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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
It seems irresponsible that Ben Recht should draft this article without giving the authors a chance to provide input. In proper journalism, writers reach out to the person they’re reporting about or on for comments. It would certainly have
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> For anyone who wants to complain about what doctors should or should not learn during medical school: first go learn what the curriculum does teach, then ask yourself if you're even mildly qualified to make those judgements based
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Hmm, I am not sure. If you look at different examples of corruption vs. charity, a defining characteristic of corruption (I think) is that it benefits a small and select group of organizations or people who would have been find even if they
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Not unique to the U.S., and also is called corruption or cronyism in general terms when money mostly enables one to “effect systemic change”. The U.S. civil rights protests stand in stark contrast as one example, at least.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
I guess we’ve come far enough from being hunter-gatherers that the value of acts that ensure group cohesion and community wellbeing seem like some sort of extra effort or altruism, instead of a fundamental aspect of optimizing survival as a
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
The problem with your suggestion is that it implicitly suggests death for loser commoners, of which there will always statistically be more. The loser commoners need some way to ensure their basic needs are met, or they find a way to do tha
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
What are your goals, exactly? There are multiple ways to answer this depending on what you’re trying to achieve. But for someone who maybe just wants to program hardware, I think learning embedded systems would be interesting. You can also
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Limited lifespans explains the majority of human behavior, I am not sure how to extrapolate that to something intelligent that's not driven by some biological impetus. The underlying assumptions by everyone I've seen write or spea
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Most pop neuropsychology articles (like this one) speak in terms of averages, which is an extremely unhelpful way to speak about behavior or mental conditions. Great, we know the average response. The edge cases are supposed to what though,
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
This has to do with licensing agreements with content providers, to which the solution seems to be that there need to be third-party escrow holders that maintain the license purchased by an individual so that Sony/Playstation is no lon
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
I was speaking to the results on Americans in this study > To put America’s result into context, the average monthly income in the U.S. is roughly $6,000 (or $72,000 annually). Thus, the average American would need to make $19,165 per mo
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
I don’t think people’s lives are different because of discrimination, necessarily. Randomness is more important. Did you have any control over where you were born? Lots of mediocre and talentless people born to a relatively stable household
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
The person who made this went to university for maths education (if I found the right profile).
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> Authors Alicia Adserà, Andreu Arenas, and Carles Boix surveyed 6,000 people in total — 2,000 each from the U.S., France, and Brazil.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
If the strategy used for avoidance is written into tax code, then it’s reasonable that anyone would use it, that’s basic isn’t it? Petitioning for change in tax laws wouldn’t necessitate mass protests. Stupid question—why are the ultra-weal
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Americans don’t know how nice their comparative living standard is relative to the living standard in most of the world. Many examples of average European (depends on the country), and average Asian or average Gulf state families have a lot
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> humans are [not] particularly “special.” Insertion mine, to keep the gist of the quoted sentence. Humans are special, though, depending on how much you value the ability to be concerned about the fundamental nature of the universe an
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
I don't under moral relativism I guess, it makes everything too much into either "it's okay if my tribe does it" or "there's no morality, only affinity groups". So in effect, I guess for some people the d
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Are there samples of work? This seems like a way to collect names and emails as it is.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
What's the distinction between taking "middle eastern money" when according to some people's definition the U.S. is complicit in enabling a genocide? Not saying I believe this claim in its entirety, the humanitarian cris
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> ...juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay. Hmm, I guess I didn't see that in the video, maybe I viewed it differently? Robots were making human food, which seems whimsical to me, and makes me wonder why would somethi
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Stupid question—if an insurance provider keeps denying claims which could keep elderly patients healthy, and those patients then die, isn't the insurance provider just cutting off its own source of income? But I agree that it's ab
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> It's the combination of high tech and lowlife, the grungy city streets, the street food, the rain, and the urban East Asian elements. I would argue that none of those elements make anything cyberpunk :) The cyberpunk genre (per my
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
What an impressive talent! The animation is both entertaining to watch because of the content and style. Well-deserved win. I disagree with some of the other commenters here who describe this style as cyberpunk. Neon lights and robots does
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
For comments at least, you can edit up to a certain time limit after the comment is posted. I think it may be 15mins.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
If your leaders and religious figures keep asserting that the existence of the other is an existential threat, then this is what you'd expect. I don't think this is a problem that's unique to any particular race, religion or
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
> Interestingly, homosexuality is also linked to sex-atypical brain structures, and in studies where this factor is controlled for, the structural differences seen in brains of gender dysphorics all but disappear. I think you're tal
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
How is it missing the point? It's recognizing that having babies is a valuable service to society. Why are you expecting women to run a charity via their wombs? Pay any pregnant women the base rate for a new army recruit, and increase
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
Here's an idea: if babies are so important, then pay women more to compensate for having them.
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by lusus_naturae 3y ago
It's not just drawing though? In this it's creating a copy that's realistic enough to pass for an original, which can be psychologically taxing and damaging for a person, or a potential career/safety issue. I get the tee

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