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by magduf 7y ago
>I always thought the main argument against disc brakes on road bikes was they they aren't good for long descents where you're riding the brake for long periods of time... due to heat fade or whatever. No, you have it the other
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by magduf 7y ago
>And some people now argue that disc brakes on road bicycles are more dangerous Some people argue that the Earth is flat. That doesn't mean they have a good point. The morons you're referencing probably think cars should all g
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by magduf 7y ago
>Just to be pedantic... in some contexts better brakes actually allow you to go faster. Yes, and in other contexts, better brakes make you go slower. Better brakes means bigger brakes: larger rotors (discs), larger and heavier calipers,
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by magduf 7y ago
>This is the reverse of what we saw in the 1940s and 1950s and 1960s when strong labor unions were able to win 110% of productivity for workers, so that the share of national income going to labor increased. Now the opposite is happening
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by magduf 7y ago
>but in general we are wasting tons of precious resources building "disposable" devices like cell phones that are used for only 2 years to do tasks that have little economic value. This is wrong in two ways. 1) Cellphones don&
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by magduf 7y ago
>Given that female humans are the only female mammals with this egg limitation I bet we can crack this with stem cells too We can, eventually, I'm sure. Biology is just a mechanism, and with enough work and knowledge, we can figure
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by magduf 7y ago
>Why would you think that dogs that live in the city get any less exercise than a dog who lives in the suburbs or somewhere rural? Often cities are more walkable than the alternative. You can't take dogs on the train. So if your ap
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by magduf 7y ago
Perhaps, but not because of air pollution. We didn't stupidly jump on the diesel bandwagon.
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm exactly the same. I generally hate being around dogs: they're smelly, dirty, and require far too much attention. I really hate it when other peoples' dogs jump up on me when I'm just trying to walk down the sidewal
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by magduf 7y ago
>Where is the rest of the Western world that supposedly supports democracy and freedom now? The Europeans are basically too tired of war after WWII and decades of being right next to the Soviets during the Cold War, and after continental
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by magduf 7y ago
I hope the Kurds and other such groups remember this in the future. You can't count on the US as an ally.
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by magduf 7y ago
>and yet again and again, companies say "just give us something meaningless and arbitrary, so we can say we're compliant". Because something meaningless and arbitrary is something companies can point to and say "we&#x
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by magduf 7y ago
Are we talking about multinational corporations or about wealthy individuals now? This whole thread has been about wealthy individuals, and now you're talking about big corporations. Which is it?
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by magduf 7y ago
>Accidents are a small percent of overall mortality No, they aren't. Where'd you get this crazy idea? Car accidents alone are the largest killer of younger people in the US. 30,000 people every year die in the US alone in ca
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe he wanted to help infertile couples to have a child, and thought he could offer good genetics to such couples, with the agreement that he wouldn't be financially responsible for the children. He never intended to offer his genet
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by magduf 7y ago
>Either your friend was lying or he should get a better lawyer. This is the problem with people saying "this isn't legal in America": it's all based on how good your lawyer is, and if you can't afford Johnny Coch
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by magduf 7y ago
It's not really a problem right now, because the ACA prevents insurance companies from denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions. However, it could certainly become a problem in the future, because half the American population
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by magduf 7y ago
No, that's a problem for minorities in China. Sucks to be them, sure, but that doesn't mean it's a problem for everyone on the planet, just like problems affecting Americans are also not problems for everyone on the planet.
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by magduf 7y ago
What's wrong with gods and goddesses? Those are great names, and not subject to the idiocy that a democratic naming would come up with ("Moony McMoonFace"), which future generations would just roll their eyes at, or insist o
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by magduf 7y ago
The "moons" of Mars are really nothing more than asteroids; they're a tiny fraction of the size of our Moon, and not even large enough to be round.
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by magduf 7y ago
The Earth has more than one moon. There are surely a bunch of very small rocks orbiting the Earth which we haven't discovered yet. And there was one other known moon of Earth, called 2006 RH120, in the last decade, but it was ejected
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by magduf 7y ago
>Keep in mind all of these new objects are quite small, just a few miles across. About a billion of them could fit inside Saturn's largest moon, Titan (seventeen were discovered). With planets, we started getting too many "plan
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by magduf 7y ago
I don't see why that's any of their business. The only thing that's the business of a government is the income generated inside its own borders by that person or company, and the government should be able to have access to t
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by magduf 7y ago
I hate to defend a big corporation, but they do seem to have a point: where exactly are the standards for being able to determine whether a website is or is not accessible? Even for sighted people, there's no real standards for anythi
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by magduf 7y ago
Sure I do: there are other countries out there, you know, and they do tax very wealthy people more. There's more to the world than America.
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by magduf 7y ago
Why would there be a concern for overpopulation? Population is falling in every developed nation now, if you ignore immigration. People don't want to have a lot of kids when they have money and education, and this is happening to e
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by magduf 7y ago
>fails to account for the many, many socially maladapted yet gifted people out there When has anyone ever claimed that being socially adept correlated with IQ? It's long been a trope that geniuses were eccentric and socially mal-ad
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by magduf 7y ago
I'd like to say that this is a brilliant and insightful post, and really explains the "old people don't like new music" phenomenon succinctly. The only minor things I'd add are that the music industry has changed a
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by magduf 7y ago
Google for "naked mole rat".
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by magduf 7y ago
People will still die, due to accidents etc., just not as quickly. History has shown that younger generations aren't always better than older ones. The rise of Naziism in the 30s wasn't because of a bunch of elderly people.

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