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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Since when is Texas a pejorative? Alberta is Canada's biggest oil producing region similar to Texas. I do not think it was meant as a pejorative.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
The main problem I have with how the issue of climate change is addressed is that there’s a huge disparity between how it’s described and how most authorities and luminaries have acted. If we are really on the brink of an existential crisis
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Why wouldn't they want a second dose? * If their reaction to the first dose was life-threatening due to anaphylaxis etc. * If their reaction to the first dose was scary and/or long and they’re too scared to get the second dos
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> In fairness blue origin seemingly jumped straight to a successful launch with their founder on board. Spacex is known for their unplanned disassemblies. Taking 20 years to launch your first customers is more a figurative crawl than a j
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> US is loosing more and more of its standing when it comes to "spreading" democracy. The US was only ever seen as a spreader of democracy in contrast to the Soviet Union/Fascist Europe/European Empires. And it was, b
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by nyokodo 5y ago
Also the english term "fair-weather friend" for friends who aren't around when times are difficult.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
Study in 6 months: “More than 6 cups of coffee not associated with dementia or brain size changes.”
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by nyokodo 5y ago
One thing that strikes me reading his and other accounts of the reaction to imminent death is that substantial changes in attitudes, perspective, and belief are rare. He’s dying but he’s still wasting time commenting about politics, even Ni
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Lumping them all together feels like we're giving out participation trophies. In defense of Branson his other space company Virgin Orbit now does orbital launches also, and has cool capabilities that genuinely differentiate it fro
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> The constant need for shots of dopamine are very, very detrimental to individuals and hence to society. The individual isn’t the unit of society, the family is. A lack of sexual morality is death to the family.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> That's statement is true of any abstract axiomatic system, and mathematics (or, rather, any mathematics) is an abstract axiomatic system, therefore it is true of any mathematics Are you referring to incompleteness theorem? If so,
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> The US doesn’t need “one person” when there are clear signatures and traces How clear are they really? How hard is it to pin an attack on another group or country?
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> You might get affordable child care that does not abuse your kids and you might get a school system that teaches them life fine.. but you may not If your response to child abuse, a lack of affordable childcare, and ok schooling is that
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> but you can't argue that being a parent requires lots of resources in both time and money I know enough parents doing fine for their kids without much money and even less time that I’ll have to contradict you. It’s infinitely bett
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Many of the largest problems in the world would be fixed by a smaller human population. Food, housing scarcity, climate change... What we’re seeing is the beginning of a sudden and massive drop in the working population across vast reg
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> ... your colleague who is ultra competitive and childless ... will just snatch up your position and when you are back you will find yourself sidelined. I see zero issues with this The major issue with this is that it discourages having
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Many basic life lessons that 'should be unsurprising' are extremely important for people who grew up in contexts of emotional neglect. Or for the neurologically atypical, or absolutely everyone since we all have obvious thing
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> he would be instantly cancelled if youtube and facebook and twitter (and spotify) all decided to ban his content. but short of that he’s fine His metrics would take a tumble but he’d end up being the big draw to another platform as soo
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> doesn't solve the problem on its own. Nothing will completely solve the problem, but controlled burns do considerably cut down on the total area burned.[1] 1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237866254
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates Not all food decay is driven by pathogens. We’d still need expiration dates for chemical degradation etc.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
All will be effected but some way more than others. The warm states should prepare for arctic blasts. The temperate states should prepare for more extremes. States that already deal with extremes will only need to prepare for degree not kin
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> I tend to work in Python not Scala Fair enough. I’m more comfortable in Scala than Python. Have you tried using a local Jupyter notebook? That would seem to tick all the boxes. https://jupyter.org/install
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Finally, an easy way to query Parquet data without spinning up a local Spark instance What's the burning pain-point here? Spinning up a spark shell is extremely quick and easy.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Actually you don't want this, and you are describing a nightmare scenario that everyone who studies health policy understands all too well. Would a very large representative sample of volunteers doing this kind of hitherto unprece
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by nyokodo 5y ago
That's what they want you to not believe!
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Sir Sidney Smith – Nemesis of Napoleon Bonaparte(en.wikipedia.org)
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> Really looking forward to having it explained We have satellites in space regularly scanning the whole planet. If you can see it from below you ought to be able to see it from above.
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> despite our disagreement as to whether justification and righteousness before God is conferred on the basis of faith alone in Jesus Christ alone. There is a strong tendency for Catholics and Protestants, when we all chill out and sit d
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> This whole thing is thoroughly medieval Actually, Medieval Scholastics had a vibrant discourse from a wide array of sources that would look practically libertarian by comparison to contemporary woke discourse. It sounded way more fun t
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by nyokodo 5y ago
> When I was a kid, people loved these programs that offered a glimpse into possible futures, kids wanted to be astronauts and technology was magical. Optimism for the future is a characteristic of a young culture and western culture is

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