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by klipt 1y ago
Phylogenetically, land vertebrates like us are fish too - we're descended from lobe finned fish. So technically whales are fish, because all mammals are fish!
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by klipt 1y ago
Obviously it's not meant literally. The database represents your mind, and the error represents all the mathematical proofs you haven't written yet. By solving the error (proofs) you learn mathematics. /s
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by klipt 1y ago
The price of housing is ultimately a political choice. If voters choose to restrict supply of housing through zoning and other laws, prices can be pushed up hugely.
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by klipt 1y ago
You're welcome to try posting with the full headline but when I tried that HN complained it was too long so I had to shorten it
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US Health Secretary Ends Decades of Research into Environmental Causes of Autism(propublica.org)
18 points by klipt 1y ago|8 comments
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by klipt 1y ago
Not exactly, if you're married to a citizen the residence requirement is 3 years not 5, and the form clearly distinguishes the 3 and 5 year options (3 years requires extra evidence of marriage and spouse's US citizenship)
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by klipt 1y ago
> high job security Not so much after DOGE fired entire departments for dubious reasons. I don't know why anyone would work for the federal government now - pay still sucks, and job security has been demonstrated to no longer be gua
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by klipt 1y ago
California has ticks but the Western Fence Lizard helps keep them mostly free of Lyme disease.
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by klipt 1y ago
> Blessed are the cheesemakers Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.
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by klipt 1y ago
> A person legally living in the US for enough time (5 years or so) on a variety of visas can apply to get it. There is no "5 year" requirement to get a green card. A company can even sponsor an employee from abroad (e.g. a sat
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by klipt 1y ago
I'm sure plenty of cancer patients would pay good money for a digital genius doctor who can custom design a drug to target their cancer.
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by klipt 1y ago
I don't think Stardew Valley prepares you for the sweltering heat of performing manual labor in the Central Valley.
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by klipt 1y ago
> just ship 100k software developers from the bay to the central valley and it just work But you could pitch a startup idea to replace those workers with agricultural robotics and collect some of that sweet AI venture capital!
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by klipt 1y ago
> For the sake of this argument, let's assume my moral framework is identical with that of a priest of Tezcatlipoca, at the height of the Aztec Empire. Astonish me. Easy, your utility function is an indicator on WWPTD (What Would a
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by klipt 1y ago
Okay, tell me what your moral framework is, and I'll tell you how it's just a variant of utilitarianism.
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by klipt 1y ago
Look in the mirror pal. You've been nothing but rude and assuming this whole thread
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by klipt 1y ago
You're not making any coherent points. You vaguely refer to aborting downs fetuses as evil and "full of bloodshed" but then you're unwilling to support laws that would prevent that. Do you actually believe in anything ex
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by klipt 1y ago
> be given that power, rather than that no one should So you believe that red states which disallow aborting downs babies are more moral than blue states that allow aborting downs babies? Since the red states are the only ones that try t
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by klipt 1y ago
> I'm not criticizing parents' decisions, but yours. I don't know man, if you think it's fine for parents to abort downs babies, I think that means you're the utilitarian. You can try deny it, but in your heart
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by klipt 1y ago
> parents facing what I understand can be one of a lifetime's more difficult decisions. Do you believe that parents who choose to terminate a downs fetus are evil/utilitarian? Or are the doctors who perform the testing/abo
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by klipt 1y ago
So you're saying it should be illegal to test for Down syndrome in utero? Because that's a common practice in most developed countries. And it hasn't led to Nazi Germany in those countries.
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by klipt 1y ago
Anything that causes huge suffering, like forcing eugenics on people, is obviously not utilitarian because suffering has negative utility. Unless you mean things like parents choosing to screen for Down syndrome, which is not what most peop
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by klipt 1y ago
> I’d rather granny needs to visit the bank to get access to her account again Visiting the bank is fine. But who do you visit to recover your Gmail password?
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by klipt 1y ago
> pay someone to build them a house On what land? With what planning permits?
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by klipt 1y ago
Hypothesis: investors rent out their investment housing (to make a profit) so it doesn't really reduce housing supply, it just shifts supply from owned to rented.
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by klipt 1y ago
Also a Simpsons reference: https://youtu.be/ls5BFzuxGw4
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by klipt 1y ago
Nonsense, my AI therapist says that relying on AI makes me smrt!
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by klipt 1y ago
Can Japan even attract immigrants if it wants to? The language is notoriously hard to learn and it's not like they have super high paying jobs the way the USA does
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Trump Administration Releases New Plans to Enforce Birthright Citizenship Order(boundless.com)
4 points by klipt 1y ago|0 comments
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by klipt 1y ago
I know tempeh is easily available in Indonesia, but how do you get it in bulk in the US? All I see are tiny overpriced plastic packets.

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