DFHippie

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by DFHippie 7y ago
Yes, the marketing of heroines preceded them and is generally harmless (protests against "Wonder Woman" notwithstanding).
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by DFHippie 7y ago
But leaving everyone to raise their kids as they see fit can be unfair to the kids. If public education might let your kids down, learn what it's teaching them. If what they're getting is crap, demand accuracy. They can't hid
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Well, here's another white male from North America who has lived here for many decades but who lives in a very different world from you. I urge you to consider dispassionately how this could be. Don't dismiss it immediately as &qu
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Sure. There's regulatory capture. But this particular problem, the externalization of costs, is a classic one solved by regulation rather than the free market.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Poisons are typically bitter, so that point doesn't seem unreasonable. That being said, the poisons the plants produce themselves to fend off insects are also bitter, so maybe the Tongan farmer was doing something not mention to reduce
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by DFHippie 7y ago
You can't put the burden on the grower either. If you have two growers, one who tries to internalizes all the costs of production and one who doesn't, the market will reward the latter, because the market -- the consumers -- only
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Another thing to keep in mind is that until the advent of dyes most things were just their natural color. You don't need a separate word for green if unexpected things are never green. And even if they sometimes are, you can just say t
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I think phrases like "yellow dog", "red cow", and "bluegrass" make sense if you understand them to mean relatively yellow, red, or blue. That is, a yellow dog is a dog that is yellow for a dog. A red cow is red
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> we translated Homer from Latin Maybe you mean Horace? Homer wrote in Greek. It seems like if you were going to translate a Latin epic you'd go for the Aeneid.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> There is some legitimacy to the idea that we should eat whatever we please because we are the apex predator. It's more like it's definitional of an apex predator that it eats what it pleases. It isn't a question of legit
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by DFHippie 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_(terrorism)#Stochast...
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by DFHippie 7y ago
It isn't quite this. We have memories for only part of the day. We have no memories for other parts. We don't know whether we are conscious at these times. It isn't that we know we are unconscious when we are asleep except
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by DFHippie 7y ago
This cynicism is pernicious. There are plenty of people, on both ends of the political spectrum, who seek public office in order to do things which they view as for the greater good. On the right it is things like criminalizing abortion. On
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> It's a concept most environmentalists I encounter look upon as the dark side of the force, like if they used economics and human selfishness towards a positive end it would somehow take away their environmentalist virtue. Guess it
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I don't think that's turning it on its head but reinforcing it.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Seconded. For governments to do anything, individuals need to do at least one seemingly ineffectual thing: vote. But voting is a poor signal. You vote in most cases for representatives and these representatives stand for many things. To imp
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Your straw man looks very fierce and imposing, but this is argument by assertion. If self-identified progressives find the goals and actions of Bill Gates, say, to be congenial, what does it matter that you believe his heart isn't in i
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I think the issue of assholes winding up in management was covered.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Certain nouns are "inherently definite" -- names of people or places, for example, or abstractions or things which are inherently unique. Languages which mark definiteness often differ as to whether these inherently definite nouns
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by DFHippie 7y ago
I think this is acknowledged by the opening "This is a really sophomoric opinion." Even so, if you agree upon the metric and then use it to rank systems, if one system ranks better then you have "proven", by the agreed u
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Are you thinking of the protests in 1968 at the Democratic National Convention? It was the police, there, not the army. I don't believe there were any deaths there, though. Maybe you're thinking of Kent State? That wasn't aff
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Here is the difference: in one case it is forgotten because the government is actively imprisoning people who mention it; in the other, because people are apathetic and easily distracted and perhaps disagree that this is an event of similar
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by DFHippie 7y ago
You might expect this, but this says more about you than it does about the American government and its diplomats, at least the ones in charge when the Branch Davidians were in armed rebellion against the US government. Here is a reference d
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by DFHippie 7y ago
>Any bad PR resulting from firing these types would be a one time thing instead of this ongoing situation. Imagine if you could murder troublesome people because that PR hit would be a one-time thing and better than this ongoing situatio
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Retaliating against whistle blowers is a great way to generate bad PR for yourself. You may disagree that this is whistle blowing. You may view these employees as entitled troublemakers. I expect the googlers doing this view themselves as m
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by DFHippie 7y ago
Maybe it's also a Vermont thing. I built a cat ladder for some Vermont cats to get up into my daughter's loft bed. The remaining cat disdains the ladder and just scales the bed.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
You still need to deal with temporary speed limits in construction zones.
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by DFHippie 7y ago
And given that Randall Stephenson said each billion would create 7000 jobs and AT&T got 3 billion, did they create anywhere near 21,000 jobs? He's kind of crappy at this. He was off by 44k. I guess making economic projections like
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> double current density Humorous potential for confusion in an article about batteries :-)
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by DFHippie 7y ago
> Plus, he has no embarrassment, hesitation, or fear of failure. This is key. I spent a period one summer in a Welsh immersion course. There were some very well-educated, clever Americans there (I would like to think I was one) and peopl

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