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by Dove 4y ago
It occurs to me that the evolving meaning of the term "hack" has tracked this generational change, going from zen mastery of the arcane arts, to underground destruction and subversion, to clever personal convenience. Perhaps we w
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by Dove 4y ago
> We didn't replace tech investors and leaders with worse people – we have the same kinds of people but we let them get away with more. I disagree entirely. I think the generational change in core philosophies is exactly the proble
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by Dove 4y ago
I think saying that Twitter doesn't care is too lazy a take. It has always been true, to some degree, that the aristocrats really don't care about the fate of individual peasants - they can't. They are outnumbered and don&#
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by Dove 4y ago
I can't decide whether to be darkly amused or just depressed, watching millions of humans learn together, as if for the first time, that Government Is Hard. Much ink has been spilled on the topic of governing well. It could fairly be
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by Dove 4y ago
Self-improvement takes change and effort. It requires an investment of energy larger than the one required to overcome life's usual busyness. If you really want to write a novel, you will write it, even if you have to burn sleep to d
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by Dove 4y ago
John Locke said that what makes something yours, in a natural setting, is your having invested effort into making it what it is. A wild berry bush might be anyone's, but once you have picked the fruit, that fruit is yours. Whether or
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by Dove 4y ago
People make plea deals and write confessions to reduce the punishment if they think they will be convicted. That motivation remains entirely the same even if they think they will be falsely convicted.
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by Dove 4y ago
I, for one, would love to see the existing incumbents fail, and a mad scramble by upstarts to do this better. This could be done way, way, way better, and I would love to see what happened if the network effect got out of the way of that
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by Dove 4y ago
> These tradeoffs are often intensely difficult to pursue openly. Who wants to be known as the politician in favor of benefits fraud or the financial CEO who thinks they are not laundering enough money? It is very easy to explain such th
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by Dove 4y ago
> Hmm. I’m not much of a speech-writer, and that felt a little bit embarrassing. Wow. You're really not. Let me give it a go. Bias can never be eliminated, but it can be overcome by a greater commitment: the commitment to truth.
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by Dove 4y ago
The place I work now has a really wonderful policy: maternity/paternity leave can be used in a part-time fashion. People who are recent parents frequently come in for a couple days a week, or a few hours a day -- as they think will wo
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by Dove 4y ago
> I think there is a high percentage of chance that the zygote will self terminate. There is. The figure that sticks in my head, off the cuff, is that something like in the neighborhood of a quarter or a third of pregnancies end so soon
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by Dove 4y ago
It is a cell. It is also a human life.
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by Dove 4y ago
Nobody really has a clear understanding of what sentience actually is. :) But I feel the need to indulge the opportunity to explain my point of view with an analogy. Imagine two computers that have implemented an encrypted communication pr
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by Dove 4y ago
Outside a few tiny movements, the Anabaptists were the first to object to infant baptism. Infant baptism was universal in the Catholic church, from the fifth century through the sixteenth, and even the Protestant Reformers adopted the prac
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by Dove 4y ago
I believe it was the great origami grandmaster Akira Yoshizawa who said, "Wet a piece of paper, crumple it into a ball, let it dry, and throw it hard. It will go quite far. A paper airplane must go farther, otherwise it might as well
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by Dove 4y ago
I would call a zygote a human life. A zygote has a critical feature that no other cell has: if you don't kill it, it will someday love and suffer and have opinions and work and play and seek the meaning of life. Humans are rarely full
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by Dove 4y ago
> My grocery store is still stocked full. Without invalidating your larger point that getting something to eat is generally a non-issue, there is nonetheless one group in the US for whom the food shortage is at this very moment acute
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by Dove 4y ago
I suppose that is true, if you reason narrowly. There is another force in play: the degree to which support makes the individual more powerful. I am much closer to my full potential as a problem solver when surrounded by effective manageme
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by Dove 4y ago
I can echo the sentiment. I would love to start over and save only the good stuff. With that said, I am wary of my memory of the web of the 90's because everything was so new . There are games I remember loving and seeing no serious
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by Dove 4y ago
I found this fascinatingly counterintuitive. I would normally expect that a broader market leads to lower prices for commodity goods. If I can only buy candy from the vendor at the movie theater, I expect to pay a higher price than if I ca
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by Dove 4y ago
Yeah, I suppose I'm overstating it. It would be better to say that when you're full time nursing, going and doing things requires planning and support. When I was directly breastfeeding exclusively, stepping outside the house for
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by Dove 4y ago
Nursing is nearly a full time job. When I was doing it with a six month old via pumping, I tracked my hours spent one week and came up with 30 hours. With another baby, I was nursing in the evenings when home from work, and it was literal
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by Dove 4y ago
The world has gotten physically safer for kids, but socially and politically much more dangerous for adults.
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by Dove 4y ago
Be careful with the conviction that you are right, and others are wrong, to the degree that you are willing to force people to do things. Forcing people to do things for their own good has a terrible historical track record in terms of doi
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by Dove 4y ago
Legal to ship, illegal to ship via USPS! See section 341.21.c: https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c3_019.htm A distinction which blew my mind as I had had the ammo shipped to me recently, and it would never have
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by Dove 4y ago
Funny story, I had the opposite experience this morning. I was putting together a care package for a friend, which included a box of ammo for a rifle we'd enjoyed shooting together. I was just about to take it by the post office when
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by Dove 4y ago
If you are going to study effects on blood pressure in your own physiology, I very much recommend getting a home device so you can take a lot of measurements. Blood pressure changes constantly for any reason or (as far as I can tell) no re
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by Dove 5y ago
You can! When you do that, you essentially get a "Health Share" organization, wherein you pay cash for health care and they reimburse you. Google the term to see which ones are out there. They are typically much, much, much che
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by Dove 5y ago
Hard training may be an essential ingredient of physical excellence, but it is insufficient for true brilliance in any creative field. Jimi Hendrix did have to practice, but he did not become Jimi Hendrix by practicing. You cannot practic

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