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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
The real lesson we should be taking from the Luddites is while they did establish a precedent for fighting for worker's rights, they failed in any meaningful way to reverse the march of technology. In fact throughout history we have n
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
What about as consumers then? Without workers who's going to buy anything? We have some serious logistics to figure out if we automate the majority of jobs away, and yet somehow all these companies are expecting people to still be ab
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I don't know about justifying their multi-billion dollar valuation but the killer application of this in my mind is for pharmacies. There are a lot of pharmacies offering same day delivery now for both prescription and over the counte
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
In at least some cases type 1 diabetes is considered an autoimmune disease as are the other diseases listed in the headline. They're using the "vaccine" to turn off the body's overreaction to a specific antigene. This
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
It feels like Africa is setting itself up for a lot of suffering. It’s difficult to see the continent being able to support 3-4 billion people while also getting heavily hit by climate change over the next 70 years, with many regions alrea
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
But if detected early enough it might not take much more than a DART sized nudge of even a Chicxulub sized asteroid to change it’s course enough to miss the Earth. The whole reason DART targeted a two asteroid system was so we could measur
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I'm not defending the ban on gas stoves, but a much better reason to ban them is their impact on indoor air quality. Burning natural gas indoors emits all kinds of nasty stuff like carbon monoxide, nitric oxides, formaldehyde...stuff
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Just have some kids! My adult children are always happy to let us spend money on them. Come to think of it, my wife and I still let our parents pay for stuff as well, even though they really don't need to anymore.
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
This can be a major cultural issue as well. My wife is asian and her whole family looses their mind if someone tries to pay for a meal at a family get together. It can be a major issue of pride in many asian cultures when people try to pa
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I've been a falconer for a couple of decades and in general try to keep up with the research around birds of prey. The general consensus is only about 10% of birds of prey survive the first year. It doesn't surprise me that the
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Someone on here recommended a book called "Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell" and it goes into detail but at a fairly layman level explaining how stuff like this works at the biochemical level. Basically we have genes that
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
There have been studies on mice and I think rats on the ISS and they’ve shown promising results in preventing a number of health issues humans experience in zero g. Here’s some pictures of the setup they used for mice to generate 1 g on th
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
This is absolutely spot on. Don't forget sailing, tennis, lacrosse, and some Ivy League schools even offer equestrian. Even sports like swimming, hockey, and volleyball are getting to be more and more dominated by well-to-do kids fro
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
There have been other studies like this done in other parts of the world, they all have come to similar conclusions. Here was one conducted in Germany from 1990-2017: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.137
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
It's still an anecdote, but I've been driving the same truck for 15 years now. It definitely feels like I don't have to clean my windshield nearly as often as I used to in the summers.
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
It's more than just supply and demand. There are a lot of companies and private investors buying up multiple residential properties to rent out. There are a significant amount of properties simply being rented out on Airbnb/VRBO
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
If you look at the breakdown of the Model Y with the casted front end and back end by Munroe on Youtube it's fairly modular, with a front end cast and back end cast both bolted to the battery pack in the middle, and the top of the car
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
Oil changes probably explains the difference. We have 70,000 miles on my wife's Tesla and it's never gone in for any maintenance. We've replaced the tires on it twice now (Tesla's do eat tires) and I've replaced t
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
A compromise is to just have smaller schools. I don’t know who came up with the idea to put over 1,000 teenagers together in a building everyday as so many public high schools do in the US, but there are plenty of studies that show it’s a
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
There was an article written by the author of 1491 in the Atlantic that is a great abbreviated version of the book for anyone interested: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30.
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
Education varies significantly from state to state in the US, even district to district in many areas. Some states compare very well internationally, like Massachusetts, which would be ranked as high as 4th by some international measuremen
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
I just don't think I can agree with Gatto's main premise that schools aren't educating students or that a formal education serves no purpose in the modern world. We have seen world wide that schools are THE most effective to
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
Cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xHi_lK...
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
Except this is our third La Nina year in a row, the first time that's ever happened: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/wmo-forecasts-f...
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
I can't agree with this at all. We have plenty of modern examples that show this to not be the case: West Germany versus East Germany, South Korea versus North Korea, Taiwan versus China. In all these examples less oppressions result
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
I agree, the term "Western Ideals" doesn't quite fit but it does go beyond democratic ideals which is why I didn't use that term. There are other aspects like a free market economy that extend way beyond a democraticall
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
I think many of us would be more supportive of outsourcing manufacturing to developing countries if their government aligned more with Western ideals. The fact is many countries, like Vietnam, are still "developing" because they
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
Someone else in another thread on here recommended the book “Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell” by Dennis Bray and I really enjoyed it. The idea of looking at complex protein interactions as logical circuits kind of makes sense as w
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
The could use excess wind and solar electricity to power coal gasification plants to generate natural gas that they can then use in the winter, without having to retrofit any boilers. They can even make heating oil from coal: https:/
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by fiftyfifty 4y ago
This. As someone who has 3 adult children all out of the house now, I would take this a step further and say we have an obligation as parents to teach our young adult children how to be self sufficient. Learning how to find a job and stay e

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