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by rmtech 6y ago
> Do you think we should kill this random child if it would lead to (8000/57) = 104 families who can't afford a minivan to decide to have a third kid? Yes, it seems like a great deal to me. EDIT: Though I guess you could see it
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by rmtech 6y ago
> a would-be birth vs. loss of life in an accident are immeasurably different things; incomparable. They're not incomparable, in fact they must be traded off at some rate, otherwise you could just dose everyone in the world with che
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by rmtech 6y ago
I had tingling pain with a fitbit and I have solved it. Loosen it fully at night and the tingling stops.
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by rmtech 6y ago
The core problem is that the companies that make these things are not being controlled by good regulation. 200 years ago it was probably legal for a food company to put a bit of cocaine in the food to make it more addictive. Nowadays I thin
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by rmtech 6y ago
> Subscriptions only work when I trust you both as a payment processor (so that excludes newspapers) and if you're already established as a trustable content creator. Sure, but once you have made a name for yourself you want subscri
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by rmtech 6y ago
This article is self-refuting. People are creatures of habit, and as long as the banks allow you to "subscribe" in a way that makes it really, really hard to "unsubscribe", the subscription model will continue winning. T
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by rmtech 6y ago
If someone starts looking they will find this layer containing plutonium-244 (which is made by nuclear explosions, 80 million year half life) and microplastics, and yeah that will make it pretty obvious. But I think you're right that i
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by rmtech 6y ago
Well, 100mm is not that much, I suspect there is something in all that stuff that is at least that thick. Maybe the bags of excrement? That would be pretty funny.
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by rmtech 6y ago
Yes, it will definitely be possible via hundreds of different pathways, some of which they thought of in the paper and others that they didn't. > The Anthropocene layer in ocean sediment will be abrupt and multi-variate, consisting
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by rmtech 6y ago
No, I don't think so. Nobody will get a hydrogen car just for trips. People will get an EV and trade off the price of the battery versus the time it takes to fast-charge it.
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by rmtech 6y ago
An ant can implement if/else. This is something a bit more than that; they knew that they saw a light and could remember afterwards that that had happened.
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by rmtech 6y ago
I feel that the title oversells this a bit. This research demonstrates that crows know whether they saw something or not. It doesn't demonstrate that they are on a par with humans when it comes to introspection.
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by rmtech 6y ago
There are two separate questions here. (1) Does hydrogen make sense as a store of energy? (2) Will the various companies pushing hydrogen be financially successful in the medium term? I think the answer to (1) is pretty clearly "no&quo
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by rmtech 6y ago
You can, but their banking logon is really, really inconvenient and requires to to have a hardware token and enter 4 different long numbers/passwords and it logs you off automatically after 3 minutes of inactivity. The app means you ca
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Mobile banking app asks for permission to scan all files
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by rmtech 6y ago
They may perceive boats as an enemy trying to compete for food resources (which is kind of true), but this is a lot of speculation. Imagine aliens who didn't understand human politics trying to tell the difference between fireworks and
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by rmtech 6y ago
> "we know this can often be notorious for mischaracterising and therefore excluding certain racial groups, some trans women" If you have an app that's supposed to be only for women but you don't want to exclude any t
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by rmtech 6y ago
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by rmtech 6y ago
I also had this experience. I was a regular on a particular subreddit but the combination of awful website + censorship coming from above has made me stop using Reddit entirely.
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by rmtech 6y ago
In practice, 0.
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by rmtech 6y ago
Vegan diets cause malnutrition and perhaps even psychological changes. Due to the suffering of wild animals, eating beef is probably net negative for total animal suffering because a cow only has 1 brain for a ton of biomass.
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by rmtech 6y ago
It's not ridiculous. If you want to have friends, promote a brand etc in the modern world you need these networks. The reason that activists engage in deplatforming activity is that it's effective at destroying movements; brands l
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by rmtech 6y ago
This is a silly argument. The service that Facebook offers is becoming so important that asking people not to use it is like asking people not to breathe, and over time it will become moreso.
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by rmtech 6y ago
Google/YouTube & Facebook/Instagram together constitute a bloc that can censor a message very effectively. I agree that Twitter doesn't quite fit this pattern though.
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by rmtech 6y ago
> So what's the criteria for ascertaining that a company, like Twitter, has a monopoly on speech There's no hard criterion, but YouTube is a great example; it is so dominant in the video industry that either you use their servi
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by rmtech 6y ago
The US government deliberately limits its speech monopoly via the 1st amendment, but outside that that limitation it does have a speech monopoly enforced by prison sentences. You can read about exceptions here: https://en.m.wikip
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by rmtech 6y ago
The 9th circuit are wrong and I am right.
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by rmtech 6y ago
Those laws are democratically accountable though, so it's not the same thing as what I am talking about.
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by rmtech 6y ago
I don't think you have understood my point. When a company has a total monopoly over a sector, you are obliged to use the service they provide or you will simply go without that service entirely. Twitter is not a clear example of this,
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by rmtech 6y ago
A private company that has a monopoly on speech is no longer a private company, it's essentially an unelected and unaccountable part of the permanent government. You need to think about entities based on their properties, not the label

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