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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
We do. Thinking a bit about what that means, we have photographs showing how the physical entity we model as atoms interact with light, and can confirm that the theory lines up with experiment. If we adopt that same definition for spacetime
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“What exactly is spacetime? Is it a real thing like an atom, or just a mathematical construct that is used to describe how mass 'generates' gravity?” This is a false dichotomy. Atoms too are "just" a mathematical constru
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Google Joins the Rust Foundation(opensource.googleblog.com)
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
"It, ironically, has the strong stink of a racial slur when it is flung at one's feet in this way." That's because it is used as a slur, a powerful one which can end careers, almost exclusively against members of a singl
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Why is it naive or calculating to look for coherence in a world-view?
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
I've never understood how a slippery slope argument is a fallacy, let alone a logical fallacy (like false syllogism or no true scotsman). The idea is essentially looking at current trends and extrapolating into the future. No predictio
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
DNS registrars have also removed sites with views they don't like.
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Market concentration might make them a bigger problem today than before, though.
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Others in recent history have tried this. Do we know how it went for them?
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Mind elaborating on how the "standard" C++ and Java protobuf implementations are bloated? [edit] I'm genuinely asking. I'm guessing you mean in the generated APIs, i.e. the code "weight", but maybe you meant so
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
I don't know how often this occurs. I know a specific case was Pandemrix, the vaccine administered in a few European nationas during the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, which seems to have increased the risk of narcolepsy especially for children [
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
While I agree with the broader point you're making, circumcision is an odd addition to the list of preventative medical procedures. It may offer mild benefits for reducing transmission rates and infection time for STDs later in life, b
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di... does not agree with the claim that Americans are the biggest per capita polluters on the planet, if pollution is measured by carbon emissions.
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Why would capping/reducing our standard of living have any influence on their choices? Is there any evidence to suggest they'd say "Americans gave up meat in favor of BeyondMeat/tofu/crickets, so we will too" a
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Even during the American Civl War, or any other war, were the majority of the people in the nations involved itching to kill each other?
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
I see some indications that the Michigan assassination plot was not planned by people holding typically right-wing views. For example https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/1... .
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Not everyone has the same risk of being robbed. But laws against robbery need not offer unequal protections to victims.
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
How is failing to send private messages which contains ideas you disagree with not censorship? You've limited the definition to "taking down the originate reference" but that's too limited.
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"Does this mean that when their social revolution is complete I will hang from the gallows pole because my named social media accounts do not account for me actively promoting their cause?" Yes, it does mean that. They're say
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
How do you, or the Fed in this case, earmark where a dollar goes? Paying interest in excess reserves is the only mechanism I've heard for them to keep money "locked up." Will that continue forever? What's the point of in
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This is saying people are loyal to their tribes, and view the government's interests as unaligned with those of their tribe, presumably giving rise to a lack of common cause in something that a government might foster like scientific d
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Could you elaborate? In both Ireland's and Korea's cases, despite their relatively small size, both nations have notable scientific output. What's different about them?
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Is this claiming that ethnic diversity within a country's borders causes strife, and in turn hinders scientific development?
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
It seems like CNET has an angle here. Since when is complying with a warrant "giving away information" as they put it.
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
How much of this is pre-election sabre rattling?
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
What relationship do I have with Verizon, or Comcast, or Pfizer or Du Pont? It seems to be one where they sell call metadata logs and consistently under deliver on contracts (Verizon, Comcast, other telcos), dump chemicals, push doctors to
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
The parent comment asks why we can't we prioritize handling the companies which the author perceives are a greater evil. Why can't that prioritization happen without it being "whataboutism"?
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The (completely reasonable) alternative is to avoid a system that only works when there's permanent exponential growth in a finite world. On top of that, growing GDP is different from improving average quality of life. If GDP goes up 1
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Many in the US (and to a lesser extent Western Europe and Australia) seem to answer that last question with a "yes." It's never addressed why border controls by China, Mexico, or really any non-Western country aren't als
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by thisiscorrect 6y ago
Why would the clump if they don't interact?

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