DFHippie

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by DFHippie 5y ago
I've been reading "Mistakes Were Made (but not by me)" by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson. My daughter recommended it to me and I finally got around to reading it. The main thesis is that everyone is prone to self-justificati
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The discussion of Ruby could use a mention of Enumerable. https://ruby-doc.org/core-3.0.2/Enumerable.html
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I'm happy that it worked as well, but then there's this: > Police say the teenager told investigators that she traveled with the man through North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio. Authorities allege she had been attempti
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by DFHippie 5y ago
How about this: the easier it is to relocate and work for FAANG companies, the more the FAANG workforce will resemble the global supply of people who would like to work for them. If the skill sought is coding, not sales, sufficient English
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I guess the reason would be that they could take away your pay.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
This is ubiquitous. Another variant: you think of a way to cheat; you assume your opponent is villainous and always cheats; so you assume your opponent was already cheating in this specific way; so you cheat in this specific way "to ev
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> So the best reason I can think of to oppose your plan is simply that it's a futile waste of time. Time is a pretty small consideration here. One can and should apply many means to lessen corruption. Transparency is certainly impor
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Income is not the same as wealth. They are correlated, but you're blurring lines. The wealthiest individuals accrue a negligible amount of their wealth from income. And the power law relationship between wealth and stock ownership does
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The original phrasing wasn't "contribute in local politics" but "take public office". Presumably if you take public office you give up your FAANG employment. I don't think anyone is saying you can't vote o
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> suddenly the company has to disclose all of its IP I think you need to explain your scenario a bit better. > I suppose it was a matter of time before supporting the GPL became a "blue or red team" position If you have a ha
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Not so much in a landfill.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Yes, you have to make that choice. That was my point: choose better over worse. The "more damaging lies" part is just trying not to be too rosy-eyed about any particular party. Your choices are imperfect, but that's the world
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by DFHippie 5y ago
It seems you are expressing two ideas which are in conflict. The "lesser of two evils" argument is precisely about choosing "behavior" (really results or goals) over choosing a team. But I'll give it a go anyway. I
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> Portland decided to encourage blacks to get vaccinated by putting ads of black drag queens up. This is called nutpicking. You claim this example is representative (and you claim you have adequately represented who did what for what pur
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The two sides don't react to contempt symmetrically. The left doesn't care if Trump insults them. It only has any bearing if it leads to policy changes they hate. The right, on the other hand, really, really hates to be made fun o
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Refusing to hold people accountable enables the rule breakers. You have to decide which party is actually telling more damaging lies, taking more damaging actions, or doing more good, and act accordingly. Because some person who votes for D
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by DFHippie 5y ago
No need to apologize. Most people say "tense" just meaning "verb form". I just saw the opportunity to point out something I find interesting.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
Sorry, this is off topic, but the relevant difference between the particular were you are using and are isn't one of tense but of mood. The were is a past subjunctive form, where "past" is there more as part of the name
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by DFHippie 5y ago
If a blik is an "unfalsifiable but meaningful worldviews", I don't see how this applies to certain prominent conspiracy theories. It is easy to verify that a particular pizza parlor does or doesn't have a basement, for e
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by DFHippie 5y ago
A scenario: Daddy Warbucks learns that the government is raising corporate taxes. He goes and tells his workers the government has cut their pay. He has no choice. Business necessity. Daddy Warbucks learns that the government has cut corpor
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by DFHippie 5y ago
And people call it St Patrick's day in the US as well.
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by DFHippie 5y ago
The Post is quoting when it uses both phrases. They are reporting what people involved said. One person used the phrase "bro culture" and there was another incident where a manager referred to some female employees as "mean g
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by DFHippie 5y ago
It is at the top of the story. It isn't the very first sentence, but just eyeballing my scrollbar it's about 5% of the way in and before the meat of the reporting. I'm not a journalist, by my understanding is that journalism
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I think these are precisely the arbitrary cultural distinctions people are arguing about. I too feel that the difference between pink and red is categorical whereas that between pale and dark blue is mere nuance. Apparently Russian speakers
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> That's the advantage of totalitarian control, and there are many, many people who are led by their inner totalitarian. These are the ones genuinely upset that their neighbors are making different trade-offs. For them, it's no
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by DFHippie 5y ago
A better question: was Robin Hood a real person whose behavior could serve as evidence?
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by DFHippie 5y ago
I find it interesting that the last terms in the hierarchy are pastels. If you have one basic pastel, it's grey. Two: you have grey and pink. Three: grey, pink, and robin's egg blue. Pastel brown, purple, and green are easy for th
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> The meaningful number is 2033, the year Social Security is projected to run out of money. This is the year the trust fund runs out of money, at which point Social Security won't be able to meet its full obligations, only what it
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by DFHippie 5y ago
> Many places outside of the US do indeed grass/free graze feed. There is absolutely no environmental cost here. In Brazil huge tracts of the Amazon are converted into grassland every year for cattle grazing. This is not environment
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This is an existence proof that deficiency is not inevitable.

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