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by nip180 6y ago
People addicted and regularly consuming alcohol, meth (smoked, snorted, or injected), street heroin, and cocaine all suffer from significantly worse side effects than people addicted to sugar. I’ll grant you that sugar has a higher total so
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by nip180 6y ago
That’s absurd and incorrect. It’s significantly safer to expose an unborn child to sugar than alcohol, cocaine, meth, or heroin.
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It’s literally all about that $81k at this point. More time in prison, more people in prison, more lobbying dollars to encourage the use of the prison system. We have 2.5 million people in jail/prison.
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by nip180 6y ago
Very good question. I had two avenues in mind, fungus and compost.
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by nip180 6y ago
To put a number on it, you exhale ~2.3lb of CO2 a day. You should also consider that much of a plants mass is water, so it would require a significant amount of plant matter to scrub the air. I once did the math, and found that an algae ta
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by nip180 6y ago
In the US we generate on average 0.99lb of CO2 per kWh. The total output is 1.87b tons of CO2. Total CO2 emissions in the US were about 5.17b tons. So about 1/3 of emissions. It’s worth doing, considering we can reasonably execute t
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by nip180 6y ago
I’m not the parent comment, but many undesirable things are not caught by the common carbon water filters. Specifically it does very little for bacteria, viruses, and other organic compounds.
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1:29 EST still 404
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TV addiction is a huge problem in the western world. The average American spends more than 2.5 hours watching tv a day, and Netflix is a large part of that. Even worse, Netflix promotes “binging”, of watching tv for long periods of time.
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by nip180 6y ago
Isn’t that the essence of Netflix’s point? That Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc are far worse for you than Netflix. It’s hardly an unbiased position, considering Netflix is bidding on attention just like TikTok or YouTube is
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It was very ironic that Netflix, who once said that sleep is there biggest competition, releases a documentary about how it’s rivals in the attention economy are harmful. Yes, Netflix doesn’t advertise directly to me, but many of the effect
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> My assumption is that upper management doesn't want to admit they've made a mistake in hiring their subordinate managers. Avoiding situations like this is why we praise failure. When someone says “I made a mistake, this is w
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Too much bureaucracy for access to internal resources (api access, repository access, requisition of servers, google doc permissions, w/e) slows down ICs and is a sign of bad corporate culture. There’s a difference between needing to a
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World War I doesn’t seem to far off. A Bosian assassinates an Austo-Hungarian prince and then Japan it taking control over German assists in China.
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Americans have a fixation on independence and “making it” on your own is a way to demonstrate independence. —- Random well educated American.
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I strongly disagree. Microsoft is largely responsible for introducing computers to everyday people. They championed a mission of “a computer on every desk and in every home” in a way no one else was. I have strong doubts that PCs as we kn
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by nip180 6y ago
Right. Facebook, a young and suddenly influential company is a very different thing then the very large privately held companies. Those are usually very old, owned by multiple family interests, or associated with a government.
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A cheque? Unlikely. Was this a part of a closed door negotiation? Likely.
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> I agree, but at the same time the alternative is zero tolerance. I think it’s unfair to use term zero tolerance to describe equal enforcement. Zero tolerance is a specific sentencing pattern which uses harsh punishments for crimes. E
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No. In many situations the officer has discretion to ignore an infraction, write a warning, or give a ticket. Many aspects of interactions between people and police officers are up to an officer’s discretion.
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I find unequal enforcement of the law to be one is it’s worst aspects. There is not only officer discretion, but there is also discretion several places in the judicial system and privilege in being able to hire better legal council. Some
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by nip180 6y ago
This is an oversimplification of what the drug cartels do. The Cartels are the only buyer and seller of significance in Mexico, two narco-technocrats couldn’t get enough cocaine to import to make a difference without their buy in
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by nip180 6y ago
Funny, I was thinking that the opportunity to spend time in classes sounds like a win. I’d love to brush up on discrete math and take a bowling credit for the next five months.
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> Magic-as-technology is a surprisingly under-explored concept This is a very common way to address magic when tradition sci-fi writers try to incorporate fantasy elements into their novels. It’s used in the Shadowrun universe, and in t
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> Gibson found the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer exceedingly retro To be fair Gibson is often critical of works inspired by his novels and the genre he created.
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I think that many newer novels are cyperpunk inspired, but that doesn’t make them cyperpunk. The visual aesthetic is just as important as the story telling to the genre.
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You could, but ultimately it would be harder. In cyperpunk nature is almost never a character or force, but in fantasy words it often is. Cyperpunk aesthetic is also largely about how today’s technology might change the world as it develo
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I’m generally against eminent domain in the case that land is being forcibly purchased from one private party and sold to another private party. I’m against it because of its very high abuse potential. Property rights are essential in keepi
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Fraud results in higher prices for consumers through higher prices and credit card interest/fees.
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Building codes and zoning laws are, in part, a way of increasing the barrier of entry for new businesses. This benefits established businesses at the cost of reducing the number of new businesses. Licensing, permits, insurance, and complex

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