harpersealtako

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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I wonder how long it will be before someone breeds a miniature cow like those mini pigs you sometimes hear about.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It doesn't need to be as good as the grass fed kobe beefsteak, it just needs to be as good as the feedlot mcdonalds hamburger. I'm optimistic about lab meat -- not because it will make everybody vegan (it won't), but because
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I read a lot of nonsense about the US on Hacker news everyday to the point that it doesn't really bother me that much anymore (I assume it's just temporary ignorance that enough real life experience and context will clear up), but
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Buffalo in Yellowstone are not a useful reference point here. I hunt animals across the US, and I can assure you that flies and mud is the LEAST of the problems wild animals have to deal with. A particularly revolting example: https:&#x2F
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
The small states who have excess control in the Senate cannot tyrannize the large states (except by maintaining the status quo), because the House of Representatives still exists. No new policy can get passed unless both a majority of stat
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
In the developed world, total acres of farmland have been shrinking for about a half century. And in North America, suburbs are usually overpopulated with cute things (e.g. deer, squirrels, raccoons), not underpopulated. The issue IS pesti
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
The point of having both proportional and state-based voting is to incentivize both small and large states to stay in the union. The optimization is for political unity over perfectly representative democracy. It makes perfect sense when
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
There are a million authors worth reading if your standards are low enough, but there's only one Friedrich Nietzsche.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
MOBAs ate them because they have a lower skill floor. If I understand 50% of how to play a MOBA, I can play the game and have fun. I am gorilla. I have 4 moves: punch, slam, eat banana, and my ultimate ability, get mad. They have cooldo
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
This uses the official numbers for average hours worked in Japan, which are definitely not accurate as a lot of overtime is unreported (and unpaid), especially at particularly bad companies.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Public transportation is more expensive for rural areas than urban areas because they are more spread out. At some point it becomes impractical, either because the service is unreliable/slow by necessity or because it's not pract
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
One thing I noticed watching some Japanese youtubers playing games like Minecraft is that some of them had figured out how to use the IME to input Japanese kanji/kana into the chatbox, but others just communicated in roman characters d
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It's the paradox of intolerance because it's a paradox, i.e. a logical contradiction. If you are tolerant to intolerant views, they will gain power and censor your tolerant speech. But on the other hand, if you are intolerant
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
>They are humanizing a fraudster. So? Fraudsters are human, though, as obvious a statement as that is.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
>$116/mo for television The link you posted says that's cable and internet, not television.
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Depends. I get horrible carsickness just riding a bus or a plane, so I get some motion sickness in VR no matter how high of FPS it is, no matter how low the latency. I sometimes get motion sickness playing games on my monitor too though,
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
if the author is correct that the cause of obesity is environmental contaminants, it would be very simple to test this. The author is using lab rat data (the cafeteria diet example) as a main point in their conclusion, so simply adding the
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
I would hope we're past the point now where we can write off legitimate complaints or concerns about the overall direction of COVID mitigation strategies implemented in most developed countries. Many well-intentioned anti-misinformati
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
Here's a good explanation of why FTL causes causality issues. http://www.physicsmatt.com/blog/2016/8/25/why-ftl-implies-ti... The sonar example works only if everything is traveling in roughly the s
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by harpersealtako 5y ago
It seemed there was a story like this every day back in early 2020. The interesting thing was how much variation there was even among different states in the US on identical issues. For example, West Virginia encouraged people to go fishi