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by xorfish 4y ago
So eating humans is only wrong, because other people think it is wrong and there are laws against it? I find that really shortsighted. Slavery isn't bad because we as a society have decided it so. It always has been bad.
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by xorfish 4y ago
I don't think it is a good idea to reduce the supply over time. It may make sense in some cases, but some addicts are better of by having a constant supply. Pharmaceutical grade opioids are pretty safe. Far safer than legal drugs like
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by xorfish 4y ago
Fixing infrastructure is not always useful. Infrastructure for low density suburbs is a money pit that bankrupts cities. Here is a good playlist that explains why this is the case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg
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by xorfish 4y ago
Ideally cities would function without cars.
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by xorfish 4y ago
> "I don't like these people and these people support EA, so EA is bad. Also I think trickle down economics is an accurate model." This would have been a much shorter article without losing substance.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Taking a break every few weeks is a really good idea, it is also how most bodybuilders go about achieving ~5% body fat. I'd also recommend measuring weight loss as percentage of body weight.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Being "off diet" (at roughly maintenance) for a week or two every few weeks seems to make a diet easier to stick to and keep your target weight once yo reach it. This goes into a bit more detail: https://www.youtube.com
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by xorfish 4y ago
> Everything related to transportation sucks. That is not the case everywhere. There are plenty of walkable places with good public transport systems. As the saying goes: "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Have you been to Switzerland? Going on a hike where you don't need to go back to the place you started is pretty convenient.
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by xorfish 4y ago
There is this thing called trains and public transport. I don't live in a city. I don't have or need a car. I can do nearly everything with a 10 minute walk. There are two city centers available to me within a 20 minute train ride
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by xorfish 4y ago
People in richer nations report to be happier and a higher life satisfaction than people from poorer nations. Most countries now have higher self reported life satisfaction and happiness than in the past. Rates of mental health disorders ha
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by xorfish 4y ago
That is not a good rate to lose weight. A rate of ~1% per week for 3-4 months followed by 1-2 months of maintenance before the next weight loss phase is much more sustainable and you are more likely to not gain back the weight after the tar
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by xorfish 4y ago
Proportional voting for congress per state would solve this. If the 27 seats from New York would be distributed via proportional voting, then a party with just a few percent of votes can get some political power.
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by xorfish 4y ago
Is there solid evidence, not just theorizing, for this? Our bodies can deal with damaged DNA. Proving that low rates of DNA damage increase cancer risk proportionaly to the risk asociated with high rates of damage seems nearly impossible. S
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by xorfish 4y ago
I find the advice 'all sun exposure is bad' pretty unhelpful. It is on the same level as teaching abstinence as sex education. Our bodies deal with some form of damage all the time. Is there really evidence that someone that slowl
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by xorfish 4y ago
You can have a baby with protected sex. No birth control except abstinence is 100% effective. It is much worse if you look only at methods that men have control over. Birth control for men is still quite limited. There is not a single non-p
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by xorfish 4y ago
Because the other players will react differently to the same moves and you get different boards after the first few moves.
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by xorfish 5y ago
> After the masters are duly impressed, he makes it clear that all he did was play the first master’s move against the second, the second against the third, and so on. It’s an ibvious trick but he does it so well, no one seems to notice
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by xorfish 5y ago
There is also the pandemic that killed around 1 in 400 worldwide and is still causing around 15'000 deaths per day.
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by xorfish 5y ago
You have no way of knowing if the increased risk materializes for you. Saying that playing russian roulette doesn't affect you if you don't get the bullet is nonsensical.
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by xorfish 5y ago
The increased risk affects everyone, even if the risk doesn't materialize for everyone.
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by xorfish 5y ago
No, halve of the people that ever died, did so in the last two thousand years. Less than 9 billion people lived before the agricultural revolution.
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by xorfish 5y ago
The number of shares sold and bought are always exactly the same.
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by xorfish 5y ago
1) is only true if the average active investor that switches to index funds is better informed than the average active investor. If a less informed investor switches from active to passive, then price discovery is improved. 2) is only an is
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by xorfish 5y ago
Putin doesn't win when a tank is at a specific place in Kyiv. Putin doesn't have the economy, the material nor the young men for a prolonged occupation of Ukraine. Without a prolonged occupation, there is no win for Putin. He may
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by xorfish 5y ago
Except the explicit words of the dictator of Russia. There is nothing to contradict the view, that Putin doesn't want to restore the old Tsar or Soviet borders.
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by xorfish 5y ago
Putin doesn't have the time for a siege. The propaganda machine still speaks of a special operation to liberate Ukraine. You can't keep up this picture for long. There are too many communication channels between Ukranians and Russ
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by xorfish 5y ago
There are multiple pro European parties, but only one pro Russian party. Here is the map that shows the support for the pro Russian party. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/%D0%95%D...
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by xorfish 5y ago
Pro-Russia parties got less than 10% of the vote in the last election. It is hard to imagine that the sentiment moved in Putins favor since then. Putin is invading a country that nearly unanimously opposes him with troops that thought that
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by xorfish 5y ago
The voice of the people always matters to some degree. Especially if said dictator wants you to risk your life or the life of your loved ones for his conquests.

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