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by mapt 1y ago
To willingly lie about something you need to be able to differentiate truth from fiction. Defamation hinges on either this willing lie ("malice") or on negligence (and the expected due diligence for a self-professed news organiza
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by mapt 1y ago
This is a general defense to try and moot the existence of defamation law, and a judge who isn't on the right-wing payroll is likely to take offense. Fox settled with Dominion for $800M.
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by mapt 1y ago
A fair point, but wouldn't it only become unrecognizable at levels that mean you're effectively eating pus instead of salmon? My understanding is that the effective innoculation needed to give botulism to a human baby (who has a
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by mapt 1y ago
Parasitic worms are huge, complex multicellular animals that co-evolved to sometimes survive the immune system response to their presence; Freezing kills them because they are huge and the scale of ice crystals severs important body parts.
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by mapt 1y ago
Hogan (Thiel) vs Gawker and Sandy Hook vs Alex Jones provided a blueprint to weaponize defamation law for political change in an environment where right-wing journalism has turned into a defamation pipeline and then a defamation -> moral
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by mapt 1y ago
> To make their product, the food company’s scientists collect living cells from Pacific salmon and grow them in cell cultivators that mimic the inside of a wild fish—controlling factors like temperature, pH and nutrients, per their webs
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by mapt 1y ago
It has been obvious that we were supposed to be sandboxing these browser sessions in the OS and sandboxing these Google Accounts in basic internet opsec. Being able to create and discard these identities at will is the only sensible, resil
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by mapt 1y ago
The supposed Biblical Ark only held 2-7 of each animal. Denali is a big mountain, and will make a rather large zoo or a small nature preserve. But there are other Arctic ranges with less extreme altitudes that are going to prove useful as
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by mapt 1y ago
345 feet there, wait for the light to change to pedestrian crossing, watch both ways ANYWAY because pedestrian crossings are not going to be exclusive use at an intersection like this, then 345' back, adds up to five to ten minutes.
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by mapt 1y ago
I was always warned away from them because who knows who might be inside. There were some legitimate issues with the lack of any eyes on these spaces permitting mildly antisocial behavior, and some illegitimate issues with every other made
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by mapt 1y ago
Maintaining friends in the Party, often Party Members inside your HR department and inside the board of your Chinese corporate division, means rolling over on their priorities a carefully considered percentage of the time. What that percen
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by mapt 1y ago
Bigger animals have low numbers, larger ranges, less genetic variability, longer reproductive cycles, evolve much slower, and tend to go extinct much more reliably.
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by mapt 1y ago
We may lose the sea ice and continental glaciers, but we'll probably still retain some ice with the intersection of extreme altitudes and extreme latitudes, at least for our lifetimes. A place like Denali is a lifeboat.
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by mapt 1y ago
In a time of rapid ecological change, highly mobile R-selected species have huge advantages.
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by mapt 1y ago
The next time somebody says the phrase "Fire in a crowded theater" to support free speech restrictions, remind them that this phrase comes from Schenck vs US (argued 1919), which was about whether you have the right to distribute
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by mapt 1y ago
I get the feeling that judges & juries are less and less likely to give the benefit of the doubt if charges/lawsuits are ever actually filed against the officer, year by year. You also get just rank intimidation. My friend got out
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by mapt 1y ago
In cases of parallel construction of evidence, is the prosecution still obligated to disclose everything to the defense in discovery? Is the tree from which the Fruit is picked only obscured from the jury, or from the defense as well?
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by mapt 1y ago
"The card says moops" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMabpBvtXr4 The liberal can't argue with inauthentic memes. They must give the benefit of the doubt by their own rules. The conservative sees this as an e
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by mapt 1y ago
"Millionths", abbreviated "mths of a second" here for... reasons... Known to the entire world, including American STEM people, as a microsecond.
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by mapt 1y ago
Most of the country isn't Seattle or Hong Kong or SF, hemmed in on all sides by mountains and bays. In most of the country, the city could just choose to build more city. All it needs is infrastructure, rezoning, planning permission.
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by mapt 1y ago
The USPS and state DMVs should also collaborate on the novel role of identity management. Right now if you lose your phone, half of your life disappears because Google won't even log you into the email address that contains every &quo
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by mapt 1y ago
Not necessarily. If it's half, it may be worthwhile on an energy basis in a narrowly defined sense. But there are far-reaching secondary energy costs beyond this explicit accounting. How do you account for the fuel burned in the jet
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by mapt 1y ago
This is such an off-base critique that it seems like deliberate trolling. The biofuel renewable carbon cycle takes carbon from the air, and burns the carbon once it's in the form of ethanol. It stops taking carbon from the ground and
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by mapt 1y ago
Yes, that is indeed what was sold to us 30+ years ago. This background context is in the article; The rest of the article is about how that was a lie. By about 20 years ago we understood that this was nonsense, that farm equipment and tran
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by mapt 1y ago
I didn't even think about the replication part of the value proposition. Do a detailed enough study of an entire population and you get very strong hypothesis testing for all sorts of diseases & treatments simultaneously . You do
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by mapt 1y ago
Qualify it as three types. There are the fermented pickles There are the pickles that get mixed with prefermented preservative (usually vinegar/salt) and pressure-canned And then there are the pickles that get flash cooked or not cooke
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by mapt 1y ago
This sort of thing is exactly like preventative whole body MRI scans. It's very noisy, very overwhelming data that is only statistically useful in cases we're not even sure about yet. To use it in a treatment program is witchcra
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by mapt 1y ago
Targeting them with what? What could possibly hold enough leverage that Visa would jeopardize their sweet gig as an ideology-neutral, essential piece of American infrastructure siphoning 1-2% off of every dollar of consumer spending?
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by mapt 1y ago
Bolting together at a variety of odd angles is a terrible thing to waterproof, and most domes do have water infiltration problems. You can just spray foam the whole thing, building a dome of polyurethane, but if you're going to do tha
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by mapt 1y ago
As a user not involved in android or linux development: I don't care. Fix it. You just don't break the entire ecosystem of unmaintained apps for a 3% performance improvement. We maintained win32-x86 executable compatibility for

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