throwaway626

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by throwaway626 3y ago
It’s some strange bias that lets people get worked up about this one already-convicted dealer but pass over in silence the pharmaceutical companies that designed these opioids to be so addictive and marketed them so aggressively so that doc
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by throwaway626 3y ago
The US has a clear interest in preventing reunification with the mainland, regardless of the island’s legal status.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
David Spivak is a treasure. One of the clearest expositors of category theory out there.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
Michael Hobbes has spent some time debunking the panic articles coming out of mainstream media on this topic. https://x.com/rottenindenmark/status/1596614556448882688 He also covered an article a while back about
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by throwaway626 3y ago
CJK characters do encode some phonetic content, it’s just an imperfect process and is more or less unreliable from dialect to dialect.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
I’m not trolling. I’m treating your business no different from any other business. You don’t deserve even more special treatment from the justice system merely because you’re a landlord. One company I partly own sued a customer for nonpayme
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by throwaway626 3y ago
I’m sorry you failed to react to changing market conditions. Have you considered reinvesting in a less risky sector, like index funds?
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by throwaway626 3y ago
You made an investment decision (allowing hotel guests to legally become tenants) and it ended poorly for you. Why should the government bail you out for “almost no cost”? The legal system doesn’t exist to insulate you from risk.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
Qohelet was most likely compiled by multiple authors well after the Babylonian conquest. The presence of loanwords in the text makes a date in the 10th century BCE highly unlikely. Solomon the Biblical personage probably never existed. No a
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by throwaway626 3y ago
I don’t judge scholarly translations by their poetics, so perhaps you shouldn’t judge poetic interpretations by their scholarly merit. The world is big enough for both.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
She had the humility to admit she knew little about ancient Chinese and the courage to go ahead and venture a translation anyway, striving to touch something deeper than language. Her success is extremely laudable for this reason.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
You misread the claim and are arguing against something I didn’t say.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
> By the way, I don't think there is anyone homeschooling with the "only textbook is the Bible" They’re pretty common, in fact. Here’s a curriculum company that’ll gladly give you the tools: https://answersingen
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by throwaway626 3y ago
So, to be clear, you’re fine with funding special needs education and etc. as long as it’s someone else footing the bill.
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by throwaway626 3y ago
As a work of fiction, HPMOR is little more than an exercise in repackaging genre tropes and pop culture references. It doesn’t have a coherent theme; the execution varies from mediocre to poor. Plot holes abound, characters vanish inexplica
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by throwaway626 3y ago
“Disengaged” here means that they did not make it through the assessment/pre-screening process and did not receive treatment, which is not what is meant by “detransition” or what is commonly understood as contributing to “regret rate”
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by throwaway626 3y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8503911/ Between 1% and 8%, depending on how detransition is defined. This article found 6.9% (12/175, 6 clearly detransitioning and 6 ambiguous) at one clini