OzyM

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by OzyM 3y ago
https://yourveganfallacyis.com/en/animals-eat-animals No, obviously vegans think arresting bears is dumb. This same "lions tho" argument has been made enough times to become a meme.
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by OzyM 3y ago
And the ideal number of suicides is 0, and the ideal amount of spyware is 0, etc. All of these are targets, but an ideal doesn't give you further information on how to prioritize
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by OzyM 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. My overall takeaway from sleep research is that although there are some health risks with undersleeping, there are (possibly greater) health risks with oversleeping, plus the prevalence of sleep deprivation is greatly o
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by OzyM 5y ago
Could someone explain why they're hated? I don't know much about E3, but used them a few times without issue
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by OzyM 5y ago
Insofar as I can tell, thermostats have a 0% chance of feeling pain (or as close to 0 as is logically possible), so I see no need to afford them moral consideration. If we had evidence suggesting that AI who could suffer currently existed,
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by OzyM 5y ago
I do think there's a big moral difference between species. I care about protecting a human from suffering much more than a dog, a dog more than a mouse, a mouse more than a cricket... But I see no reason for some cutoff, where I arbitr
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by OzyM 5y ago
How would you make the argument for plants or AI? It seems sensible to say - these creature with nocicepters and familiar aperture for feeling pain, who react to to bodily damage in ways that suggest that they can suffer, and for whom pain
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by OzyM 5y ago
Generally speaking, the highest birth rates aren't in the types of counties overrepresented on HN. Our best shot for reducing the global birth rate is improving education in developing nations (particularly women's education[0]),
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by OzyM 5y ago
Totally agree with this. Rimworld itself is amazing and I highly recommend it, but I'm lukewarm on how much value I've gotten from the Royalty expansion. It's cool , but the mods are not only more in-depth but also more cust
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by OzyM 5y ago
It feels like profoundly missing the point to sell NFTs (with their associated heavy environmental costs) in the name of ecological preservation. Besides that, I still fail to see the use case. If I download an image of the bird from the in
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by OzyM 5y ago
If people are really willing to pay for crappy phones that come installed with political apps and news feeds meant to flatter their ego instead of providing any actual news, I'd say commemorative coins and etc are only scratching the s
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by OzyM 5y ago
I think this is such a massive and fundamental restructuring of the US's historical way of doing things (and the popular conception of "how it should be done") that pushing for incremental change like livable minimum wage is
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by OzyM 5y ago
As in UBI? That's the only experiment I know of (or at least, politically feasible experiment) trying to decouple physical necessities and employment. I guess you bring up an interesting point here, that UBI would make minimum wage obs
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by OzyM 5y ago
So basically it's existing hardware/software doused in snake oil and sold at a $350 upcharge? A terrible product, if this review is accurate. But you have to at least admire their boldness in trying to blatantly manipulate a very
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by OzyM 5y ago
For the sake of my own sanity, if nothing else, I am going to choose to believe that this isn't the majority opinion. I don't think Objectivism is quite that popular.
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by OzyM 5y ago
In your opinion, what is the minimum standard of living that someone who works full-time deserves? ( / what is the minimum that someone who works full-time and has dependents deserves?)
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by OzyM 5y ago
We've tried the no-minimum-wage experiment before.[0] A lack of minimum wage tends to lead to extremely exploitative wages for workers without skills in high demand. If you agree with the statement "anyone who works full time shou
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by OzyM 5y ago
What are the best ways to feed advertisers incorrect data? If they already have valid data on who I am and what I do, what could make them overwrite this knowledge?
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by OzyM 5y ago
The most obvious issue would be that the 6,000 figure in the article was pre-pandemic, so it might be much higher now. Also, I don't know the economics of homelessness, but I feel like as supply of homeless shelters increased, demand f
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by OzyM 5y ago
I'm glad they're trying to work on offering these people services to help them get safe housing, rather than just kicking them off the land to be homeless somewhere else. Obviously homelessness has too many thorny side-issues for
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by OzyM 5y ago
You lost me at the vegan part? I agree that this is a major source of error in a lot of studies like these, though.
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by OzyM 5y ago
How likely are these numbers to be accurate? This Swiss study of 431 adults gives a 26% incidence of "Long Covid" at 6-8 months. But another study that I'm more familiar with that tracked 4,182 people (mostly from the U.K., U
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by OzyM 5y ago
Yes, of the 177 million doses of vaccine given in the U.S., there have been ~1000 reports of heart issues. Amounts to ~0.000006% of people who receive the vaccine (in the U.S.) having inflammation of the heart after. [0] As far as I can tel
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by OzyM 5y ago
> You’re doing it again, just stop, it’s not your job to convince people :) > “It’s ok to make a choice, but here’s the consequences asshole” > It’s exactly what I’m opposed too. You're opposed to... people pointing out the co
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by OzyM 5y ago
You cited the CDC, but now that the figure you used has been cleared up, you no longer like the CDC as a source? > Reports of adverse events to VAERS following vaccination, including deaths, do not necessarily mean that a vaccine caused
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by OzyM 5y ago
I don't doubt that the vaccines come with risk. Every vaccine created to date has a small chance of side effects. But even as someone youngish, healthy, and with a strong immune system, any risk from the vaccine seems orders of magnitu
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by OzyM 5y ago
All the major side effects I've heard of have been very small in scope, i.e. the chance of a healthy person developing one of the dangerous side effects is extremely small, and certainly orders of magnitude smaller than their chance
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by OzyM 5y ago
You're right, if everyone around you is vaccinated to the point of virtual herd immunity (afaik not currently true anywhere, but perhaps given more time / incentives / information that may change), you being the only unvaccin
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by OzyM 5y ago
Non-sterilizing vaccines still reduce viral load, decreasing the amount of active viral particles in circulation. There are plenty of vaccines we use to curb epidemics that aren't full sterilizing vaccines. For the COVID-19 U.S. vaccin
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by OzyM 5y ago
Ignoring the higher risk of major long-term damage incurred by letting yourself get sick when you could've been vaccinated, I don't understand how this thought process accounts for anyone else. What if my main reason for getting v

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