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by Dove 5y ago
I had an old dream of building a good micropayment scheme for the web. Notionally, I'd like to pay $10/mo (or whatever) for "web content", and have some algorithm divvy that up into fractions of pennies for sites I mome
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by Dove 5y ago
Same. Rude and disrespectful marketing is a kill file offense.
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by Dove 5y ago
Languages are more than just encodings for meaning -- the language you think in gives you the basic units of meaning that you use to navigate the world. You can put 'untranslatable' into Google to look at lists of words to gain a
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by Dove 5y ago
The ingredients to doing that, in my opinion, are: - Actually be right -- it really is to the other team's advantage to use your solution. - Find people on the other team receptive to the idea and talk to them. Informally, privately,
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by Dove 5y ago
Meaningful freedoms always include the possibility of abusing those freedoms. People will use the free exchange of ideas to advocate for falsehoods, start cults, and create political movements with terrible consequences. But they also use
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by Dove 6y ago
You may be a lean mass hyperresponder - check out Dave Feldman's work on the topic at https://cholesterolcode.com/ . Doctors can be pretty jumpy about cholesterol numbers and I'd hate to see you take advice which m
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by Dove 6y ago
There is merit to both sides of this story. Businesspeople should be able to cultivate whatever sort of community they like, do business with whatever sort of people they like, and certainly - as a matter of conscience - shouldn't be
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by Dove 7y ago
I'm not sure what I am going to do about it. I appreciate the encouragement to elevate my frustration into a serious problem to consider trying to solve. I doubt throwing money at it via government is the answer, though perhaps it is
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by Dove 7y ago
Your experience sounds lovely. I think you may have misinterpreted my frustration with the standard experience and expectation of stay at home parenting as advocating for widespread use of daycare. I do think that option is a little close
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by Dove 7y ago
I am convinced the isolated stay at home parent model is not normal human behavior, but a pathology of our particular society which represents an unreasonable expectation derived from an excessive commitment to individualism and independenc
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by Dove 7y ago
This is a very specific instance of a much more general problem. A lot of private companies control exclusive access to something with a value that dwarfs what you pay for it. I pay nothing for access to Twitter; if I build a business or a
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by Dove 7y ago
I suspect the question reveals a blind spot in perspective. Food, by its very nature, is dangerous and fights back. Modern society insulates us from this risk; with a secure, safe, food supply, risking one's life to try something new
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by Dove 7y ago
You need someone who can do this at the right time and about the right thing: https://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an... The ability to see where you suck and see your opportunities
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by Dove 7y ago
Birds and bees, heck. I'm concerned about the effects they may have on HUMANS.
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by Dove 8y ago
I heard a take on this story in a book about origami (origami airplanes, I guess? It's been long enough I don't specifically remember the source). The artist said, roughly, that if you crumple up a sheet of paper, dip it in wate
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by Dove 8y ago
I was disagreeing with the idea that established treatments today are known to improve outcomes. It is very mixed, and really depends on what problem you are trying to solve. There has been a lot of progress in some areas, but there is also
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by Dove 8y ago
I don't think that's really true. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/when-evid...
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by Dove 8y ago
Rational, yes; fair, no. Group differences are real, and burying or ignoring that truth is doomed to failure, since it is obvious. However, we have a moral responsibility to evaluate every person as an individual - to give each the benefit
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by Dove 9y ago
Concave earth is hands down my favorite conspiracy theory. The completeness of the lie is astonishing. I actually spent months trying to come up with a way to disprove it on a high-school-education only-trust-your-eyes shoestring budget,
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by Dove 9y ago
China has been working on this for a while, and barring people from transportation is not the scary bit. That's last-century scary. No, it's the emergence of a new sort of ideological warfare making use of the recent knowledge de
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by Dove 9y ago
Holy cats. That looked like a weapon draw to me, too. I know I've made a fuss about not making sudden moves in tense situations, but if you are going to make a sudden move, definitely avoid doing exactly that .
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by Dove 9y ago
They try. They insist on paying doctors as little as possible. They challenge the necessity of procedures. Doctors fight back by choosing to classify procedures in more expensive ways. It's a tug of war. There are whole teams of p
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by Dove 9y ago
I am no expert. I just know enough about what physical confrontations look like to know how to genuinely look non-threatening during one. And I know that I didn't always know this, plenty of people still don't - some have said in
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by Dove 9y ago
I think it is really smart that you are not excessively afraid of police, but train your children to be safe around them in practical and effective ways. Everyone should do that! Good for you! :)
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by Dove 9y ago
I think it is true that police carry the bulk of the burden for training and the bulk of the responsibility for making things proceed safely. But I think it is unrealistic and ineffective to give them the entire job. Sort of like, car drive
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by Dove 9y ago
Special cases make bad rules. Seat belts make you safer... but not if your car gets crushed between two semis. That doesn't mean seat belts are pointless, just that they don't work in that case. Moving deliberately and keeping you
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by Dove 9y ago
I do actually have a little bit of a martial arts background. That's actually why the officers' story seemed plausible to me - I know both how fast combat happens and how easy it is for an innocent person to look threatening becau
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by Dove 9y ago
That's very fair. Unfortunately, being a big black dude is a great way to look threatening, which does suck. As a point of encouragement, though, it is worth noting that in spite of the national news, encounters with police are really
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by Dove 9y ago
I agree. That one's rediculous.
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by Dove 9y ago
I really do think teaching people how to be non-threatening would be one of the most effective methods of avoiding tragedy. I know you make light of educating large numbers of people, but there are a lot of things we all know about society

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