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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I thought the health effects of e-cigs were relatively benign? I know it's common to consider the health profile of a substance with 'no substance' as the basis of comparison, but people seem to like stimulation and get it ho
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
> If I were an insurance company, I'd consider buying a small pharma outfit and target it at these orphan drugs just to save money. I've looked into it but the regulations get in the way. It's a crock of bologna - if you h
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I live in the bay area - I can meet a nice girl in the sense that I can also win the lottery tomorrow. Besides, I have to compete with people on welfare who have a lot more time to chase girls than I do as the person paying for their welfar
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
> Gun fans like to point to the evidence that banning guns in one city does no good, as those cities are still plagued by gun violence. Guns are easily brought in from next door, of course. So how come the 'next door' with plen
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I'm sure they'll care once someone loses their zuccbuccs for saying "Men are trash".
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Also, FB's community standards seem designed to stymie conservative and right wing speech. You can attack the rich on FB, but not those so poor they receive welfare. You can attack people based on their 'privilege' but not on
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Good, next step kick Turkey and Germany out of NATO.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
How do you think the community standards and cryptocurrency are going to interact? If Facebook deplatforms you, do they take your zuccbucks?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Whenever I talk to people about data science I repeat the old adage: A data scientist is a statistician who can program or a programmer who understands statistics at a high level. It's amazing how few CS people become data scientists,
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Unfortunately for America, the grift is part of the system. American colleges aren't expensive because they've been investing in the organization, often they budget for a worse university. Each year, more money is allocated to adm
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
This is a really interesting train of thought. Why do you think the Republicans are so effective at driving efficiency in the government? It seems like they're fantastic watch dogs of social programs, do you think the Democrats could b
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Additionally, schedule 1 drugs face unique prejudice in law enforcement / legal system, for instance you can't deduct schedule I drug production expenses from your income, and IIRC there's something about it that makes it mor
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Not directly but consumer welfare is the central concern of American anti-trust laws, buying out a competitor would presumably be blocked if the post-transaction firm would have greater power over consumers. IIRC, the sprint/t mobile d
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I hope so, it's bogus the app store is locked down like it is. I own my iPhone, I should be able to download a gab app.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
And fighting against that same right for those subject to the boycott. Let's flip this around - if I started a movement to Boycott, divest, and sanction palestinians would my speech create real world harm?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
It seems like the natural next-step of the blithering "you have a right to pleasure". "You have the right to healthcare" == single payer healthcare "you have the right to pleasure" == single payer prostitution
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
yeah, but only if everyone agrees on what constitutes rights and freedom. Is the BDS movement abusing or using their rights to free speech?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I"m not aware of that result, can you help connect your paper to that claim?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
What, would your worldview survive if we came to find that bias didn't drive the outcomes disparities that vex you?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
We could say the same thing about news sites themselves. If we allow our news to be unverified, surely we can allow unverified opinions of the news makers themselves to stand.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
It sounds preferable to calculate risk scores deterministically rather than rely on Law Enforcement's discretion. Risk scores are computed for every traffic stop, wouldn't you want to take that process away from the office and giv
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Agreed. Let the actuaries at the insurance companies figure it out. Some companies will figure it out, some won't, and the best will flourish and the worst will die and free up resources for better stewards.
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I thought it was sufficiently common knowledge that Africa and the parts of Eurasia that produce refugees have lower average IQs than the parts of the world that receive refugees: https://brainstats.com/average-iq-by-country
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Why would IQ be explained by wealth inequality? I thought the literature was pretty conclusive - there's a benefit to rising above poverty but beyond that wealth doesn't buy much IQ. Poverty rates are falling, I'm not sure we
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I think the parent comment was pretty clear in their argument - you have to build enough roads to get ahead of constrained consumption. If they built an extra lane on every road between me and the pizza shop, I'd go the pizza shop more
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Who knows why you're being down-voted, you're not wrong. The economics of electric vehicles with million mile chassis and 300k mile batteries (going to 1m mile design life in Teslas next year) are incredible. I enjoy riding motorc
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Even better, they get to pay the fine with shareholder money. First, they defraud the shareholders by doing things they said they wouldn't with the shareholder's company. Then when they get in trouble, they use the shareholders mo
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
I tried selling a beauty product with AA batteries from Amazon on Amazon as a third party and the AA batteries from amazon triggered some safety review - I had to share safety data about the batteries and Amazon said their own MSDS didn
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
then how serious is their hatred?
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by tastygreenapple 7y ago
Completely disagree. You buy the dress because you want to convince yourself you look like old school Crawford or you want others to be convinced that you look like old school Crawford. The point of models 99% of the time is to show the clo

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