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by maria2 4y ago
Why? Plastic is made from oil. Oil exists deep in the earth, more or less permanently. If we extract oil, convert it to plastic, and then sequester the plastic permanently, e.g. via a landfill, then that seems net neutral. Yes plastic ends
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by maria2 4y ago
One of the main indicators of in the study you linked was sales volume, i.e. demand. > It really doesn't matter that a store can make a healthy profit by serving customers who live in a low income area. If that same store feels that
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by maria2 4y ago
Even if this anecdote were true, it’s just an anecdote. It’s important not to let anecdotes influence you emotionally. All types of individuals, religious or otherwise, do messed up things. Cherry picking examples that fit your world view i
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by maria2 4y ago
“Ducks are mammals” contradicts “mammals have mammary glands”. When this type of contradiction happens, we call the logical system inconsistent.
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by maria2 4y ago
Investing money in SPACs to boost revenue is like peak ZIR environment. Kind of sad to see a lot of net worth obliterated by the higher interest rates, but seeing the deflation of this kind of wasteful enterprise makes up for it a little.
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by maria2 4y ago
How can something be both logically sound and violently at odds with reality? What you’re saying is that those who hold YEC beliefs have an inconsistent belief system, but the belief in YEC is constructed with valid arguments within that be
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by maria2 4y ago
What part of the law does this violate, explicitly?
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by maria2 4y ago
Sugary beverages have been correlated with obesity and weight gain in multiple other studies, however. One thing that’s interesting having read a few of these is that there are often contradictory results when doing meta-analysis of multipl
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by maria2 4y ago
Feel free to share any resources you find particularly illuminating.
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by maria2 4y ago
I understand what you're saying, but, a priori, how can you say the existence of food deserts is because of reason X vs. Y. For instance, the poorest Americans drink the most sugary drinks [0]. I can accept there may be other reasons f
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by maria2 4y ago
This sounds very smart, but essentially what you're saying is that there isn't enough demand to support a store that sells fresh produce. Yes, the ability to profitably run a store is based off of margin and volume. Both of those
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by maria2 4y ago
So why do food deserts exist? The article simply states people live in food deserts. The article doesn't offer a reason for their existence.
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by maria2 4y ago
> … unless you live in a food desert, in which case that capitalist society is failing to provide for basic needs. Yes, you're starting to get it! If demand existed for cheap, nutritious food, someone would provide it for profit. W
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by maria2 4y ago
My argument is that nutritious, affordable food exists. We live in a capitalist society. Where there exists demand for a good, supply materializes. I'm open to other interpretations. But I would need a compelling, non-demand reason why
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by maria2 4y ago
Nutritious food can be very cheap. Others have mentioned beans and rice. Beans are an amazing source of nutrition. Dried beans are dirt cheap and require little work to prepare. Organic bananas from Whole Foods are about $0.50 each. I'
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by maria2 4y ago
Would it? If you tell me you poisoned my wine I wouldn’t give it a single thought. Or is there more to this analogy that you’ve neglected to mention?
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by maria2 4y ago
Housing prices aren’t even part of the inflation calculation.
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by maria2 4y ago
True. I guess my point is that those who fear for a loss of truth are generally mistaking malicious pretext for ignorance.
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by maria2 4y ago
Wolf reintroductions to Yellowstone, for instance, totally changed the ecosystem for the better. Animals evolved to keep each other in check. If you remove one animal, but not its prey, then the prey can cause an even greater loss of biodiv
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by maria2 4y ago
That seems bad? Look for /winnie/i in all private repos. The repo name includes the owner. Then go and arrest them.
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by maria2 4y ago
> all of those things are great, but their ability to stay great is conditional on a huge, precise system that depends on trust (which in turn depends on truth) to run. I 100% agree that the system is built on trust and that the system i
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by maria2 4y ago
That’s the thing. You’re not surrendering to lies. You’re just choosing not to play.
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by maria2 4y ago
You’re fighting a pointless war.
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by maria2 4y ago
The red countdown timer means run in the US.
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by maria2 4y ago
We’ve been in a post-truth society for some time now. Anything that makes it easier to lie is a positive in my book. Society needs to accept that we’re well past the time where information can be trusted. Either we adapt or die. One thing t
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by maria2 4y ago
But Swift has no way of signaling to C that the memory can be freed so I’m pretty sure it does a copy when using String’s cString constructor.
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by maria2 4y ago
Memory gets moved for a lot of reasons. Any type of FFI usually requires memory copies. For instance, if you pass a C string from Swift to C, the C side needs to copy the memory to use it after the immediate call. Or if C returns a string t
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by maria2 4y ago
They usually go to a black market currency dealer and keep the money under their mattress, or at least that's how they did it in the USSR.
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by maria2 4y ago
The friend could have purchased a stablecoin. For instance, as of writing right now, he could have bought USDT and had the same amount of money after 6 months. Obviously, the stability of USDT is rightfully questioned. But the stability of
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by maria2 4y ago
Why should we let philosophy define technical terms for ML? Many words have many meanings. Welcome to the imprecision of human language. As a slight tangent, I really hate this type of comment that inevitably appears on many HN submissions.

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