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by jessaustin 4y ago
Turn off javascript for this domain.
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It’s really not fair to take an example of one illogical article and sell the story as “the truth about journalism”.
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I'll preface this by saying that yes there are unethical dentists out there and clearly this Lund guy is one of them and patients should never hesitate to get a second opinion if they feel uncertain. However, this whole thing would be
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I was expecting something by Lee Camp? [edit: original title was "How I got banned for life from Spotify"] Seriously though, Spotify can jump in a lake. Maybe they started out with some sort of "musicians should get paid more
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Thanks, you've just confirmed the original point that health insurance firms are a vastly larger part of our economy than they are of any other economy. The naive impression might be that they just impose a 5% rent on our health, becau
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It's mostly health insurance firms. That's a much bigger sector in USA than it is anywhere else on earth.
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That's so 1980s. Your appeal to nature has nothing to do with the reality of the last several decades. Mergers among firms in the same market are never good for humans who must use those markets in order to live.
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Clearly GP knows this, and additionally expects that children born outside marriage will tend to stay outside marriage. That additional expectation may not be correct, but you haven't really addressed it.
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It takes a village, yet the western world runs on a two parent system that inherently creates conflict... This isn't the only drawback of capitalism as we practice it. While it might not have featured much modern comfort, the traditi
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Supposedly anyone with a really good trading strategy will keep it to herself, because she'll make more money trading than selling investment advice. If that proposition is true, a similar proposition for AGI would be even more true. T
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That's a stereotype that most of us would like you to reconsider.
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If one leans toward using Elm for its various excellent qualities, but shares your concerns about it, what should one use instead?
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"Meta" Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does(theatlantic.com)
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I have not ITT mentioned Iraq. Supporting the enemies of one's enemy is fairly common, although again that's not something I've done here. My enemy, and that of all ethical Americans, is the USA military-industrial complex. N
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Better go vote. In the 1960s a number of people, at least one of whom had been elected to high office, who were improving this nation were assassinated, because several parties didn't like those improvements. Although some progress h
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Perhaps parent meant ray-finned fish? Cladistically, we humans are also Osteichthyes, and it isn't clear that we have this particular gene duplication?
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Every year Congress sends a defense appropriation bill to the president, and Gitmo's operation is always included in that. Any president who actually wanted to end Gitmo could simply veto the annual defense appropriation bill, and advi
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Good catch!
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"whole" story There doesn't seem to be any reason to credit any particular novel detail in this... whatever this is. The details already related in Schmidt's book could be believed, I guess, but basically just amount t
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Would "have a more extensive history of living in collective societies" be better in your view? This seems like it could have been more what they meant?
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That isn't a good thing about HN.
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That's a fine technique. What set me off ITT was the "a kit or a flavor packet" recommendation. I have long considered these to be egregious wastes of money. The ones that act as thickeners are mostly corn starch (which is
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...and our hospitals, and our police, and our schools, and our military, and... The problems may run deeper than initially thought.
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By all means, eat what you want to eat. No judgment. I was just trying to understand the difference between "dessert topping tomato sauce" snobbery and "gravy from a mysterious powder that is secretly mostly corn starch"
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Even paupers deserve some cream in their diet.
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The store brands taste like a freaking dessert topping comparatively. True! ...convinced into believing that everything needs to be cooked from scratch and that any meal that involves a kit or a flavor packet is inferior. These kits and
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Maybe most of USA war media pretends to believe everything that the infamously corrupt Ukraine government says, but I don't have to. I can remember at least five TV wars, and in every case we heard lots of manipulative lies from the TV
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If you can't answer this question with respect to the opinions of Indian-Americans of traditionally disadvantaged castes (and to be fair, neither can I answer it), what are the chances that the random mid-level Google exec who made thi
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...no one is allowed to sell it. Temporarily true in certain jurisdictions, but OTOH one may with RUB purchase oil, natural gas, palladium, nickel, copper, steel, aluminum, wheat, fertilizer, etc. So, those who need e.g. catalytic convert
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Presaging Poland's upcoming seizure of Black Sea coastline...

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