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by manarth 10y ago
The current system is imperfect, but it's not outright fraudulent. In general, if a company claims "Drug X gives 10% more pain relief than aspirin", they have to support that claim with evidence, which can be reviewed (and co
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by manarth 10y ago
There is some evidence to suggest that annual physicals do more harm than good [1][2] (although it's fair to add that there are competing viewpoints on that). [1] http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/arc
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by manarth 10y ago
Poacher-turned-gamekeeper is an age-old practice.
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by manarth 10y ago
They would not be permitted within 31m Do you have a good justification for that claim? If a judge made a ruling that someone couldn't approach closer than 30.5m, and the subject was outside that limit, surely they are complyin
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by manarth 10y ago
>> "In the fall of 2015, he took a refresher course in the conduct >> of science, which covered topics such as ethics and misconduct." > It "reminded him"? I wonder what prompted him to take
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by manarth 10y ago
The definition of "a foot" was only agreed relatively recently: it wasn't all that long ago that countries differed on their definition. That difference in measuring systems (an Amsterdam foot was 11 inches, a Swedish foot wa
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by manarth 10y ago
31m would be a better conversion: the subject of the order is not permitted within 30m of the student, but is permitted within 31m. That said, I would suggest simply using the original units. It would be silly to misrepresent a judge's
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by manarth 10y ago
the way we are [empathetic] to dogs and cats and dolphins and squirrels but not to mosquitoes; we happily murder them There are some philosophies [1] which also care/show empathy towards mosquitoes, and creatures that wouldn&
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by manarth 10y ago
the computational entities are going about their inscrutable business largely without reference to the human symbiotes A behaviour also seen in Iain M. Banks Culture. I guess there aren't many scenarios where computers can be
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by manarth 10y ago
Not even 24 hours. For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of t
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by manarth 10y ago
he is unlikely to push climate change one way or another He has appointed a number of climate-change deniers to the cabinet [1], including positions such as the EPA Administrator. I wouldn't be surprised to see action against
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by manarth 10y ago
would any downvoters care to explain how google being able to arbitrarily dictate web content is a power they should have? Not actually a downvoter, but I do disagree with the sentiment: Google are simply choosing how to rank web-
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by manarth 10y ago
And when the loading speed is slow, which makes the layout move, so your attempt to click the [X] accidentally clicks the advert instead, generating income for the site. (why are you being downvoted? No idea, you make a reasonable, articula
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by manarth 10y ago
I studied in the UK When was this? The accommodation in The Young Ones [1] isn't too far a cry from the sorts of student accommodation you'd find in the 80s and 90s, and a disused brothel would fit right into that picture.
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by manarth 10y ago
nice facilities are easy to see and judge. And (in theory) this would make a good proxy for judging the other aspects: if the university has pride in providing good quality accommodation for their students, than you could assume tha
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by manarth 10y ago
Nicotine replacement products aren't associated with cancer risk There is evidence that Nicotine replacement products do increase the risk of cancer. Every source I've read says that the risk is less than smoking cigarette
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by manarth 10y ago
You're right that individuals do have to interpret the law, and choose their behaviour accordingly. AFAIK, it's only in the last hundred years or so that we've started to recognise human rights having precedence over a single
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by manarth 10y ago
it returned the exact Wikipedia page that pvg told you it would return Which particular wikipedia page is being so thoroughly referenced in this thread? Which particular post in this thread provides a URL? Perhaps you could post the
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by manarth 10y ago
You should read the beginning of the thread. Or type 'collateral murder incident' into google. The beginning of the thread references https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/ which is a wiki leaks URL,
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by manarth 10y ago
I'm still unclear about which particular Wikipedia page you would like to direct me to. You've posted: The incident had been reported and covered by the press, there was no 'government cover up'. The new bit was th
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by manarth 10y ago
As to the page, the page about the incident. For my benefit, and the benefit of everyone reading this thread, hoping to gain a greater understanding of the issues, could you please provide the specific URL, rather than alluding el
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by manarth 10y ago
You don't have to speculate, you can just read the wikipedia page. Which page are you referring to? Could you please provide a link? a reporter for the Washington Post was able to reconstruct the incident and write a book
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by manarth 10y ago
You can't expect people to know that I shared the link, so that people who weren't aware of Chelsea's preferred pronouns, could learn which pronouns she preferred. this whole preferred pronoun issue is nonsense;
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by manarth 10y ago
The new bit was the video itself. Saying "X happened", and offering "Here is video that demonstrates X happened" are very different things. A video of an event can be of such overwhelming significance that its im
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by manarth 10y ago
Slavery and the Holocaust were legal (within the legal context of their respective nations' legislation). Sometimes even governments' actions are illegal.
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by manarth 10y ago
Chelsea has publicly identified the preferred pronouns as "she/her/hers". [1] [1] http://www.glaad.org/blog/chelsea-mannings-name-and-pronouns...
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by manarth 10y ago
I agree. I would like to see people addressed by the pronoun that they prefer. For most people, their presentation gives a strong enough suggestion that I would generally use the "expected" pronouns, for their apparent presentatio
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by manarth 10y ago
I wish they gave a source for the relationship between using these pronouns and telling the truth. The explanation is given in the paper, citing another study. Thankfully it's not paywalled (hooray for open access!) As the HN a
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by manarth 10y ago
You seem to fall into the trap of "if I don't hand over money at the same time as I make use of something, it's free." The distinction is that it doesn't matter how much or little I use it, I pay no more.
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by manarth 10y ago
Why do you think they're trying to market to an English speaking audience? Because the site is in English, without a French translation alternative. They are marketing this uniquely in English.

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