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by hnbad 3y ago
There are also other factors. Attractiveness not only depends on physiognomy but also skincare, hygiene, dress and even medical interventions (e.g. orthodontics) which are often tied to wealth and especially childhood wealth. Childhood eati
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by hnbad 3y ago
Except there's no data for that. I do however recall stats that "physically attractive" men are generally treated favorably by other men and despite decades of feminist activism we still have men disproportionately (relative
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by hnbad 3y ago
The comment you're replying to was a reply about weather requiring you to drive not bad weather resulting in drunk-like driving. You're making an unrelated argument. Also it's perfectly possible to drive safely in severe we
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by hnbad 3y ago
Either the American medical system is in even worse shape than I thought or you're far too credulous when it comes to Hollywood tropes. Labor rarely works like it does in the movies and unless you live in extremely remote places (in wh
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by hnbad 3y ago
The article seems to be more interested in being outraged in principle than demonstrating anything objectionable specifically. The law in question seems to require cars to implement a way to detect dangerous driving and be able to respond t
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by hnbad 3y ago
The professor who ran the course has left a comment on that article linking to this web page: https://www.landhortnursery.org/biology-courses.html > The BIO848NV Cadaver Dissection class will no longer be a fee-based cou
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by hnbad 3y ago
A good lawyer will rarely outright tell you something is a crime or not. An accountant may tell you not to do something because it's illegal. A lawyer will instead focus on how good a case could be made against you and what the tradeof
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by hnbad 3y ago
A lot of these should come with the caveat that they are not an option for most people. Heck, most of these either involve spending money or outright paying someone (anywhere from three to six figures) to do something for you. The more affo
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's a self-imposed problem however. The economical system requires every interaction to be transactional and disincentivizes activities outside the economical system itself. This leads to transactional relationships supplanting those
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's not just that it's a holy site, it's also that Hawai'i was annexed by the US and its population disenfranchised with most of the land increasingly being owned by rich foreigners and foreign investors. The telescope
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by hnbad 3y ago
I was half-joking but the downvotes were to be expected in a conversation about Linux shells.
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by hnbad 3y ago
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a 501c3 and I'd expect that even the most techno-futurist free-market types on HN would agree that no matter what alleged impact it has, it is also in practice creating profitable overseas contr
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by hnbad 3y ago
Most people on HN likely don't know who Murray Rothbard is and he didn't have any coherent ideology or philosophy so he's not interesting beyond being the guy who came up with the label. Anarchism is by definition "left-
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by hnbad 3y ago
> This to me seems like good practice, it's better to use a 'real' programming language when you're crossing the boundary from 'script' to 'program' PowerShell would like a word with you.
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sure but you can't exchange Azure credits for goods and services... other than Azure services. So they simultaneously control what OpenAI can use that money for as well as who they can spend it with. And it doesn't cost Microsoft
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by hnbad 3y ago
Clearly the function of means checking is not to reduce costs as the process is expensive and the ROI compared to combatting tax fraud. Clearly the function of means checking is not to restrict access to only those in need as it often creat
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by hnbad 3y ago
> the rational response to concerns that banks may fail is to withdraw everything from them An economist would correct you that the rational response to concerns that banks may fail is to withdraw everything from them while lying about
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by hnbad 3y ago
He's not an anarchist. The creator of the mislabel "anarchocapitalism" was himself an Ayn Rand fan until she basically told him he wasn't an anarchist and he decided to take that personally. Anarchism is the abolition of
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by hnbad 3y ago
> He's a cosplayer. Oh, you mean in addition to being an ancap? Anarcho-capitalism is a nonsense label to allow libertarians to cosplay as anarchists without having to give up on their positions of power. It seemingly only exists
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think it's less "it's all just fiction so why do you care" and more that trying to analyze fiction by looking at contradictions or inaccuracies in world building is easy but fruitless. I think the most interesting part
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by hnbad 3y ago
IIRC it's an open secret among preservationists that species often are widely known to be extinct before being declared as such because many protections hinge on their status as "endangered" and would be lifted once they&#x27
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by hnbad 3y ago
Based on my reading of rssCloud it seemed to lack a verification step so I'm glad to see the WebSub spec explicitly mention that. Without verification this seemed like an easy way to trick a server into sending random HTTP requests to
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by hnbad 3y ago
I think it's odd to suggest that the Israel-Palestine conflict is perpetuated by Islamism when Israel's own existence hinges on a moral absolute. There is a small but influential undercurrent among Israeli Zionists who believe in
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by hnbad 3y ago
The article mentions rssCloud. From a cursory glance it sounds like that's a protocol extension that lets you register a callback URL to be notified about updates (i.e. push messaging).
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Terrorism as far as we can see is basically incredibly ineffective for inspiring any sort of changes I think that deserves a qualification: terrorism can be very effective against an occupying force and when it has the backing of the l
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by hnbad 3y ago
You seem to be lagging behind on news coverage. After Israel had an (apparently justified) prolonged media war to combat the claims that it bombed that particular hospital, the IDF then deliberately bombed several other hospitals and even w
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by hnbad 3y ago
As someone who was old enough on 9/11 to be able to follow the events in real time (watching CNN while also following discussions on news aggregator websites at the time - yeah, those already were a thing): 9/11 did not justify th
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by hnbad 3y ago
Sure, this describes the ideological core of Islamist groups like Al Qaeda. But this also ignores the power dynamics they exist and flourish in. The problem with "freedom fighters" is that they can be both: they can be fighting fo
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by hnbad 3y ago
I didn't say your opinion is wrong, I said I'm unwilling to engage with it because of how you are expressing it. That may be "ad hominem" but not an "argumentum ad hominem" because there is no argumentum . I d
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by hnbad 3y ago
Your tone and your conflation of what I said with what I cited the author as saying suggests you hold very strong opinions on this and you're only looking for someone to argue with, not an argument, so I'll refrain from further en

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