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by simiones 2y ago
No, you've just got the causality backwards. It's like saying "socialism is the ideology that workers should own the means of production. That literally includes being a worker at a company, not an owner.", and then conc
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No, wearing glasses doesn't make you the adept of any ideological current, such as transhumanism. At best you could say it precludes you from being an adept of certain ideologies that would oppose wearing glasses, such as very strict &
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Based on our current models, it takes a long amount of time for elements as heavy as oxygen to be formed, especially in large enough quantities that it can be detected. And when looking at a very distant galaxy, what we're seeing is an
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This would be a cute idea, if it weren't for the fact that all the other people in the region, and outside, who didn't follow any of these practices (and instead had their own specific taboos), lived just as much and created jus
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by simiones 2y ago
> I find it difficult to believe that the list of meats banned by kosher and halal matches the top allergies and disease risk factors as well as it does without some intent Does it? I agree that the risk of trichinosis from pigs was pret
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I think your memory is mostly right. Leto II essentially wanted to instill into humanity this lesson, do not fall for the words of the prophet, permanently: his reign would forever be remembered as the hell that this can lead to. And yes, h
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by simiones 2y ago
The fremen jihad killed 61 billion people across the empire, including the sterilization of 90 whole planets, per details in Dune Messiah (quoting from a wiki, I don't have this kind of memory). It may be that life in the empire after
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by simiones 2y ago
I believe black holes are not currently emitting any Hawking radiation, because the CMB is far too hot for now. They will start emitting Hawking radiation in the far future, after the Universe has cooled down significantly.
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by simiones 2y ago
"Injection" in "dependency injection" simply refers to getting your dependencies from outside instead of building them yourself. Let's take the case of an object which represents a simple CRUD web service that needs
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by simiones 2y ago
A war doesn't directly improve the economy. It's spending on industry that was justified by the war (plus national fervor) that helped with this. But building ships and planes and tanks is not fundamentally useful for civilian
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The point is this: say we see a video of an otherwise completely empty region of space, with two masses orbiting each other for a while, that then fly off in different directions. We reverse the video and see two masses coming towards each
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> If you merely take a disordered system and throw it into reverse, you will still just see a disordered system becoming more disordered, because there was never any surprising ordered state built in to be uncovered later. This is circu
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by simiones 2y ago
Staying their and listening to people make false claims over and over again without challenging them on any of the lies or grandstanding is not a service to anyone. At the very least, no one should be looking at a Lex Friedman interview hop
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by simiones 2y ago
If real cost of living in USD is going up, how are they fixing inflation?
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by simiones 2y ago
That depends to a great extent on how the money is actually spent. The USA spent huge amounts of money to get out of the Great Depression, much, much more than it was spending before, and it ended up in a much better economic position, de
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by simiones 2y ago
There's no such thing as an economic institute without an obvious agenda, and generally no way that we know to compute the optimal spending. And even if there was some way to decide how much to spend, there would still be the insurmoun
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by simiones 2y ago
The right view is, if you want to put it simplistically like this: Progressives: Elon doesn't care about free speech, he cares about limiting the speech of progressives in favor of the extreme right Also progressives: Free speech shoul
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by simiones 2y ago
> On the fundamentals, the letters are separate; that is the conclusion you'd come to, for French éè or Icelandic oö, by studying the writing system. This is the part we most disagree on. In my opinion, there is no fundamental defin
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by simiones 2y ago
Both on Wikipedia and on Merriam-Webster, "family name" is given as a synonym of "last name" or "surname". In my own language as well, "family name" is simply understood as a part of your legal name w
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by simiones 2y ago
The French definitely don't consider those to be different letters - they are e with an acute accent and a grave accent respectively; an accent is a type of diacritic mark. There's also a circumflex accent in French, and several o
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by simiones 2y ago
Depends on how you define "family name". In the most pragmatic sense, as in "what should you put in the family name field in legal contexts", then "Guðmundsdóttir" is her family name E.g. her passport will have
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by simiones 2y ago
Whether school is a net benefit (that can stand to be improved) or a net detriment (a system that needs to be uprooted and upended entirely) depends significantly on that "some significant percentage". If the percentage is 10% of
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by simiones 2y ago
Even if bullying is common (say, every school or even every class experiences some bullying), that doesn't necessarily make it a very common experience for those who go through school (the majority of children in a class will neither b
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by simiones 2y ago
I get that part, but I'm not sure why they would expire even later than the domain registration and the Google Workspace account. I would expect WorkDay or whoever to close/archive a non-paying account much earlier than that.
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by simiones 2y ago
> Basically if Sally, the CTO of DankStartup, signed up for Taskrabbit or whatnot, it's possible for you as the owner of the domain to impersonate Sally in the context of that relationship. I don't think this is the issue, unle
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Yes, why the Slack or HR or interview etc. data would still exist while being inaccessible to the original owner is very strange. The article seems to take it as a foregone conclusion that those accounts should all be expected to still exis
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by simiones 2y ago
Minimum wage in California seems to be $16 an hour. I doubt this intersection took 37 500 man-hours to finish, so I don't think the cost is explained by wages. Also, $200K would still seem like a gigantic amount of money for adding sto
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by simiones 2y ago
In my own country, where stop signs are relatively rare anyway, this behavior is so common that it doesn't even have a name. I think it's much more unexpected here to see anyone truly stop at a stop sign on an empty street than it
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by simiones 2y ago
On the other hand, whether the driver was legally or illegally passing through the intersection is also irrelevant for safety: the fact is that the video clearly shows that the driver didn't put anyone's lives at risk this time, n
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This is very much wrong. When a driver sees a yellow light, they must make a call: do I have time to safely slow down and stop before reaching the stop location, or not? If I do, then I must start slowing down right away - that much we ag

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