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by Dove 9y ago
I don't entirely agree. There are lots of situations you have to learn how to navigate safely in society. How to use a crosswalk. How to address a judge. How to prevent house fires. I think putting the burden of citizen safety 100% on
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by Dove 9y ago
I don't think it's reasonable or effective to entirely expect police to solve this problem. Here is the account from the article: Livingston said when the door opened, officers gave Finch commands to put his hands up and wal
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by Dove 9y ago
> And I'm mad that police are shooting people, innocent or not, based on vague gestures that sorta, maybe, if you look at it from the right angle, looks a little threatening. I can understand that, but I recommend caution when it co
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by Dove 9y ago
Depends on the place. Some are 24 hour. Some are just long business hours. See what's available near you before you get hurt.
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by Dove 9y ago
Many places don't have them, but many people who do have access to them are unaware and don't understand the advantage. OP sounded like someone who thought the only option available was going to a hospital and rolling the dice on
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by Dove 9y ago
If it's not life-threatening, don't go to the ER. Go to urgent care. They'll charge you $100-$200 for the visit, plus cost of materials. $27 X-Ray kind of cost of materials in my experience. https://www.howmuchi
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by Dove 9y ago
We have something to learn from the church here. For long decades, the Protestants and Catholics did bloody battle for dominance of Europe. It seems silly to those now who think religion is a trivial lifestyle choice, but the lesson is to
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by Dove 9y ago
The book in particular doesn't give a regimen -- it's more of a toolset approach. Here are your options, here are the goals they're useful for accomplishing, here are some tips, here are some dangers. I would definitely rea
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by Dove 9y ago
Some explanation from "The Complete Guide to Fasting" by Jason Fung -- a book I very, very, very highly recommend to anyone unconvinced that fasting is a good idea, or needing guidance on how to do it. ------------ There appears t
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by Dove 9y ago
I would be careful not to overgeneralize from your personal experience, particularly not from a badly prepared / unguided experience. A sense of clarity after three or four days is something a lot of people report -- certainly enough t
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by Dove 9y ago
Try keto adaptation followed by fasting, at least once in your life. I mean, there are people who can't for health reasons, and I don't know if there are others for whom it won't "work" . . . but if it works it&#x2
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by Dove 9y ago
I am in the same situation as Mattrix. Keto and fasting improve self control tremendously. And to answer your question . . . the difference is not subtle, so it's really obvious. For example, I was fasting last Sunday and did 6 hours
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by Dove 9y ago
Doing something is unproductive, and often counterproductive. It is the battle cry of doctors who prescribe unnecessary antibiotics because they cannot hurt and are what patients want, and wind up contributing to the development of antib
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by Dove 9y ago
The concern is not pissing people off, exactly. It's crying wolf until the relevant people stop listening. It's drowning out the voices of those who really did spend three decades studying the problem in order to come up with th
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by Dove 9y ago
Try to help figure out why it's happening. Uninformed activism is unhelpful, and can cause people to ignore informed activism.
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by Dove 9y ago
> easy over consumption I heard this for years and years, but it doesn't pass the sniff test for me. Go try to eat a stick of butter. Drink some straight cream. Chew on the fat that comes with your beef roast. Sip sausage grease. Dr
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by Dove 9y ago
You want to watch out for when trains of thought become unscientific. This part is science: "After carefully controlling for all variables, we can conclude that the choice to join a fraternity has these quantifiable downstream impacts,
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by Dove 9y ago
I think this idea is a lot more appealing if we imagine someone else being unhappy with their doctor and wanting to go elsewhere, than if we imagine ourselves in that position. I think we have all had doctors who we did not like, who we th
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by Dove 9y ago
It boggles my mind that in such a connected age, getting accurate news should be such a hard problem. Never mind influencing the world - if I personally want to know what is really going on, I have no idea where to turn. Surely, surely, the
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by Dove 9y ago
He discovered scratch.mit.edu on his own, and has been getting more sophisticated by the day. I barely have to do more than help him debug things sometimes. I am pondering when to introduce him to more classical text-based scripting, but I
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by Dove 9y ago
I wonder if we can require software to be open source for the same reason that food has to list its nutritional information and ingredients. Information asymmetry makes a deal unfair.
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by Dove 9y ago
I don't mind the idea of the state protecting children. What I mind is it happening without essential protections such as a right to jury trial, a presumption of innocence, and illegal behavior being limited to what is defined by actu
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by Dove 9y ago
Lotharbot suggested the following standard, which I think makes good sense: if a business provides a generic product, they should not be able to discriminate in who they sell it to, and in turn, we as society recognize that they are not say
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by Dove 9y ago
Free speech is not important because it is a pleasant experience to be able to speak your mind. It is important because it is the only hope we have of society making moral and intellectual progress. Every time a new idea comes along, it sta
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by Dove 9y ago
Yeah, cost plus a fixed fee or an award fee are common. But cost plus percentage is illegal, I believe. While cost plus fixed doesn't encourage the contractor to look for ways to be more efficient, it doesn't reward him for bein
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by Dove 9y ago
Cost plus percentage of cost (CPPC) contracts are so toxic that my IANAL understanding is that they are illegal for government contractors. I am darkly amused that they have been made mandatory for a public buying healthcare.
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by Dove 9y ago
I feel pretty comfortable if the seller's name is the manufacturer, and their inventory is full of stuff they manufacture, with a long history of positive feedback. I get scared off by seller names that sound like alphabet soup, small
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by Dove 9y ago
I don't see anything tricky about that problem. It requires some junior high geometry and high school trig, and yes, I suppose you need to know the radius of the earth offhand. Still. That strikes me a lot more as a math fizzbuzz th
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by Dove 9y ago
I don't think most people know about it. It's helped rein in healthcare costs in this household at least, though? ;)
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by Dove 9y ago
Your information is outdated. It was unafforadable fifteen years ago . . . in the last five to ten, it has become very, very affordable and has exploded in popularity to the point that it's available all over the country. Here's

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