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by teachingassist 5y ago
It's tricky to organise, but in theory, yes, you can interpret your own results. Ancestry/23andme-type medical results are (in my opinion) almost entirely a nice write-up and display of public databases of research on SNPs, e.g.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Can you name a poor philosopher? If anything, the barriers appear to me to be greater.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I assume the thinking was somewhat broader than that (fishermen only have 10,000 votes between them). I assume that people understood their town's local economy would be uplifted by a renewed fishing industry. Of course, that was never
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> You've changed the discussion from the intended simplicity of politics to an argument about who was allowed to vote. I was disagreeing directly with your point that this was intended to be simple, or for "regular people"
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> If there's a famine or a meat shortage, wouldn't people turn to other foods on their own? Encouraging weekly fish-eating habits is also a mechanism to ensure that you have a healthy national fish industry, that you can dial u
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by teachingassist 5y ago
To censor Bing for an infraction is not a consistent free speech position. It has clearly become a political, and extreme (becoming user-hostile), position. [Edited to note: the parent's claim is confirmed by the link on the page]
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> regular people You're skipping over the fact that only property owning white men were initially allowed to vote. That was the group which expected to gain political power from the Declaration and Constitution - that was the targ
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> If you care to question any aspect of something that comprises part of someone's identity, then it can easily be perceived as a personal attack on that individual I don't think it's healthy conversation to "question
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> If, for example, gay people would be voting on gig worker law propositions based on LGBTQI support organization recommendations Gay people don't have to, and often don't, vote based on LGBTQI organization recommendations. How
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by teachingassist 5y ago
The opposite, surely. If there's no market for old hardware, there's no benefit to making new products which hold their value.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> the best strategy for the last 20 years (with hindsight) would be to buy the shares that have performed best over this period, The best strategy doesn't seem to me to be straightforward to calculate, even with perfect hindsight. I
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> that’s how you kill a city center. This is a function of American cities being poorly designed. You are expected to arrive by car from the sprawling suburbs. I agree with your exceptions, NYC, Chicago: but I'd add, almost every c
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Nobody has yet mentioned the UK, but: reduced regulation on fishing was a big motivator for Brexit, where the campaign had its roots deep in coastal towns.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Same issue in Chrome.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I've found it effective to have a standing rule that you are not allowed to critique someone else's idea, unless you are improving upon it.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
'Legal tender' means that you are [everyone is] obliged to accept bitcoin as a means of settling any debt. (That would be a nightmare - in my opinion, it would at least require some kind of official exchange rate between Bitcoin a
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> So how do you imagine you disagree with me? Ah, ok. Then, I imagine that you really think it's fine for people to do politics, as long as it's politics that you agree with . You simply see politics that you don't agree
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I don't do activism at work, but I certainly do sell myself to employers and potential employers. The greatest value that I provide in my work is that I am me: I am a person, with human needs and concerns and thoughts and inspiration
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by teachingassist 5y ago
No doubt; Nonetheless, this is business as usual. Booking.com are masters of tax avoidance and I'd guess all of their usual bonuses are essentially covered by Dutch state aid in the form of reduced taxes.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I believe the article clarifies this - the "no bonuses" rule didn't exist when Booking.com claimed this aid. The rule existed for the second tranche of aid, which Booking didn't claim.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
This is a little unorthodox. But, a first party cookie that stores consenting data used for reasonably expected purposes, doesn't need to ask you explicitly for consent. [As Hacker News ostensibly doesn't need cookie consent for y
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> why people don't use magnets on strings to search for lost things in European canals more often. There are TikTok accounts devoted to this (where else?) - it seems surprisingly common to find safes.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
iPhones 7 through 11 felt increasingly easy to destroy with the slightest touch - not so the iPhone 12.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
From my point of view, the lab-leak hypothesis is presented in a political way and not a scientific way, so it's hard to challenge scientifically. This is my genuine scientific take, having worked in a genome lab: If the virus was arti
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by teachingassist 5y ago
I agree with this but don't believe it relates to the grandparent's comment, which implied that we should accept shameful behaviour from 17 year olds because it is an innate part of being 17 years old. I object to that idea. (Is s
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by teachingassist 5y ago
This went over my head, I'm afraid. You're trying to explain why I should have understood this - which is fine, except that I genuinely didn't (having read the flyer in a level of depth that I normally wouldn't have giv
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> How much did you do at 17 that you aren't proud of today? Not that much . For sure I made some mistakes, as I continue to do, but I'd stand by what I did at 17. I didn't (for example) write down plainly racist statement
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Please check Poe's Law. Given that I know nothing about the characters here, I have no reason to believe that such people don't exist. A lot worse does exist in fringe politics.
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by teachingassist 5y ago
Given that I've never heard of the Stanford Federalist Society, I would be unable to identify this as satire. It's presented as any other official flyer from that organisation might be. In a way, it's defamation - a false sta
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by teachingassist 5y ago
> Once you optimize your job to be close to your home, many of the benefits of wfh disappear. Alternative framing: your life has been constrained by your career expectation of working in an office; you've optimised around that and f

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