DFHippie

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by DFHippie 7y ago
I'm afraid I don't have any useful thoughts. It's just a file. The log I've been keeping since October of 2014 has about 19,000 lines in it now and is just short of a megabyte. Gzip takes it down to 200K. So it's a
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Show HN: A personal log from the command line(github.com)
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Sure. I'm just saying tariffs don't work as simply as most people, notably including the current President of the United States, seem to think they do.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
The catch is that it's your own citizens who bear most of the burden of these tariffs. That's among the problems with Trump's various trade wars as well. I agree that we need to address the freeloader problem, but I don'
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Also Northern Ireland.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
This would be a cogent argument if there weren't degrees of damage.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I believe it's fungus that breaks down the lignin.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
When I was a kid my friends, siblings, and I buried many time capsules, but we always including a random collection of things, including pictures of other people, to hide our identity. We were more excited to imagine other people trying to
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by DFHippie 7y ago
In which case it's probably better to say it has an animate/inanimate distinction. I was told by someone interested in historical linguistics that Indo-European first developed an animate/inanimate noun class system and then
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I don't think the problem is the definition of empathy but the measurement of it.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> We don't know have detailed sociological studies of hunter-gatherers. But we do. We don't know today's hunter-gatherers are identical to those of 10,000 years ago or more, but we've got them and there have been many
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> it's mostly for signaling reasons This presumes rich people never have good motives and any appearance of morality or civic-mindedness they might show is a self-aggrandizing sham. This seems unlikely.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> This is exactly what is meant by trickle down economics. This is not true. Trickle down economics is the theory that money given to rich people will enrich poor people because the rich people will use the money to buy goods and service
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Well, that's one way it happens. The language is just the set of conventions the speakers understand. When those conventions change, through ignorance or any other reason, then the language changes. That doesn't mean you can'
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by DFHippie 7y ago
The GOP is interested in nuclear power because they know that since the 60s the Left has been against nuclear power. They bring it up as a way to gore the Left's ox, not as something they're actively pursuing to fight climate ch
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Machiavelli isn't mentioned in the article, so I assume you are including the comments, and this is what I was referring to as well. The thesis is "history is written by the losers". In the comments other examples are brought
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> Individuals not agreeing with ecofascists also come to the point where they donate. Suggests the OP thinks these are political agents that ordinary people encounter and have to deal with, not just the Christchurch terrorist. And the to
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by DFHippie 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Archibald_Dunning
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by DFHippie 7y ago
How many people are actually in prison for refusing to pay taxes? How does this compare to the number of people who have suffered some penalty for refusing to pay taxes? What should be done about people who Bartleby the Scrivener their way
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by DFHippie 7y ago
What is an "ecofascist"?
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Yes, some billionaires do good things and some do bad things. And some do a mixture of the two. It's hard to wrap your head around, but there it is.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
"Plan" suggests people got together and arranged it. It is the generally acknowledged most likely outcome given our demonstrated inability to overcome the people attempting thwart collective action. Maybe this seems like a slim
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I was surprised not to see a mention of the Lost Cause narrative of the American Civil War.
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The Kurds, I believe.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
It's pretty beautiful in Brattleboro, Vermont today.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I assume by "he" you mean Temple Grandin. Temple Grandin is a woman. Not that this is obvious. I know a man named Temple.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
You are aware that the money collected by the tariffs was extracted from American pockets, right, not Chinese? So you are describing a tax and transfer program: Americans who buy Chinese goods are taxed to compensate Americans who are losin
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> Since most candidates are running on a platform of promising more free things Most candidates are running on a platform of directing the taxes citizens pay towards services the citizens want. It's easy, and dishonest, to deride th
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by DFHippie 7y ago
The name reminds me of https://metacpan.org/pod/DBG , which, full disclosure, I wrote. Not that it's nearly as cool or likely to be used by anyone, but ... it has a superficial resemblance.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
The calligraphy in that document blows my mind.

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