Erik816

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by Erik816 9y ago
The lottery works because people are driven by hope and are bad at (or don't care about) math. No one goes around verifying that the people who won the lottery actually get their money. Why would fraud be inevitable if you were allowed
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And who will be deciding what is "toxic"? Corporate pressure to make companies who already lean towards a political monoculture even more inclined to silence dissenting views is really not encouraging if you believe that discoveri
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That's demonstrably false. You could make an argument that on average it has become harder to change your social class, but plenty of people start life poor or middle class and end life rich.
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You have a very skewed perception of "poor." Following this will net you a very substantial retirement account, especially if you are married and your spouse does the same.
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Careful with your reading here. As written it is perfectly clear.
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Probably less completely ridiculous stories, but it does tend towards groupthink. Popularity is not a great gauge for truth.
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What is often lost since Peterson became "famous" after the whole gender pronoun controversy is the quality and depth of his thinking and lecturing that was already available on YouTube. This article starts with that, and explains
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You are calling someone's sincerity into question because other people have an incorrect perception of what they are saying?
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Considering that's a very accurate description of Seattle, I'd say your doubts are well founded.
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Amazon can't create social infrastructure. They can create buildings and jobs, but the social infrastructure of a city are things like government policies and quality, existing tech worker base, etc. They have little to no ability to m
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Doesn't breaking a window to get in negate the "sealed windows" advantage of the location?
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Definitely looks promising. I'm curious if there are any user-friendly ways to use this or similar WaveNet text to speech? Last time I looked into it, it still required a fair amount of processing power and a library of speech files to
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I had a lot of good feedback on some Ruby problems I worked on a few years ago. I'm guessing it's highly dependent on having a community for each specific language.
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Contentious public debates with people I barely know is exactly why I use Facebook less than I used to.
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It's not insane for Amazon and Google to sell what people are willing to pay for. I just find it insane that so many people are willing to pay for the privilege of being even more tied into a retailer and probably giving up a fair bit
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It seems insane to me that Amazon wants me to pay them money to put something in my home that will make it far easier to order things from Amazon. That's not even considering all the valuable data they are mining from all the Echo unit
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Why are you basing your opinion of places you have never been on the nightly news? They have zero interest in giving you a balanced sense of a location. If your main goal is just to be surrounded by fellow liberals, then I guess just stay p
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There is a huge convenience to getting your packages at your door rather than having them shipped to a separate location. For a household with kids, we are getting several deliveries a week. Things like diapers, wipes, food, etc. I'm a
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It's not always clear the selfishness is strictly financial. If your land gets zoned for higher density development (or similar regulations/barriers are removed), and there is strong demand, then the value of your property can go
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The EU also has vastly different anti trust laws. There's no point pursuing some of the cases prosecuted in the EU in the US, because you would lose.
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Adjunct professors make less money than just about anyone, college educated or not. Many skilled trades can easily make $25/hour. The median wage for an electrian, for example, is $25/hour based on a quick search. That will depend
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I'm sure entire books have been written on this, but yes, it happens all the time. There's all kinds of unwritten rules about how you should do it, when, and to whom.
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For the local colonized populace, not for Jesus.
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Isn't that still taking roads 3D?
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A valid concern. But estate planning lawyers like to remind people that it's quite possible you will get more love and attention from your relatives in your old age while they are still expecting an inheritance than when they know you
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Why trust one random person (who may not have even seen the movie you are interested in, share your preferences, or be particular insightful) when you can have the aggregate wisdom of everyone who has seen the movie and cared enough to rate
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Wait, so cryptocurrency advocates want morality without the law to back it up? Good luck with that.
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Well, it does matter, because under the U.S. antitrust law it is not illegal to have a monopoly. It is illegal to abuse your monopoly position. See United States v. Aluminum Corp. of America, 148 F.2d 416, 430 (1945) Learned Hand J, the &qu
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I'm not sure this is a textbook example of open source leading to a well administrated organization. I realize these decisions are complex, but the people who work on Thunderbird have been talking about the inevitability of this move f
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Nope, not just you. They do some really good journalism at times, but even their best articles have a sensationalist bent that gets old after a while.

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