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by ForrestN 8y ago
You shouldn’t have been downvoted. This is an interesting perspective that’s relevant to the article.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Am I missing something? This seems to be an overview of Norwegian lunch culture plus a summary of the benefits of having a routine, which the author thinks can be accomplished just by having lunch? Do they not routinely eat meals at roughly
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Ruby on Rails! So glad I did.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Practical advice aside, take a step back and bask in the pleasure of the wonderful, unambiguously lucky thing that's happened to you. It's OK to feel excited and happy about all the freedom and peace of mind you now have. Loved on
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The problem with this logic is that it treats the malevolent dictatorship as a given. If you believe that there will be concentration camps, dissident crackdowns, and absolute censorship in China forever, this is a reasonable position. If y
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The main thing I think when I read this is "I wonder how much Basecamp is 'worth.'" A far superior product, presumably a comparable number of customers, although I don't know, and I would guess far more profitable p
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by ForrestN 8y ago
The rules for the state-by-state vote for the electoral college are not part of the constitution, for example. Nor is crooked gerrymandering. Fixing those would be a great start. Automatic voter registration, making Election Day a national
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by ForrestN 8y ago
This kind of position ignores the striking differences between the last Democratic president and the current one. There are limits to what a president with an antagonistic congress can do, and within those limits I think Obama did quite a l
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Exactly!
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Despite overwhelming bad-faith manipulation of the legislative process by Republicans, Obama managed to move the climate status quo in the U.S. and the world tremendously in dozens of governmental and diplomatic spheres. The Trump Administr
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by ForrestN 8y ago
1) I think that when one of two parties is condemning the world to grave harm on the basis of corruption, graft and ignorance, it's worth explicitly calling that out as a bad thing irrespective of how that party responds. 2) The Republ
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I will explain my upvote: the single greatest enemy of solving Climate change, literally anywhere in the world, is the Republican Party. If you imagine a world in which the Republican Party does not have the ability to affect U.S. policy, y
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Exactly! http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
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by ForrestN 8y ago
http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
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by ForrestN 8y ago
This is incorrect. Derivation doesn’t prove usage. http://persephonemagazine.com/2013/01/can-we-please-stop-usi...
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Just a polite reminder that using "butthurt" to mean "resentful"or "angry" paints a picture that is often homophobic and nearly always making light of rape. In my opinion, we should try not to normalize its use
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Talk to ten potential customers who you know would like to use the product. Ask them about various ways of paying for it, how much they'd be wiling to pay, and then turn them into your first customers.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
There is absolutely no evidence of this, either that Clinton was "ready to send a drone" or that Wikileaks actually believed she was. Taking at face value the statements of the organization regarding this would be extremely naive.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
For their sake, I hope Google are wise enough not to hasten the coming backlash to advertising with such an aggressively annoying disposition toward their customers.
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by ForrestN 8y ago
I'm generally against the "opinion/news" distinction anyway, but the same disclosures should apply in the opinion section. For example, if a newspaper published an opinion piece arguing against a new health care law, sho
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Who said anything about a conspiracy? It's a basic premise of journalism—if your outlet is embroiled in a war with a certain subject, you need to disclose that so your readers can properly contextualize your recycled lightweight column
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by ForrestN 8y ago
It's embarrassing that this doesn't include a massive, bold-faced disclaimer above the headline. Bloomberg is in the midst of a credibility-destroying fight with Apple over a sensational story that no other journalists can corrobo
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Rather than take a product that wants to be a chat room and adapting it in a million ways to make it not a chat room, there could be wisdom in using a product that attempts to address these issues from the ground up? We use Basecamp instead
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by ForrestN 8y ago
We should make these dishonest tax evasion schemes illegal or find other ways to break them. I'd be happy to support gas-guzzling car taxes, or even increasingly intense efficiency regulations for cars. But a straight tax on gasoline p
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Do you have evidence that increasing taxes on people earning more than, say, $1M per year "discourages working?" I also support taxing land value, but I don't think it's a replacement for graduated income tax. I mentione
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by ForrestN 8y ago
An interesting phenomenon is happening vis a vis the art market. Very rich tech buyers are catapulting the value of artists (and, I guess, AI collectives) that aren't really participating much in the "contemporary art" discou
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Graduated income tax. Simplify the tax code, make the curve steeper, get rid of sales and usage taxes unless there is truly no benefit (like tobacco). (In my opinion)
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This. I'm for increasing taxes to Denmark levels but these schemes make income inequality worse, not better. And the fact that this will most hurt commuters, who are already struggling given crazy housing prices, is especially sad.
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I saw a very popular seasonal KitKat stand within Seibu department store when I was visiting Japan, and I didn't notice any other tourist-looking people around. Is it possible that it's just not popular in the convenience store ma
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by ForrestN 8y ago
Kliff's approach to covering healthcare is nothing short of miraculous. She's killing it on all fronts—dominating the beat as far as traditional reporting techniques, innovating new ways (like this) to unearth information, and on

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