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by pmiller2 5y ago
I just ate 2 bananas a minute ago. You mean I could have eaten a kilo of honey instead? :P Seriously, though. Everything is radioactive since the 1940s. This doesn't strike me as a huge surprise, although I guess it is good to do th
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by pmiller2 5y ago
The difference is that when an animal suffers, they retain memories. One only need to consider something like this story I heard about a dog on Reddit, who was scared of obese people and men. Turns out, the dog was severely abused by a 50
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Oh, I get it. Yeah, the sad part is that this conversation could have happened, and it would be completely banal in the scheme of things.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Do you think someone is a hero because they have to choose to protect either their job or their health? Either way is a huge lose.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Yeah, I got an email from a recruiter about this company a while back. The main thing they touted was that it was run by Travis K. I wrote them back and said "Sorry, but that's actually a negative to me. Good luck." Sucks
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I don't think it has. Not for the majority, anyway. Maybe it has for members of the "lucky sperm club."
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by pmiller2 5y ago
This would be a correct usage, not a performative usage like corporations calling grocery store workers "heroes" because they have to go to work or lose jobs they depend on.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Is that not reasonable? Wouldn't you say that if someone regularly uses racist terms to talk about things that they're probably a racist? Kinda seems like part of the definition to me.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
You honestly believe "cops shouldn't kill black people" and "the tax code makes it hard for black people to build wealth" are on the same level? I find that hard to believe.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I actually prefer the "I just kept showing up, and they kept paying me, but I didn't do any actual work" threads, if nothing else for the sheer absurdity of it.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
No, but a comment like yours would be considered a false equivalence.
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Manhattan DA says his office to stop prosecuting prostitution(npr.org)
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by pmiller2 5y ago
You would?
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Discussion of a different article about the same person here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889281
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Yeah, that seems kind of silly to me as well. I don't claim to speak for them, but what I think the researchers were getting at was "right before Alzheimer's symptoms typically appear," including mild cognitive impairme
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Sure, I'd agree with the "more stressed and less health conscious" bit. But, the article does give some good reasons to suggest that either midlife insomnia is a very early symptom of dementia, or that sleep deprivation itse
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Perhaps more dire than what actually happened, but, can you imagine the consequences if any of those malicious patches had actually stuck around in the kernel? Keep in mind when you think about this that Android, which has an 87% market sh
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Related: The Forgotten Employee (2002) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17332440
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I had to do human subjects research training in grad school, just to be able to handle test score data for a math education project. I literally never saw an actual student the whole time I was working on it.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
I find it hard to believe this research passed IRB.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Or, how about we just don't publish everyone's legal identity in the same exact place? Sure, they won't be breaking into Geico to steal drivers' license numbers anymore, but just wait until this wonderful "centrali
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by pmiller2 5y ago
> All ID cards are being changed as they are renewed. Well, that's not going to cause anybody any issues.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
There's plenty of good research out there showing that global civilization will collapse before the end of the century given the amount of warming we're on track for. You should read it. However, assuming it is coming, what is th
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Right? We're talking about the PiDP here, aren't we?
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Hard, hard disagree. Nothing beats learning by getting your hands on a thing.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
So, because collapse isn't certain, you'd rather stuff cotton in your ears, cover your eyes and yell "lalalala can't hear you?" BTW, your suggestion that my post in any way represents or resembles a call for ethnic
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Our government has more characteristics of private property than the commons, then.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
Not sarcasm: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/what-the-world-will-look-l... Everywhere that's not green is where humans won't be able to live by the end of the century.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
So does Canada, and there's a lot more room there than in Vermont.
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by pmiller2 5y ago
The government isn't really part of "the commons" at all: > "The opinions of 90% of Americans have essentially no impact at all [on what becomes law]." https://act.represent.us/sign/the-probl

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