lopmotr

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by lopmotr 6y ago
> more frequent & severe If you don't quantify that, it's meaningless in relation to somebody's life expectancy.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
There's not much solid about taxonomy of animals. Nature doesn't really have clearly defined classes, just rough clusters of similar organisms. It's the humans that like classifying things because it's easier for us to t
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I think you need data to support that 50% claim. Otherwise you could just as easily claim the other 50% thinks the same way about fascism. Maybe it's just extremists you're looking at.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
"improvement"? The fact that you don't seem to see your own bias shows that you might be part of the "no common ground" problem. Are you willing to accept that changes which you see as making things worse might actu
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by lopmotr 6y ago
They will be rewarded. It's half the tax of petrol vehicles and the fuels is also much cheaper on top of that.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Isn't the whole argument for public transport that it has lower CO2 emissions per passenger-mile than private cars? Electric cars in a country with a high proportion of electricity generated renewably (24% and rising) could be better t
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by lopmotr 6y ago
New Zealand collects road tax on diesel vehicles using odometer readings. It generally works for heavy commercial vehicles where the owners have more to lose risking fraud but I know private vehicle owners who would wind back or disconnect
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by lopmotr 6y ago
It's probably my different perspective not being an American. I haven't read those textbooks he mentions and all I hear about Indians is these blogs which present the same general picture. I understand now that Americans will have
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The main protagonists are shown to have negative views of the immigrants. The Indians are presented as racists and judging people on superficial characteristics. That's probably the author's feelings being projected onto the subje
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by lopmotr 6y ago
> denying the President-Elect after an election. The official process is chugging along properly just as it always has. We have to wait till December for the Electoral College to make a decision. Why? Why don't they just read the ne
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Fewer things to remember is important because humans are useless at that. Hardly anyone will have an intuition for how much pressure a kg/cm^2 is as well as a N/cm^2 and a N/mm^2 and a kg/mm^2 and a kg/m^2 and PSI a
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by lopmotr 6y ago
While they're dying from genetic manipulation, they'll be surviving more diseases, car crashes, etc. The net safety will surely be better for your kids' and grandkids' generations than your own.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
By exclusionary, I mean it excludes people, not words. But if ñ is so important, then so are capital letters because "Olive" is a person and "olive" is a fruit. Imagine typing English without capital letters.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Oh sure. I think it's important too. Just that people misuse it which is probably why they get locked.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Kind of ridiculous that any tin-pot hobby forum can keep decades of threads available but the biggest services can't. Where's economies of scale? It's not supposed to work like that.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I run a small forum and occasionally somebody will post a new question on an old thread that's about the same topic. My two theories are that either they searched, ended up on that thread, then just replied because it was in front of t
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by lopmotr 6y ago
You have to draw solid regions, not an outline.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
If it's going to be cheaper, why does it need government support? Won't industry just do it to be more competitive on its own? Or perhaps there's some kind of first mover/network effect/chicken and egg problem that
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Absolutely. It's too late? For what? Temperature has already risen a little so obviously you can't change the past. Too late for some vague "catastrophe" is the implication. But science already tells us it won't be
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I've seen this fantasy before but it neglects the secondary effect that will be the parties adapting their campaigns and policies so they still each win about half the time anyway, just like they always have. It won't somehow turn
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Incredible. I did the same thing decades ago and got the same diagonal lines. I couldn't work out what was going wrong.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Everyone uses Latin script because too much depends on it. Even "https" and ".dk". Localized scripts are exclusionary to everyone else who has no hope of typing them or even identifying them in a unicode table to copy an
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Not death of the PC! Just the presence of more numerous and cheaper smartphones. They're superior to PCs for most people but not for everyone.
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by lopmotr 6y ago
The suddenness is a problem because there isn't enough time to adapt? Implying that we'll adapt to climate change? Watch out for heresy there ;) But asteroid or comet impacts. Comets in particular can come so fast and undetectably
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I generally agree with all you've said there. I guess I have so much personal experience with non-sexism prejudice in all kinds of ways that I don't really care about the plight of women as much. It seems like everyone gets it. If
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by lopmotr 6y ago
I agree. If the US doesn't like tax havens, then the US can tax the local operations of companies that are incorporated there. No need for any hand wringing. Or maybe the US does like tax havens because they kind of keep the actual ope
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by lopmotr 6y ago
We'd have to start by admitting that almost nobody has the faintest clue about ethics beyond simply having been brainwashed into believing whatever arbitrary ethics they believe. Just look at the nonsense and disagreement about abortio
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by lopmotr 6y ago
How is that something to be sad about? In case your kids miss out and feel jealous? Surely if yours kids have only an average intelligence, you'll still be happy for them despite the fact that they probably can't achieve as much s
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Caring isn't fundamentally good or right. It just happens to be a feeling that humans have. We probably have it because it gives our species some advantage over other species. It might be that a more "right" way of behaving i
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by lopmotr 6y ago
Of course, otherwise those fancy cameras would have no market and disappear. Just like film is pretty much completely gone now, as are glass plate cameras. The truly inferior tech disappears and what's left fits some extreme niche wher

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