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by tesseractive 13y ago
Curing cellular aging would not, as far as I know, have any effect on cancer. Whether it would have any effect on other problems like decreasing bone density, I'm not sure. So even if you sweep one cause of death completely off the tab
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Among other things, a commitment to "live forever" is a statement about acceptable risk tolerance. Ever wanted to climb mountains? Take up skydiving? Drink too much sometimes? Eat foods that are bad for you? If your goal really is
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by tesseractive 13y ago
There's a classic A Softer World comic that's been turned into a t-shirt that says "I would rather die screaming than live forever." There are downsides to the kind of extreme prudence that planning to be around for cent
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by tesseractive 13y ago
More accurately, professional philosophers don't have any particular standing to discuss "serious philosophical issues." At any point in the discussion on whether people have a right to die, or whether it was ok to use tissue
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by being "opposed" -- if you don't think there should be people who are unbearably unhappy with the gender they got stuck with at birth, we agree. If you think people shouldn't play around
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by tesseractive 13y ago
FYI, this kind of advice is available in abundance to trans people. One common version I have heard is that you shouldn't transition unless you feel like the only alternative is to kill yourself. Also FYI, many trans people meet this c
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by tesseractive 13y ago
When I was younger, there was a lot of information out there to the effect that the only "real" transsexual women knew they were "the wrong gender" from the time they were 4, they hated their boy parts with a fiery passi
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Oh, I'm well aware of that, though it's a good addition to the discussion. The thing about transitioning is that it's a long process, there are many points where you can turn back if it's not working, and not everyone ta
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by tesseractive 13y ago
There are a number of people who identify as genderqueer, as having gender identification that shifts over time, as crossdressers, as drag kings and queens, as on some point on a spectrum, as a third sex, or in a number of other ways that a
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I'm going to give you an alternate perspective. I'm in my 40s. I "had some inclinations that way" too. I listened to everyone who told me that people like that are disgusting freaks, and I tried to keep it suppressed for
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by tesseractive 13y ago
According to the Wikipedia article on the crash, a feasibility study was added to FAA appropriations this year for a verbal warning for low speed. So this may be a practical way to improve communications if it pans out.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Yeah, I was having trouble finding a job in late 2008 when the market got really weird, and a recruiter was the one who clued me in to my resume problems. I'd never really had any trouble finding a job before, so I didn't have a l
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Like social networking? Smartphone manufacturing? Ebooks? There are plenty of fields that Google has entered that they haven't dominated.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Doesn't quality latex foam have pretty comparable breathability? And my impression was that the firmness of foam was widely variable based on the type and density of the foam.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Actually, with some of the advances in foam materials, my impression is that foam mattresses are actually a blast from the present, and possibly the future. Even most spring mattresses have a significant foam comfort layer above the springs
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Thank you for this link. I've only gotten through part 1 so far, but it's a devastating critique of Murray's framing of the problem. One particularly interesting bit: > As I looked backward and forward in time, however, I
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Indeed. And middle-class consumer demand not only drives significant parts of the economy directly, it has major spin-off effects that impact the health as the economy as a whole and the potential healthy growth rate of the economy. For any
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Justices like Breyer often reference data about the positive or negative effects of an interpretation of the law in their decisions.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I'm not a Christian, so I'm not using "saintly" in any theological sense, and I was using "good" to distinguish them from people who would only perform actions when they see a benefit to them. In my sense, a lo
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by tesseractive 13y ago
In my opinion, good people are people who do good things even when they do not expect it to benefit them to do so. Saintly people are people who do good things even when it will be ruinous to them. Many people are reasonably good people,
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by tesseractive 13y ago
How about this, then: otherwise good people often end up acting in bad ways when they and their families' livelihood is at risk? And it's not always possible to just go find a different situation.
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Or maybe this is what he went to X Labs to work on, and now they're moving forward with productizing it?
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Or advances in the available technology driven by a great R&D team with a significant budget instead of hobbyists? I don't want to knock hobbyists, because they often do great work. But if Amazon thinks this is the future of packag
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by tesseractive 13y ago
One possible interpretation is that the scene is completely awesome as long as you're capable of coding and thus being one of the real participants, but that it's less interesting for pure spectators. Thus, for music coders -- &qu
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Just because accepting a job is voluntary doors not give license to employers to exploit their employees. 100 years ago, that same argument was advanced by people opposed to worker safety laws and child labor laws. People use that argument
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by tesseractive 13y ago
People's interpretation of an abusive work environment is different. There are some where the general environment is that you're expected to "give as good as you get" and everyone has fun -- as long as that's your i
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by tesseractive 13y ago
To be honest, one person's "fun atmosphere where we don't worry about political correctness" is another person's "office full of assholes". If you are, in some people's minds, weirdly sensitive about
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by tesseractive 13y ago
The ironic thing is that most societies in history at most points in time would look at the presence of porn on TV itself as cultural degradation, and the opposition to it as a sign of maintaining proper cultural standards. Which is not to
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by tesseractive 13y ago
Actually, supporting someone for shaming women because it furthers the goal of creating a society in which women are no longer shamed is more like supporting serial killers because the the publicity they draw helps people feel more strongly
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by tesseractive 13y ago
I'm sure that's a great comfort if you're being harassed by people over the photos.

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