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by hirundo 4y ago
> Further it can be used to shine a light on corrupt officials Little Brother surveillance. It would be nice not to be surveilled at all, but since that's not an option the answer to "quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" is us
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by hirundo 4y ago
Either women are giving birth with metronomic precision and cooperation, or the regularity is a coding simplification. It would be fun to randomize the increments to give the illusion of a God's Eye view of humanity.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I'd argue that morality and objectivity are orthogonal. Morality is an expression of values, which are subjective, never objective. I value human life. If another human values human death, there isn't a sense in which my value is
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by hirundo 4y ago
I had no idea how asymmetrical naval production was in the Pacific theater of WWII until I watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M With these numbers the relative merits of the actual warfighters had littl
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Western diets are rich in fats—in particular saturated fats, which have proved to be responsible for an epidemic of obesity, diabetes and associated conditions. This is false. https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/0
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by hirundo 4y ago
Pollution has costs and benefits. This focuses on the costs, which is fine and useful. But what would a map look like that attempted to show both sides of the equation? Which polluters emit least per arbitrary-unit-of-human-flourishing? I d
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by hirundo 4y ago
... or around 1/227 ~ %0.4, and most of those were ejected by Twitter. So these numbers look more like a down tick at the moment than an exodus.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The extent of qualified immunity is a stain on this country, a corruption created by the judiciary. For it to be legal for the rule of law to not apply to a privileged class is to eat the rule of law from within. An authority that exempts i
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by hirundo 4y ago
Forcing people to vote may give an election more legitimacy to a certain kind of mind set that I don't quite understand (I think the opposite). But is there some reason to think that it would tend to improve the decision making quality
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by hirundo 4y ago
This has the same drawback as the hyperloop as far as being one long line of potential single points of failure. If the train is going fast enough to be economical, it can be catastrophically destroyed with minimal interference. At those en
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by hirundo 4y ago
The article says * The plaintiffs allege that they can show harm, and * the HEROES Act does not authorize the expenditure, therefore * "The Program is thus an unconstitutional exercise of Congress's legislative power and must be v
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by hirundo 4y ago
Ground beef is essentially an average of the beef across the cow, and the nutritional difference between those cuts is mostly fat content.
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by hirundo 4y ago
Analagous to The 1619 Project. I wonder if many other countries have movements to define themselves by the worst aspects of their history.
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by hirundo 4y ago
What would you do differently?
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by hirundo 4y ago
Sorry: https://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/
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by hirundo 4y ago
> There is nothing stopping those now as you could just have someone do the same for mail in votes. Which is why absentee voting and ballot harvesting are so contentious.
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by hirundo 4y ago
The criticisms I've seen come with an awareness that PUFAs exist in animal fats too, and are virtually unavoidable and healthy in those smaller amounts and nutritional contexts. They argue that the dose makes the poison, and PUFA consu
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by hirundo 4y ago
Falling in love is often or even usually an example of that, and has the result of increasing fertility, giving the credulous a fitness advantage. A tribe with more credulous warriors may have a military advantage by being more cohesive and
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Having some way to anonymously verify your vote is an important part of election integrity IMO. If you can verify your own vote you can use the same method to verify your vote to someone else, opening up the voter to the pressures that
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by hirundo 4y ago
Based on the common sentiments expressed on this site, it's not clear that his endorsement is a net positive for the GOP.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I am updating my assumptions about Subway Sandwich Artists. When they seem unfocused on the artwork at hand it may be because they are thinking more important thoughts.
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Vegetable oil associated with greater risk of CVD than animal fat(sciencedirect.com)
33 points by hirundo 4y ago|45 comments
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by hirundo 4y ago
Which is a good argument for using a range of test values, not for using less representative values.
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by hirundo 4y ago
An obligate carnivore specialized in hunting large megafauna is disadvantaged when that prey is hunted into scarcity. A similar species with more metabolic flexability was advantaged, relatively, by that change. That doesn't say much e
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by hirundo 4y ago
There are youtube videos that take this to an amazing level. People are converting PET bottles into filament and 3D printing all the things. A 1 kilo spool of PETG filament costs around $20. If the process of turning bottles into filaments
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by hirundo 4y ago
He might well sell it if Google, or anyone, would pay him what he spent on it. That doesn't seem to be a near term prospect. When he finally payed for it even Elon didn't think it was worth that price.
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by hirundo 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I've seen wildfire fighters doing just that. They burn a fuel-free barrier in the path of a fire, it's a standard practice. A driptorch is the usual tool but flamethrowers work too.
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by hirundo 4y ago
> In the U.S. television series Monk, the title character (Adrian Monk) usually uses this method with the words "here's what happened". You hear a lot of Developer Dénouements in the coding business, in person and in pull
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by hirundo 4y ago
> Some 3,000 voters will run their paper ballots through the new machines, and then, to ensure nothing went awry, those same votes will be hand counted in a public session in Concord, N.H. Anyone who cares to will be able to see if the
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by hirundo 4y ago
I share the dream of being able to walk through the woods while working online, but there's no way that Dr. Wolfram's approach would work for me. I just can't walk smoothly enough to read comfortably from a screen, particular

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