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by oska 7y ago
Ok, I just did a bit of searching for studies on hunter-gatherer use of drugs. This paper [1] supports my characterisation of being mostly for shamanistic/ritualistic use. And this paper [2] suggests that drug use also had medicinal be
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Who gains from the great university scam?(unherd.com)
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by oska 7y ago
> The decoupling of the sexual act from the procreative act The sexual act has been 'decoupled' from the procreative act since forever. People have always had ways to avoid pregnancy (some more successful than others) and sexua
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by oska 7y ago
> Drug use goes back as far as humankind does because people have been trying to cope with the stress of life since there have been people. I do not think the second half of your statement is true. Certainly there was drug use in hunter
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by oska 7y ago
Input into a decision like this might be one of the best approximations of achieving immortality.
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by oska 7y ago
I also don't buy the study. Further, any questioning about knowledge of Auschwitz should also include questioning about knowledge of other 20th century atrocities, such as the British suppression of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, the N
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by oska 7y ago
> Surely we wouldn't tolerate it in this forum, why should it be tolerated in others? Because this is the difference between moderation and freedom of speech. It is fine to say that some things are not acceptable to say within a par
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by oska 7y ago
I've already flagged lph's comment smearing vorpalhex but I see it as so egregious I'm also going to list the HN guidelines that I see it as breaching: > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful a
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by oska 7y ago
I agree with pretty much all of your comment. The only thing I don't agree with is this: > The irony will be that the net effect will be way worse than today: completely unmoderated, unregulated speech with global reach. I certainly
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by oska 7y ago
It seems my guess was wrong. This map [1] shows where the factory will be cited (apparently based on some German media reports). [1] https://i.redd.it/eze28dydmiy31.png
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by oska 7y ago
Where did I take any action to 'silence' you? All I was suggesting was that to actively come into a discussion and say that what's being discussed is not worth discussing is, in my opinion , both unproductive & rude. Wou
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by oska 7y ago
> I am against cult worship, so find the fact that Carmack is entering this space simply not news worthy You were always free to skip over or flag this submission and move on.
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by oska 7y ago
Looking at that map I'd assume they're planning on building the factory in the cleared area at the top, just off the Lichtenower Weg, with good close access to Highway 1.
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by oska 7y ago
I see; thanks for explaining that.
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by oska 7y ago
How about complaining on behalf of all the people who can't afford $10 a month, like teenagers, people in lesser developed countries, etc? You're happy for them to be spammed with toxic advertising while people who are better off
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by oska 7y ago
I agree with you. I'm totally fine with services charging subscriptions but not if the subscription is a way to turn advertising off. Push advertising is basically evil in my opinion and you don't get absolved from the evil you
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by oska 7y ago
Bizarre that this pretty inoffensive comment got flagged to dead. I vouched for you.
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by oska 7y ago
> Here in Israel we don't have Teslas You might have missed this very recent news: > International car company Tesla published an ad seeking an operations manager in Israel, thus confirming that it plans to launch significant ope
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History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future(theguardian.com)
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by oska 7y ago
And driving with only one is still legal.
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by oska 7y ago
> But if I am talking with someone that can speak a language I speak, and this person insists using one I don't understand, I indeed find it impolite. Sorry but this is a position of arrogance and entitlement. No-one is obliged to t
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by oska 7y ago
> And I think I could accept all this if it was for a good reason, but I think it is just stupid nonsense (did we learn nothing from Brexit?). It's not for you to decide that. If a majority of people in a region (yes, still to be co
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by oska 7y ago
> but I mind if you agree with their view of Spain as an authoritarian country There's a very ugly side to Spain, just as there is a very ugly side to Japan, France, the USA, Russia, Australia (my own country) and, I'm sure, th
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China’s Great Dam Boom: A Major Assault on Its Rivers (2013)(e360.yale.edu)
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by oska 7y ago
You can and many people do. However it is not silliness to detail regional variations in spelling, particularly when, as in this case, they give clues to lines of heritage.
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Canada opens the door to public scrutiny of clinical drug trials(undark.org)
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How the suit lost its power(vox.com)
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> and possibly even better It is better. Google is now just a sluggish tech bully and only shows world-beating performance through acquisitions (such as, sadly, their acquisition of DeepMind). The Google of 1999 - that a lot of us thrill
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by oska 7y ago
> ‘A writer’s face,’ he said, ‘should never be known.’ I think it's a good principle. Nor should they ever attend a book festival. Or go on a book tour.
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by oska 7y ago
You remain blind to, either willfully or unconsciously, my argument. Instead you come back with puerile rejoinders. Look at the original quote from the article - "when seen from above". There was an assumption there that seen from

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