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by jaspax 5y ago
Who's "we"? I don't intend any hostility here. But I have never gotten a flu vaccine in my life, and it seems deeply silly to me to get a yearly shot just to cut down on the chance of mild illness. A quick poll of my acq
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by jaspax 5y ago
I would volunteer. It turns out that I have COVID right now , giving me a mild headache, nasal congestion, and a persistent cough---annoying, but not more than that. I would have gladly volunteered for this level of mild discomfort in orde
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by jaspax 5y ago
Buddy, there's no way you paid 3123 RON for a Big Mac, since that's approximately 750 dollars. You probably paid 3123 ROL (the old currency before it was redenominated circa 2005). (You are correct that amounts below 100 ROL were
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by jaspax 5y ago
Am I missing something? I fail to see how an assault within a rented AirBnB would be a claim against the owner, unless they had been negligent in some way allowing the attacker to gain entry.
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by jaspax 5y ago
Why would you have FOMO? Why is any particular gravitational wave important enough that you'd worry about missing it? I'm not trying to hassle you here, I'm genuinely perplexed by this attitude.
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by jaspax 5y ago
TL;DR: A charismatic Nigerian architect conned Western journalists and philanthropists into thinking he had built an innovative new school structure for serving a slum. He accepted their accolades, press, and prize money even though the sch
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by jaspax 5y ago
This whole narrative is ragebait. According to the article, the number of calls went up from 133 to 459. In percentage terms, that's an enormous jump, but it absolute terms, it's still basically nothing. There are 55 poison co
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by jaspax 5y ago
By that standard, the Guardian article itself is propaganda because it insinuates malfeasance without making any specifically refutable claims. And that's probably true. Almost all news is propaganda.
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by jaspax 5y ago
I find the article to be disingenuous to the extreme, and indicative of the current trend of calling all politically disfavoured speech as "misinformation". They denounce the ad, but fail to actually note a single factual error or
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AI has the worst superpower: medical racism(lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com)
3 points by jaspax 5y ago|0 comments
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by jaspax 5y ago
To pick a nit, I don't think that it's the churches per se that do most of the advertising (though they probably do some), it's mostly Evangelical publishers, etc. selling to church-goers.
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by jaspax 5y ago
You're right, there's no reason to believe that. At least, not unless you've been paying any attention at all to the rhetoric and explicit ideological content of "anti-racism" over the past decade and you're ab
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by jaspax 5y ago
More like they have a bizarre mix of numbers which are way too large and those which are way too small. Technological civilization lasting 100M years per planet? But those civilizations only try to colonize once per 100K years? And, at the
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by jaspax 5y ago
Man, that's a wild story. On the one hand, I'm desperately curious to know what the truth about St. Bride's is; on the other hand, I'm sort of glad that there are still (or recently were) weird and unapologetic places li
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by jaspax 5y ago
I had a similar reaction to this after looking at their website and documentation: there is no way that this will be broadly usable by their target audience. I volunteered regularly at a soup kitchen for a few years, and do you know who the
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by jaspax 5y ago
Do you think that doctors don't have financial incentives to treat patients?
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by jaspax 6y ago
... most malls have only one floor (albeit one with a very high ceiling). Certainly the mall that the original article is talking about has only one floor (source: I lived near the city discussed by the author and know the mall he's ta
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by jaspax 6y ago
In addition to the good points that others have brought up, another good question is what, exactly, we're supposed to do about this. This article seems to assume an infinitely capable US military that can walk in, police the situation,
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by jaspax 6y ago
I assume that it's to filter for people who have been around a long time. If there's some other specific motive, I'd love to hear what it is.
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by jaspax 6y ago
Okay, I get the idea here, but... my account is younger than that and I'm sort of miffed by the notion that my votes shouldn't count at all. Furthermore, having the cutoff date be in the past means that I could never earn that rig
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by jaspax 6y ago
The Dark Forest analogy strikes me as apt as well. All of the best (most interesting, most active, most insightful) groups that I belong to are off of the public internet these days. Some of them are just small Discord servers, some are eve
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by jaspax 6y ago
I hate to be the guy who goes "this is what's wrong with modern architecture", but... this is what's wrong with modern architecture. These chairs are both uncomfortable and ugly , literally just squares of plywood fas
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by jaspax 6y ago
Every source that I can find says that US calculates its GDP based on the "expenditure" approach, meaning that it measures spending, not income. Eg: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gdp.asp Secondari
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by jaspax 6y ago
I don't think that Bezos, as an individual, has any measurable impact on the US's GDP. The headline number for Bezos is his fortune of $190B, but that's the total value of his assets , not his yearly income. Furthermore, GDP
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by jaspax 6y ago
The notion that citizens have a say over their country's fiscal policy seems pretty unsupportable to me. In the US, the Federal Reserve is specifically designed to avoid political pressure, and the European banking institutions are e
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The Internet is made of plastic(jsbangs.com)
2 points by jaspax 6y ago|0 comments
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by jaspax 6y ago
5k per month is 60k per year. A typical developer makes at least 100k per year in the US; but if you are only support yourself then you can easily live on 40k per year outside of SV and a few other high-rent areas. The math checks out. And
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by jaspax 6y ago
The author suggests that talent "doesn't exist", which is pretty clearly false.
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by jaspax 6y ago
As kube-system said in a sister comment, "words that can get you in trouble" is the definition of profanity. [Wikipedia uses the phrase "socially offensive language"]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by jaspax 6y ago
Religion's got nothing to do with it. Racial slurs are a subset of "profanity", and I wager that you support Google's desire to not have apps in their store which prominently feature racial slurs. Every culture has its

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