kbelder

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by kbelder 3y ago
It would be really, really harmful to allow people to make posts and disable replies. Insulation from disagreement is a mindkiller and will destroy the health of a community.
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by kbelder 3y ago
In space, if two small dust particles collide, they are probably moving at very high speed in relation to each other, and there's obviously no air to affect the impact. I don't know what that means, but I expect our intuition abo
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by kbelder 3y ago
This is an important point, and making it doesn't mean you condone smoking. "A study in Preventive Medicine Report looked at the risk of smokers developing lung cancer. The researchers found that the average risk for nonsmokers ov
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by kbelder 3y ago
"Positive discrimination"
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by kbelder 3y ago
They should have used brain cells from an ape. Presto, no more ethical considerations.
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by kbelder 3y ago
In Jayne's 'The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind', there's some interesting investigation into some of our oldest known tales... Beowulf, The Iliad, etc. In those texts, emotional and mental
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by kbelder 3y ago
I'm going to have to argue that point. The best decaf is just ok. Typical decaf is pretty noticeably bad. I go on decaf stints occasionally, and not opposed to it. I'm grateful it exists. But you do pay for it in taste.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Is there seriously an ability and reasonable chance that they could and would test the octane in your tank? That is surprising to me.
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by kbelder 3y ago
There's a lot of sloppy usage of the term 'memory' to describe something that's more like a 'consequence'. If you cut a tree, it will heal, and then decades later the effect of the cut will still be influencing
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by kbelder 3y ago
I agree. It had serious flaws, and yet joyfully held my attention. Not because of the action, but because it had novelty . It wasn't a bland reshuffling of the same 12 approved characters in the 6 approved plots in the same 3 style
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by kbelder 3y ago
How much is music, art, fiction sapping the Intellectual potential of humanity? Let alone 'Love'. What a distraction that is from coding.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I don't really want to talk to celebrities per se, but it would be interesting to talk to the best possible recreation of historical figures. Like an AI trained on everything Winston Churchill wrote and a detailed biography.
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by kbelder 3y ago
No, some of us know it's a completely fake argument, know that people just want it for fun, even support legalization, and still hate the liars. The amount of half-braindead pot smokers earnestly talking about their medical need to g
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by kbelder 3y ago
>But we can't see the primordial Milky Way by pointing our telescopes at z=13. Isn't that the cosmic microwave background? The ultrahot primal universe dispersed and cooled by initial expansion?
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by kbelder 3y ago
Which is weird, because I've never spoken with anybody who hasn't opted in. I think there's a legal disconnect somewhere, where the simple opt-in at the DMV doesn't end up counting as a 'real' opt-in.
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by kbelder 3y ago
If it needs to happen, and your team can't do it, somebody else needs to. Your best bet then is to give them the access to do it properly instead of forcing them to hack it together.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I knew it would kill hundreds or thousands of people when I voted for it. I also intensely dislike recreational drug use. But people should be in charge of their own behavior, even if self-destructive.
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by kbelder 3y ago
But, my Warhammer figs really have value!
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by kbelder 3y ago
It was the same in the US. There wasn't any mainstream consensus, and the people claiming they were sure it was X or Y were all fringe.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Seems like as long as the burned forest repopulates, it'll pull the same amount of carbon out of the air as the fire put in.
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by kbelder 3y ago
I'll agree here. I like self-checkout and use it whenever possible, but if a store actively checks receipts as you leave I'll do everything I can to avoid going to that store again. I've even been known to feebly protest to
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by kbelder 3y ago
I wish it wasn't limited in quantity. Most places cap it out at 10-20 items. They don't enforce it too strongly, but I'd love it if I could do my weekly bulging-cart 200-item grocery checkouts myself.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Ah, Europe loves its secret courts.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Sometimes, though, an extreme diet to lose weight can allow you to make some lifestyle changes (such as exercising regularly) that do have lasting impacts. Being significantly overweight can really make physical activity difficult and demo
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by kbelder 3y ago
It is socially unacceptable to suggest that a person may not be actually depressed.
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by kbelder 3y ago
People should be far more willing to use unsafe than they currently are.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Sometimes you can take those small design decisions as indicative of how decisions are made in a company. I remember back when Apple removed the SD card slot from their phone. It wasn't a deal-breaking change, because their phones had
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by kbelder 3y ago
Replace it with 'The scientific evidence' then.
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by kbelder 3y ago
Is the divorce finalized? If not the wife might get half the judgement. 5d chess on her part.
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by kbelder 3y ago
In a nearby city, we had a 'Dead Indian Highway'. It was eventually renamed to 'Dead Indian Memorial Highway'.

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