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by larnmar 7y ago
I wonder if he was there at the invitation of the Iraqi government or not.
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by larnmar 7y ago
I have the opposite reaction. In the old McDonald’s veggie burger, the main ingredients are peas, carrots, onions and potatoes. In an Impossible Burger the main ingredient is “textured wheat protein”. I would much rather have the old-school
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by larnmar 7y ago
Six top level comments, and four of them are of the form “whatabout democratic nations doing the same thing, huh?”
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by larnmar 7y ago
We don’t know that; we have a sample of approximately N=1ish (depending on what you want to define as a civilisation or a collapse) and we’re not done yet.
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by larnmar 7y ago
On the central conceit about people underestimating how much happens in a decade... how much has happened in the last decade? I feel like very little has changed in the last decade. Technologically, socially, politically, it feels like we’v
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by larnmar 7y ago
Perhaps, but fashions change fast. I remember the first environmentalism craze of the 90s, it didn’t last.
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by larnmar 7y ago
That’s not true, other people with ideas to fix it are labelled “heartless libertarian eugenicists who want to watch poor people die”
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by larnmar 7y ago
Really? I’ve noticed the opposite — people tend to want to blame people at the top, or the whole company, or whoever has the deepest pockets.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Looks like the previous thread turned into a shitshow though, maybe this one will be better.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Man, other people played these books with way more discipline than I did. I don’t think I ever made it all the way through a book playing “properly”. Oh, I died? Okay, let’s just assume I didn’t...
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by larnmar 7y ago
Colonising other planets is a lousy idea; at the very best you could at massive expense colonise Mars, but it would be (a) almost certainly worse than Earth and (b) only s doubling of our resources. Orbital habitats, formed by disassembling
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by larnmar 7y ago
No, it’s probably just a result of local variation. Some buildings or low-density neighbourhoods are super friendly, some buildings or low-density neighbourhoods are unfriendly. There’s a lot of reasons going on, it’s dependent on individua
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by larnmar 7y ago
Do we have any research prior to the 1970s? Could there have been an upwards blip in civic participation caused by, say, the shared experience of WW2, with everything since then representing a reversion to ordinary behaviour?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Yeah, that’s the kind of thing that should have been in the article.
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by larnmar 7y ago
What’s the difference between an “Afro-futurist” and a “white supremacist” apart from a palette switch?
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’m confused why the article doesn’t consider the initial question of whether the historical Buddha existed at all. Given the amount of ink that has been spilled over the existence or otherwise of the historical Jesus, and the even spottier
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by larnmar 7y ago
How does this law affect the many HN readers who have side “consulting” gigs?
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by larnmar 7y ago
Sure, like when it’s a side gig. If you’re picking up a bit of extra dough writing a few articles a month on something you care about, and then the State of California suddenly says you can’t.
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by larnmar 7y ago
A better idea would be to quit linking health insurance to employment. Ban employer-provided health insurance and let everyone buy their own (reasonably regulated) health insurance as individuals. The link between employment and health insu
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by larnmar 7y ago
None! I also don’t know anyone from Mason City, Iowa. But everybody’s gotta be from somewhere. Seriously, if you’re writing a whole article about someone it seems worthwhile to mention if they’re from Zambia, but if you’re writing a single
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by larnmar 7y ago
If your conclusion is “well obviously, the people of the future will share my ethics” then you’re missing the point of the exercise. The point of the exercise is humility — to think about how people in the future might think your ethics a
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by larnmar 7y ago
That’s hot but normal for Sydney.
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by larnmar 7y ago
These anecdata are from the 19th century, they don’t have much in the way of relevance to the way mining looks today, especially in a first-world country. A few stats: https://www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au/statistics-and-rese
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by larnmar 7y ago
If Apple wants to respect human rights they’ll need to pull all operations and sales out of mainland China. You can’t do business with the devil and claim your hands are clean.
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by larnmar 7y ago
> The suspension came after Spiers published a piece of code that created a pop up any time a Google employee visited IRI Consultants: an anti-union firm Google had hired. In December, Spiers was fired via phone call. A spokesperson from
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by larnmar 7y ago
This kind of model seems like an excellent way for political groups to push their agenda while staying at arm’s length.
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by larnmar 7y ago
The best way to cover your tracks would be to post about it in advance on /r/wallstreetbets so that you look like just another YOLOing idiot.
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by larnmar 7y ago
This gives me a great idea: Radio On Internet! No seriously though, why isn’t there a platform that would let me host, or listen to, live audio broadcasts? I mean, you could do it by twitch or youtube, but something optimised just for audio
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by larnmar 7y ago
Can anyone explain why PBS television stations are local rather than nationwide? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a local program on one, but they seem to have a huge extra layer of bureaucracy in order to broadcast the same programs in a hun
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by larnmar 7y ago
The sad part (speaking as a non-American who has lived in the US) is that the negative PR campaign doesn’t even come from America’s enemies, it comes from within. And it’s not driven by ill will, as far as I can figure out, but petty tribal

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