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by ta8645 5y ago
> transgender people wanting to use the restroom that matches their presented gender is the largest ongoing attack on our collective well-being. Understand what you're saying, but you could have just as easily complained about the p
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The Excess Deaths of 2020 'If It Saves Just One Life' Cost a Lot of Lives(youtube.com)
4 points by ta8645 6y ago|0 comments
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by ta8645 6y ago
If you put your head in a plastic bag and tie it off tightly at the neck, you're literally guaranteed to not die from Covid. Which highlights the idea that you really have to consider the costs and downsides of any Covid prevention me
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by ta8645 6y ago
I guess I just do not believe guns cause people to become suicidal. I knew two people who committed suicide with the help of doctors. Both were considered and practical decisions given the pain and suffering they were enduring with no hop
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by ta8645 6y ago
Sorry that's a utopian dream and we are cursed to instead live in the real world. Sometimes suicide is the most humane decision someone can make for themselves. And true compassion comes by actually supporting someone in that situati
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by ta8645 6y ago
If guns truly facilitate suicide then it's good that they are available to those who want them. But it would be more compassionate if we had a less gruesome method we could make available to people.
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by ta8645 6y ago
The lack of this being seriously addressed and remedied hurts the reputation of science in general. It also undermines the argument in areas of public policy around say Covid, where "listen to the science" has to overcome the per
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by ta8645 6y ago
I believe it is natural human social behaviour that is simply emerging again after a long quiet period after the dissolution of organized religion. IMO, all the horrible mob mentality and violence that used to be blamed on religion, really
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by ta8645 6y ago
This is good news. Now maybe Fauci should rethink his idea that people need to wear their masks for another year even after getting vaccinated. One of his reasons was because of worry about the variants.
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by ta8645 6y ago
That argument has absolutely nothing to do with this article. Not saying I disagree, but it's true or false regardless if we kill with a robot or not. It's irrelevant to the discussion.
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by ta8645 6y ago
Come on, that's not a charitable interpretation of my argument. It's meant to highlight the idea that there are targets _today_ that would make the world a better place if we could kill them. And it doesn't matter what to
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by ta8645 6y ago
That's way too simplistic. If one of these drones could have killed Hitler and saved millions of innocent people, would you still say it's not ethical? The reason to dislike these machines is because of the practical problem of m
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by ta8645 6y ago
> A monopoly in book-selling (which Amazon absolutely does not have) Depends on your definition of monopoly. Monopolistic practices and effects can begin to appear long before 100% domination of a market. I think it's fair to say
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by ta8645 6y ago
I personally find "hate speech" nomenclature quite tedious, but dealing with undesired content is handled via the usual Matrix methods[1]... since that is what underlies Cactus. You may have to self host though, i'm not sure
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by ta8645 6y ago
So we need to elect greedier politicians who wont accept a pittance as a bribe. </s>
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by ta8645 6y ago
We should default to permissibility not to restriction. If you want something restricted it should be on you to prove that it's harmful enough to deprive your fellow man of the freedom necessary to choose for themselves.
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by ta8645 6y ago
So are football, pot, television, facebook, and alcohol; at least they're all potentially harmful. We need to make resilient people, not padded rooms.
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by ta8645 6y ago
I agree. But your suggested acronym to fix it is a bit over the top. Perhaps: Uninteresting Friendly Object.
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by ta8645 6y ago
You had me until your last sentence. There are people who are born with huge lung capacity, they are able to swim faster and longer than anyone else. We would never believe that it's emotional pain that is keeping everyone else from
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by ta8645 6y ago
That sounds the same to my ear. At least the way I pronounce both words. c-awe-ck and b-awe-ttom.
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by ta8645 6y ago
Two minute video with an interesting little fact. Also a test to see how good your browser's Unicode coverage is for the symbols in the title ;-)
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ᚼᛒ: Harald Bluetooth and Your Phone(youtube.com)
2 points by ta8645 6y ago|1 comments
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by ta8645 6y ago
Do you have an example of this mismatch you could share?
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by ta8645 6y ago
Yes, that's the pragmatic approach, which is necessary. But just because you apply some "basic reasoning and common sense" doesn't mean you have any more access to the truth than anyone else. Science teaches us just how
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by ta8645 6y ago
> And in my view, it is only of limited importance to look for what possible That's fine. We have to be pragmatic and can't go around worried about ghosts. But the point is that we have to be honest about the nature of "
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by ta8645 6y ago
This isn't about laziness or the difficulty in understanding anything. There is a fundamental limitation of perception and cognition. Science can only describe what it sees. But it never knows if there is something important yet und
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by ta8645 6y ago
I can't figure out how latency matters when you're listening to prerecorded music. You hear the whole song from start to finish without interruption, yes? Why does it matter if that whole uninterrupted song is heard 2 seconds lat
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by ta8645 6y ago
It might reduce the incentive for the seller to deal with post-sales problems after that 1-month period. Once they see a person hasn't been selected, they can ignore any of their support requests without worry of a bad review.
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by ta8645 6y ago
Nobody ever wants any liability if they can help it. But they shouldn't be marketing a product if they can't stand behind it.
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by ta8645 6y ago
People get sick of things all the time of all kinds of things, doesn't mean that a global lock down is the appropriate response or that the statistics you're accepting are actually correct. And there are many explanations that cou

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