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by gotocake 8y ago
All good points, parasites are generally to be avoided and do have consequences. As for tapeworms, it really depends on the type. Some as you say just eat your lunch, but pork tapeworms are dangerous. They carry a risk of having their eggs
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by gotocake 8y ago
From experience, if you lose a caster the chair won’t balance on the remainder, it will thud down on the leg. What more legs does however is more evenly distribute the load, which is important when rolling around, leaning back and all, of t
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by gotocake 8y ago
Tokyo is an earthquake zone in a country with a total liveable land mass that could comfortably fit inside a single US state. In fact the totality of all land in all of Japan, including mountains, is smaller than California. A lack of optio
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’m not sure that Occam’s Razor applies when the simplest explanation doesn’t fit all of the facts. It may still turn out to be true that he’s just dead, but that still leaves the question of the empty wallets, convenient timing, where he d
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by gotocake 8y ago
Technically nothing, the correct response to As far as I know cannabis is completely legal in Amsterdam at least in smoking parlors. is just what I said. It is not de facto legal either, it’s tolerated and police still retain the power to
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by gotocake 8y ago
Is there a relationship between 3 vs 4 legs and total weight bearing capacity? Maybe the tradeoff was stability for weight of furniture? I’m also not sure that three legs is more stable, wouldn’t it be more prone to tipping over, unless the
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by gotocake 8y ago
That’s just not true, but the truth is complicated. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlan... While recreational use, possession and trade of non-medicinal drugs described by the Opium Law are al
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by gotocake 8y ago
I would add that if you feel like taking care of yourself is impossible, overwhelming, or not worth it, there is no reason on Earth to not seek help. There is no shame in getting the help you need!
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by gotocake 8y ago
The system of tracking and restricting womens’ movement would also be illegal in most countries, so which set of laws do we use? At some point we do have to choose, in the same way we would if child porn were legal in a country Google did b
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by gotocake 8y ago
Yeah, or just declare bankruptcy and rebrand. So long Cambridge Analytica! Oh hello Emeradata, gosh you seem so familiar. Oh well, I’m just going to putter off in my VW TDi and smoke a lovely Altria cigarette.
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by gotocake 8y ago
In theory yes, but in practice you just get a demonstration of Festinger’s observations of cogntiive dissonance. When the the flood doesn’t arrive at midnight, you’d expect people to walk out, but most just decide they for the timing wrong
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Regulating Sex Work in Medieval Europe(daily.jstor.org)
51 points by gotocake 8y ago|56 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
Investigators found lutetium Lu 177 contamination on the crematorium’s equipment, including the oven, bone crusher, and vacuum filter, with a 7.5-mR maximum exposure rate per hour on direct contact with the Geiger-Mueller detector. For pra
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Why Haven't Over-the-Air Updates Taken over the Auto Industry?(thedrive.com)
3 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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Elon Musk vs. the SEC: A Hypebeast's Progress(thedrive.com)
2 points by gotocake 8y ago|0 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
You are a really good teacher, thank you!
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by gotocake 8y ago
Do we really need a Vietnam for every generation before you learn the damned lesson?! People protested, people ran to Canada, people shot themselves in the foot, and the unlucky ones died in a jungle for literally nothing . If you want to
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by gotocake 8y ago
By all means, volunteer if you see so many benefits in it. Try to make my family serve against their will though, and I know who I’d choose to go to war against. If Vietnam and WWI weren’t object lessons enough against a draft, then I guess
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by gotocake 8y ago
But GGP's question was specifically about being born. I really struggle to imagine how someone born somewhere else, somewhen else, could be "me" with anything like the fidelity I think our intuition demands. And if you loose
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by gotocake 8y ago
This is effectively Max Tegemark’s TOE, the Mathematical Universe Hypothesis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypoth... Tegmark's MUH is: Our external physical reality is a mathematical stru
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by gotocake 8y ago
It can’t be stated enough: photons don’t have a perspective. Talking about what a photon “sees” is a non-starter. It’s also important to note that light follows null geodesics in spacetime, and while on paper that can look like no time ela
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by gotocake 8y ago
There is a guarantee of the order of causally related events, just not an absolute timing. All observers will agree that Alice throws a ball which Bill later catches, but different observers will disagree on when these events occurred exact
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by gotocake 8y ago
Possible answers (but by no means comprehensive answers): -If you weren’t, you wouldn’t be asking this question. The only version of reality in which you’re able to ponder it is one with you in it. This is a narrower version of the weak ant
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by gotocake 8y ago
I used to look at it as a great time to get lost in a book.
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by gotocake 8y ago
That sounds like a case against wealth inequality, since there’s no increase in happiness for the very rich.
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by gotocake 8y ago
Leave out that last sentence and you’re making a cogent, convincing argument; the insult adds nothing and takes something away.
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by gotocake 8y ago
To me it just seems like the clearest indication of a bubble in Silicon Valley in particular, and the Bay Area in general. Even putting aside emotional attachment, people actually enjoy the taste of meat and don’t see a pressing reason to s
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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable(theatlantic.com)
227 points by gotocake 8y ago|161 comments
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by gotocake 8y ago
Processed meats are unequivocally bad for you, but when you compare the data on that to unprocessed meat the link to harm vanishes. Conflating the two is deeply dishonest.
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by gotocake 8y ago
I’m not a vegan or vegetarian, but your posts on this topic range from persecutorial to bizarre. I can’t believe that you expect anyone reading your posts to be convinced by lists of accusations of evil, equivocation between cockroach bits

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