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by krona 4y ago
You appear to be climate hesitant. We are simply following the science.
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by krona 4y ago
I'm not a lawyer but my interpretation of section 127 is the 'message' which caused anxiety would not be able to be proven false or that the sender knew to be false (since it's not a definitive statement about anything i
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by krona 4y ago
It was keeping them away from starvation and the lucky were given the rudiments of a christian education (which otherwise was unheard of) as part of their 'employment'.
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by krona 4y ago
A meaningful life is impossible without suffering.
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by krona 4y ago
Unless your cat is a tiger, I wouldn't bother.
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by krona 4y ago
Interesting idea, but I think the site should probably have a fairly prominent legal section to explain the UK Right to Rent scheme and how it applies to the protected characteristics defined in Equality Act 2010. Otherwise landlords (which
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by krona 4y ago
Most of the danger to life is people drowning in lakes, rivers etc.
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by krona 4y ago
> we found out the hard way that moralization and shame does not work on people without morals In guilt oriented cultures, people have a moral conscience, which is a counter-balance to social shaming. Such people don't rely upon o
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by krona 4y ago
> HIV is still a thing too and people continue to engage in this high risk behavior. UK technical briefing ( https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/monkeypox-outbrea... ): > Where known, more than half
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by krona 4y ago
Memory leaks in rust might be less common than a fully GC'ed language but saying rust prevents or makes them less common than e.g. zig/c++ seems like a stretch.
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by krona 4y ago
Being able to easily unsubscribe from something a human right now?
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by krona 4y ago
I live in a semi-rural area and all the local pubs that serve food are overflowing on a weekend, and usually busy on a weeknight. However, they all have staffing problems, and some have to close part of the week because staff presumably fin
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by krona 4y ago
> strong exports Scotland's biggest trading partner (by far) is the UK. In 2017 Scotland was a net importer from the rest of the UK. Imports from the UK would have to have an EU customs tariffs applied, and Scotland has almost no in
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by krona 4y ago
> The rest are all new faces with far right credentials What does that even mean? That anyone who wasn't a member of the SWP in their youth is automatically a closet fascist?
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by krona 4y ago
> Imagine if the government treated it like an anti-smoking campaign Smoking is binary: you know if you are smoking or not, and other's do too. An 'abusive relationship' is not binary, and is laden with evaluative meaning,
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by krona 4y ago
> How machines are put in as an intermediary to shield the humans behind the curtain from accusations of inhumanity. I think it may mirror systems in general. Where any large enough organization of people takes on a mind of it's ow
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by krona 4y ago
Not a single error bar or measure of statistical confidence. In other words, unfalsifiable econometric woo-woo.
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by krona 4y ago
If I were prime minister I think having to have a private in-person chat with the monarch every week would probably have a profound impact on how I went about running the country on her behalf. It's like a schoolchild having to explain
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by krona 4y ago
Because investing both sovereignty and power in a single institution inexorably leads to tyranny. Examples abound.
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by krona 4y ago
2.5%[0] of the world GDP just doesn't sound very apocalyptic to most people. Especially when you factor in GDP growth projections over the next century. [0] https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
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by krona 4y ago
Children today, and their children, will gain immunity over an entire lifetime through repeated exposure. So it is with all other coronaviruses, which have been around for millions of years and don't routinely kill older/vulnerabl
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by krona 4y ago
The article seems to be using an inaccurate visualisation of a model (RCP8.5) which is now 'no longer plausible'[0]. RCP8.5 was considered the 'worst-case' scenario and projected 3.3 to 5.7 in 2100, not 2050 as the gra
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by krona 4y ago
OP is probably explaining that the UK, like the US and most western democracies/republics are actually oligarchies, and have been for some time. It's hard to state simply since 'oligarchy' conjures images of super-yachts
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by krona 4y ago
Imagine a world where politicians (or their descendants) couldn't abdicate except though untimely death? Arguably they would take their profession much more seriously, like a monarch.
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by krona 4y ago
Unemployment.
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by krona 4y ago
Perhaps we should put plastic in to the landfills, and not the oceans?
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by krona 4y ago
OP is imagining a far more likely Brave New World where the majority of society demands totalitarian obedience through coercive control, because its good for you and the stability and safety of society.
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by krona 4y ago
> one hospital was for higher risk patients- so it learned to assign all patients from that hospital to the disease category simply because they were at that hospital. That just sounds like poor feature selection/engineering. Garb
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by krona 4y ago
> We also showed that the ability of deep models to predict race was generalised across different clinical environments, medical imaging modalities, and patient populations, suggesting that these models do not rely on local idiosyncrati
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by krona 4y ago
> hypersexualisation of young girls Which is what the producers did to create it in the first place. Hence why it was unethical. I'm sure there are some snuff films with interesting character development too.

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