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by tedks 10y ago
Your first link is paywalled, but the second study hardly seems to "cast doubt" as you say. While we're taught to think about science in terms of "one experiment can disprove a whole theory!", the actual probability
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by tedks 10y ago
These are the only two options for you? Gold was created by God with all the properties to function as a medium for exchange (literally the belief of Islamic State), and what exactly, that Bitcoin is the One True Medium of Exchange and we s
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by tedks 10y ago
But the Internet is a distributed, nominally-decentralized system that's built to be resilient. We've seen how difficult it is to cut off Internet access to even regions within dictatorial nation-states. Compare that to gold suppl
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by tedks 10y ago
>I'd file this headline under the category of "questions to which the answer is no". Obviously if Bitcoin goes tits-up it will not be more stable than gold. There seems to be a non-trivial probability Bitcoin will go tits-
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by tedks 11y ago
I'm sorry, but this >* Make their own decisions on what to eat. is totally unacceptable when you're "making a decision" to enslave, torture, murder, and consume a sentient, feeling creature.
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by tedks 11y ago
This is a good movie plot, it just has one huge plot hole: >It's rush hour on a busy Friday afternoon in Washington, DC. >each phalanx moving towards the Clara Barton Parkway >all converging DC rush hour? Moving cars? Please.
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by tedks 11y ago
My understanding is that what happens is that the money is civil-forfeitured immediately after arrest in a separate proceeding from, in your example, the alleged drug dealer being charged. That said, the fact is that your example's arc
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by tedks 11y ago
>The development of the Exxon exx is shown here: woosh
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by tedks 11y ago
The assumption of the time was that it was common-sense that the Constitution was a whitelist, not a blacklist. There was pushback against having an enumerated Bill of Rights because then there would be a whitelist of rights, and the Founde
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by tedks 11y ago
Without a trial, it isn't "real" drug money. It's accused drug money. In the United States, we nominally presume innocence until guilt is proven. Since civil forfeiture uses kangaroo courts, there is no proof and so it i
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by tedks 11y ago
Trust a Cato article/infographic/whatever to totally ignore the red scare and rightist motivation for virtually all political surveillance and repression.
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by tedks 11y ago
"That's an American point of view. We should judge them on how they ~commune~ with ~nature~, living in symbiosis with their habitat." Yeah... only americans want high-GNP, access to technology, clean water, etc.. Everyone els
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by tedks 11y ago
As someone who's been vegan for eight years, I can empathize. There are definitely a lot of people very threatened by it. That said, I think the "socially-conscious hipster" is less likely to be vegetarian or vegan and more l
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by tedks 11y ago
I think this is a valid pushback against making lifestyle changes that are "something" but not meaningful, especially when this is used as a social cudgel. You don't get brownie points for rubbing other people's noses in
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by tedks 11y ago
Anti-lock breaks won't help you if your brake line is cut.
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by tedks 11y ago
It's a little darkly funny how people react to perceived indignities in the sciences with the exact same behavior pattern they're bemoaning. The narrative of these people is that there are bad people out there doing unreprodu
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by tedks 11y ago
Yeah. It is.
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by tedks 11y ago
But humans and viruses aren't competing in the same game. A better metaphor for the adversary in that situation is the person you're having sex with poking a hole in your condom.
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by tedks 11y ago
I grew up right outside DC (a few blocks from NIH) and while I didn't lose anyone on 9/11, I came pretty close and know plenty of people who did. The freedom we lost on 9/11 make the lives we lost pale in comparison. People g
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by tedks 11y ago
>And then we come to our nearest relatives (bonobos, chimps) being both promiscuous and ready to jump on the same sex and to use that behavior as a bonding ritual. They also commit cannibalism, rape, murder, bullying. You can't get
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by tedks 11y ago
>supposed to By whom? >homosexual sex act Which specifically? >wrong gender According to whom?
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by tedks 11y ago
Saying N% of species engaged in a behavior would be a meaningless statement. There are probably a few billion (real, not discovered) insect species. We will probably never discover and catalog them all genetically unless we invent nanotech
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by tedks 11y ago
Oh, it wasn't my intention at all to imply that antidepressants commonly cause suicide. When antidepressants are involved in completed or attempted suicide, that is the cause. Antidepressants are prescribed because they usually work, t
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by tedks 11y ago
Antidepressants commonly cause suicide by treating the physical retardation symptoms of depression before treating mood symptoms. If someone is so depressed they can't get out of bed, then starts taking an antidepressant, they might co
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by tedks 11y ago
This is getting downvoted, but it is in fact true. Copycat suicides are a very real phenomenon. In general, anything that heightens the mental availability of an action (how easy it is to recall) increases the probability of that action occ
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by tedks 11y ago
But a reasonable , empathetic villain: >I wanted the readers to empathize, as best they could, with our future Robot overlords So yes, this is intended to be something the reader identifies with.
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by tedks 11y ago
It's anti-choice drek because it implicitly assumes personhood of a fetus, and in fact, starts an inter-species war over the assumption of personhood of a fetus. The correct corollary between a fetus would be the uncompiled source code
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by tedks 11y ago
The title of the linked post literally says "Conservative author banned". It is totally fair to infer that the book is a representation of the author's abhorrent political views.
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by tedks 11y ago
I hear this a lot on HN, and while I understand how it would work at bank or at IBM, how does this attitude translate into startups, founded by technical people, competing to hire "rock-star" "ninja" developers?
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by tedks 11y ago
>So in this situation, all that matters is the law. This is literally never true. >The question was "what is rape in the Swedish sense, and how is it different from rape anywhere else". The question I responded to was "

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