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by ouid 6y ago
Isn't the lower limit on an estate that is subect to estate taxes pretty high? (State rules may differ, but if you're talking about "the death tax", you're probably speaking nationally) Dying is actually subsidized
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by ouid 6y ago
No, FDA standards for the safety of medicine that you give to healthy people are much more rigorous than for medicine that you give to sick people.
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by ouid 6y ago
Vaccines are very safe because they are required to be very safe by law, if a vaccine is not shown to be very safe, it is pulled from production. They are not intrinsically safe.
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by ouid 6y ago
Yeah, but the Eragon stories were just one boy's quest to minmax himself.
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by ouid 6y ago
Jesus, when did economists get so single minded? The benefits of a vaccine are almost exclusively from the network effects. It is almost purely externality. Since when are markets capable of efficiently allocating externalities? Likelihood
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by ouid 6y ago
Do you have a proposal for how? Drugs have very precise chemical formulations. Surgical techniques do not.
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by ouid 6y ago
>Studies are showing that "open placebos," which is when the patient knows it's a placebo, can work even better than when the patient doesn't know. Yeah, but are those studies RCTs?
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by ouid 6y ago
Well, since property is an abstraction that is dependent on your relationship with the government, what you are calling reality is also a legal thing.
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by ouid 6y ago
I would amend this to say that chat services have all been bad except for the first one, which was great.
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by ouid 6y ago
I think there's value in describing advertising for what it actually is, paying someone else to lie for you. You can talk about how it's necessary for businesses to let the "public know about their products", but you can
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by ouid 6y ago
Maybe we'll stop using microsoft office products.
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by ouid 6y ago
I know at lest 2 flat earthers who were given anti-psychotic medication and stopped being flat earthers.
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by ouid 6y ago
So perhaps the problem actually lies with the recommendation algorithm, and youtube should do something about that.
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by ouid 6y ago
Youtube's content delivery algorithm is also a kind of nanny, don't you think?
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by ouid 6y ago
Can you explain what you think this means?
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by ouid 6y ago
You know what? I think that might be the parent comment's point.
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by ouid 6y ago
>"When stored in the soft, slim Smart Case, AirPods Max enter an ultralow power state that preserves charge." Oh man, wait til they hear about "off", it's gonna revolutionize the industry
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by ouid 6y ago
I hear that hitler opposed blowing up the entire earth.
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by ouid 6y ago
I wonder if there wasn't something else going on in 1918 that perhaps eclipsed it in terms of importance.
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by ouid 6y ago
The more the company stonewalls you, the more likely your bad faith claims are to be accepted by a court. Bad faith contract violations come with punitive damages that can make it worth your time to fight, and I imagine that the $88 he made
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by ouid 6y ago
There are obviously punitive damages here. They violated their contract with him in fairly clear bad faith.
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by ouid 6y ago
The great filter is overdetermined, or else it isn't the great filter. This is just one of many.
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by ouid 6y ago
Sure, but that is very different from "religious tolerance"
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by ouid 6y ago
OK, here's how you make a smart TV, essentially. Take a dumb tv with some ports attached to it, plug a chromecast into one of the ports, and then pour epoxy over the whole thing. Your argument is that this adds value to the chromecast
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by ouid 6y ago
No, this is a stupid point. You should always prefer a factored product, no pun intended. All of these "problems" are easily solved by buying a dumb tv and hooking a computer up to it. That way, if you ever need a TV without a c
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by ouid 6y ago
You're the one who made the claim. If your idea can't handle the "absurd extremes" then your idea is wrong. Frankly, religious beliefs that include intolerance of other religious beliefs are empirically the rule, rather
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by ouid 6y ago
Religion is just any arbitrary set of beliefs. You cannot be tolerant of all arbitrary sets of belief and expect to get any sort of stability out of it.
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by ouid 6y ago
Particulate pollution does not stay suspended in the air indefinitely. When wind blows in the desert, dust is kicked up and the particulate pollution is temporarily quite high. Then time passes or it rains and everything is clean again. The
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by ouid 6y ago
To be fair, beef is the name of the animal if you're not english.
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by ouid 6y ago
"some animal rights activists argue it perpetuates an unhealthy obsession with eating animals." Here we see a journalist in its natural habitat, trying to foster a sense of outrage where none at all exists, in the hopes of luring

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