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by jddj 7y ago
If that was your interpretation, maybe I could have been more clear. I don't think gene editing of embryos is necessarily a bad thing (nor are there any international treaties as far as I'm aware), I was simply throwing it out the
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by jddj 7y ago
This projection of what OP meant doesn't speak to the reality. Malaria was an issue in the US [1] and southern Europe [2] prior to the 1940s, and Australia has always had and continues to have issues with the Dengue and Ross River vi
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by jddj 7y ago
There are a lot of comments here declaring various versions of "slippery slope!". Looking at history, one would have to conclude that employing science-based methods to improve the natural environment by reversing problems which w
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by jddj 7y ago
I'm pretty skeptical about Libra overall. In the case where it succeeds massively as in some of Matt Levine's recent thought experiments, I'm not convinced that Facebook has captured enough of the US regulatory framework for
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by jddj 7y ago
And my code is actually not "bug-aversive", I do make a lot of trivial mistakes all of the time. And I'm glad when the type checker catches them. I'm in this camp too. I love strong static types because I know I'm
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by jddj 7y ago
It's still moving really fast for a framework. Definitely exciting to observe from afar, but it can be jarring to try to keep up with as someone who only occasionally dabbles in it for web stuff. Slight hyperbole, but waking up one mor
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by jddj 7y ago
He says there that the US is one of the few countries which doesn't do exit checks for immigration. Is that true? I hadn't thought about this. I know the Schengen zone does, as well as China and much of Latin America, but in my ex
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by jddj 7y ago
And if you were to trace back in time one generation from there, you'd discover the point where it became unethical to have children.
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by jddj 7y ago
There must exist a point where it becomes unethical to have children.
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by jddj 7y ago
Is the answer to this question likely to be all that meaningful? Let's say it's 100. Unless you're confident that the lists would be identical then would we really have learned anything?
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by jddj 7y ago
As a remote worker, it feels like spin to me too. Or, at least it's only being compared to cubicle farms or cargo-cult open plan spaces. I know that personally the most productive I've ever been was attending an office each day wh
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by jddj 7y ago
Alienating users for using adblocker-capable software might be a more difficult sell as the group gets larger.
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by jddj 7y ago
To take this a little further, this framing effect/appeal to emotion has been shown to affect a large segment of the general population, not only those in the anti-science, antivax extreme. Granted it's not exactly the same thing,
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by jddj 7y ago
There are a few reasons beyond pride why the line for when to use paracetamol etc differs among individuals. Propensity to take or avoid unnecessary medication is something that probably aligns to certain psychological traits, as well as be
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by jddj 7y ago
I just want to say, because some posts here have mentioned community but not hit on this directly. The value of Linux (to many) rests on its FOSS value system.
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by jddj 7y ago
This is an instance of where our single axis falls down. You might run in right-wing libertarian circles, but I'd speculate that if your experience was based on the religious right you may perceive higher levels of support. I do agree
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by jddj 7y ago
Constitutional considerations aside (since all implementations seem to run up against one or two amendments), the most likely route is probably to force compliance by tech workers/companies when presented with a warrant (see: the law r
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by jddj 7y ago
Australia is quite a long place, north to south. A not-insignificant part of it is in the tropics. Most of coastal southeast Queensland can expect 70% humidity in Feb/March. Venturing north in summer and you're into 30C+ temperatu
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by jddj 7y ago
I think what may have triggered people here were the absolute terms ( can’t remember ever having to do “maintaining” after the initial setup ). In this forum you'll be hard pressed to find someone who thinks it's a good idea to le
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by jddj 7y ago
As a reader, faced with: Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<int, string>> contrivedExample = new Dictionary<string, KeyValuePair<int, string>>(); And DictionaryOfStringsWithKeyValuePairs contrivedExample = ne
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by jddj 7y ago
One option is to attempt (despite of all of the obstacles they might put in place..) to increase Firefox's market share, perhaps by spreading the word about privacy concerns and/or ux benefits. Another might be adblocker-esque tru
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by jddj 7y ago
Protection in layers. Pi-hole at the DNS level, ublock origin and fingerprint protection at the browser level. If the latter two are missing because I'm testing a beta browser which is very likely to a) deliver them and b) help defend
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by jddj 7y ago
I agree with the key insight here. Light touches of financial regulation (written by their lobbyists, in the most cynical case) will help Facebook immensely if they become a social payments platform. If you want to pay your rent or split th
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by jddj 7y ago
In my recent experience, the only thing which causes me to tag a !g onto my duckduckgo searches is a need for recent results (as in, the last couple of hours -- for the results of a sports match for example). Anything else seems to be serve
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by jddj 7y ago
> I'm saying Christianity fits "Believe only that for which there is evidence, and only for the time that there is evidence" > 1. Good scientific evidence God exists I appreciate the reply, but I'm afraid we'r
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by jddj 7y ago
Resolving to resign to a lifetime of cognitive dissonance is a big ask. Pretty good doesn't really fly, you'd be replacing an absence of meaning with a faith coupled with deeply-planted seeds of doubt which to me seem to be at lea
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by jddj 7y ago
The ability of criminals to capitalise also depends on the people being exploited, no? When the proverbial Nigerian Prince's legal fees are denominated in Monero there's a much higher barrier to entry for the average scammee. One
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by jddj 7y ago
I've heard this change (the definite shift in desirability from suburbs and small towns to cities, which admittedly you seem to have somewhat blinkered out) attributed to the vast improvements in air quality / waste management &#x
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by jddj 7y ago
Sure, a weak currency is better for basic exports. It's widely accepted that Germany prefers a weaker euro to a stronger mark. We can look at the US's behaviour, though, to determine whether they think it's valuable to them o
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by jddj 7y ago
In most of the analyses I've read, the petrodollar has been of huge benefit to the US - effectively propping it up in the face of massive QE efforts and (in theory) allowing much more to be printed to service debts than would otherwise

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