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by sfj 6y ago
He said he sometimes walks. I'm just saying there is a downside that he didn't mention/consider to what he does. What I do doesn't really effect that.
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by sfj 6y ago
> Some have, um, less formal delivery options, and I fall back to just walking over. He only walks to some , not all. And I don't live in the US, so if it's incredibly US biased, I just got lucky, I guess.
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by sfj 6y ago
You're wasting gas, though, and hurting the environment.
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by sfj 6y ago
I don't know, (and the whole reason I'm in this conversation was because I thought it was such an amusing concept I couldn't resist...)
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by sfj 6y ago
Do you have a way to measure consciousness? Would you object to killing a process with a sighup, that outputted “Ouch“ to the terminal?
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by sfj 6y ago
The metaphysical blabbery is the justification for this idea to judge raising animals for slaughter as cruel. It's not blabbery to question it.
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by sfj 6y ago
> "a full, relatively pain free life" is not at all an accurate description of anything related to factory farming. You understand that I'm not saying relative to your life, right, but to some other life in some other un
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by sfj 6y ago
> so by extension everything is just great, right? I never said this. > let's all eat each other while we ponder these great questions. Let's make sure no being is ever born again who might suffer. Seems totally good and jus
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by sfj 6y ago
I find the assumptions embedded in this argument very strange. It brings up a huge number of questions. Only a conscious being would feel pain, so what is consciousness? Does it come down and embed itself into creatures that are born? If so
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by sfj 6y ago
But what if the plants we like to eat are more conscious than the plants that animals like to eat? Or even more conscious than the animals themselves? How do we really know? What if there is a God in every peanut?
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by sfj 6y ago
> raised and massacred living beings Plants are also living beings...
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by sfj 6y ago
But how do you win? With players from other teams on the map, there is no way you can achieve the stated win condition: > The goal is to paint the whole map with your team's color by moving.
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by sfj 6y ago
You still don't get it, I'm not talking about myself, just how the public reacts. I don't think preferential treatment based on skin color is ever a good idea.
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by sfj 6y ago
> Asian discrimination in the US includes the Chinese Exclusion Act, the 1917 Immigration Act, bans on the ownership of property (leading to the development of Chinatown ghettos), and internment camps. > Furthermore, many Asian immigr
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by sfj 6y ago
The problem is that Asians don't have a story of discrimination. Blacks have slavery, Jews have the holocaust, Native Americans have their land being taken from them, and Latinos have being raised in a third world country and fled to A
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by sfj 6y ago
> Thus emphasizing the importance of controlled trials and regulatory bodies. Funny, you give the results study that did not used controlled trials to justify emphasizing the importance of controlled trials. Even further, this study was
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by sfj 6y ago
Or Uninteruptable Power Supply. When I got my first job, I always wondered why our company designated the UPS with their own room on the floor map...
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by sfj 6y ago
The closest thing I have seen to this is motocoin, where the proof of work is represented by a procedurally generated game the user must win to mine the coin: https://motocoin-dev.github.io/motocoin-site/Motocoin.pdf L
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by sfj 6y ago
How would you turn that into a proof of work system, if the answer is already known beforehand?
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by sfj 6y ago
What “study”? Are we not talking about what the parent poster wrote anymore? And to answer your question, you see, there are these people called reporters, and they get a lot of information from very different sources. They filter out wh
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by sfj 6y ago
> Why would it be spread in certain areas and not others? I would guess because of different social distancing practices. > Why would knowing who has antibodies hurt the economy when everyone is already secluded? Knowing who has antib
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by sfj 6y ago
> quite possibly we will find out that the virus was spreading super widely in certain areas Emphasis mine
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by sfj 6y ago
Because mapping out the geographic locations of those who were infected could hurt the economy of the blighted areas even further.
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by sfj 6y ago
Counterpoint: https://www.zerohedge.com/health/gilead-pours-cold-water-rep... (a hedge fund wanted to get out of a position and got someone to do some heavily biased reporting) It's a dirty game out there.
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by sfj 6y ago
So, if there was an epidemic of pneumonia going around, would you count that as a death due to pneumonia, and then use that statistic to help justify lock downs and enforced social distancing? Because that is what is happening when you take
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by sfj 6y ago
> If you really wanted to play around with the numbers like what you're suggesting, you could easily make it so covid-19 causes zero deaths just by looking far back enough to find a contributing factor. Like age, immune system issue
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by sfj 6y ago
If the total cost is under $6 trillion, I think the Fed can swing it.
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by sfj 6y ago
> Someone has cancer for six months, gets COVID and dies 17 days later and now Tucker Carlson is here telling me not to count that death. If someone has cancer and then gets a bad cold and dies, what should the cause of death be? Or what
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by sfj 6y ago
I disagree, software scales much better than, say, designing a bridge.
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by sfj 6y ago
> All absolutes are wrong. Except that one, I suppose...

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