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by manfredo 6y ago
We also have Germany as a point of comparison. 1945 Was the bloodiest year of the European theater, a fact made even more palpable considering that the European war ended in May. Compound this with the fact that the ratio of troops killed v
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Sure, but headlines are still going to be "TikTok bans...", or at most "TikTok, which is owned by Microsoft, bans..." I doubt controversy related to TikTok is going to have much spillover on Microsoft. For the average pe
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China has already validated it's approach to foreign firms. The US has realized that China isn't going to change it's approach, and is instead emulating it. If China won't let foreign firms into their country, then it&#x
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Comparing China and Rome to a modern economy is basically impossible. Those were agrarian societies whose net output per unit of territory was largely static, and determined by the amount of food that can be grown in the land. I don't
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I think missed the crucial part of the previous comment: when birth control was invented and countries became more egalitarian, the disparities between men and women in many professions increased . Societies where women still aren't p
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If these disparities are attributable to culture, we'd expect different cultures to produce different outcomes. This is not the case. Women make up the majority of pediatricians in all societies that give men and women equal opportunit
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This is a vast assumption, and one that often produces inequalities more than it reduces it. In reality, people's preferences often do vary between groups even without discrimination or inequalities of opportunity. E.g. over 90% of ped
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The parent commenter seemed to be referring to the US, given that they referred to Delaware (a US State).
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The Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down state laws banning fake child porn. Since the 2010s a few people have been convicted for it, but only alongside convictions of real images. They probably saw no point in appealing if the other c
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> Even animated child porn is illegal because the theory goes, it drives demand for the real thing. Not in the US it isn't.
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> So Europe/India/everyone else should ban US apps? It becomes a slippery slope. Are Europe and India concerned by a US company controls popular social media companies? Evidently not enough to ban them, and if in the future if
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Ignoring the conflict of interest between social media and traditional media is not wise. What does Theranos have to do with this? The Wall Street Journal isn't competing with Theranos in the blood testing space. There's no confli
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Because the internet gutted its ad revenue. Back in 2000 the paper's strength was in its advertising: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/14/business/times-co-profit-... Over the course of the 2000s, th
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The US being a free market and China tightly controlling it's markets is precisely what's unfair. Think if it like a tariff. When a country establishes a tariff, most other countries set up their own tariffs in response. This is f
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Politics moves slowly. 10 years is barely more than 1 presidency. China bans Facebook despite the company offering to comply with censorship/propaganda rules (and Zuckerberg even offering Xi to name his child). The ban is unambiguously
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All of the screenshots for outerra on the web site only show terrain with no urban environments. This video shows urban environments, but the buildings seem to be low poly structures. Okay enough for a flight sim, but I doubt it would be pl
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Creating a realistic driving simulator would actually be much more difficult than creating a flight sim. Creating a virtual globe with ground details and buildings that look even moderately acceptable when viewed from ground level is very h
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But why pick Remington 700 over one of the countless other Mauser derivatives? Mechanically it's essentially identical to a Savage Axis, which costs half as much. You can get a Ruger Hawkeye or Winchester model 70 for the same price as
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The supposed defect of the Remington 700 trigger is not nearly clear cut as it's portrayed. The supposed failures often could not be replicated, and many were found to have had their triggers adjusted out of normal tolerances or otherw
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by manfredo 6y ago
Never owned a Remington myself, but they've not been held in high regard for a while. Some say it was linked to it's acquisition by Cerberus Capital. Ultimately, though, it seem alike the company was asking customers to pay premiu
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I'm not sure about that. Even if the accident rate is half, that's still an immense gain - over 10,000 lives saved each year in the US. Even if it's equal (or slightly greater than equal), the productivity boost would be subs
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It's not incorrect to say that automated technologies aren't always better than human operators. But that's not the measure we need to use. The question is does the net failure rate increase or decrease? Say the automated t
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Nuclear reactors are also have the added capability of driving desalination plants with the waste heat.
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Doing what you suggest has an immense issue of selection bias. You go into youtube trying to see if it recommends right wing videos, and you're going to be a lot more likely to click on right wing videos. Which then informs the algorit
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No, a hostile work environment does not require discrimination. A workplace that is entirely non-discriminatory but does nothing when one co-worker relentlessly bullies and harasses another co-worker is still a hostile workplace. You seem t
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> Calling your climate change denying coworker a backwards dumb-ass is not illegal. You can of course be fired for that inappropriate behavior, but it isn't illegal. A correct statement, but one that skirts around the issue at hand:
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> My own forays into Wrongthink have made me the subject of constant bullying by colleagues who disagree with my views. They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m “writing about the Jews
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I don't think this statement is primary about Weiss herself. Rather, less established writers are the ones that are most constrained by this environment.
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The point is neither you nor Stefan are even disagreeing with the point that the hoaxers are making: that these journals are not capable of rejecting even the most blatantly bad submissions. Stefan is just saying that the same point the hoa
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The author of the tweet pointed out that lied, and subsequently attacked others while playing the victim - which are sociopathic tendencies. If what he says it true, he could reasonably claim to have compelling evidence to prove his point.

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