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by praxulus 4y ago
The evidence includes the actual record of rising temperatures, rising CO2 levels, and laboratory experiments that confirm that the greenhouse effect exists. None of those are just models. I'm extremely surprised that even a single sci
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by praxulus 4y ago
Google is already in the payments business, which requires a significant amount of identity verification. They aren't at the level you're describing, but they're also not completely new to the business of verifying IDs, albei
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by praxulus 4y ago
Not really. Also using words in a different way than everyone else doesn't make you insightful, it makes you a bad communicator.
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by praxulus 4y ago
>When people talk about the "reliability" of EVs I haven never heard of somebody talking about the "reliability" of a car, or any other durable good, in reference to the reliability of its supply chain. Saying that a
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by praxulus 4y ago
Maybe this would just make me a bad service admin, but if I believed that I would be literally saving someone's life by sharing data from one of my users with law enforcement, I would be hard pressed to hold their privacy above another
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by praxulus 4y ago
...yes.
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by praxulus 4y ago
Well, it's not the only issue. Without GPS tracking or bike registries bike theft is legitimately a very hard problem for police to deal with, so they're used to relying entirely on getting cyclists to use better locks. The situ
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by praxulus 4y ago
If you have a charged ebike, it ought to be easy to charge your phone. There are still other problems with that approach. VanMoof currently lets you unlock your phone with your bike, rather than requiring a constant connection, which seem
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by praxulus 4y ago
I'm rich, the police still didn't do anything when someone broke into my car.
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by praxulus 4y ago
Regulations so strict that nobody subjects themselves to them don't reduce the harm done to workers. Of course relaxing our regulations is not the only solution here, we could go all-in and enforce our labor laws on any ship that wants
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by praxulus 4y ago
It's definitely immoral for a city to have laws that make it impossible for working class people to live there (e.g. a suburb with moderately expensive land that bans multifamily housing and has large minimum lot sizes). Whether it&#x2
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by praxulus 4y ago
They don't actually have the ability to pass general bills without Republican support though. Outside of budget reconciliation, neither party has had the power to pass legislation without at least some bipartisan support since Ted Kenn
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by praxulus 4y ago
I agree that not allowing savings for a mortgage probably isn't a huge issue in practice, but discouraging saving in general is completely bonkers policy.
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by praxulus 4y ago
Some people prefer remote teams, some people prefer in-person teams. I don't know anyone who likes hybrid teams though. Eventually I suspect we'll end up with a mix of remote and in-person employers, and workers who have a strong
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by praxulus 5y ago
This is like telling someone to solve their engineering problems by being smarter.
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by praxulus 5y ago
We aren't trying to prevent climate change to save the environment, we're doing it to save the buildings and infrastructure we've built along coastlines, to prevent dangerous impacts to global agricultural output, and to stop
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by praxulus 5y ago
They didn't claim causation, they were just pointing out the correlation.
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by praxulus 5y ago
Not to defend their methodology, but your attempt to equate the GOP baseball shooting with an attempted coup says a lot more about your biases than the study authors'.
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by praxulus 5y ago
>You seriously think inexperienced cyclist should ride in bad weather? I don't think inexperienced drivers should drive in the snow, but that doesn't mean we completely dismiss cars as a practical means of transportations in c
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by praxulus 5y ago
Ed is the standard text editor.
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by praxulus 5y ago
By my ethics at least, making traffic worse is a far lesser offense than putting people's lives at risk.
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by praxulus 5y ago
>In 1996, five economists, known as the Boskin Commission, were tasked with saving the government $1 trillion. They observed that if the CPI were lowered by 1.1 percent, then a $1 trillion could indeed be saved over the coming decade. So
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by praxulus 5y ago
The difference is that the government will (implicitly) point a gun at you and demand a tax payment from you next April, and they'll want that payment in fiat. Everyone knows that everyone else will be coerced into coming up with some
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by praxulus 5y ago
> This is, of course, the very definition of a Ponzi scheme. Most Ponzi schemes don't have the authority to levy taxes on the largest economy the in world, nor are they backed by the most powerful military force humanity has ever se
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by praxulus 5y ago
You can only mature the calves if you can spare the milk, and you get a lot more calories from just drinking the milk. A cow produces roughly 40 times more calories worth of milk over its lifetime than you get from the beef from one animal.
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by praxulus 5y ago
Your counterfactual explanation makes sense in the helmet example, but I think most people wouldn't be able to figure out that connection without such an explanation. Even if it's correct, it's still confusing. For example, I
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by praxulus 5y ago
Refusing to do something purely because somebody is trying to make you do it still means you're letting other people control your actions. That's not liberty either.
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by praxulus 5y ago
The risk of Myocarditis from COVID-19 itself seems to be greater than the risk of getting it from a vaccine. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm >At this point even if the shot cured c
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by praxulus 5y ago
Not all reputable public health experts work for public health agencies.
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by praxulus 5y ago
If my doctor and reputable public health experts disagree with the FDA (or with scientists who resigned from the FDA in protest), that could certainly be enough to overcome my skepticism. I'd have to consider it on a case-by-case basis

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