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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Children, who don't experience sexual desire, are not interested in pornography. Whenever I encountered lewd content as a child, my reaction was always "uggh... adults are so gross" and I'd skip over it if I could. Child
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
> It's a whole lot easier to control the population when you gradually make it harder for them to travel unhindered and untracked. Cars are required to have registration and license plates, and most of them have GPS tracking as well
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Maybe Barcelona and Venice should enlist privateers to sink any cruise ships that come too close.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Please take off the ideology goggles for a second. > Alice has to pay Bob one third of her income, or else he'll call on on armed men to throw her out of her home. "Not totalitarian" > Bob isn't allowed to do that
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Linguistics is in the social sciences, not the humanities.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
I'm currently feeling the need to back up youtube videos that are important to me, because I figure it will be much harder soon.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
> VisualDNA Personality - Personality - Openness - Intelligent > VisualDNA Personality - Personality - Neuroticism - High Damn, ok, good to know that advertisers are keeping track of how smart or messed up you are.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Why does only one country get its data subdivided by ethnicity? I imagine that most countries have some groups that score better than others. Most ethnic minorities in Asia are "Asian", but in the 21st century there are plenty of
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
I'm astonished by how well this works. I looked for a bunch of books I'd read recently and kept finding other books I've read or want to read near them.
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Yeah, as a vegan who shuns proprietary software, I think this is a great analogy. It works regardless of which side you're on. In both cases, GP would probably say "that's way too restrictive," but I'd say "g
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by ComposedPattern 3y ago
Gods don't have persistent bodies or brains. They're spirits. I don't disagree that digital systems with neural architectures could have agency in principle, but agency generally is definitely not the output of a large langua
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
I find this version of the story very odd. I'm in my mid-20s and figured out that I was trans about 10 years ago. The main reason I didn't get swept up in the anti-SJW craze of the time was because "SJWs" were firmly sup
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
> Not providing a 10 year old with puberty blockers when you suspect that it is because the child has been manipulated into believing that they have gender dysphoria is practicing medicine. So I am not proposing that we deny anyone acces
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
Ignoring the fact that 8-year-olds do not receive medical treatment for gender dysphoria, is the existence of Munchausen's by proxy also "a serious hole in the argument" for providing children with medical care in general?
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
Additionally, if OP's son gets an iPhone, then some other kid in his class will go from being one of two kids without an iPhone to being the only one. The more people give in to the social pressure, the stronger the pressure becomes.
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
Sorry, I forget that I have to explain when I'm being sarcastic on Hacker News. The actual number of clear clusters I found was zero, maybe 2. The four groups I colored on the chart seem to follow the cleavages just as well as the ones
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Individual-level_hum... Here's the same image in black and white: https://i.imgur.com/x2QzHgB.png . Do you see five clear clusters? I only found four:
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
Hmm... the first question I asked was for "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari: "Is liberalism a religion?" This was one of the more interesting points that the book made very explicitly: > The modern age has witnessed the rise
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by ComposedPattern 4y ago
> If i am doing business with someone I want to know who I am doing business with, so that there is at least the possibility of taking legal actions. If you don't want to buy from Joe Anonymous, that's your choice. But if I wan