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by rexpop 3y ago
> do we really want to create another legal system? Yes, yes we do. The current legal system is inadequate to the task. It is costly, intimidating, strenuous to wield and aggressive in its penalties. Accountability and recompense can be
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by rexpop 3y ago
The cloud is suspended in a fluid that is also spinning. The atmosphere is an ocean we live at the bottom of, and where it makes contact with the earth friction between the fluid and the solid conveys inertia from the solid to the fluid. In
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by rexpop 3y ago
There are many reasons to avoid meat that don't apply to vegetables. First off the top of my head is it's a disease vector: both bacterial and viral (think swine and bird flus). Secondly, water usage for meat is 2-5x the liters-pe
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by rexpop 3y ago
That's a fair critique. One might ask "supposed by whom, exactly?" In English, supposition too frequently implements the unforgivable passive voice.
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by rexpop 3y ago
So what? The risk of climate change isn't that individuals will die from acute heat events, but that a few degrees' change of average, global temperatures will destabilize climate systems and ecological niches. Let's catch yo
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by rexpop 3y ago
Sneaked? How's it different from the other examples?
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by rexpop 3y ago
If you are interested in images' role in public perception of events--particularly suffering and tragedy--you might look to read Susan Sontag's essay collection "Regarding the Pain of Others," published in 2003: > To
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by rexpop 3y ago
> were it not for unions I think you mean literally the opposite of what this idiom signifies.
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by rexpop 3y ago
This koan[0] gets posted in a Hacker News comment once a year-or-so for the past sixteen, but apparently there are still those about who've not yet encountered it? When it comes to neural networks' preconceptions--my gosh, especia
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by rexpop 4y ago
> by the 90s Asians and Indians were over represented That's evidence of US tech industry's massive racism factor: that our endemic Black and Latino populations (40%) are underrepresented while this clear minority of Asian Am
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by rexpop 4y ago
> Moving away from programming had an incredibly positive effect on my life. Almost everything that used to be awkward for me is easy now because of that one choice. Especially socialization, communication, speaking in public and with co
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by rexpop 4y ago
I do not understand all of the meta-debates, don't like the debates? Don't participate in them. Simple.
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by rexpop 4y ago
In a healthy democracy, public discourse precedes government rulings. You are suggesting that we, the impacted, should not bother to voice our concerns, should not bother to hone our understanding via dialogue with others, and should instea
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by rexpop 4y ago
Colloquially, "food poisoning" refers exclusively to (per Wikipedia) "Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease and food poisoning); any illness resulting from the spoilage of contaminated food by pathogenic bacteria, viruses
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by rexpop 4y ago
> It's rather difficult to feel strong negative emotion while on MDMA. While under the effects, the baseline is somewhere between "happy" and "downright euphoric". I am floored by this assertion, as it's com
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by rexpop 4y ago
This is the pattern with depression, according to Sapolsky in 2010: successive episodes increase in severity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOAgplgTxfc
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by rexpop 4y ago
Not ironic at all. The Mars trilogy is hardly a utopia. Instead, it's a repudiation of our political economy. Certainly his recent Aurora is an overt criticism of terrestrial hubris which posits that future generations would, if th
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by rexpop 4y ago
What is the point of the Westphalian Nation-state if land within its borders can be owned in trust by foreign nation[al]s?
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by rexpop 4y ago
That is their point. But it's not an apt comparison. Wolfram Alpha has was GPT does not: truth and logic.
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by rexpop 4y ago
> I had friends woken in the night and interrogated about their political beliefs, and I had friends forced to flee for speaking out about gender rights and other social issues. Oppression in China is real and effective. > It’s diffic
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by rexpop 4y ago
It's very difficult, in my recollection of Graeber's 5,000 Years of "Debt"[0], to find a period of time "before fiat currency," during which "loaning someone money" was even possible. As I recall, wha
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by rexpop 4y ago
> Kids are pretty dumb but they can figure this stuff out. Children did not, under their own agency, seek out exploitative employment. We recognize that, as minors, their nominal consent is immaterial in the face of the overwhelming comp
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by rexpop 4y ago
This is a jab (insult), and I've flagged it, but I am also curious. If you could, please describe the qualities of a "bootcamp" grad by which you recognize them? Edit: especially pertaining to type inference, I guess?
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by rexpop 4y ago
But, of course, the purchase comes after the want, which comes after the ad. So I don't see how you've offered a counterpoint at all.
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by rexpop 4y ago
Yes, of course the state is balancing interests, where did I imply otherwise?
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by rexpop 4y ago
A) It's an example of hate speech, which is the subject of the post I'm responding to, and B) Yes, that's not what I'm saying.
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by rexpop 4y ago
This is certainly true to some degree, or else all advertising expenditure is wasted.
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by rexpop 4y ago
> Some people may believe hate speech but I think that's a reflection of who they are, ie. they will probably believe it with or without the convincing. I just don't know where you got this idea. "Hate speech" isn&#x2
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by rexpop 4y ago
What are you talking about? It's illegal to bike down the sidewalk, and we don't. We bike in the proper lane.
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by rexpop 4y ago
> The physical location of the mother doesn't make any difference to the child Preposterous. Sleep, diet, activities, even socializing all impact the development of a fetus. These are the domains of choice to which free people are e

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