ghda

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by ghda 7y ago
Taiwan.
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by ghda 7y ago
We all have our own “life taxes” to pay. Here’s one: since men are larger and headboard than women, we need more food just to stay alive! A few hundred extra calories a day over a lifetime, the cost must be substantial — almost certainly gr
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by ghda 7y ago
Better than letting human society collapse though. If that’s what you really believe will happen.
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by ghda 7y ago
I don’t know if Finland as an example really proves or disproves anything. Finland is a small, homogeneous, and pretty unusual sort of country, and the fact that they happen to do well in certain standardised tests doesn’t mean that anythin
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by ghda 7y ago
No, for conspiracy to break into DoD computers. This actually seems like great news for journalists. The fact that this is the only charge implies that prosecutors have decided that wikileaks’ core activity of publishing classified informat
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by ghda 7y ago
Are people obliged to abide by an obviously racially discriminatory contract under EU law?
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by ghda 7y ago
This has always struck me as a weird sort of edge case, because the hypothetical situation is pretty disconnected from all the other situations where people might seek restrictions on free speech that it doesn’t really matter which way I go
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by ghda 7y ago
We don’t push back on the process, we push back on the principle. The point of the principle of free speech is not that all speech is beneficial but that we can’t possibly trust any agency with the power to decide what is and isn’t. The “pr
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by ghda 7y ago
Invading Iraq was easy, the problems all arose at the “okay, now what?” level.
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by ghda 7y ago
If the “happiness/satisfaction” metric is rubbish though, then all the correlations are fairly meaningless, and are of interest only to the extent that they do or do not back up one’s own political opinions. Applying this scale cross-c
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by ghda 7y ago
Based on your argument though, the sensible way to do it would be to offer asylum predicated on some kind of IQ test to ensure that we’re getting all the Caucher Bitkars our there and not wasting too many resources on lesser intellects. Ind