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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Where one person then decides to alter their own brain chemistry
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> Civilized society does control your diet, through food regulation. No they don't. I can grow my own food and it is perfectly legal and loads of people do exactly that. > you'll have to go a bit out of your way to find sex
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> steal money from all the people who actually create value When someone creates hundreds of millions of dollars in pollution and they have far less in the bank or in profits, who pays for the cleanup costs? You will. Your "simple s
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Then you should waste your own personal money on it. It has made the problem worse. The illegal drug trade to the US is now almost as big as big oil. It's an industry in the hundreds of $ billions. This type of thinking has created mil
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Then so is your diet and exercise regime my business. I also want to control who you spend time with (for your mental health) and what you consume for entertainment - there will be limits on what you can read and watch and how much. Alcohol
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Prohibition doesn't work for meth or heroin either. Making them freely available under doctor supervision is what works. Switzerland did it and an out of control heroin problem went away and especially important, usage among young peop
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Say no to fun stuff 20% of the time and invest that money - the younger the better. Time is your very best friend when it comes to retiring comfortably. But say "yes" to enough things that you'll have fond memories to look ba
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Well politicians from one party bow to capital's demands. Democrats get campaign funding from unions. I'm not claiming Dems are free from corruption or deals with big business - they are not. But they for sure have not worked hard
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> Labor needs to organize very hard to take back control and that's difficult when everyone is scared they'll lose their job It's fair to note that one party in the USA has worked very hard to break up unions. And it has
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> support of Wall Street that is supposed to trickle down to Main Street > I interpret the “capitalists are screwing the working class” as a) erroneous Isn't support of Wall Street fairly interpreted as support of the uber wealth
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I remember our family of five children, two cars, pool (but above ground), most vacations were camping but we did make it to Disney World. We had lots of nice stuff as kids, but it was solidly middle class. My mother stayed home while my fa
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> One aspect of sexual selection is that a disadvantageous trait needn't kill to cause differential outcomes in reproduction. If a deficiency results lower hunting success, diminished fighting prowess, loss of mental acuity etc. the
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> you didn't ask for proof, you asked for evidence I didn't ask for evidence from you. I asked more specifically "Are there any studies giving strong evidence as to the causation for evolving white skin? > do you know
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> Correlation of latitude with skin colour is evidence of causation. Correlation is not causation. I'm sorry but I don't think you have any evidence at all that lighter skin was caused by a need for more vitamin D. It's ju
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If you look at the full quote, the purpose is not to confirm your theory but to inject healthy doubt in your theory: "A sun lower in the sky and shorter day lengths would have favored skin that more easily synthesized vitamin D. But re
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> the only reason white people exist in the first place is because of vitamin D Is there a study to back up that claim? I haven't seen anything claiming to prove that lighter skin was a definite cause of a need for higher vitamin D
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> A change like the loss of melanin requires selective pressure It does? What about genetic drift, random mutations, and artificial selection, where humans select based on qualities not necessarily conducive to survival? There is also so
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> It must be important if it was worth evolving white skin over Where is the evidence that we evolved white skin to produce more vitamin D? Light skin in Europe may have evolved as a widespread thing as recently as 8,000 years ago [1], w
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This seems short-sighted. Mobile phones used to an annoying tool only "rich assholes" could use to loudly talk in a public space. Cars, air travel, electric cars - all at one point only affordable by the rich.
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One use I could see for these long term is getting people outside the circumference of a very congested road traffic area so they could then use ground transport. A small reduction in localized congestion can make a huge difference for even
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Or just take out the trash more often.
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> If you're optimizing for speed of initial delivery, rather than TCO, then any method with less planning delivers faster and costs less. I feel like we are getting somewhere now. For some projects speed of initial delivery is by fa
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> Who said you can't learn? Exactly. You could learn about when and how to be more efficient when planning isn't called for. > Planning upfront takes less time than not planning up front, in all cases. It does not. > you
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It's easy enough to use my thought experiment to make it a meritocracy. We watch their latest talks. Fred is a better speaker. Thanks to more experience because he has done more talks. Thanks to confidence because he has never heard &q
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> I think the sole question to be answered by such a measure is probability of the admitee graduating. A society where the only criteria for access to higher education is that one graduates - and then perhaps goes on to do nothing with t
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The concrete example I often give is that as a conference organizer we decide to be a meritocracy. Great! As a fair meritocracy, all else being equal between speakers a tie breaker is how many talks you have already done. Experience should
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And after decades of experience myself I've seen the vast majority of plans become useless the further out they try to predict the future. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree about the value of learning by actually starting to
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Time spent planning does not always save time and money in all cases. We have all seen people who love to build prototypes deliver something working while the guy who insists on planning still hasn't delivered anything. And the guy who
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If you are building something you have built before: a bridge for example, then by all means use your prior experience to budget and plan. The majority of what software engineers build is new territory. Estimating and planning are an attemp

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