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by q1w2 4y ago
Calling doctors, collectively, the "American medical cartel" isn't helpful language. It's just more polarizing politics that breaks down constructive dialogue.
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by q1w2 4y ago
The similar concept of "protected class" exists in many states' race-crime laws. In New York, for example, only members of the protected classes are protected by race-crime laws, as per a statement by the NY AG office.
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by q1w2 4y ago
Is it so hard to imagine that people who are home, surrounded by a spouse/so, perhaps children, entertainment systems, a fridge, a bed, no one looking at their monitor, etc... aren't on average more distracted? I certainly am.
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by q1w2 4y ago
That just sounds like someone saying something they know workers want to hear, but having little substance behind it. Invariably, all relationships need to "earn" the terms of their existence with the other party.
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by q1w2 4y ago
I LOVE remote working. It allows me to manage scheduling issues at home (like deliveries and sick children), and stops me from the endless distractions of office chatter. ...and the upsides cloud my judgement as to whether it's a net
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by q1w2 4y ago
You're really just making an even more extreme assumption - that human cognition is the peak possible intelligence - biological or technological - based on zero evidence. It's much more reasonable to assume we are not perfect and
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by q1w2 4y ago
You're really just making a semantic argument - nothing more. We have seen ZERO species that are space faring - ours doesn't qualify either.
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by q1w2 4y ago
Moreover, SETI really only detects signals intentionally sent straight at us (beyond a small bubble of a few light years where only a handful of stars exist). It's not powerful enough to detect ambient EM radiation around other stars.
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by q1w2 4y ago
Looking at the universe and the abundance of waste solar energy being emitted, it doesn't seem like there's much competition going on for energy.
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by q1w2 4y ago
High fractions of C are not needed. AI with an unbounded lifespan can be content with very low fraction of C travel. Travel timescales need not be on human lifetime scales.
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by q1w2 4y ago
A colony of fleshy biological creatures in an unsuspended form? This seems silly. Even if intelligence remains biological (which I find exceedingly unlikely), then why wouldn't you just freeze them? That's a lot easier than mov
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by q1w2 4y ago
I think it's a bigger assumption to believe that true intelligence is only possible with an organic group of neurons. No other aspect of logic or simulation is dependent upon the substrate that models it.
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by q1w2 4y ago
There was a research paper that described AI robots the size of a toaster traveling from star system to star system (and galaxy to galaxy). It is difficult to imagine how we would detect those - even if many orbited our sun. ...but if they
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by q1w2 4y ago
When it comes to extra terrestrial life, past Earth experience cannot be reliably used as a good predictor for the future. We need to map possible future scenarios and apply logic and reasoning. This is like ants arguing that life outside
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by q1w2 4y ago
It's good to see more recognition that the likely extraterrestrial intelligences will be post-biological, but SMETI will have a hard time detecting such life because it will likely not need to move entire planets. As has been show in o
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by q1w2 4y ago
A Reddit comment with no academic sources listed should not be considered a meaningful source. On a similar note, your 2nd source is a blog post about concepts in the book Dune, and contains only a couple references to historic societies -
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by q1w2 4y ago
Monopoly power drives corruption. Social media companies have monopolies on their segment of the market, and it's only a matter of time before they formalize the corruption that clearly already occurs. This is why corporations that ar
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by q1w2 4y ago
Absolute monopoly power drives corruption. Social media companies have monopolies on their segment of the market, and it's only a matter of time before they formalize the corruption that clearly already occurs in their review process.
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by q1w2 4y ago
Why is it ok to force the 60% to pay higher taxes and accept WORSE healthcare so that the 40% get better healtcare for nothing? We already pay to cover our own family members on our plans. Why are we being forced to now cover everyone else
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by q1w2 4y ago
One of the main errors that people miss is that the people leaving California and New York are the people making money and paying tax revenues. Covid CRUSHED NYC tax revenues - and many people have still not returned.
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by q1w2 4y ago
I can't tell if you're being serious - but when people start moving out because of excessive taxation, prices drop and tax revenues go down with them (because real estate taxes are based on home values). Capital flight lowers real
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by q1w2 4y ago
"Single payer" is just another word for Monopoly. It's insane anyone thinks this is a good idea. Just Google "quebec/canada healthcare crisis"
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by q1w2 4y ago
...and why combined tax rates for the middle class are around 50%. As someone who's lived in the Canadian health care system and the US system - it is absolutely lower quality than what average private employer healthcare plan provides
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by q1w2 4y ago
I wonder if a editor action review process would help here. If reviewers were themselves reviewed for their actions, and promoted/demoted based on their adherence to a set of public guidelines. ...for example, deleting an article that
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by q1w2 4y ago
On the other hand - maybe that wouldn't be necessary if you were taller.
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by q1w2 4y ago
What actually happens is that the new bone material is initially gelatinous, so as you lengthen the gap, the gelatinous material is elongated and doesn't harden (at least not in the in the middle of the gap). The rate of hardening and
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by q1w2 4y ago
Women have always preferred tall men - it is innate. I remember women in old movies from the 1960s refer to "tall, dark, and handsome men".
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by q1w2 4y ago
As studies have shown, 90% of women select the top 10% of men in online dating apps (with height being the #1 criteria) - so being in the bottom 25% is still an difficult circumstance.
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by q1w2 4y ago
Any man with experience interacting with women has seen evidence of this time and time again. I really don't understand people who deny that women have a very strong bias for height. I also don't understand people who object to th
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by q1w2 4y ago
They wouldn't need a warrant - that's the point.

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