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by memling 6y ago
> We still have a birth rate that is too high. It will be a long long time before we need to work on raising the birth rate and the problem isn't that complex. Do you have any citations for this? Not snarking—genuinely curious, not
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by memling 6y ago
> his blatant intellectual dishonesty Sincerely curious: do you have examples? Scalia's a controversial justice, to say the least, for a variety of reasons, but I don't quite understand this criticism. (I do understand not li
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by memling 6y ago
> Basically you're asking if it's 'daily driver' ready. My opinion is not currently, but opinions vary on this point. That said, if you're a heavy Linux user with an interest in mobile you might want to pick one
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by memling 6y ago
>I can't tell you what the Librem 5 is really like, because they haven't shipped mine yet, but the PP is very, very nice. I guess my question is: can you use the PinePhone (or Librem 5) as a phone? Can you reliably make and r
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by memling 6y ago
> And if not for our medical system people with Down syndrome would die to natural selection. I guess I don't understand your comment; what does natural selection have to do with it? I'm making no statements here except that th
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by memling 6y ago
fetuses with down's syndrome are routinely aborted.
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by memling 6y ago
what if everyone uses it (or other genetic treatments) for augmentation or design? there is a critical mass when compulsory loses its meaning, I think. you don't have to eliminate cash by law for example if no business will take it.
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by memling 6y ago
where would you put Herodotus or Thucydides or xenophon? the first historians weren't Roman really. there are other works less self consciously historical that predate them too, right?
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by memling 6y ago
Can confirm; recently configured a Surface tablet for family, and no workarounds were possible.
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the number of experiments. one challenge is distinguishing between actual effects and random chance. hence the need for replication.
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by memling 6y ago
> That's the moment when, suddenly, 1) the antagonist molests a child or rapes a woman, and is killed with glee, or 2) the hero gets the upper hand on the antagonist but decides morally and bravely not to kill them, then turns their
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by memling 6y ago
> You want outsiders to participate (think: new employees)? Write all documentation yourself, too!) Shouldn't you be doing this anyway? Not trying to be snarky: it's that every job I've worked at has a classic underdocum
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by memling 6y ago
> The problem is we (as in hn) can type faster than we can think of the words to describe. Do you suppose it's possible that speed isn't really what counts? In the era of typewriters, authors like C. S. Lewis opined that typin
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by memling 6y ago
> Personally, I would rather be worried about the real estate market and office buildings folding in value... Real estate also has a long-term demographic problem: fewer people means lower demand. We're below replacement rate[1],
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by memling 6y ago
> I liked the Barney mod for Doom though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsvdMzfFNdQ Barney Splat[1] was a door game for BBSs back in the day. [1] https://www.mobygames.com/game/barneysplat
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by memling 6y ago
Sorry for the delayed response--not out of unwillingness, but busy-ness. Your original response made me think of a few questions, but I think in the end it boiled down to asking what is the goal or purpose of love? Does it dovetail with a
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by memling 6y ago
> But why would any of those many strangers love specifically you? One possible reason is that people reciprocate love. So your best strategy is to become a loving person yourself. And then, one of the people you meet, will return your f
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by memling 6y ago
> Can anyone care to elaborate the situation where you live? I'm very curious what motivates people to learn dead languages and read books thousands years old. I'd guess religion is one driver. My impression of Sweden is that
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by memling 6y ago
> Well, let's take those stone tablets that Mozes brought down from the mountain. Yeah, that's one of those obvious examples I was thinking of before, but upon reflection I'm not sure it makes a lot of sense to view this a
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by memling 6y ago
this sounds as plausible as saying that a lot of atheists believe in god. maybe it's a thing? but it's hard to imagine dropping someone in nicea in 380 and suggesting this. words mean things: Christians believe in more than the vi
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by memling 6y ago
> If the question is did morality and ethics come from religion or preceded it then I would bet on morality and ethics coming first and religion growing out of those a precursor to a legal system. Note that a lot of religious morality an
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by memling 6y ago
> I beg to differ. I think the point was not that ethics and morality are impossible without religion, at least not exactly. I think the questions were a little different, e.g., where did the ideas come from?
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by memling 6y ago
> Christians are what Christians do. This is generally not true. Try to replace "Christian" with "Atheist" or "Gnostic" and see how far this travels. While there are, I suppose, some distinctive practices
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by memling 6y ago
> The only unifying thing behind people who say "Black Lives Matter" is the belief that Black Lives Matter. Okay, I'll stipulate for sake of argument. As the apostle famously said, faith without works is dead. If one beli
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by memling 6y ago
> Denying the existence of POC and their oppressed status in America is more than just "not supporting BLM," it's a denial of the foundation of their reason for existing. Acknowledging the personhood of people of color is
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by memling 6y ago
it seems to me a rather dangerous precedent to argue that one must ally with blm. after all if you are not a social conservative you are perpetuating an immoral status quo. of course one might work to end qualified immunity for example or t
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by memling 6y ago
there's a reason no one uses the old standards if they can help it. when I worked on a compiler for asn.1 we supported a very limited subset of the 1988 macros by doing some hard coded generation.
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by memling 6y ago
> And a longer piece about a forged first-century gospel from the same institution: As a clarification to this comment, the article does not say that the fragment is a forgery; rather it says that the claims of its age were fraudulent, o
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by memling 6y ago
> I'd be curious if anyone has used this and also used YNAB (and can compare them). I'm a long-time user of both. YNAB wins hands-down in budgeting and basic usability. When I got married, we integrated finances. I had been u
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by memling 6y ago
> GnuCash's Price Editor can fetch values automatically. It used to be able to use Yahoo finance, but they cut that off a while back. There is a replacement, but I cannot remember what it is at the moment (and am on the work laptop)

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