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by krona 3y ago
Same for me. It happened twice yesterday.
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by krona 3y ago
This is quite easy to test in a longitudinal cross-cultural study of people over time. You'd probably find half a book shelf of research already which does exactly that, if only one bothered to look for it.
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by krona 3y ago
p.7 > ...answers to subjective well-being questions have been shown to be correlated with physical evidence of affect such as smiling, laughing, heart rate measures, sociability, and electrical activity in the brain (Diener, 1984)
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by krona 3y ago
All you're interested in is ephemeral window dressing. The best literature stands alone, in time and space. The world that created the Epic of Gilgamesh no longer exists and is completely alien to us. And yet the epic is reskinned ever
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by krona 3y ago
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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by krona 3y ago
How do you personally choose whether an indigenous group have a right to be represented? For example, should people in Britain who can trace their ancestors to the Mesolithic gain this right too?
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by krona 3y ago
So Australians should solidify their status in to the constitution in perpetuity? How do you square that with basic principle of liberal universalism?
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by krona 3y ago
Meanwhile (apparently) 'removing aerosols induces a global mean surface heating of 0.5–1.1°C.' https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201... So the effect of cleaner air is more wa
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by krona 3y ago
There's lots of infrastructure which people gain nothing from directly. This sounds like an Anarcho-primitivist line of argument.
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by krona 3y ago
As far I know there is no known carcinogenicity risk with carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide or sulphur dioxide so what are you referring to?
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by krona 3y ago
> I find it interesting that people use Twitter as an information crutch Mostly journalists who can't be bothered (or don't have the wherewithal) to corroborate anything they report.
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by krona 3y ago
> A virus is a... You don't need an AI to construct a virus that can destroy humanity. We already have that capability, and bioprinting one by average grad at random biotech on their lunch break will become commonplace soon.
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by krona 3y ago
The genetics (and heritability more generally) of religiosity are fairly well understood.
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by krona 3y ago
The Past is a Future Country: The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution explores the possible consequences in great detail. It's happened many times before, though never on this scale.
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by krona 3y ago
Except its a very common adjective, so any time you refer to it you have to say 'main branch' otherwise you've introduced unnecessary ambiguity. Whereas 'master' refers to one thing and one thing only in most contex
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by krona 3y ago
Not necessarily a bad thing. There's often a strong negative correlation between incident rate and fatality rate, a pattern found across many industries (airline, oil and gas, manufacturing etc.) For example, are more incidents reporte
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by krona 3y ago
Not that I care, but from your article: > Enums in TypeScript are a very useful addition to the JavaScript language when used properly. So, just like any language feature.
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by krona 3y ago
> much better solutions like SWC Which doesn't support const enum correctly and god knows what else without erroring.
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by krona 3y ago
That might take a while. Humans fare better in hotter climates.
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by krona 3y ago
> People care about the US Dollar because of the backing of the United States and its military Corrected that for you.
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by krona 3y ago
I can't speak to your circumstances but even graduate engineers in the East/south-east of England wouldn't get out of bed for <£50k. Maybe you need to move.
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by krona 3y ago
A distinction without a difference.
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by krona 3y ago
> There was never a plan for Brexit to boost low-wage sectors. It was pretty much the same plan that has worked for 3 centuries in many countries, especially in the UK. Unfortunately, everyone in government (and more so the civil service
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by krona 3y ago
Name a law passed by a foreign government against its own will at the behest of the US.
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by krona 3y ago
The US is still nominally governed by and accountable to the rule of law. Companies cannot use the court system in China to hold the government to account, the government is accountable only to itself. This difference is irreconcilable.
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by krona 3y ago
Whether a model predicts the outcome of a simulation has no bearing in determining whether either correspond to a future reality. Running a simulation might be useful for directing scientific research, but it is not science.
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by krona 3y ago
I think you're confusing prophecy with the scientific prediction of a theory which can be replicated.
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by krona 3y ago
> Make a statement then say “prove me wrong” Climatologists can make the same argument. There aren't many earth-like planets with which to conduct controlled experiments.
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by krona 3y ago
> they are not ergonomic because we have to pass begin and end as arguments, which also means they cannot be chained. C++20: for (int i : ints | std::views::filter(even) | std::views::transform(square)) std::cout << i <&
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by krona 3y ago
He stood on stage with all the right people said all the right shibboleths!

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