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by stubish 3y ago
Come to Australia during magpie breeding season, where we are still hunted by low flying birds.
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by stubish 3y ago
Not necessarily. cf. Tyranny of the Majority. I can imagine the same group of people simultaneously demanding better public transport. A mob can want many different conflicting things at the same time.
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by stubish 3y ago
Dengue has a huge emotional and economic cost beyond the dry survival rate statistics. The article quotes a researcher flat out stating "the virus will probably find a way to overcome the Wolbachia effect". They still think their
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by stubish 3y ago
You can give your aid money to the local government, or you can use it to fund a hospital or research facility flying your flag, employing locals and hopefully generating good news so its continued funding can becomes a political tool. But
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by stubish 3y ago
some cancer. We already know different cancers use different 'fuel'. A keto diet would likely speed growth of cancers that can use or prefer ketones for instance. But for ones that only absorb glucose, the rats in the article in
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by stubish 3y ago
Rules absolutely have to be made up on the fly. They are a tool to move society from where it is to where we want it to be. Carving them in stone just creates a game for people to exploit. Dynamic rules means people need to understand and f
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by stubish 3y ago
You forgot 'modern advertising is non-consensual psychological manipulation and should be illegal'. Maybe if we decided to not allow our minds to be polluted for other's profit, the business model would collapse and allow a b
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by stubish 3y ago
No matter how many times that platitude is repeated, it doesn't help. Because lots of people won't subscribe. The business model conflicts with normal human psychology. 'Pay us to stop annoying you' causes people to go o
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by stubish 3y ago
Is there a way of telling from the MSDS or other sources that you actually need protective equipment when dealing with a particular chemical? I'm sure some of the stuff my partner deals with requires it, but suspect some of the other s
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by stubish 3y ago
I think it is price. Here I see cars with batteries that last well enough for 10+ years, and I'm confident that the price will drop over time if I keep one long enough to actually want to replace it. Along with all the other parts that
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by stubish 3y ago
In Australia, the vast majority of EV models on the market are luxury vehicles. You can count on one hand the number of vehicles in the 'midrange' price point (~$AUD 50k is my yardstick), and absolutely nothing anyone considers ch
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by stubish 3y ago
The shortcut is apparently breaking the bonds of groups of molecules, rather than supplying enough energy to break all the bonds of each individual molecule. But still technically correct, with the airborne groups breaking apart into indivi
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by stubish 3y ago
It sounds like you also need an AI to generate that mispricing. Like a form of SEO, the misinformation bots tweet to all the trading bots and try to trick them into mispricing shares, so your trading bots can quickly gain advantage. Corewar
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by stubish 3y ago
Going to a nude spa necessitates giving up some right to privacy. You expect the minimum necessary to provide the service you want. But you certainly don't want them filming you and posting the pics on the Internet. This is similar t
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by stubish 3y ago
In the case of the right of privacy, what is wrong with your suggestion is that it is what we have today, and we end up where we are today. You must sacrifice your right of privacy to use Facebook, Twitter and others. And using Facebook, Tw
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by stubish 3y ago
Facebook is violating your right to privacy in both cases. You could voluntarily hand over your data or voluntarily allow them into your home. But the EU isn't going to allow Facebook or anyone to force people to give up their rights.
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by stubish 3y ago
What you are asking for is the ability to sell your right to privacy. Laws generally don't allow you to sell or otherwise relinquish your rights, eg. selling your vote or selling yourself into slavery or accepting licenses in conflict
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by stubish 3y ago
Who is showing porn here? OP or the company they would probably quite like to get shut down due to local censorship laws?
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by stubish 3y ago
We simplify the world using metaphor. It is how we think.
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by stubish 3y ago
I'd thought Steam not offering a subscription service points more to Valve being ossified, or Valve having enough insight to know it is a terrible business move and will lose money in the long term. It would not be much effort at all t
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by stubish 3y ago
I think the way it works is you have sound from multiple sources, and you time the sound waves so that the peaks and troughs all hit the targeted area at the same time. Each individual 'beam' is harmless, but at the point of inter
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by stubish 3y ago
I wondered that too. I wonder if you see similar bone growth patterns in hibernating animals?
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Sam Elsom's seaweed solution to tackle climate change(abc.net.au)
17 points by stubish 3y ago|6 comments
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by stubish 3y ago
This is very wrong. Retinol (vitamin A) only occurs naturally in foods of animal origin, with the bodies of vegans needing to manufacture it from other sources. A lack of it can cause immune system problems.
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by stubish 3y ago
We have know for a long, long time just how important a ratio that minuscule amount makes. As you yourself just stated, if you cut the current minuscule amount to a lower minuscule amount, some plant species would die. And similarly, if you
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by stubish 3y ago
A single plant is carbon neutral over its entire growth/decomposition cycle, yes. But the ecosystem as a whole, plants grow faster than they decompose, and it is carbon negative. The excess oxygen production is balanced by animals and
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by stubish 3y ago
Databases are there to share data and provide transactional guarantees and even locking. Your data often must be tightly coupled like this, and most databases designed with this in mind and provide benefits when doing so. It doesn't
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by stubish 3y ago
LastPass will remain dominant until someone else with similar functionality offers a free tier. 1Password is similar functionality, but you have to subscribe after 14 days and that drives alot of people away even if they can afford it. And
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by stubish 3y ago
More if you are not paying enough attention. This article is not about alcohol being good. It is about beer being good, and even goes on to suggest non-alcoholic beers potentially being a health boost, leaving unstated that we know th
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by stubish 3y ago
Yes, when define 'life' that way, it is indeed everywhere. And a tautology.

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