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by larnmar 7y ago
On the other hand, shouldn’t the Center for Disease Control spend its time and focus on things that could reasonably be argued fall under the heading of “disease control”? By all means, gun violence research should be conducted by, say, the
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by larnmar 7y ago
Sure, if there’s one thing that will convince the masses that they should be eating weird vat-grown animal tissue, it’s telling them “Hey, all the poor people are doing it!”
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It’s a peculiarity of modern American ethics that some people think that this would be significantly more ethical.
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’m pretty sure they were in fact real websites.
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by larnmar 7y ago
If the French can stop you from calling your chemically identical sparkling white wine “Champagne”, I see no reason why meat farmers shouldn’t be able to stop you from calling your industrially-grown bovine cell culture “meat”.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Personally I’d love a (competent) hair cutting robot because I simply don’t have time. The only day of the week I can get my hair cut is Saturday; I meant to get it done last Saturday, ran out of time, now I’m going out of town next Saturda
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by larnmar 7y ago
On one hand, he’s getting problems from his “(mainland) Chinese talent agency”, and if you’re going to have a mainland Chinese talent agency then what do you expect? On the other hand I also note that Bloomberg is also being very cagey abou
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by larnmar 7y ago
If 99% of the Kansas City population are apparently getting by fine without public transport then why have it at all? The problem is people seeing public transport as a virtue in itself rather than as a solution to a problem. I catch public
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by larnmar 7y ago
> The problem is, many such businesses have very old technology and must replace the entire pump at an estimated cost of up to $250,000 per station This feels like a business opportunity. Surely there must be a way to build an adaptor?
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by larnmar 7y ago
> Storing passwords unhashed may 'get the job done', but every programmer should know better. Not every programmer has to deal with passwords, though, so the generality is it is limited. A programmer who has spent his whole car
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by larnmar 7y ago
If you’re considering learning Esperanto I’d suggest spending some time teaching English instead.
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by larnmar 7y ago
So what are all the 7s and below doing these days?
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by larnmar 7y ago
The funny part is that Dan Rather and his producers were fooled by a deeply unconvincing fake — a supposedly Vietnam-era typewritten document that was obviously made using Microsoft Word using default settings. Furthermore, many many people
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by larnmar 7y ago
Can you think of some examples of photoshopped pictures which have changed history in significant ways?
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’m amazed that there’s a Star Wars movie coming out this week and there’s practically zero buzz. Haven’t heard anyone mention it in real life, and even online it’s barely a topic of conversation.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Or Van Gogh prints, for that matter.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Hopefully in another 30 years, a machine/robot will gently raise you to a standing position in a way that’s optimal for recovery.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Article misses the important and interesting question of which countries/empires it’s actually true of. From a quick look at a map, I suspect it must still be true of Britain and France, which maintain territories (albeit small) in the
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by larnmar 7y ago
Note: article never discusses, nor attempts to establish, the truth about caveman courtship.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Because I’ve already spent a fortune on these damn adaptors.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Unlikely; emotional expressions seem to be innate and hard-wired into the brain, hence the fundamental similarity between emotional expressions of groups separated for tens of thousands of years.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Governments love taxing stuff, and carbon taxes give them an excuse to raise taxes for something that seems like a “good reason”. But of course they wouldn’t put one in without excluding everyone powerful enough to make a fuss about it.
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by larnmar 7y ago
Well, that’s unfortunate for them, but apparently the town is only fifteen miles from Chico, so they’re a lot better off than the residents of a lot of other places.
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by larnmar 7y ago
It’s like any other creative hobby — woodworking, metalworking (computer programming?) etc. There’s joy in using your hands and brain to make something enjoyable out of low-value materials. There’s joy in being able to show people “Look wha
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by larnmar 7y ago
Even then, mid 20th century philosophy is a pretty broad category. It contains stuff like Derrida but also contains stuff like Quine.
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by larnmar 7y ago
> I can't believe how political correctness and feminism have normalized a nigh-miraculous coincidence, that male brain == female brain, while male body ≠ female body, against the entire backdrop of evolutionary biology. It makes n
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by larnmar 7y ago
Sorry I thought I was on a forum for people in the Silicon Valley tech bubble.
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by larnmar 7y ago
I’m confused about what sort of person (a) refers to soccer as “real football” but (b) doesn’t know what Premier League means.
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by larnmar 7y ago
In English, though, the distribution of meaning of the word “football” is more like: 340 million: Grid Iron 60 million: soccer 15 million: Aussie Rules ( proper footy ) 10 million: Rugby League 5 million: Rugby Union Probably some Gaelic Fo
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by larnmar 7y ago
It’s not that hard to take young kids to Europe.

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