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legacynl
2y ago
But that is just confirmation bias. You cannot infer valid conclusions by just looking at the success stories. By that same logic you can conclude that eating food leads to becoming one of the greats, because they all ate food. Fact is that
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legacynl
2y ago
Yes, it's better to fail spectacularly, like in the case of Lane-merging on the highway, parenting your children, or when cooking for an allergic friend. /s
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legacynl
2y ago
so basically you're retracting your previous statement that the notebook sleeps as soon as you close the lid? Because doing all that shit isn't sleeping, even if their marketing calls it a 'nap'
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legacynl
2y ago
oh my god, that person arguing for zaniechaj seems like the most obnoxious person ever.
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2y ago
> and I have to admit that I have not thoroughly researched it So basically anything you say is speculation? Im going to add my own unfounded speculation by claiming that the original winamp source did actually contain licence violations
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2y ago
> realized that frequent cannabis consumption interferes with the weight loss, so I've kicked the habit from daily to occasionally on weekends Did you try to reduce your cannabis consumption before using tirzepatide? Because althoug
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2y ago
Well that's the whole point of the novelty of this drug. This drug somehow effects our emotional resilience and/or the strength of our response to emotional decisions and/or the way our brain weighs different options regardin
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2y ago
What a load of bs. > Any nomadic pastoralist community demonstrates this be default with blood and milk being staples, fresh liver as “treats” and fresh cow dung being used as building material. So if those nomadic pastoralist communitie
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2y ago
> Technically, the duck-rabbit figure is an ambiguous (or reversible, or bistable) figure, not an illusion > From a constructivist point of view, many illusions illustrate the role of unconscious inferences in perception, while the am
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legacynl
2y ago
Well the raspberry pi original/primary use case is to be a development platform. That it could also be used as a cheap small server is just a testament to the versatility of rpi.
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> Abused children are taken away from their parents, but artefact are to simply be given back to whatever state has jurisdiction over some area they were in way back? The reason why children are protected from abusive parents, is because
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2y ago
> Why not just accept the situation as part of the ebb and flow of history? Why would you? By calling it the 'ebb and flow of history' you seem to imply that the things we do to each other is beyond the control of humans. But o
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> Additionally some of these places would not have had the means to care for antiquities back in the day. This is a bad argument, because it's irrelevant. Imagine getting your car stolen, and the thief says it's justified becau
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2y ago
Although probably not great at the time,.. I can imagine it would be an interesting experience. Did it change how you much control you feel you have in regards to being in charge of your own thoughts and emotions?
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2y ago
I don't like this article because it is basically a strawman argument. The writer tries to argue a point that nobody is making. Climate activists aren't suggesting we should stop 'growth and development'. Climate activis
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legacynl
2y ago
> Controlling the internet you mean Facebook and Instagram?
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2y ago
That quote doesn't really mean anything. That quote suffers from the so-called 'selection' bias. The apple phone is more expensive, so it excludes a part of the lower earnings. That sort of negates any presumed point you try
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legacynl
2y ago
Because the wow-factor is ultimately rooted in ignorance. People only go "wow" when they don't know what to expect. Since people here are predominantly techies, it's hard to be "wowed" by apples products. Airta
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2y ago
The problem is that you might be right in the case of this theoretical example, but it doesn't transfer to the real world, because the legal definition is actually meant to represent the real world thing. Raising tax on 'regular&#
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2y ago
yeah whatever, you go live in your social media-induced paranoid little world. I have faith in the institutions of our democracy, no matter how much you what-aboutists try to erode it.
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2y ago
An off-day is an off-day. If it was possible to find some method to be productive it wouldn't be an off-day. Just like getting sick there's not much that you can do about it once you have it. Once you have an off-day it's bet
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2y ago
The reason why the physical location matters, besides latency, is that certain governments have laws in place that allows them access to any data in their territory. In the case of EU countries (I think its part of gdpr), services that hand
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2y ago
> Democracies are notoriously fickle, are they really though? At least in democracies things require oversight, debates and people are being held responsible. It's exactly authoritarian regimes that can turn on a dime, if the suprem
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2y ago
Yes, but a manager could leave for an extended period of time without any real impact. If a doctor leaves the surgeries and treatments actually stop. There are worker-coops that function perfectly well without a management layer leeching of
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legacynl
2y ago
You might be tired of it, but it doesn't come from a place of 'wanting to bash car culture' but rather from a pragmatic look at the real outcomes from the current US transportation philosophy. I don't know if you've
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I don't think there are many 3+ highway interchanges. These interchanges are designed to go in places where highways intersect. And you wouldn't design highways so that more than 2 highways intersect in a single point. If you need
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2y ago
Yes! and that's why public transport is so good. Because it's everything the comment said, but without the cost of buying, operating and maintaining a vehicle.
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2y ago
> Supposed tables with three legs, or Japanese tables, aren't tables by this definition; they are something else. Perhaps this is a problem, or perhaps it isn't. > Perhaps this is a problem, or perhaps it isn't. Eh? If
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2y ago
Honestly in a 'Just' system I think the heart surgeon is supposed to make more than a CEO
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> While it was losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, Steward paid at least $250 million to its chief executive officer Can somebody explain to me the reasoning behind these payouts? Isn't this an incredible incentive for ce
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