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by nearbuy 6y ago
I think you're saying that, 1. Pigs would do bad things to us if they were different than they actually are (smarter) 2. Therefore pigs aren't very moral 3. It's okay for us to hurt beings that aren't very moral I don&#x
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Since they lack thoughts, they couldn't care less.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
What's confusing to me is it says the private schools are attracting more driven, independent and smarter students while increasing class sizes, reducing teacher salaries and reducing resource staff. So how are they attracting these st
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Obesity and lack of exercise are risk factors for diabetes. Sugar is not thought to cause it, although there is some debate. From Diabetes UK [1]: > With type 2 diabetes, the answer is a little more complex. Though we know sugar doesn’t
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Herbicide is how they're using GMO to give higher yields. Farmers aren't buying herbicides just to throw away money. Higher yields means we can produce the same amount of food while converting less natural environments into farm
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I'm looking at the Unlikely Landscape collection ( http://museumofbadart.org/unlikely-landscapes/ ) and realizing that I can't tell the difference between good and bad art.
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That doesn't sound right. Do you have a source for that? What does 50% mortality mean here?
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Why would driving the stock price to zero bankrupt a healthy company? Companies go bankrupt when they can't pay their debt. A low stock price may impact their ability to raise more capital by issuing more stock, but if the company is p
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by nearbuy 6y ago
And yet hedge funds still tend to underperform the market. Warren Buffett once bet that over a 10 year period, the S&P 500 would outperform a portfolio of hedge funds ( https://longbets.org/362/ ). He won that bet.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
If you check the TASER stock at the claimed time (June 2005), there's no sudden dips in stock price. The site claims that a single article which was corrected 3 days later did damage to the stock price, but I'm not seeing it in th
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Given the insane volume on both sides, I think Reddit is a small fraction of the buyers. Professional traders and big firms are probably the bulk of both sides. And with the price so high, I'm sure there are plenty of retail investors
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Many of them are buying because they're being told it's a way to hurt the people who caused the 2008 financial crisis. In reality, they don't have a good idea of who's benefiting and who's losing, nor what those par
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I don't know that much about it. Martha Stewart went to a minimum security prison for female inmates, and honestly, she's exactly the type of criminal that belongs in minimum security. The judge recommended they send her to her fi
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Bernie Madoff, Conrad Black, Martha Stewart
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by nearbuy 6y ago
They found jQuery is correlated with longer times to interactivity. It doesn't necessarily cause it. The latest jQuery is 85 KB (~30 KB gzipped), and doesn't do anything time consuming on load. My guess is the types of sites that
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> they could offer control to override Chrome lets you override and proceed to the site. The problem for the small business is that a large fraction of their customers see the scary red warning page.
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I don't think this solves the problem from the article, since small businesses will still have to deal with getting mistakenly blocked by whatever the popular blockers are. With 40,000 new phishing sites per week, it's not an easy
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by nearbuy 6y ago
It's a truism not because people are never malicious, but because we tend to see agency where there is none. Accidents are seen as intentional. This tendency leads to conspiracy theories, superstitions, magical thinking, etc. We'r
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by nearbuy 6y ago
This helps one group and hurts another. If Google is liable for blocking potential malware and phishing pages, they'll either stop blocking it, or adjust their algorithm to strongly err on the side of allowing phishing sites. Businesse
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Assault rifles, certainly, were already superior to offensive spells in 1997. Cell phones existed, but they were just phones and few people had them. Now everyone walks around with this multi-tool that's of comparable utility to a magi
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by nearbuy 6y ago
On the topic of how wondrous technologies become mundane, I find it amazing how we surpassed some of the magic from Harry Potter, and no one is impressed. The first book was published in 1997. The characters have very handy magic wands, whi
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by nearbuy 6y ago
> Trademark squatting is when one party intentionally files a trademark application for a second party's registered trademark in a country where the second party does not currently hold a trademark registration. https://w
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I wasn't aware of sci-hub, but it seems awesome. Thanks! The paper you linked by Nevin seems to be doing the same thing as the paper by Reyes. They didn't test the lead levels in individuals studied, but looked at the total lead r
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by nearbuy 6y ago
It sounds a bit less clear-cut than that. It seems that, through inheritance, 138 relatives each owned a tiny share of 2.35 acres of land, with one of the relatives, Carlos Andrade, owning a larger share and having been the only one living
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by nearbuy 6y ago
That does sound like a flaw, although the paper by Jessica Wolpaw Reyes I often see mentioned that argues lead causes crimes isn't based on measuring lead levels in individuals at all, but on the total lead released by cars during the
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by nearbuy 6y ago
I'll add my observation that action movies and games try to evoke a particular feeling (that feeling that causes you to exclaim, "that's so cool!"), and that feeling isn't just from violence. For me, watching an awe
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by nearbuy 6y ago
This New Zealand study [1] attempted to look at the crime-lead relation in a place where it wasn't confounded by childhood socioeconomic status, and "failed to support a dose-response association between BLL (blood lead level) and
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by nearbuy 6y ago
In contrast to some of the other replies, I don't find your friend's response particularly unexpected. She probably didn't mean to be hurtful. People often don't know how to respond to hearing other people's problem
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by nearbuy 6y ago
Among younger people I know (under 35), piracy is extremely common, and Netflix/Spotify/Steam is also extremely common (although the Netflix accounts are often shared with a relative or friend). They aren't really mutually ex
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by nearbuy 6y ago
On top of that, the parent poster doesn't want to spend 100% of their disposable income on online browsing. If they reserve $80/month for going out, and $20 for online, that's only about 6 sites per month.

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