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by neaden 7y ago
Agent Smith addresses this in the first film. "Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program, entire
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This doesn't really seem to indicate that was ever the plan. There is an offhand mention of a different plan, a Neil Gaiman story that I've read and has to do with aliens and is very different, and a novelization that doesn't
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"I’d also imagine if you tried to really abuse the relationship and show up constantly for no reason the doctor might fire you." My worry with something like this would be the doctor firing me as a patient as soon as I became unpr
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As mentioned it's way easier for software developers to immigrate to the US, and there is no organization limiting the number of software engineers trained into the profession every year. There is an additional confounder in that the b
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That's ridiculous. If someone commits fraud and you believe them that is their fault, not yours for being a victim.
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I think this is the key, so much of of the problems physicians face were created by physician and their own lobbying. American Physicians are paid more then other countries by a lot [1] in large part because of high educational requirements
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For anyone confused here is the original that this is referencing: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/87268
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Catholic.
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I'm unsure if this would lead to an increase in socialization and not just a lot of people in their own houses playing video games and watching Netflix.
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That's easy enough to check, compare rates in denser countries/states to more spread out ones or cities vs. suburbs. I have a hunch that the correlation won't be there but it should be interesting either way. Edit: doing a qu
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To some extent yeah. I've had members of my church get hit with sudden costs from an accident/medical bill and someone will start up a collection to help them out. Church's might also run a food bank or similar service to the
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"Many - if not most - of the residents of inner city slum areas were raised by single mothers who had them very young without the means to support them. They turned to drugs and gangs. They never graduated high school. In short, they n
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No, he pretty clearly claims that job loss at the present is from automation. Here is a quote from an oped he wrote: "It’s easy to cite incomplete statistics that ignore the full picture and the situation on the ground, but I’ve done t
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Back in the day they used to have Hotel Detectives, one of whose key roles were preventing premarital sex or affairs from occurring. I think Hotel Detectives are almost totally gone now, but the attitude of protecting the hotel from scandal
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For the actual information from the survey see this link: https://www.channel3000.com/lifestyle/the-surprising-things-... 49 out of 1,157 hotels in the survey reported having a mattress stolen. "Whereas many four-
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I'm not trying to argue whether or not an RV or a cheap house is going to be less expensive, a question I am not interested in. It's in disputing the assertion that you can't afford a home and transportation for less than $25
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You're right that I shouldn't have used the 40 hours in my first most as it isn't an apples to apples comparison. The fact remains though that in comparison people in first world countries today have much more time that doesn
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RVs need gas, maintenance, and a place to be all of which generally cost money. Especially if you want access to sewer, water, and electricity.
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This is only true because the authors are trying to use a capitalist definition of work to a precaptialist society. There was a huge amount of time spent on household tasks like mending clothes, preparing food, doing repairs, spinning cloth
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"Slavery still exists it's just expanded to include every race." This is a very tasteless comment. It's also just flat out wrong. For the vast majority of human history, and in many countries today, people had to work m
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A lot of places? There is a pretty significant portion of the country where you can get a downpayment on a house for $10k and pick up a nice enough used car for a couple thousand. There are more options then living in an expensive city, a m
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Your mistake here is in saying that because the p-value is 1/32 you reject the null hypothesis. You just decided to do that with utterly no justification. There is a problem with people unthinkingly deciding that a p-value of .05 is re
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The Soviet Union grew it quite extensively, and I believe both Canada, France, and Australia have allowed its growing for a couple decades now. It doesn't seem like in any of those countries it has lived up to the potential pro-hemp bo
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How much is industrial hemp used in countries where it has always been legal though?
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Just started reading, it's very interesting and worth looking into for anyone who's work involves modelling and decision making.
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They didn't really need his phone though. They were never actually trying to get information from him, just forcing him to say certain things.
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Agreed, it's a tautology I'll admit but if they can bring you back, you're not dead. Just like we used to be able to say no heard beat meant you were dead, and now we don't.
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Great. First thing we have to do is figure out a way to evaluate teacher school, something that I'm sure will be totally uncontroversial to do and not simply be a group of people bringing all their own biases in.
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Privatised medicine is not a free market, conflating them like this is disengenuous.
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How is this true? If a medical procedure is the only thing between you and death how could you possibly negotiate a fair rate in the free market, especially considering some treatments are monopolies if they have a patent on them. The free

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