kmonsen

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by kmonsen 1y ago
I do think it’s possible that God and evil are a set of norms that help society (or actually their leaders) thrive, but are presented as universal values. I think there is a huge distinction to what it’s good for the average person in socie
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by kmonsen 1y ago
I agree science doesn’t give good answers for good and evil, for me religion gives even worse answers. For example the Bible is clearly in favor of slavery as an institution. Other religions like Buddhism are for me better. The scary part i
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by kmonsen 1y ago
The goal of science is to disprove our theories so we can find out if they are true, and hopefully replace them with improved versions. The goal of religious study is to try to prove that it is not impossible, not that it is a probably read
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by kmonsen 2y ago
Please tell us why WW2 started and how that is related.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
But he said it was a meme coin and not an investment opportunity? I mean I think Trump should be impeached yesterday, but maybe not for that one?
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by kmonsen 2y ago
Isn’t that including tax breaks? Yes after checking the cheapest is $42k the advertised price includes 7500 tax break and 5000 in gas savings.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
Being helpful to 2/3 might be enough to lay off 1/3
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by kmonsen 2y ago
I don't think most people would agree on what is an A, B or C.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
At least for me that was not true, I came back to Google after more than two years and did not have to interview.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
Race is clearly cultural in todays society because we can make it so. Very unlikely to be genetically culturally if that is what you are saying (but of course, who knows).
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by kmonsen 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe is almost 4000 years older. Not sure if it meets your definition of city, but it was some sort of human settlement
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by kmonsen 2y ago
I work for a FAANG and a month, well planned, vacation is totally OK. If I want to take a week of I more or less need no notice, but for a month it would be expected I plan ahead what the people I work with should do. I have 5 weeks vacatio
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by kmonsen 2y ago
I think Apple does not specify to give themselves flexibility to change. It’s not sure everyone will get the same panel.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
This is kind of natural for a new service, one of the advantages the big players have is a giant test corpus. For less mainstream languages and terms it will be more noticeable.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
Parliament can for sure overrule the will of the people, and very often do. They might get punished in the next election or they may not. More precisely only the PM can call an election I believe.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
China threatened to cut off water. UK did not have any meaningful way of keeping HK without strong US support.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
Which is why we are seeing return to office right now.
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by kmonsen 2y ago
That’s also what CA does
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by kmonsen 2y ago
I think there have already been cases of human crossover this year
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by kmonsen 3y ago
Isn't QI fully something the supreme court made up and unlikely to go away whatever congress does?
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by kmonsen 3y ago
This applies for other app stores so is not related to Apple bandwidth.
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by kmonsen 3y ago
Maybe in the backend but for mobile (android) kotlin is still a thing and will be for a long time.
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by kmonsen 3y ago
Not really, I had some I was remembering but it was from the paralyzed state in between sleep and awake. Other than that, no don't remember anything at all.
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by kmonsen 3y ago
I (think, not formally diagnosed) have aphantasia, and I also don't remember my dreams. So I have not "seen" pictures ever. Or I think so, it is so hard to know what others are "seeing".
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by kmonsen 3y ago
Is this why it’s so annoying to copy and paste in the terminal on Mac?
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by kmonsen 3y ago
Or more importantly in Ireland, religions based discrimination
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by kmonsen 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1240400/maternal-mortali... The US maternal death rate is sky high for a western country with reliable statistics.
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by kmonsen 3y ago
What is economic growth other than numbers getting larger?
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by kmonsen 3y ago
That article ties growth to consumption, and consumption to energy use. This does not have to be true. We could all decide to multiply every currency with 10x and nothing would change except the number and we would have 10x economic growth
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by kmonsen 3y ago
Economic growth doesn't need to have any anchoring in reality, it can grow as much as we want it to.

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