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by sdwa 6y ago
They aren't mutually exclusive—an expressed opinion can also be rude.
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by sdwa 6y ago
> So deciding to have kids, even if you have to give something up, is not some selfless or noble act, as parent said Is anyone actually seriously suggesting that the decision itself is an act of sacrifice? Surely it's kind of supe
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by sdwa 6y ago
She does seem to have made something of a side hustle out of arguing against large scientific experiments. From my point of view, just build it. Sure money could be better spent elsewhere in principle, but it could also be spent reasonabl
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CERN poised to back plan for €20bn successor to Large Hadron Collider(theguardian.com)
3 points by sdwa 6y ago|0 comments
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by sdwa 6y ago
I haven't broken the site guidelines, we just have radically different perceptions of what is tolerable. My idea of shutting down the country is quite different to yours, presumably. Even mandatory 2m social distancing is utterly rid
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by sdwa 6y ago
I agree about the toxicity of social media, it's why I don't have an Instagram and, well, Facebook is dead among my generation anyway so it's not an issue. >Attractive, fit, intelligent men get a completely outsized propor
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by sdwa 6y ago
>Yes. If we don't treat the old now as we want to be treated when we are old ourselves, why would anyone do us the favour? We work towards the world we'll live in the future, right now, in the present. What we do now, how we be
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by sdwa 6y ago
But this isn't just "changing anything" about our lifestyles is it? It's a complete pause on life itself. I'm lucky to have a job that I can do from home but the depression is seeping in and some days I am just fl
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by sdwa 6y ago
Why can't the old be "locked up"? They already are, along with the rest of the population! > they're digging their own graves Digging our graves for when we're old? Yes, we are all going to die, and probably w
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by sdwa 6y ago
I think we've gradually been Americanised. I don't recognise their behaviour as British, I find it all a bit embarrassing really.
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by sdwa 6y ago
Can anyone explain to me why this has gone to the moon and Vine died? To an uneducated observer such as myself, TikTok and Vine are basically the same. What separates TikTok?
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by sdwa 7y ago
So what should WWII warrant today?
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by sdwa 7y ago
The truth is, it's none of those things. I am just unwilling to indulge people's fantasies on this issue, because I've lived through it having been clinically obese myself in the past. >I find it supremely hilarious that
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by sdwa 7y ago
Losing weight is hard (speaking from experience), but ultimately it's still just a question of physics. Eat less, eat food which will fill you for longer (breakfast: porridge, lunch: fruit, nuts, etc.), and eat a reasonably healthy me
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by sdwa 7y ago
Blair massively expanded the welfare state by any measure. The Tories wouldn't have had anything to cut from 2010 onwards if that wasn't the case.
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by sdwa 7y ago
You're right, it is pedantic, it goes without saying that nobody is suggesting that Europeans have figured out how to bypass the laws of thermodynamics to generate free healthcare in the most literal sense.
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by sdwa 7y ago
I think so, yes.
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by sdwa 7y ago
I'm a relative late comer to programming and having read the first 3 chapters within a year or two of starting to program "in earnest", I echo your sentiments. I feel like it really taught me how to think like a programmer.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Worth noting that the increase from the Tevatron (2TeV) to LHC (14TeV) was the same as this proposed step from the LHC to the FCC.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Well, accelerator physicists work with particle physicists who do understand these things. More often than not particle physicists don't understand how the accelerator works. Particle physics is complicated, and so is the LHC. I am
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by sdwa 7y ago
That's not really the point of a CDR, it's saying "if we were to build a 100TeV machine, this is, broadly speaking, how we would do it". Particle physicists may (or may not) determine it worthwhile, that's another
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by sdwa 7y ago
Well, you just have to incessantly refer to it by its full name: The We Company.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Oh well that's all right then, as long as they learned the lesson about killing millions of their own people. Don't know what the fuss is all about if you ask me!
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by sdwa 7y ago
Now, FLUKA on the other hand... no idea what their deal is.
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by sdwa 7y ago
You're lucky that things worked well for you in spite of your poverty. Most people born into poverty are not so lucky.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Is there any evidence that the reason healthcare is so unaffordable and people go bankrupt is because people are unhealthy? Your "just be healthier" solution is no solution at all. Regardless, people fall ill through no fault of
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by sdwa 7y ago
I think you're missing the point. The point is return per unit will power is massively correlated with your socioeconomic background—poor and disadvantaged people have to use a lot more will power to get the same benefits that rich pe
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by sdwa 7y ago
Indeed, but it's only such a truly awful idea exactly because there are a lot of predators out there with no morals looking to prey on children. If a kid went into a physical shop with a credit card and tried to buy something, he woul
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by sdwa 7y ago
Let me help you with your misanthropy: try targeting it at companies which exist solely to exploit children rather than the parents of said children.
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by sdwa 7y ago
Anyone who spends several thousand pounds on a single video game is in all likelihood vulnerable, and quite possibly a child.

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