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by pibaker 2mo ago
The article is a bit old. It should have noted a new development in calendar technology if it was written half a year later. > In A.D. 1582 Pope Gregory XIII found that the existing Julian calendar insufficiently represented reality, and
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Venezuela was likely a palace coup disguised as a purely foreign intervention by both parties involved. There is a reason why instead of holding an election or having the opposition take over, they just handed the country to Maduro's v
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by pibaker 2mo ago
How do you learn to cope so well? Did you attend the Dugin College of psychotic delusion or something?
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by pibaker 2mo ago
My understanding of why Europeans think the americas were pristine and barely touched by human existence is because smallpox was ahead of European explorers and by the time Europeans set foot on many places on the continent, they saw ecosys
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by pibaker 2mo ago
The US has the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and I'm sure you can find similar laws elsewhere. The problem is a law can be repealed any time. Might take some heavy lobbying to get there but nothing is impossible.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
We want theories to be backed by more rigorous data precisely because "having run into this many times in their own lives" is not reliable. People's own perception is incredibly biased. We can see a bias at play in your very
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by pibaker 2mo ago
And who gives the oligarchs power if not a populace that prefers cheap goods to expensive ones, no matter the real cost? All this talk about evil corporations selling out the west reminds me of the leftists "50 companies do all the pol
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Bad analogy. A phone book tells you nothing about who you are talking to or what you are talking about over the phone. Most free countries don't let law enforcement read letters without a warrant. And even in authoritarian states the p
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I am not accusing you personally of advocating for eugenics. But whether or not you personally would do has little bearing on what society as a whole will do if given the ability. It's like someone saying "but I would personally n
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by pibaker 2mo ago
This article is just a rehash of the following source. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/north-ame... I don't know what their methodology is but it's hard to take their findings seriousl
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> Howdy, My ability to upvote comments was, for reasons unspecified, suspended. After a brief interaction with dang, it was temporarily restored. Then, again for unknown reasons, was suspended once again. So don't expect an upvote f
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I don't see how your point contradicts GP's. There is no reason why you can't have a reliable machine that sells a reliable daily or weekly pass with a nice design. The rest of your comment about Ubers seems to be just a mass
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by pibaker 2mo ago
The idea that children should be the ones to receive "treatment" for their parents' disorder is the more ghoulish thing I have heard in a while. Not only that, but to take away the children's ability to decide too. If a
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by pibaker 2mo ago
> because nobody is forcing you to take the cure History about autistic people or mentally ill people in general says otherwise.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Wouldn't be a substack article without some waddling around to make sure subscribers feel they get their money's worth.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Do you think 12yos have a right to stab each other to death? Why don't you support a knife ban if you don't want this to happen?
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by pibaker 2mo ago
It's japan, baby.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Comparing price tags across Japan and the west is kind of meaningless now considering how much the yen devalued. I don't think the prices would look that good for a Japanese person paid in yen.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I mean, you are not just paying for food. You are paying for someone's time to make your food. The eating out price shock since 2020 is IMO mostly a result of wage gains in the bottom earners outpacing those earning more.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I would prefer us to do it in a way that does not benefit zero effort marketing rags like this.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
This website is obviously AI generated down to the "Number Noun, Number Noun" section headers, "authored" by someone with a questionable background. I don't know why HN keeps upvoting articles from it.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
Apple to oranges. The problem with Flint was lead in municipal pipes, and it has been fixed since forever ago. The majority of US water usage is agricultural and that is only really an issue west of the Mississippi. They are completely sepa
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by pibaker 2mo ago
This has been a standard feature for nearly all non trivial search engines for at least two decades. I remember this being a feature when I first used google over two decades ago.
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by pibaker 2mo ago
I'd like to live in a world where people only make art to serve a higher purpose. But we don't live in that world and never did. Before we had slop we had pulp — formulaic, low effort writing full of cliches of romance, lust, crim
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by pibaker 3mo ago
There has never been a time when open source isn't full of flame wars of one flavor or the other. Are we going to diagnose people with syetemd psychosis or X11 psychosis next?
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by pibaker 3mo ago
There is nothing far fetched about this. GNU is an ideological organization and their ideology is "free software." Free software exists because of the copyright system. Now imagine if someone can just fork your GPL licensed softwa
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by pibaker 3mo ago
"Use tax money to build us a new stadium, or we will relocate to Vegas. Do you want to be known by the voters as the governor who gave up our beloved sportsball team? No? Then better pay up."
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by pibaker 3mo ago
I don't get the taxpayer line. It's a democracy. The taxpayers are the ones deciding what kind of policing we get. If they don't want to foot the bills for police misconduct, maybe the taxpayers should elect someone who actua
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by pibaker 3mo ago
You can disable Internet access for millions instantly. You can't arrest millions.
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by pibaker 3mo ago
Just tell the anti mask types the TV sticks come with CCP hacking software preinstalled.

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