Billions of animals are killed wherever crops are grown.
Even if you are entirely vegan, animals have to die if you want to eat.
In fact, if your food is grown on a farm then you are probably contributing to more animal deaths than someone who obtains food from hunting or fishing.
Well if you put it that way, then I guess animal cruelty isn’t as bad as we thought.
I doubt it was much of an added expense. The search was carried out by Coast Guard and Navy personnel, who would be getting paid regardless.
If the sub hadn’t gone missing, it’s quite likely their time and resources would have been spent on practicing some sort of rescue mission.
If you are a simulation, then your choice doesn’t matter. You will never get any real benefit from the boxes. It’s like saying, “there is also a finite possibility that the machine is lying and all the boxes are empty”. In which case, the choice is again irrelevant.
Situations in which your choice doesn’t matter are not worth considering. Only the remaining possibility, that you are not a simulation and the machine is not lying, is worth considering.
But if it’s true that the machine can perfectly predict what you will choose, then by definition your choice will be the same its prediction. In which case, you should choose one box.
Regardless of whether the machine is right, if you don’t believe it can perfectly predict what you’ll do then taking both boxes is always better than just one.
It’s much easier if you reframe the problem:
Someone says they’ve built a machine that can perfectly predict what you will do. Do you believe them?
If so, take one box.
If not, take both boxes.
That’s equivalent to one metric bag.
True, but it’s important to note that personal data means identifiers such as name, date of birth, location, etc. Comments on a blog, by themselves, are not personal data.
This is a good article on whether non-EU websites have to obey the GDPR. It boils down to two criteria:
If your business is offering goods or services, irrespective of whether a payment of the data subject is required, to such data subjects in the EU
or
If your business monitors the behavior of EU citizens and their behavior takes place within the union.
The latter includes use of advertising cookies, location tracking, etc.
If neither of those apply, you can probably ignore the GDPR.
Ok, suppose there is a unified magazine. I post to it, now which instance hosts my post? Then my instance defederates from that of one of the two magazines, but not the other. Do I now see only half the posts? If I engage in a comment chain, will users on the instances that defederated from mine see a weird half-conversation?
I think there is a fundamental difference between centralized formats like Reddit and federated formats like this one. Trying to simulate one with the other will always be unsatisfactory. So if Melpomene and Facedeer really want to join forces, the best way is simply to close one community and let them comoderate the remaining one.
And what happens when both pay their bills, and a comment or user is moderated by Melpomene but not Facedeer?
The options will continue to be available through registry keys.
“Immunity” was not the issue.
The issue was that nursing homes that get federal funds have to abide by certain special rules. What happens if they break those rules, does the government sanction them or can they be sued directly by the patient?
In some situations, the former is true (for example, you can’t sue a restaurant that violates health codes, it’s the government that acts to close them down). But in this case, the court decided on the latter.
Billions of invertebrates and other small animals are killed during tilling before planting, with pest/weed control during the growing season (even with “organic” or “natural” compounds), and of course during harvest.
This is inevitable, farming requires controlling soil and plants, and this will inevitably kill animals that you don’t even see. Do you really think you can flood a rice paddy without killing countless mesofauna?
Fishing/hunting also kills animals, but you can catch a fish or hunt a deer without restructuring an entire ecosystem. Which means you can feed yourself without killing quite so many animals.