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by gbrown 6y ago
> The supply chain for all society ... And? That’s whataboutism, not a response. > Drugs are.... That sounds like a vast oversimplification, to say the least. Also, again, I’m not defending drug laws.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Look, I’m the last person who would defend drug laws, but I think your position is transparently silly.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Well, the supply chain for illegal drugs hurts a LOT of people, but that’s because of the illegally. In a world with legal drugs, you’d still want to prosecute someone for giving money to cartels, but there would be much less incentive for
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by gbrown 6y ago
Even if it could, it wouldn’t be useful because of diffraction.
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by gbrown 6y ago
> There's no evidence for it [citation needed]
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by gbrown 6y ago
It’s a real thing in mountainous areas, because so much water can get channeled into tiny ravines super quickly.
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by gbrown 6y ago
1. Forget reporters, our media is run mostly by mega-corporations. 2. Democrat != liberal, Republican != conservative, especially when comparing between countries
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by gbrown 6y ago
I mean, that is what the article appears to say, no? Magnetic forces carried by the plasma surrounding the black hole interacting with frame-dragged spacetime.
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by gbrown 6y ago
That's not true, you can have an inverter setup which fails over to a battery backup when the grid goes down. It's also done all the time with natural gas generators. The setup is more expensive, and it does have to meet certain r
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by gbrown 6y ago
Indeed
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by gbrown 6y ago
You’re ignoring the finite population and the actual numbers involved.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I meant to put skeptics in scare quotes. It could also be replaced with “self-described skeptics”.
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by gbrown 6y ago
I mean... maybe, but probably not. Science has also learned a lot since then, and most skeptics aren’t scientists. Plausible cynicism grade: C-
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by gbrown 6y ago
> I have a feeling that just blindfolding the jurors or blocking their view would cause them to miss out on other important things like being able to see faces and reactions during testimony Honestly, that might be an advantage too. Hum
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by gbrown 6y ago
Most of the mask orders I've seen take that into account though, requiring masks indoors and in outdoor spaces where social distancing is not possible or enforced.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Came here for this - I knew there must be an analytical solution involving Markov chains.
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by gbrown 6y ago
While US surveillance is also bad, it’s not yet subject to the same levels of abuse as in China. Don’t get me wrong, if this administration could, I’m sure they’d find a way to compete on that front, but we’re not there yet. The Chinese gov
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by gbrown 6y ago
> It's engineered to match your preference. No, these things are literally engineered to maximize engagement. Preferences are complicated, and we often actually prefer to consume less content... or at least would prefer to prefer to
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by gbrown 6y ago
> increasing the height of the panels on a solar power plant gains nothing Well, not nothing , since less atmosphere means less energy dissipated before light hits the panels, but certainly it’s a better tradeoff cost-wise to keep them
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by gbrown 6y ago
If you actually want weird seeds, try Baker Creek.
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by gbrown 6y ago
That's part of why I think "centrist" just isn't a very useful label.
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by gbrown 6y ago
There are a range of projections among climate models, and as we learn more it seems that on average the consensus models have been too optimistic. I.e., things are even worse than we thought.
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by gbrown 6y ago
1. I know, I also don’t think its meaningfully “centrist”. 2. Not sure what your point is here - you originally pointed out why either right or left solutions would be good, but the compromise is bad. 3. I don’t think that’s true - believe
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by gbrown 6y ago
I’m not sure those are centrist positions. On the first one, I disagree with you on the science. On the second, you explicitly pointed put why centrism is bad (and with important qualifications, I sort of agree with the point you were makin
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by gbrown 6y ago
IMHO that’s usually just a platitude - got an example?
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by gbrown 6y ago
Now we need to make human augmented generative adversarial eyetracking networks that are trained on getting people not to skim.
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by gbrown 6y ago
From today: https://www.reddit.com/r/mexico/comments/ht79hw/c%C3%A1rtel_...
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by gbrown 6y ago
If you'd bothered to read past the catchphrase you'd realize how stupid this sounds. It would also help if you gained some perspective on Mexican history - it's never been an issue of lack of funding for police.
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by gbrown 6y ago
Yeah, but this is a multi-generational problem - it's important not to give up just because they try to diversify in the moment. Anything that cuts into their margins in the long term makes them weaker, less able to recruit, less compe
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by gbrown 6y ago
No offense, but you appear to be just making up your numbers and inventing the conclusions from whole cloth. Nobody would dispute that the biosphere was richer and more diverse in the past, but all of those animals were part of a global equ

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