Absolutely. A good study would account for confounding variables. Even the best surgeons make mistakes that lead to death; they are only human.

…society doesn’t want to create a situation where surgeons refuse to operate for fear of making a mistake.

… comparing this surgeon’s patient survival rate to that of other surgeons should determine whether he is to blame.

If his patients are significantly more likely to die than on average, it is probably the surgeon’s fault. If he has a pristine record, on the other hand, it was probably beyond his control.

Reddit really sucks. Once you get one temporary ban, the automated system really fucks you at any point in the future.

You don’t have to trust me. The information is available on Wikipedia. You are objectively wrong. The government imposed on the south after the civil war is substantially different than the one that would have formed if the Confederacy had won.

You’re preaching to the choir. China does have a large middle and upper class, but this only because of its large overall population. Most people in China make less than $7500 per year. They don’t have much leftover after buying food and rent.

It would take a lot of Vietnamese, Cambodian, African, etc. laborers living in inhumane conditions to give the over 1 billion people in China a 1st world lifestyle. I think this is more or less the point of the Belt and Road initiative. They are competing with Europe and the United States to obtain a “low-income” workforce.

…on the bright side, AI might make it possible to remove slave labor from the equation. On the dark side, 3rd world countries that can’t afford this technology will be pretty much fucked.

If this is the reason you want a cell phone, your efforts are misplaced. Most of these sort of sex offenders are parents, relatives, or friends of the family. Those are the people your kid would need to record.

You would be more likely to protect your child by making him wear a helmet along with his seatbelt or feeding him food that doesn’t suck.

…trust me on this. Even the reconstruction and Jim Crow eras weren’t equivalent to what was going on prior to the Confederacy. I know from personal experience that the south is a shithole, but you got to give them credit where it’s due.

Let’s say there is a public school. I kill the principal, build a new school, hire 30% of the old school’s teachers, and completely change the rules and curriculum.

Is the new school the same as the old school?

No. I’m proposing that there will be issues when China gets slaves of it’s own.

My concern is that there aren’t enough resources to go around.

1st world countries live off of the work of China and 3rd world countries. If China becomes a 1st world country, we will all need to get our products from somewhere else. China has more people than Europe and America combined.

It sounds like he’s using bipartisan rhetoric to justify funding a reasonable strategy. Knowing how many people are taking which psychoactives is important for making policy decisions.

… An accurate monitoring system is needed to prove the effectiveness of different harm-reduction strategies. People lie on self-surveys.

…I’m fairly certain monitoring waste waters to determine the rate of drug use is a common and widely used procedure. Like, it is happening and it has been happening for a while now.

If I was a foreign intelligence agency, I would hack into the network of the"prediction market" and look for government personnel making bets. It would be a great way to collect covert information.

I’m in the same boat. I even tried emailing them my license. There is nothing I can do delete my account from highschool.

If an anarchist revolution did happend, a sub-group of people would form a government and murder/enslave the people who don’t.

…it doesn’t count. They appear to propose bills with the intention of voting them out. Even popular bills lose with a 49-51 vote. They draw straws on who will join the Republicans to vote down popular initiatives.

“Rats, that one rogue Democrat foiled our plans.”

This depends on the strategy. If China lowered the prices and waited for the US car makers to go bust, they could then raise the prices as high as they want. US manufacturers would eventually continue production, but things would need to be automated for them to be competitive.

Personally, I think they should allow China to sell small cars in the United States. It’s a product that isn’t currently sold on our market.

Despite on what you might read on Lemmy, most Americans aren’t overtly racist. Alot of people want to reduce immigration, but that is because 80-90% of our total population growth is the result of immigration.

… it’s not just about the impact it will have on our culture. As automation continues to take low income jobs, we will have a large surplus of unemployed lower class workers. There is a correlation between our low population density and our high standard of living.

…we tend not to care about people who aren’t United States citizens.

While you’re correct, the cumulative effect of lower class and middle class Americans on 3rd world peoples dwarfs that of the upper class. It takes a lot of time and resources to maintain the lifestyle of a single person working 40 hours at McDonald’s.

His consumer products were made in 3rd world factories polluting their local environments and the coffee he’s drinking was bought for less than a dollar a kilogram from a farmer destroying a priceless rainforest. When this impact is multiplied by three-hundred million, the effects are as dramatic as they are unsustainable.

…I try not to think about it. It’s a conflict between guilt and gratitude.