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by jlawson 3y ago
What do those communities look like for people whose "condition" is the worst? The ones who won't accept treatment but desperately need it, and are a danger to themselves and others.
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I wonder how much it would cost to fill my office with helium/oxygen mix to maximize my productivity. Would sound odd during calls, though!
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Do stimulants reduce reaction time? Waking someone up isn't the same as actually improving their performance.
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That's not the definition of species. In many cases different species can reproduce together, e.g. wolves and coyotes. In other cases, species are asexual so clearly there must be some other way of distinguishing them besides sexual co
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Indulging someone's hypersensitivities is not helping them, it's harming them.
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You're misinterpreting or misunderstanding the data. The reality is that large tech companies are overwhelmingly Democrat-leaning. In 2020, Meta's contributions (90% from employees) were 91.59% to Democrats [0]. This article [1]
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Yes, this is how normal reverse osmosis filters work. However, pumping water at that pressure obviously takes a motor and consumes energy. What's interesting about the OP's concept is that in theory it can be performed with no ene
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I'll help. Of Harvard students: 39.7% are white. (American white population share: 59.3%. So whites are already dramatically under-represented). 17% (43% of 39.7%) of all students are white and legacy. So of all students, 22.7% are whi
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Any human organization? I don't expect 1-5% fraud in airline pilots, bank tellers, grocery store clerks, judges, structural engineers, restaurant chefs, or even cops (they can be assholes but you don't have to bribe them in functi
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by jlawson 3y ago
I believe you may be referring to the Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics [0]. "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics says that when you observe or interact with a problem in any way, you can be blamed for it." [0] https:/
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Sadly, it's not something that can be taught just by talking, because must be taught at a very young age. Boys need to learn to be strong as young schoolchildren, in order to not suffer the consequences of being weak. Social interactio
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It's worth bearing in mind that if affirmative action helped his father become a doctor, it also prevented someone else's father from becoming a doctor. I wonder what that person could have achieved.
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>The article isn't about how fathers are somehow prevented from being emotionally available to their sons; rather, it's about how fathers choose to be emotionally unavailable to their sons in the misguided notion that boys need
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The original comment said, "hostile" to women. What you're describing isn't being 'hostile', otherwise one would have to say society is 'hostile' to children or old people. The goal posts have moved t
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I passed your query to GPT4 and this is what it said, see below. It seems like it can recognize bollocks, at least sometimes. "I'm sorry, but it appears there's a misunderstanding. As of my knowledge cutoff in September 2021,
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The 'geocentric conceit' thing is just a moralized overinterpretation of people trying to be practical. Obviously if you're traveling out from and back to one place over and over, the most sensible thing to do is to put that
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They lived at the Malthusian population limit of their ecosystem anyway. Sacrificing children was just another way to get rid of excess population and would absolutely improve the lives of whoever was left. Any children not sacrificed would
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Forcing people into treatment was our standard approach to this problem for decades and it worked very well. We need to bring it back. There should be zero people doing meth on the street; if you see one it should be a single phone call to
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by jlawson 3y ago
Otherwise known as, "If you subsidize something you get more of it."
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I'm reminded how literally within an hour of the fire breaking out, the news was telling us all _very clearly_ that it was an accident - a fact that they clearly could not possibly have known at that time given the flames were still ri
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So you want to hurt the people you dislike, and (presumably) help the people you like. That's fine, but please understand that some of us believe it's worth having principles. We think it's better for society and humanity if
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It's not just work, it's accountability. That's what they're trying to avoid.
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Certainly, the fact that the woman carries the baby is an argument in favor of her having decision of whether to abort it or not. (Not a perfect argument, since it is of course his child as well and killing it would seem to involve both of
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That's the legal standard, yes. I think the stark inconsistency between how the sexes are treated here, with one being given far more power to decide outcomes for everyone, strikes many people as wrong. In a world where 'equality&
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So you do believe that creators' ability to monetize would be impacted, and they won't be investing as much time/money into their creations. But you also believe that the richness of culture would not diminish in any way. I w
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In the case of individual files with non-conformant or corrupted elements it seems fairly straightforward project to build an AI model that can fix up broken files with a single click. I suspect such a thing will be widely-accessible in 10
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Statistics from places like Canada or Switzerland (which have and historically had lots of guns per capita) demonstrate that weapon availability itself does not cause such violence. You compared Japan's rate of violence to America&#x27
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Every year in America 900 kids age 0-19 die from drowning. 3,058 teenagers ages 13-19 die in motor vehicle crashes. [0] In a country of 332,000,000 people, if 32 deaths stemming from parking lot arguments seems to require a society-wide bla
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People are getting confused by the number posted which is badly distorting the discussion. 51 is NOT the number of intentional massacres of students or staff. It is the number of shootings on school grounds of all types _including accidents
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Woke is a specific ideology that it places every individual into a strict hierarchy of oppressor/oppressed according to group racial and sexual identity. It rose to prominence in American culture from around 2012, starting in universit

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