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by nwiswell 3y ago
> Street dogs gather in packs and periodically attack people: not just small children, they go after grown men and women who are just walking down the street during daylight hours. This happened to me at night in Istanbul 10 years ago. I
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by nwiswell 3y ago
This is a complicated question. First of all, your statement is absolutely accurate. The weights involved can cause injury and can possibly be dangerous or even fatal when not handled correctly. On the other hand, exactly what is meant b
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> This little corner of my life feels a lot more under my control than anything else right now Yes that's exactly it! It's something of a refuge from whatever other chaos I'm dealing with. I get to feel good about trying a
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Powerlifting. Solitary and meditative if you want it to be; social and uplifting if you don't. It's healthy in a variety of ways (including bone density; physical activity; higher BMR and glucose metabolism; improved cardiovascula
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> turn out to be mostly true Nope, it was still pseudoscientific at the time, even if it gained scientific evidence later. Wikipedia is a purveyor of facts, not of judgments, but sometimes the two are inseparable. As long as it's a
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Why does the foot being divisible by 12 help anything? If you're dealing with something 7.3 ft long, what's the advantage over 2.23 meters? Hell, if you've got something 2.4 meters long and 7.87 ft long, it's the metric
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Mmm. That presupposes infinite linear time. By most accounts, "this life" bookends about 13.7 billion years of linear time, but how do we understand the state of things before that? How could we understand the state of things once
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Can't we say, with nearly as much accuracy, that this life is an epilogue to eternity?
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> But when chemicals so awful they kill the crop, the crop’s genes need to be modified so that they don’t die and that chemical residue ends up all over our food system Fortunately, you are not a plant. These chemicals just need to not h
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by nwiswell 3y ago
What about ending the presumption of immunity? It was an uphill battle in this case to strip the judge's immunity. Almost certainly this judge abused individuals who did not have the resources to defend their rights. Perhaps the burd
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It's not actually a paradox, it's just playing with semantics. Wiktionary[1] defines "intolerant": 1. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear. 2. Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas; indispos
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by nwiswell 3y ago
> That is precisely the subject of the paper I linked. GP was actually proposing inter-cycler links to create a kind of cycler network with Earth on one end and Mars on the other. That is, your latency comes from the speed of light, rath
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> In any event, can see quite a few differences between the two situations, such as the relative power disparity between the 2 sides in the middle east, the fact that Germany had taken over or was engaged in active hostilities with...mos
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I entirely agree, and I feel moreover that it's the moral obligation of the United States to use our substantial foreign policy influence with Israel to compel a more humane treatment of Palestinians. Nevertheless when people point o
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> and make enemies with all its neighbours too late. Israel exists because it won the 1967 war, when many of its neighbors simultaneously tried to invade.
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> Like, what is really the point of your comment Basically that what matters are international norms rather than international laws, and while Israel is plainly breaking international laws, it's less clear that they're breaking
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> That is genocidal language where you are holding civilians accountable. The entire situation is deeply regrettable and it's hard to find any heroes here, but I feel like we forget our own history so easily. The United States, with
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This is an academic journal article. It was originally submitted for publication at least six months ago.
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> I don’t understand what this means It means that politicians are going to protect the labor market for their constituents. Visa restrictions are a form of trade protectionism except that the "good" being protected is labor. S
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> Can someone explain why work visas are an acceptable thing? Because citizens vote and migrant workers don't?
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The real answer? Because non-tech companies pay lobbyists, too.
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> The part I don't understand is why the prices still go up at the same time for my ammo despite it not running low. I know next to nothing about this, but my guess is because the ammunition factories are busy making the military am
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If it requires enriched uranium ink then that's fine.
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> Maybe a "space scale" measuring inertial mass instead could work? Yeah. The obvious thing would be a centrifuge where the sample is placed in a "ball on a wire" contraption, the assembly is spun up to a known RPM, a
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by nwiswell 3y ago
Hm, seems like a way to put people off owning a Mercedes at all...
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I'm pretty sure you're engaging with a troll.
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> Hydrogen has a volumetric problem and it just isn't a great fuel for that reason. Even over short distances this is problematic. It just takes up too much space. Blended wing body designs may solve the volume problem. It's o
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> Relying on a 401k alone means that in the best case scenario means you're all but guaranteed to work until 60. This isn't actually true. I don't mean to suggest that the GP is good advice, but: 1) Many companies offer &q
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Considering dreams are essentially natural hallucinations, one wonders about the impact of modern psychedelics. A few hundred years hence, would a similar list have many entries reflecting psychedelic inspiration?
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It's not hard to understand why repatriation is economically attractive. People who have worked in the West for a decade or two live like kings in India because their accumulated savings goes so far. This huge difference in purchas

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