stvltvs

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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Except for one case in Texas that made a splash in the news last year, I didn't find other cases of the Bible being banned from school libraries. Did I miss something? If not, it would make sense that Texas made the news because it&#x2
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Unitary in the sense that they debated whether to have one guy in charge or several. They defaulted back to what they knew, the rule of one dude with limited but sole executive power. Edit: This is what I'm referring to and it has dire
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Proposal: constitutional amendment granting Congress the power to institute independent agencies lead by independently elected officials directly responsible to the voting public and subject to Congressional impeachment. For example, make a
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Except they fumbled the ball by creating a unitary executive. I don't blame them too much because that's all they'd known, the US was a hundred times smaller, and they were making it up as they went. Democracy would be more r
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
If I grew up getting my gas pumped for me, I would resist that going away too. Admittedly, this is my status quo bias.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
What happens when the jobs the migrant workers left the farm for are automated away? Do we expect other jobs to appear that won't also be automated? Does the wealth created by automation reduce the need for humans to work to survive, o
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
I go to a cashier lane whenever possible because shakes fist at cloud no one's paying me to ring up and bag my groceries. Also, unless job automation is tied to some kind of UBI or Freedom Dividend or whatever, we're facing a dy
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
I'm guessing the number of people this affects is approximately 1.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Is your question about what authoritarian states do with information about everyone's private lives?
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
What good solutions are there that prevent the age verification service and the website from comparing notes (because Big Brother told them to) and figuring out who you are and what you're doing?
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Can't read the specs at the moment, but what prevents the age verification service and the age-gated website from coluding and de-anonymizing your porn use?
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Sounds like we kind of agree but you wouldn't include blind hiring under the label of DEI. Also, I wouldn't agree that historically hiring was more meritocratic before DEI programs.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
It's literally true that cancerous cells happen all the time in our bodies and no treatment is necessary because the immune system handles it. The ideal diagnostic test would only detect cancers that need intervention.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Why choose that metric rather than income, corporate, capital gains, etc. tax rates? Seems like it could obfuscate who bears the burden of those taxes.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
That assumes the status quo ante was a meritocracy. It wasn't, hence the need for actions that promote merit based hiring and workplace inclusion for historically oppressed groups. The efficacy of current DEI efforts is debatable, but
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
We didn't have this new-fangled chickenpox vaccine during my Gen-X childhood.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
You print more money. The only limit is the inflation you create.
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by stvltvs 10mo ago
Isn't that day today? The CDC says 4,000 underage drinkers die in the US every year. Maybe we could reduce that with stricter controls, but at what point does that become too burdensome to the rights of legal drinkers? It's even h
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by stvltvs 11mo ago
I've long argued that lecturer positions should also be tenure track, depending on metrics about effective education rather than research. Being taught by a researcher is overrated at the undergrad level. I've had lots of shitty c
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by stvltvs 11mo ago
Buy wheat berries, and not whole wheat bread? The UPF category isn't helpful to the person at the grocery store trying to decide what's to buy because it significantly overlaps with very healthy foods. Loose terms like junk food a
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by stvltvs 1y ago
Not necessarily, opinions vary. https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/do-black-holes-destroy-or-s...
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by stvltvs 1y ago
Puts message in a bottle and tosses into the most convenient black hole.
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by stvltvs 1y ago
In the hospitality sector, tariffs (and harassment of tourists at the border) are reducing earnings by reducing tourism.
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by stvltvs 1y ago
This assumes that education's sole goal is to prepare students for work. What would be the impact on democratic systems if voters always turn to an LLM for answers because schools didn't require them to think on their own?
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by stvltvs 1y ago
It also needs to prevent sharing the age verification token.
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by stvltvs 1y ago
Agreed. As an adult, I would use a VPN to bypass ID requirements to preserve my privacy.
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by stvltvs 1y ago
Whatever technical solution is implemented needs to: 1. Not inform the authentication provider about which websites you're visiting. 2. Not inform the websites about your meat space identity.
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by stvltvs 2y ago
We should be careful not to equivocate between pedophilia which in the technical jargon of research studies is a sexual attraction to pre-pubertal children and child sexual abuse which loosely is the act of sexually assaulting someone below
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Source? edit: You may be confusing tetrachromacy with people who don't have a lens and can therefore perceive ultraviolet light that's normally filtered out. These folks can see shades of violet where other people don't becau
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by stvltvs 2y ago
Not true. Human tetrachromats have an extra kind of receptor somewhere between the blue and red receptors' sensitivity. This doesn't help with colors like violet that are outside of that range. Also, purple (a non-spectral color)

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