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by wjn0 9y ago
Do you know anything about this matter? The scope of this is still largely unknown, unless you have some information the rest of us don't. Influence can be local. Generic-looking pages (i.e. not locale specific in the content they post
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> Is that true? I always assumed the fallacy was named for the already existing expression. Funny! I'd never thought of that. For those curious, Wiktionary says that it's actually from the Latin, "fallere", to deceive
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by wjn0 9y ago
A few weeks ago I walked past a group of people with huge (2m x 3m) posters of aborted fetuses outside one of the biggest buildings of my university campus. These same people have been accused of berating people who disagree with them. I fi
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by wjn0 9y ago
I thought about the "anti-" phrasing after posting, and of course you're correct. It's not really relevant to my point, though. I agree "unfashionable" is a better term too. As an example, less than 20% of Amer
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42 states already have bans on late term abortions. Federal law tends to be purposefully general on issues like this.
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I think a bigger problem is the unholy conflation of fiscal and social conservatism, by the interviewer, possibly by the author, and quite likely by the people being studied themselves. It is one thing to support fiscal conservatism. The ve
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by wjn0 9y ago
This analysis (or treatment of it) seems pretty superficial. I was curious about the conclusions... but they were pretty dissatisfying. The question is an important one, though.
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Interesting. For a while now, I've thought about the idea that large "scientific" businesses (from software engineering, even to business) could somehow directly profit from educating people in these areas. Similar to how lar
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I wonder if rural areas like these have libraries, how close they are, and how funded they are, if at all. Rather than donate to a school, a program that funds libraries in areas like these, which in this day and age aren't only for bo
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by wjn0 9y ago
> What do the meta-studies have to say about statins and life expectancy? For long term maintenance, they're definitely recommended. Near EOL is a bit different, but I don't know the guidelines. > Also, why isn't dietar
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Yup. Highly effective and widely prescribed.
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>>> The assumed model in a lot of these discussions is that there is a pie of goodies that is divided, zero-sum, between sexes. But this assumes (or at least implies) identical utility functions. I agree that this is a faulty premi
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> A trivial example: government funding for any abortions I might have is of zero value to me, since as a dude, I'm not likely to fall pregnant any time soon. For young men, especially poor young men, this is an absolutely terrible
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by wjn0 9y ago
Agree completely. People are very quick to ascribe the problems associated with the prison industrial complex to the privatization of prisons, but that's only a part of it. Sessions has an ideology (digression: based on his history, I
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by wjn0 9y ago
Very interesting. I wish there was more background on absolutist thinking and mental health. Specifically, is the relationship between absolutist thinking and, say, depression, Whorfian, in the sense that the language used day-to-day impact
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by wjn0 9y ago
This reply is fantastic. The field I'm looking to get into is a little different from straight software dev, but I think what you've discussed here is applicable regardless. Thank you.
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> anything you do day in day out, can become routine, boring and something that you will yearn to be 'free' from after a while. You seem to both understand, and maybe have overcome at one time or another, this sentiment. Would
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by wjn0 9y ago
Having never heard of this event before, the fact that this has been called one of the worst nuclear events, speaks to just how tightly nuclear waste from energy production is regulated, in my opinion.
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> Trump has proved that Could you link to some articles about this?
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The theory for this was put forth by Cohen et al. in 2003 [1]. Whether or not it's been implemented, I'm not sure. Interesting idea, for sure. [1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.84...
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The Yemeni court system?
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Looking at the map, outside the big cities, it seems mostly concentrated on highways. Does anyone know if it's realistic for a plane flying a mile high to grab, say, license plates and driver photos? Would this be legal? How close to t
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by wjn0 9y ago
I've always thought Anwar al-Awlaki was a somewhat odd example. Suppose an American man is found guilty of war crimes in, say, France, and is ordered captured dead or alive. While conducting military exercises in France, the US, an all
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I don't really see how "it doesn't serve any socially useful function" yields the statement "it should be outlawed." The former applies to many, many things that are still legal. Disappointing to hear such weak
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> In some countries security cameras indoors are not legal - that is, if you get caught putting a burglar on camera, s/he can sue you for invasion of privacy. What country is that? That sounds backward as hell.
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Of course, but what I mean to say it's a not-insignificant amount of short term (2y?) cash. More generally, my point was that producing a high-end vehicle with (most likely) much better margins for the company than, say, the Model X, w
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1,000 reservations @ $250k means they can pay for 5% of their new gigafactory, and that's just the founder's run. If that means they can scale better, I'm all for it. And I say that as someone who won't be able to afford
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I started using BlackVPN about a month ago because the highly personalized ads all around the web got extremely unnerving. Having accounts with FB/AMZN type services means they'll never go away completely, but it's better tha
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These places are designed for and receive a ton of foot traffic - the ACC and Union Station, specifically. It's somewhat odd that the area immediately surrounding isn't very pedestrian-friendly.
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This is true, but many original advocates for opioid prescriptions for outpatient therapy have since rescinded their advice.

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