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by exporectomy 5y ago
They're mostly on islands so it's very unlikely they matter at all outside of their island. If Hawaii had never been discovered, we wouldn't have to worry about losing them. I live in a country filled with endangered "na
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Yep. Every western country I know of except America, has only a token gesture of human rights and they're only rights that happened to match the culture at the time with no longer term vision at all. New Zealand, for example has its Bi
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Of course they can, because they do. What are you really trying to say? Is it that you believe no other moral authority should exist besides the law?
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by exporectomy 5y ago
I wonder if the thing that should be uninvented is the profit motive for political speech. Why do people have to be paid to share their political opinions? We could still have Youtube and people saying whatever they like, but in a way that
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by exporectomy 5y ago
No because humans can spend that money on things. Squirrels can't eat more than they can eat.
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by exporectomy 5y ago
I was surprised to learn that the population (and density) of Manhattan was higher 100 years ago than it is today. It's been falling pretty steadily throughout the entire 1900s.
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Everyday credit card users who rely on the bank to protect them from fraud should not be using cryptocurrency directly. They also should not carry their money around in cash, yet cash still exists and people can take personal responsibility
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by exporectomy 5y ago
How would any reversals be decided without a benevolent God? I've shown that traditional finance can't do it "correctly". Apparently smart contracts can't either. Courts can't because the law is sometimes ambig
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Reversing transactions is massive problem in finance in general. It causes losses for merchants in both physical shops and online sellers because there's no objective measure of whether a transaction was a mistake or not so it's b
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by exporectomy 5y ago
With empathy of course!
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by exporectomy 5y ago
I don't think I have a downvote button. You said "path of destruction". That's the speculation based on current popular opinion. Had you been saying this 50 years ago, you would have chosen whatever the popular path of d
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by exporectomy 5y ago
For the state to not tolerate any violence, it must prevent violence among its citizens and from foreign attackers. The only way we have that works is using violence to restrain criminals, or fight against enemy armies. We don't have a
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Then what does this flashing arrow on the back of the vehicle mean? https://trafficsafetyzone.com/product/magnetic-led-direction... or this which looks a lot more like the Mini indicator: https://www.duluthn
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by exporectomy 5y ago
I wonder if progressively shrinking the scale from human-visible to as small as we like would be a better way. After people see the obvious data, it would be clear that there's always more just out of sight and create the incentive to
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Antarctica's ice is continually sliding into the sea. Anything embedded in it will eventually get dumped on the sea-floor as it melts out the bottom of an ice sheet. We have already lost things that were left lying around there.
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Funny that their solution isn't higher frequency backups but having someone watch it carefully to make sure it doesn't fail again. Maybe it's not really a serious problem. Only 2 weeks of data and student submitted data so it
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by exporectomy 5y ago
When you said tolerating any violence was unacceptable. It takes violence to protect people from violence.
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by exporectomy 5y ago
It can be better because it exists even if it's worse than some ideal but mostly non-existent community.
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by exporectomy 5y ago
> There is only one acceptable level of violence and abuse and that is zero. You don't actually believe that because governments commit violent using their police and military and you accept that.
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by exporectomy 5y ago
"never felt they had some higher purpose" ... "my values of making the world a better place for future generations". Sounds like you're now having an epiphany :)
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by exporectomy 5y ago
I'm a counterexample. I was hesitant about getting vaccinated for covid because it was developed so quickly and all medical interventions carry some risk, so you shouldn't completely abandon decision-making. I eventually got vacci
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Most Christians have already shed a lot of now-disproven beliefs. Angels aren't literally flying in the sky over our heads. Literal stories get re-interpreted as metaphors or the definitions of words changed. Contradictions get solved
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by exporectomy 5y ago
> a long, happy life is guaranteed by forces outside man's control. This will likely alleviate a lot of the tribal issues we face as well. I suspect it would make it worse. People without a purpose tend to invent tribes and social s
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by exporectomy 5y ago
I don't think you have correct examples of memes not benefiting their hosts. Those are examples of them not benefiting other people who aren't the hosts. A better example would be something like martyrdom. A religion that's
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by exporectomy 5y ago
A blame game is only sad if it was a true accident. If both the US and China were actually trying to develop such a virus and one of them accidentally released it, neither will be able to tolerate transparency because it would lead to inter
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by exporectomy 5y ago
Perhaps Auckland has already reached the point where people have stopped caring and downgraded their expectations. Actually, Wellington too seems to recently have prices for attached townhouses approaching those of SFHs. A couple of years a
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by exporectomy 5y ago
So "Study of the use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region" is context but "use of mechanized artillery by guerilla fighters in the blah blah region" is promotion? Clear as mud. Remember wh
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by exporectomy 5y ago
You said that being convicted before being imprisoned was an important difference. Maybe you didn't mean good vs bad but I'm claiming that difference is neither important nor even exists. It's just arbitrarily made up to put
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by exporectomy 5y ago
What if some person or algorithm notices that you don't have those skills while walking or shooting at other body parts - only at heads? That's the kind of inconsistency I'm talking about. Or what if the nature of the mouse m
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by exporectomy 5y ago
You're neglecting the fact that human development is not exponential. Population, for instance increased in its growth rate over the past 1000 years, with a sudden step up due to the industrial revolution. It didn't look the same

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