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by slily 3y ago
How is that different from any other language? For instance, Chinese/Eastern medical jargon is objectively more readable than Western terms (unless you are fluent in Greek and Latin), but that doesn't mean you'll be able to u
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by slily 3y ago
At the risk of offending a neo-Marxist, children have underdeveloped brains and lack life experience or wisdom. They are not equivalent to adults and the minimum voting age is not arbitrary. Unfortunately, young adults, not unlike children,
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by slily 3y ago
You're right, it isn't directly relevant to your post, but other top-level comments were making snide remarks about Elon Musk, and I ended up conflating them when replying. The larger point that I forgot to make is that publicatio
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by slily 3y ago
To Musk haters, any bit of news concerning Tesla, SpaceX, Twitter, etc. is just waiting to be spun into a negative headline that can then be an excuse to whine about him. Somehow the smear campaign against him seems to be more effective tha
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by slily 3y ago
The median rent for 1 bedroom in NYC is $3600: https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/new-york-ny I lived there until last year, paid $1600 for rent in an unattractive area, coffee around the block cost maybe $2.50 but I
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by slily 3y ago
I cannot understand how someone can make that much money and be so irresponsible with it. Even in NYC with high income taxes, on a $250k salary you'd have to be spending well over $5000 on rent for it to constitute 50% of your take-hom
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by slily 4y ago
This article reads like meta-virtue signaling. The author criticizes his neighbours' yard signs, but he too lives in what is presumably a rich, homogeneous and exclusive neighbourhood - I've only ever seen those types of signs in
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by slily 4y ago
Failing to control for nutritional quality also makes those numbers very misleading. For example that 37% of protein would translate to more than double that number based on bioavailability for humans, and meat is far more nutritious than g