benj111

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by benj111 3d ago
I've heard stories of USians waiting months for their insurer to agree to pay...
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by benj111 3d ago
>actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity Can an American explain what this is supposed to be saying? Sounds like a right wing sound byte. Are black people supposed to be inherently les
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by benj111 3d ago
Well this is the problem with farming and politics. You have a long tail of poor farmers, and a few very large powerful farmers. Thus you have the politics of the small family farm barely making a living, and large industrial monocultures a
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by benj111 6d ago
If I buy a Billy book case from IKEA, is it not the same as your Billy book case? Hashing said book case is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by benj111 14d ago
You could make the argument that leaving gold there also leaves them ammunition for later. The threat of removing the rest is also a useful tool. Personally I'd be getting out of all US bond holdings and investments and making sure the
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by benj111 14d ago
The jewellery market stems from the 'inherent' value thing though. I think the OPs point is that gold is an arbitrary metal that has been infused with value, just like fiat currency is some paper that has been infused with value.
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by benj111 14d ago
There's a good film about Norway getting their gold out ahead of the Nazis. Gold Run I think it's called.
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by benj111 14d ago
NI? Not Northern Ireland...
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by benj111 17d ago
Well Derry/Londonderry is officially called Londonderry, but Irish republicans didn't like the London link so call(ed) it Derry. So during the troubles it was a thing to refer to is as Derry/Londonderry.
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by benj111 17d ago
I doubt a billy book case is anywhere near air tight.
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by benj111 21d ago
Bugger that. David Attenborough!
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by benj111 23d ago
But as a Brit. America, our supposed ally is slapping tarriffs on us, and threatening our actual allies. China not so much. So which are our adversaries?
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by benj111 23d ago
Welcome to the modern world. I seem to recall a time when you could ring up, get through to a human that could actually solve your problem. Now humans are just front ends for software, and there's noone to take responsibility. I would
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by benj111 23d ago
Personally I would say copyright should last somewhere less than 10 years. On the basis that business decisions about whether to fund a book/film/whatever today isn't based on earnings 10 years from now. So I would say it is
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by benj111 23d ago
Well you can have the tagline for free.
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by benj111 23d ago
>"By day we consist of fixing generally washing machines and dryers and dishwashers" But what does he do by night???
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by benj111 23d ago
Except a better comparison is you can replace your cylinders, but then the engine won't work because the ECU detects none registered cylinders.
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by benj111 24d ago
You do realise that modern germ theory was discovered in the 19th century due to cholera in a well. The 19th century! So no it isn't obvious. London's sewers were originally built to get rid of the smell, ie 'miasma'. Th
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by benj111 24d ago
>You are conflating fitness of the individual with population robustness against systemic shocks Yes and as per my first example, the ones who don't drink the contaminated water survive. The population robustness is people doing thi
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by benj111 24d ago
No. I don't think so. Your original comment is basically 2 parts. "If we are talking about genes, the goal is to keep the ability to duplicate itself." We have already discussed the above. You then proceed on that basis. &quo
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by benj111 24d ago
The timing of this seems weird. The UK uses much more energy in the winter, so this isn't going to bring the grid down or anything. This just seems like a wasted attack, alerting us to the vulnerability.
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by benj111 24d ago
The point is that crypto is hard. Therefore many people need to check it, to ensure it is correct. The crypto you rolled yourself is unlikely to have been extensively tested. It's like alpha software. It may have no known bugs, but it
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by benj111 24d ago
I assume it's called MartyPC because it Marty McFlies?
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by benj111 24d ago
So explain "If we are talking about genes, the goal is to keep the ability to duplicate itself" That is your basis for 'mistake', and the general position that you are objectively right. I am saying divergence from the n
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by benj111 24d ago
Hmm. If only we had some sort of language that would allow us to display a page in different ways without losing meaning. Hmm....
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by benj111 24d ago
Weirdly that works for me in the UK, despite us having the same laws.
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by benj111 24d ago
But that's always been the case. Do you think Vogue advertisers were ever the same as Byte magazines or whatever?
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by benj111 24d ago
Bonus 1. I see it despite having an ad blocker. Bonus 2. If ads were like this, I wouldn't need the ad blocker to start with.
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by benj111 24d ago
>This kind of framing-inversion might work as a coping mechanism to get you through some dark times as a spergy adolescent. But eventually you have to reconcile yourself to the reality of autism: it really is a neuro-developmental disord
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by benj111 24d ago
" the goal is to keep the ability to duplicate itself" You are talking about putting all your eggs in the tribal cohesion basket. That doesn't deal very well with black swan events. Not putting all your eggs in one basket mai

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