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by q1w2 5y ago
It has never been demonstrated scientifically that gender modification surgeries are medically necessary, or beneficial in the long term. I wonder if proponents of considering it a medical necessity feel the same way about breast augmentat
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by q1w2 5y ago
The most prominent difference between the two platforms is age. The median age on Reddit has dropped into the teens. I believe that is why the Reddit redesign specifically hid more of the comments - to both hide the rampant low-effort comme
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by q1w2 5y ago
There is plenty of debate still about Dark Energy. ...and it's been getting stronger lately as we've been finding more evidence that the visible universe is not homogeneous as we thought - which is one of the pieces of evidence fo
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by q1w2 5y ago
This makes it sound like it's equally bad in all fields, when in fact certain fields have a far far higher problem than others.
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by q1w2 5y ago
"California" is not a monolithic entity that makes all decisions in a consistent manner.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Laws are made specifically to lower the bar for trust in the people you interact with in society.
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by q1w2 5y ago
> legislative analysts said at the time that the act could already be considered misdemeanor sexual battery, even if it isn't specifically referenced in the criminal code. ...so all this does is make it explicitly a civil violation,
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by q1w2 5y ago
Exactly. If I am from Turkey, earn a Turkish Lira for salary, and pay for stuff locally in Turkish Lira, you might be tempted to think that currency exchange moves don't impact me. That would be very very wrong, and one trip to any st
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by q1w2 5y ago
One day, some crypto somewhere will figure out a way to implement a distributed mechanism to dynamically adjust the money supply to maintain a reasonable 0.5%-1% inflation rate per year.
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by q1w2 5y ago
A small amount of inflation (single digits per year), is a feature, not a bug. It prevents the boom-bust of people hoarding currency, and forces the currency itself to be used efficiently. If the gov't can maintain a bond rate below t
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by q1w2 5y ago
If it's not a good currency, then it's not much of an asset either.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Treating "Germany" as one monolithic entity that can thereby be accused of hypocrisy, is a childish oversimplification. Nations are composed of myriads of groups, people, interests - some support gov't surveillance, and some
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by q1w2 5y ago
Death is not the only societal cost, and the study above only looked at first-order numbers of deaths. Additionally, it's difficult to measure the cost of in-action when responding to an erratic phenomenon like terrorism.
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by q1w2 5y ago
Giving disproportionate advantage to minorities because minorities of the past several hundred years had disadvantage is not justice or even logical. It's just racism. I don't ask for anything special despite my ancestors being t
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by q1w2 5y ago
Those doors don't stop a hijacker from executing stewardesses until the pilot opens the door.
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by q1w2 5y ago
The quality of comments has become so poor as the median age of Reddit users has dropped into the teens, that I think that was a deliberate design choice.
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by q1w2 5y ago
It worked in Paris a few years ago. Two suicide bombers were stopped at security and detonated their suicide vests - no other people were killed besides the terrorists.
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by q1w2 5y ago
That and the fact that one terrorist actually packed his sneakers with explosives and tried to detonate them on a plane.
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by q1w2 5y ago
How would you eliminate the risk of hijackings?
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by q1w2 5y ago
> People should be given equal opportunity to succeed That is the old dogma. Today progressives insist on giving certain classes of people more opportunity than others. That is why "equality" has been replaced by "equit
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by q1w2 5y ago
...and also, 40 years is not a long time for disease evolution. ...especially one like HIV which has a much lower transmission rate than a respiratory virus.
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by q1w2 5y ago
This is not exactly true. Keeping your infectious host alive longer, will increase transmission. This is why there is an evolutionary pressure for all diseases to keep your host alive, and why some diseases/parasites ultimately evolve
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by q1w2 5y ago
Airborne diseases with wild animal reservoirs cannot be eradicated, and never have been. It's unclear why you think a wild reservoir isn't a problem, nor which eradicated disease you're referring to.
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by q1w2 5y ago
You are assuming that it was humans that infected the deer, while it could have easily been another wild animal. Wild animals are not commonly tested for covid-19, but those that have been have seen widespread infection. ...which means mos
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by q1w2 5y ago
The other important piece of information is that vaccinations were not given out homogeneously. The older and more vulnerable were vaccinated FIRST and at a higher rate, so seeing more of them hospitalized now 6 months later with a variant
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by q1w2 5y ago
Global warming is about average temperature increases. Individual one-off high temperatures only gives ammunition to climate deniers when they see a record low temperature somewhere in the world. It does more harm than good to raise the
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by q1w2 5y ago
I don't see this sort of joy-riding as a material competition to what SpaceX is doing. It's not even clear to me that that is their objective. These sub-orbital flights are not interesting - scientifically nor engineeringly.
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by q1w2 5y ago
I agree that there's no scientific or engineering achievement here and that this ride is essentially joyriding. I disagree that we should deride rich people for spending money the way they want. I splurge on things sometimes as well.