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by jgwil2 6y ago
Citation?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I think it's a fair assumption to make that we cannot increase healthspan significantly more than we can increase lifespan. The increases to each would be similar; after all, a healthy body won't just keel over and die. The post y
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Could you elaborate on that a little?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Yes but aging and death are inevitable regardless. Delaying them on an individual basis does nothing to solve that problem.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
There is a serious and interesting debate to be had on this subject but polemics like this don't really foster discussion.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Thank you. This was a very informative comment. I knew that Haskell didn't originally have monadic IO but the reasoning behind its adoption never occurred to me.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Citation?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
This incredibly stupid take is actually pretty common on HN whenever vegetarianism comes up. I don't know whether they're simply mocking the serious thought many people have put into the ethics of eating animals or what, but it&#x
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by jgwil2 6y ago
> 92. You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably come to nothing. Consider building things instead, or at least going for a walk. For those of us fortunate enough to live in more
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by jgwil2 6y ago
That's the midwestern culture. Chicago is unique among the big American cities in that respect.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Children of Time is awesome. I haven't read the sequel but the prospect of intelligent octopuses certainly whets the appetite.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I haven't downvoted you, but if you want an honest answer, it's probably because people see this comment as low value. People generally upvote comments that contribute to the discussion. This comment doesn't address the artic
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by jgwil2 6y ago
You probably should have added that context in the original comment. It came off as quite sarcastic.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Is it a common experience for cyclists to have shit thrown at them?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Charge it to the owner just like a regular parking fine.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Because a majority of the population is represented by Democratic senators?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
From the guidelines: > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
The article doesn't make it entirely clear whether the people referred to as "eunuchs" are actually transgender or were castrated as children. If it's the latter, then obviously they should not have been subjected to the
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I wish I could upvote this twice. They're literally trying to comply with European law by disabling the site for Europeans.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
"Pedestrian deaths" does not equal "deaths caused by jaywalking." > There are far more instances of jaywalking than police interactions, and yet pedestrian deaths are 6x higher than deaths from police. The first asser
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Is it legal to discriminate based on native language?
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I mean, doctors have been telling people not to smoke for sixty years and smoking rates have certainly declined over that period so I don't think this is universally the case.
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An unmodified SNES, revved up with ray tracing(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
You undermined your own point because you couldn't help but bring up a partisan political point from five years ago completely unnecessarily.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Ah, way to sneak some Hillary-bashing into a completely unrelated discussion. Friendly reminder that three million more people wanted to hire her than the other guy.
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The Man I Saw Them Kill(nytimes.com)
2 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
There are many objective criteria: case rate and death rate are just the most obvious.
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by jgwil2 6y ago
I saw a picture of people in a subway car in Stockholm earlier this month and 90% were maskless. The no-lockdown approach shows a fundamental lack of seriousness that filters down to everyone. In the United States we see this phenomenon jus
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MacKenzie Scott, the Amazon billionaire, is giving away $1B a month(vox.com)
2 points by jgwil2 6y ago|0 comments
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by jgwil2 6y ago
Why on Earth is this flagged? Honestly the flagging is out of control. We can't have a discussion about the ethics of working for Company X with feedback from people who actually work there?

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