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by missosoup 7y ago
Same thing for mental health medication. The hilarious thing is all the druggies and doc shoppers know exactly what kind of stories to tell to get what they need. It's just honest people with honest issues that suffer. The entire conce
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Every Australian needs to read Silent Invasion - China's influence in Australia[1] and understand how deep CCP influence runs in every walk of life here. We can't begin combatting the threat until a sufficient percentage of the po
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Of course, that's already the case now for a lot of weapons. It doesn't fundamentally change the equation of war though. It's always been about machinery and the logistics to support it. There are very few exceptions, such as
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by missosoup 7y ago
1: MAD doesn't really work anymore because of the advent of hypersonic cruise missiles and the likes of russia's Burevestnik/Skyfall. There's probably not going to be a 1980s scenario of two sides launching all out again
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Drone swarms are casually countered with directed energy weapons of the variety that navy army and airforce are starting to field today.
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by missosoup 7y ago
> Please. It's not ignoring patents. Yes it is. And the pharma industry is pretty butthurt about it. https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2015/03/19/inside-india-... https://www.forbes.
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UBI is a good idea in principle but a gateway to dystopia in practice. UBI and similar systems are an easily abused vector to create a new slave class. Relevant reading: Manna: Two Visions of Humanity's Future
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Downvotes aren't to signal 'I disagree'. They're supposed to signal 'this comment is noise/doesn't contribute to discussion'.
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India has been pretty open and vocal about ignoring pharma patents when it comes to medications. They put the needs of the people above the financial wants of the industry. It's been a cause of tension in trade negotiations.
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HN is slowly becoming like reddit, people are downvoting a factually correct comment because they disagree. Because they don't know the topic they're disagreeing about.
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> I think you are unnecessarily making this political GP is just highlighting that India's ruling party made this unnecessarily political. I'm not sure why it's being downvoted when it's factually accurate and is inte
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Of course HK will be done if China deploys troops. There's just a reasonably high chance that it will also be the undoing of the CCP.
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This is correct. If we ignore catastrophic climate change, the next worst thing is being directly exposed to personal transportation pollutants - amongst which CO2 is pretty benign but there is far worse stuff. Living next to major roads or
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https://medium.com/@victoria27/heres-how-much-pollution-ship... https://www.ft.com/content/8bceef94-86cd-11e9-a028-86cea8523... https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cargo-
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> Primarily vegetarian diets and less driving would make mountains of difference for the world. Changing diets yes. Changing driving habits, not really. Personal use of passenger vehicles accounts for a tiny fraction of transportation re
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We are only scratching the surface of genetics and epigenetics and no one in the industry pretends to have the tools to make statements like '8% of the variance in sexual orientation is determined by genetic factor'. We know that
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by missosoup 7y ago
I was very much 'born this way'. If I could somehow change it or be 'fluid' towards something else, I sure would. Anecdotal yes, but in these cases anecdotal is important because we're talking about personal experie
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by missosoup 7y ago
Ninite[1] lets you pick and choose from a pretty large list of frequently used windows software and generates a single installer that sets them all up in one shot. https://ninite.com
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If you choose to download and not store your copy after consuming the media, that's your choice. Streaming takes that choice away from the user in the first place. With nothing gained in exchange.
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No, but they would download their content once and store it locally instead of repeatedly re-streaming it every time. IF you have children, you're probably familiar with the concept of streaming Frozen for the 50th time. If you're