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by fromthestart 7y ago
>our white collar workplaces have become highly mentally taxing and employees need judgement-free resources provided by employers to deal with them Seeing what people in other countries go through, willingly, sacrificing for their famili
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Or perhaps men and women are innately different after hundreds of thousands of generations of sexually dimorphic evolution, and this affects the manner in which they socialize? It seems we've brainwashed an entire generation into belie
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>which I never understood the backlash against toxic masculinity" that I see from (male) friends whenever the term comes up. Who said it's supposed to be toxic only for others? Because toxic masculinity is an exaggerated catch-
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by fromthestart 7y ago
The abstract of the paper you linked begins with this sentence: >There is no consensus on whether climate change has yet affected the statistics of tropical cyclones, owing to their large natural variability and the limited period of con
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by fromthestart 7y ago
> The net result is you are seeing once in 1500 year floods happening every year. This is the same kind of cherry picking that denialists have been using for decades. Locally rare events appear frequent if you gather trials from enough l
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Disclaimer I believe in climate change with all my heart Ridiculous that the subject has become so dogmatic that one must prostrate oneself before stating anything even potentially critical
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Bayer knowingly sold antihemopheliac factor contaminated with HIV. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24785997/
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by fromthestart 7y ago
You think the archtype of the edgy, rebelious youth is fictional? If you were too far removed from those groups of kids in high school, perhaps you should spend some time on 4chan. >No. Banning Nazi content won't suddenly make it ap
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by fromthestart 7y ago
> agree that "crunchy Karen" is a dismissive sexist tropE So we're not allowed to use labels to draw attention to the fact that the majority of people who believe in [1] and spread information about things like spiritualit
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by fromthestart 7y ago
There are people who would put Das Kapital the same category of unacceptable speech as others would Mein Kampf. You have no right to quarantine information like you would a virus, because there is no way to agree on which information is &qu
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by fromthestart 7y ago
> Washing clothes without a washing machine, scrubbing dusty floors, cooking on charcoal stoves. Your anglocentric view severely overestimates the similarly between our standards of cleanliness and theirs. I doubt these women are washing
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Unless we as a society return to a simpler lifestyle of living, I see this as an unsolvable problem. There's no reason to presume that it isn't possible to retain our current standard of living while also solving the problem t
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>This isn't implicitly true. If it were, Iceland wouldn't have had to pass a law to make unfair salaries (based on gender) This of course presumes that any discrepancy in pay among genders is based solely on discrimination.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
This has been true of most American "journalism" for at least a decade now. Activist journalism has become so common that editorialization is just taken as normal - I doubt that the average person even understands the degree to wh
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by fromthestart 7y ago
So call it virtual experience training for first responders. That way you implicitly emphasize that this is more than just classroom training, it's much closer to, well, real experience. Make VE the next buzzword.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Do current patent laws and regulations regarding inventorship need to be revised to take into account inventions where an entity or entities other than a natural person contributed to the conception of an invention Well, this seems a li
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I don't know that I can find any sources to cite but I once wrote some code for an anthropologist analyzing prehistoric tooth scans, and he mentioned that modern dental carries are substantially more common now than they were in the pa
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Is it really hard to beat them when they only cover one's eyes?
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I understand your point, but GP is talking about avoiding the need for batteries by pricing people out of the market instead. If you're not using batteries, supply during dark or windless hours is inelastic, because there's nothin
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I don't think forcing people to use electricity only when it's available is a practical solution to the availability problem with wind and solar.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I'm afraid you misunderstand the way embeddings work - at least for BERT based models, which are currently state of the art. BERT embeddings, after training change with context. In other words if you feed a paragraph about bank robbers
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by fromthestart 7y ago
> It is objectively, quantitatively true that weather disasters are getting more frequent and more severe. There is no data to support such an assertion. It's confirmation bias stemming from the belief that climate change will lead
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Land usage and pollution. No pesticide/fertilizer runoff and no need to clear forest, much less land used per pound of food. Plus you can theoretically grow in cities-add a couple floors in skyscrapers and your cities become a little m
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by fromthestart 7y ago
Even making it that far is a testament to the prowess of your space organization. It's a cheaper first step which probably directly and indirectly tests some 75% of the components needed for an actual landing.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Wouldn't renting a studio or efficiency apartment be more consistent with his/her personality and desires Sure, but in the article these spaces are billed by their marketing as solutions to the affordable housing crisis, but i
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by fromthestart 7y ago
For starters: techcrunch.com/2018/06/27/study-calls-out-dark-patterns-in-facebook-and-google-that-push-users-towards-less-privacy/ www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/facebook-accused-of-misleading-advertise
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>It’s an assurance that Facebook isn’t actually retaining data that it could use again someday to recognize your face. Given fb's history of lying, it's only an assurance that they won't overtly use such data. No guarantee
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by fromthestart 7y ago
>Decent joinery and inbuilt storage spares residents having to buy flat pack furniture, while the living spaces, which all flow into an outdoor area, are designed to encourage communal dining and social interaction All of these spaces se
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I imagine that has more to with taxes than anything else. Adjusted for inflation, petroleum is quite low compared to it's price over much of the last 3-4 decades.
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by fromthestart 7y ago
I don't think it costs anywhere near $10/hour to operate a passenger vehicle, even after insurance and maintenance.

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