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by scarby2 5y ago
Interestingly enough consumers drove the market for tasteless tomatoes. customers bought more tomatoes that were more brightly colored and more round, which drove selection for these characteristics
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by scarby2 5y ago
> It's almost as if you were suggesting that organic regenerative ag is based on some sort of non-scientific cult but that's not really the case. From an agricultural stand point not necessarily from a consumers who are passion
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by scarby2 5y ago
> $5000? The median pre-tax income in the US is only $2854/month. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html Op is probably in NY or SF where that doesn't even make you middle class and people who mak
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by scarby2 5y ago
You have to be very careful with ubi (which I'm a huge fan of btw.), it could cause hyperinflation, probably would at $5k a month, because we have a pretty severe housing shortage there's going to be a whole bunch of people with a
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by scarby2 5y ago
I was wondering if it were some kind of slang based on the supermarket... (in my company we describe everything in terms of how many cheeseburgers from a specific restaurant we can buy with the money)
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by scarby2 5y ago
the point the author is making is that if you make that exception it may well become trivial for an underage user to pretend to be those spiders therefore bypassing the age protection. However if a user is smart enough to bypass those check
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by scarby2 5y ago
> I would feel like a king with 20k a year and so I am trying to find the right degree to work 3, maybe 2 days a week to be able to achieve this? 20k? did you miss a digit? That's less than my rent for the year... for 3 days anythin
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by scarby2 5y ago
> That's only 24% of your time most weeks, even less on weeks when you have holidays or vacation. What's unsustainable? In fact many people have done it their whole adult lives, which makes it sustainable by definition. It&#x27
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by scarby2 5y ago
I cant find a definitive answer here but possibly showers maybe? I know they were popular in the US before the UK. Maybe not by that much though. Or was the wipe down wash with hot water still the preferred method of bathing in the rooms at
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by scarby2 5y ago
> Why is that so? This has always been so. Every generation has done something another generation later finds to be deplorable or barbaric. I would assume that we would not be exempt from this. Oil, fast food and sleep however seem more
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by scarby2 5y ago
Because they're used to it? There's also a huge disparity in costs of medical/neo-natal care. The poor pay nothing, the lower middle tend to get stuck with a bill that they can end up affording, and the upper middle and above
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by scarby2 5y ago
> If we slap red cross symbols on people with medical equipment that you see in video games, it'll just dilute the meaning and maybe next time someone sees a vehicle with the red cross symbol they'll think "oh, that's
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by scarby2 5y ago
> Using current reality for future projections is inherently defective because of the innovation factor and routinely leads to bad predictions (such as peak oil[1]), but it's the only reality we have and is sadly as good as we'
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by scarby2 5y ago
There's no study that shows that more than 1-2 standard drinks at a time is good for you. Anyone in this category is almost certainly not a problem drinker. However i'd be surprised if there was a positive biological effect from a
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by scarby2 5y ago
Not just the Newton and palmpilot but the the PocketPC phones that came immediately before it. When the iPhone came out i had an HTC TyTN 2 which unlike the iPhone could do turn by turn navigation, send SMS/MMS to multiple recipients,
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by scarby2 5y ago
> It seems while the initial reading is that this is an inevitable process, the more sapient technological perspective would be that they've discovered a key mechanism that can now be investigated and adjusted for improved results.
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by scarby2 5y ago
However brain simulation isn't on a par with life extension. with brain simulation you still die. You're just replaced by something extremely similar to you with all your memories. There's a distinct break in continuity. At t
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by scarby2 5y ago
We have unlimited vacation time I have taken 4 days holiday and 6 days sick leave in the past 12 months (4 days because i was on my ass with the COVID vaccine doses). I would have normally taken at least 20 days holiday but it seems pointle
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by scarby2 6y ago
Politicians don't make that determination right now. Self driving cars are a pretty good example. There's evidence right now showing that most systems are safer than human drivers. Yet still they are not permitted for use despite
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by scarby2 6y ago
Has anyone not had suicidal thoughts since the lockdown?
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by scarby2 6y ago
I'm not certain the emotional damage around the deaths would be worse than the emotional damage around the restrictions. Same with the economic damage, I'm entirely certain the the economic damaged caused by the death of a large a
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by scarby2 6y ago
Or maybe just that governments rarely pass up on that kind of revenue unless it's a huge PR win, in this case it wouldn't be very noticeable.
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by scarby2 6y ago
> The implication is that everyone should be terrified, stay home as much as possible, and wear masks as long as there's any chance of catching covid. Even after being vaccinated. Apparently there is insufficient data to back up tha
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by scarby2 6y ago
This is something people often forget, nothing is objectively good or bad as they are social/individual constructs. Even things like killing or theft could be seen as good looking through the right lens.
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by scarby2 6y ago
> One of my best memories from my career: I was sitting at my desk at 8pm "working" because I had "so much to do". When in reality I was just dreading going home. This used to be a daily thing for me. I would stay at
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by scarby2 6y ago
I'm not sure the flow of information is even necessarily the problem. People just aren't trained to think critically - and doing so for everything is exhausting however increasing the focus of education on how to think, not what t
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by scarby2 6y ago
Devils advocate: how many of those suicides are caused directly by the restrictions and not the pandemic, how many extra would have lost their sanity due to a stricter lockdown? Truth is we're not taking much time to measure the non-co
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by scarby2 6y ago
This! I hate the perverse incentive that many americans try to push about sick leave, overtime etc. The truth of the matter is that most people actually want to do their job. Do people abuse sick leave - yes, but it is certainly the minorit
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by scarby2 6y ago
Sadly it's because a lot of us have lost faith in people in general over the past 5/6 years. Initially when the internet came along we though "great, now we can share ideas and knowledge with total freedom and not worry about
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by scarby2 6y ago
It's amazing the amount of historical medicine that was either completely ineffective or actually harmful and hastened the demise of the patient.

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