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by laverya 4y ago
And now we're playing the game of polls, where depending on what additional information you provide, people respond differently. The general point of "people will respond differently if you ask about abortion in general vs third (
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by laverya 4y ago
Most of the USA will still have more permissive abortion laws than Europe even after the removal of Roe v. Wade. [0] Most of the EU restricts abortion after 12 weeks - which is what the law at issue in this case does . 0: https:/&#x2
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by laverya 4y ago
Do you have stats on views of abortion by trimester? Here's [0] one from last year, which finds that 54% of people think third trimester abortions should be illegal in all cases - (EDIT: presumably) including health of the mother - a
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by laverya 4y ago
Which was wrong, and will ideally be overturned. "Racists supported gun control in the past, therefore we should keep gun control now" is perhaps not the strongest argument one can make.
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by laverya 4y ago
https://imgur.com/gallery/YiqlS There has to be an age at which we learn risky lessons. For a while, that age was college. (It used to be younger than that) What age are we supposed to learn now?
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by laverya 4y ago
Because aircraft turned out to be very very very good at killing ships in the 1940s, and the best way to deliver those (short ranged, when you compare to the Pacific) planes to where your enemies ships happened to be was to build an airstri
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by laverya 4y ago
Because these countries are cherrypicked. If your list included places like Mexico, Brazil, Finland and Switzerland you would have a very different idea of the relation between gun ownership and gun homicide rates. Also, I personally do not
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by laverya 4y ago
And it'll still be worse than the classic, returnable and reused, glass bottles.
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by laverya 4y ago
Performance and presentation is better but content is worse - that's the way of the internet it seems.
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by laverya 4y ago
There was a post yesterday about that, which is what inspired this post! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31438989 Honestly the cat memes are far better than this site, which seems to have less connection to the actual
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Dogs for every HTTP status code(http.dog)
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by laverya 4y ago
Looks like Linode is still doing $5 nodes. Hopefully there's not a similar announcement there in the near future. https://www.linode.com/pricing/
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by laverya 4y ago
Looks like Linode is still doing $5 nodes. Hopefully there's not a similar announcement there in the near future. https://www.linode.com/pricing/
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by laverya 4y ago
Yes, the right to free speech is more important than those rights because it is what lets you say that the other rights have been violated . If you have the right to vote, but not the right to say that you were prevented from voting, you
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by laverya 4y ago
How many people are genuinely willing to wear something outside knowing that it will get them killed, and knowing that they would NOT be killed if they did not wear that piece of clothing?
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by laverya 4y ago
So just target only the ones that are moving! As a side benefit, you get to make this [0] a reality. But seriously though, there's a lot of heuristics that can be used for "is a target and not a dummy". Will they be perfect?
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by laverya 4y ago
Obviously people trying to hide their identity are evil and thus OK to target.
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by laverya 4y ago
Yeah, it's a lot easier to make the object yourself at home safely.
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by laverya 4y ago
Also depends on which law enforcement! "Fuck the ATF" might be more common on the right than the left for instance.
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by laverya 4y ago
If it takes more than 5 minutes to even mention how you're sidestepping some very basic information theory concepts, then it's probably a scam. And speaking of moving the goalposts... You recommended Sui as a blockchain with &quot
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by laverya 4y ago
Because "it's for covid", and our illustrious western leaders are either covid maximalists or focused on Ukraine.
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by laverya 4y ago
A 22kb fixed size reads like transparent bullshit to me. Fundamentally you cannot store infinite information within such a block, and "participant X has the right to send Y amount" is information. To me this implies that either th
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by laverya 4y ago
It'd cost more to run it yourself on DigitalOcean, as far as I can tell.
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by laverya 4y ago
When the balance of every address can only be calculated by executing the total transaction graph, as in Bitcoin, then you need to store the history. If you have a solution for this that does not require trusting anyone, I'm sure that
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by laverya 4y ago
Or for both sides to be correct! Who is to be the ingroup, and who the outgroup, is one of the most important questions in all of human history.
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by laverya 4y ago
I think the point is that you can paint almost every movement with many of these.
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by laverya 4y ago
Fundamentally the transaction rate is limited by how much data you're willing to store. Bitcoin's 5tx/sec translates to ~5gb/month added to the blockchain - improving upon this requires either making the data stored per
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by laverya 4y ago
6 hours later, I'm an idiot who read density instead of price. Funny thing is, while Depleted Uranium is about the same density as tungsten, it's also a fair bit cheaper (for major nuclear governments) because it's an oth
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by laverya 4y ago
Yeah, it's part of what makes it so fantastic as armor piercing ammunition. And tank armor.
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by laverya 4y ago
I'm not saying they should be treated the same. I'm saying that "there's no discrimination because the majority agrees there's no discrimination" would not be accepted in almost any other scenario.

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