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by yters 6y ago
Yes, that logic makes a bit more sense. However, if an employer can control an employee's personal decision to maximize their work hours, why stop at vaccines? Require everyone stop smoking, drinking, drug use, work out consistently,
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by yters 6y ago
I don't get the idea of requiring people to take vaccines. If people don't want to catch the thing, then they take the vaccine. However, taking the vaccine does little to prevent others catching the vaccine unless you go for a d
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by yters 6y ago
Seems like their nomadic lifestyle went hand in hand with raiding and looting.
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by yters 6y ago
Before the printing press there were just not a lot of bibles, nor much literacy. Hard to have the Bible widely read in that situation.
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by yters 6y ago
What is the evidence? Seems hard to have evidence for anything billions of years ago given we don't have historical records past a few millenia. It is all guesswork past that point, and the patterns of organisms and their complexity m
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by yters 6y ago
Interesting. I am curious to what extent the indigenous people were wiped out by europeans vs their own enterprising kindred who were quicker to jump on new methods of war and looting.
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by yters 6y ago
Why do they have to move all the time and be nomadic?
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by yters 6y ago
How did they live that way for so long?
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by yters 6y ago
Somewhere else! Dna is too marvelous for evolution, it cannot have originated here!
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by yters 6y ago
Doh of course! Hah I meant devs ;)
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by yters 6y ago
If not, where did our dna come from?
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by yters 6y ago
But couldn't an app reverse engineer the frontends for all these communication services and create an aggregation overlay? E.g. what Dropbox did with the Mac osx filesystem.
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by yters 6y ago
I see, but if the condition is true, won't crazyImplications() run regardless of whether we know the truth value of the condition? I am assuming the conditional logic is running in reality instead of in my head.
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by yters 6y ago
Why isn't there a single app to aggregate and integrate all social media and messaging and email and voice chat platforms? Then it doesn't matter which ones come and go, and people don't need to worry about the plethora of w
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by yters 6y ago
Let's take your NY example. What do you think is the fairest way to represent the people in the state? The current setup, or something else?
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by yters 6y ago
That's a good point. There would be fewer votes required. My thinking is when spread across more distinct political regions a greater amount of collusion is required across a more diverse political body, even if the raw vote count is
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by yters 6y ago
I thought that's what you meant by this. > Crazy implications if true! Well, the implications are most likely delayed until someone invents a qualia detector
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by yters 6y ago
It is not the land voting, but political municipalities which are tied by common culture and people. I think it makes sense to try and give smaller municipalities equal footing with larger municipalities. E.g. in the global scheme we thin
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by yters 6y ago
Even so, eliminating the college makes it easier. We need defense in depth to maintain rule of the people.
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by yters 6y ago
The elephant in the room is voter fraud. If we switch to raw vote count then it takes just one loosely regulated precinct to flood the election with fraudulent votes to win the election, and anyone can do this. Sure, this time around one
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by yters 6y ago
It seems like geographical proximity influences votes. I am not sure why cities tend to lean so heavily dem, but they do. So if it were just raw vote count the cities would control the whole country. Not sure that is preferable. Then it
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by yters 6y ago
So can we reevolve dinosaurs now?
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by yters 6y ago
Whoa, even trippier, things don't exist until we detect them! That is quantum physics uncertainty taken to a whole new level!
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by yters 6y ago
Incorporate the bones into new mousetraps that smell like cheese.
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by yters 6y ago
Do my thoughts have feelings? If I imagine someone being torture to death, has someone actually just been tortured to death, all the while feeling excruciating pain? Crazy implications if true!
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by yters 6y ago
It is provably impossible to predict development effort.
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by yters 6y ago
I can program a video game character to respond to getting shot. Does it feel?
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by yters 6y ago
How do we know venus fly traps feel?
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by yters 6y ago
Also good to keep in mind that as bad as things are in the US, things are much worse elsewhere. For example the massive orphanages in the old soviet countries where children are confined to little cribs all day, or in India where many orph
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by yters 6y ago
It seems there could be a middle way where marriage is strongly supported by society with provisions to protect against abuse. Our current extreme is no better as it destroys the lives of many children.

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