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by istultus 10mo ago
Ireland is such a useful tax haven that it's within all of our interests to protect it </kidding not kidding>
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by istultus 10mo ago
That assumes that their mission is to stop anything. UNRWA's sole mission (like most large-scale nonprofits - not suggesting they're unique) is to continue to procure money for its 30,000 or so salaried posts.
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by istultus 10mo ago
There's nothing morally wrong with not knowing when you want to take a holiday in advance and acting accordingly to cover your bases. What an interesting sentiment... The only thing wrong with what she did was not to read the fine prin
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by istultus 10mo ago
True! Thankfully under Socialism there wouldn't be a Grand Prix in the first place, and the Hotel would be government-run and only house Party members during special events anyway.
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by istultus 10mo ago
Bias - an inclination of temperament or outlook [1] Politically colored = an inclination of outlook [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bias
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by istultus 2y ago
The important thing is that these things get funded. It doesn't matter what institute funds them. If an institute becomes stultified and corrupt, there's no reason to champion it over creating another.
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by istultus 2y ago
It really does suck that US companies have belatedly figured out that demand is elastic and jacked up the prices. Where I live that happened long ago. The thing is that he doesn't present any alternative. I know he's some variant
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by istultus 2y ago
Well, "win" as a noun is a word from Old English attested before 1150 [1]. And as a word firmly in the language it has its own specific uses in comparison to "victory". It would be silly or pompous to call a win in a spo
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by istultus 2y ago
Also read it this year - very good.
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by istultus 2y ago
I would use "elucidate" first and foremost, but "decipher" or "unravel" also work.
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by istultus 2y ago
The only reason this Ancient Greek definition holds is because it is a dead language. Prescriptivism cannot stop natural language change. Any "X should only mean Y" statement is a dead-end conservative approach.
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by istultus 2y ago
How have they improved quality of life? Asthma?
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by istultus 2y ago
As usual, "Conjecture Presented as Fact in Headline" They found a fabric in a royal tomb in Greece that fits the description of Alexander's famous sarapis. What is more likely - that this is Alexander's sarapis itself or
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by istultus 2y ago
What's the logic of the first sentence? I can't parse it - is that it should be illegal for intelligence agents to be heads of state? Or is it that states with powerful armies shouldn't have former intelligence agents as head
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by istultus 2y ago
Makes sense. Now that the Graun's chief enemy is Israel and Colonialism, why not combine two favored targets into one hateful guy? I'm also pretty sure he was cis-gendered.
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by istultus 2y ago
This has to take the cake for "most spurious correlation." The most coherent reading is "places which report more homocide data are correlated with reporting more left-handedness"
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by istultus 2y ago
Ugh, we're going through the cycle of the author of the book going around spreading his little tidbits in all the main sites/podcasts (I heard him on Econtalk). For us rest-of-the-worlders - note that Peanut allergy is not an inve
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by istultus 2y ago
This is a commonplace corollary to Gell-Man Amnesia/Knoll's Law[1] - in truth every single field/category in the universe has varying degrees of stupidity, it's just that you only reacts emotionally to the stupidity in t
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by istultus 2y ago
As with any "New York Times Journal of Medicine"-type article, the author of the article didn't understand/chose to inflate the actual research - what they did was create a system that captures the fungus's electric
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by istultus 2y ago
I think the book's name confuses true neophytes who've never even heard of vector space and assume that this book will teach them applied linear algebra. I always thought that this book is for people like me who have already playe
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by istultus 2y ago
I can't bring myself to read this monolith because the two premises at the top are wrong: 1. Y2K was a real phenomenon that needed fixing in various aspects, and 2. fraudulence is not a problem of "capitalism" - it's a p
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by istultus 2y ago
Nice, you've found a pathway to hiring more veterans
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by istultus 2y ago
Exactly, anecdotes, with a healthy portion of the Availability and Confirmation Heuristics. We already know that women are more susceptible to auto-immune responses and that pregnancy is one of the reasons for that disparity between the sex
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by istultus 2y ago
The rest of the world has governments that negotiate directly the Pharma companies and strike up deals that subsidize the first X doses per year per Y number of people. Once the limit is passed it's the same for everyone - pay the pric
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by istultus 2y ago
Like many a disease with an old name, Psoriasis refers to a localized cutaneous autoimmune disease usually treated by dermatologists, and a severe family of Rheumatic (autoimmune) diseases, part of the Spondyloarthropathy family, that happe
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by istultus 2y ago
Beyond that logical tantrum easily refuted - I'm 52% on free will, say a tenth of a bip on god and magic: At least in Judaism there is sizable chunk of believers who believe in God and that everything is God's will and thus there
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by istultus 2y ago
As someone who isn't American but grew up in California in the 90s, I find myself often explaining American public behavior to others who are baffled by it. As I see it, the US - the first place with a supposed egalitarian bent on the
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by istultus 2y ago
Isn't it time, as the process is becoming normalized (as with the Artemis project) to start using the term "(gravitational) slingshot" in headlines?
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by istultus 2y ago
Thanks! (everyone is more visual, though we have less aggregated data on how blind people use their visual cortex)
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by istultus 2y ago
There's humor that a drug developed to treat diabetes, using a peptide we know physiologically to lower blood sugar, and secondarily found to also help drop weight is now getting headlines showing that it does its stated purpose.* * Ye

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