alfromspace

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by alfromspace 7y ago
Wait, been I've been told "you can't just shut down travel", and that closing borders doesn't work, for reasons that are completely self-evident. So I'm utterly mystified that there are virtually no cases and
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by alfromspace 7y ago
"This is not an appeal to authority fallacy" ...yeah it is. Remdesivir has improved patient outcomes in the majority of cases it's been used so far - no, it hasn't been subject to comprehensive peer-reviewed study quite
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by alfromspace 7y ago
How was the US doing as a nation when it was more exclusive?
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by alfromspace 7y ago
No thanks. We don't need to cram every square mile full of people.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I agree - ran into this problem with my dad. He had a rare cancer that quickly stopped responding to hormone therapy (the only kind of treatment known to work), and deteriorated rapidly. We called Sloan Kettering to see if there were any
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I'm still not getting it. What mechanism allows for knowledge of the effect before the cause objectively happens? For the third party to observe the effect, the cause had to have happened from Earth's perspective. The fact that
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Then it doesn't violate any fundamental laws of existence, does it? We're just talking about receiving delayed images of events. The ship isn't engaging in backwards time travel by contacting Earth after seeing its call bei
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by alfromspace 7y ago
>What does the ship see? They see the phone call received on Proxima Centauri. Then they see the phone call placed from Earth. Effect precedes cause: causality is violated. In fact, if the ship had a FTL phone set up in the right way, th
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by alfromspace 7y ago
How does FTL violate causality? I've tried reading on it before but didn't understand it with my casual understanding of physics.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
This is all just supposed to be self-evident? What even are you talking about? Be specific.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
If someone becomes a NAZI after being tossed in jail for no good reason, well hey, fuck em'. How about we stop justifying hurting people because of their (in this case retroactive) violations of social/political norms and worry mo
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I'm not interested in arguing over how best to increase the GDP and labeling all regulations subsidies, or having the meta-debate over how everything is technically a subsidy. I'm talking about animal rights, human happiness, and
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Nothing is inevitable. We're not slaves to the market. If the market means small farmers can never be as efficient as factory farms and finance, and may not have any place in the economy at all without contracting out all aspects of
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by alfromspace 7y ago
It's a sin for good reason, and the secular case against usury is just as strong. It's among the worst manifestations of rent-seeking, economically worthless behavior for anyone but the usurer. This kind of lending is economic sl
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by alfromspace 7y ago
No. Whatever effect the 737 MAX grounding has had on Boeing's profits pales in comparison to the benefit gained by rushing the plane out the door to get in front of Airbus and thus making billions in sales contracts. There has been v
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by alfromspace 7y ago
George Soros should not be in control of anything.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
>When I close my eyes, it's black. Just, black. Well, you know, depending on how bright the lights are, etc. Maybe you already know this, but non-aphantastic (heh) just see black too. When we visualize something, it's a very d
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Who do you work for?
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by alfromspace 7y ago
One startup I interviewed at, as an experienced developer, told me (paraphrasing here) "you'll be paid a salary lower than what you probably expect, and your first few months you'll need to work overtime to get used to our tr
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by alfromspace 7y ago
The continuously-activating MCAS is such a monumentally stupid and dangerous system that I think you'd be a fool to trust any Boeing-engineered aircraft. I'll be avoiding them for the next few decades.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
A more honest framing is that the issue is disagreement over what discrimination means, not that it can't exist or is good. Probably the most contentious issue is representation itself. Can a group of people be overrepresented or und
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by alfromspace 7y ago
People do adapt, and I think that's a feature, not a bug, often forgotten. Climate change is real, but how hubristic was it for us to work toward a globally industrialized world, then post hoc pretend that we must A. Take drastic acti
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Labor force participation rate. It says in the article.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Nature is a cruel place. It's hard to grapple with as somebody who values animal life equally to human life, but also is cognizant of how far beyond our reach it is to remove all the tragedies that are really just part of the ecosyste
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by alfromspace 7y ago
This is essentially what James Damore was fired for saying.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
Important to note it was only determined to be biased on the basis of disparate impact, which I think is a baloney concept. In other words, if one group of people doesn't do as well on something as another group on average, the thing
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by alfromspace 7y ago
I promise I actually like the taste of gin.
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by alfromspace 7y ago
We're talking about the ADL being a Zionist organization, and the viewpoints that caused individuals to be the subjects of spying (or whatever you want to call it) clearly indicates a pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian bias. I don't
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by alfromspace 7y ago
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-13-mn-22383-... https://psmag.com/news/kings-garbage-76228 The ADL spied extensively on not only pro-Palestinian activists, but also on anti-South A
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by alfromspace 7y ago
If normal people want to hear my message, and there's only one platform they can effectively locate it through, then I'd say you are required to provide services to me. At this point, it's like cutting off somebody's

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