definitive conclusion. It is a process of constant discovery and coming closer and closer to the truth, but will never arrived at a final answer.
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by enkid 5y ago
I don't think science is about "the truth", as the scientific process shouldn't allow definitive claims. Rather, there should always be an understanding that whatever is being said comes with a probability of being true
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by enkid 5y ago
To make the other comments point more explicitly, OSHA is not the one that determines if a drug has a side effect, the FDA is. So, this means nothing about whether the vaccines are having side effects recorded at a wider scale, OSHA is jus
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by enkid 5y ago
Your missing why I'm making my comment. I'm not arguing for anything. I'm arguing against making any conclusions based on what the original poster said, because the only factual evidence they present is at the very least que
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by enkid 5y ago
Totally unrelated to the discussion. VA budget and the DoD budget are different line items and this is not what the OP was talking about, so does not matter in this context.
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by enkid 5y ago
This is the only data point the poster had which supported their argument and it was factually incorrect, whether you look at inflation adjusted or as a percentage of GDP. Now, whether to use inflation adjusted or as a percentage of GDP is
593.
by enkid 5y ago
I'm not saying the US doesn't spend a lot, just the way the op characterized the budget process is factually incorrect.
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by enkid 5y ago
Absolute military spending is a ridiculous metric because inflation is a thing. Spending by percent of GDP is much more reasonable. For example, the US spent something like $75 billion in 1943, but no one would argue were putting 10xs as
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by enkid 5y ago
US military spending dropped by about half when you look at GDP between 1982 and 1999, so your statements about the Cold War ending not affecting spending is just straight up incorrect. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries&
596.
by enkid 5y ago
I'm not saying it's not possible to back up the key, I'm saying if a billion dollars disappear overnight because one person was stupid, we don't know the way people would react to that. May be they would value Bitcoin m
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by enkid 5y ago
Unless this alerts people to the risk of losing a private key and they decide owning Bitcoin isn't a great place to store wealth.
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by enkid 5y ago
Heroes never live up to their reputation. Remember, they were people with pluses and negatives, and most likely were extremely lucky in becoming the protagonist in some historical narrative instead of a bystander.
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by enkid 5y ago
That's two monopolies.
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by enkid 5y ago
I understand that's what op is trying to say, but op isn't providing sufficient evidence for that. Non vaccines are not alternatives for vaccines. And we have EUAs for things that would be alternatives to each other, multiple va

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