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by GavinMcG 5y ago
That's not an argument that the option is good or even acceptable. People who jumped from the twin towers chose their best option, too.
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Why not both? More effective exploitation of labor is a competitive advantage that lowers costs and thereby increases profits and/or allows for lower prices. Exploitation of workers and value delivered to consumers are entirely compati
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You seem to be trying to say something, but you left out whatever you're trying to say.
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No, they seem to be implying that your armchair analysis that seems to boil down to "everything is part of the same framework" is simplistic at best.
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> it does not retain heat better than aluminum alloys You're missing the forest for the trees. Cast iron pans retain heat better than aluminum pans because cast iron pans are 4mm thick and aluminum pans aren't 6mm thick. (A
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But not psychopathy .
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Psychosis and psychopathy are distinct, for what it's worth.
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In the past. The comment said "increasingly impossible," looking toward the future.
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It's tautologically true, in that you used the word "on" in both clauses, and "if on, then on" is always true. But no, in a meaningful sense it's not a true statement about the world. It's a good guess, an
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(Coburn, rather)
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> I don't think there is serious controversy that the vaccine rollout is being used as leverage for imposing digital identity schemes and for establishing a variety of other ostensibly temporary powers that will not be rolled back W
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I disagree, but substantively what's it matter?
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> Couldn't continue after that. Sure you could have. You even acknowledge that there may be good points in the article. But you chose to prioritize whatever positive feeling you got out of closing it and coming back to HN to make a
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Yeah, it's weird. Even aside from different perspectives, we still get to choose how to interpret and react. "Don't take it personally" is a good way to go through life, in general.
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The deliberate misinterpretation is just a style of humor.
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Looked like a good-natured but wry joke, not a slap.
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At least nowadays wildland firefighters spend plenty of time conducting prescribed burns, too. They're not chuckleheads - they're perfectly well-aware by now that past practices contributed to the problem.
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No? They expected to have a chance at surviving as a business. And many didn't.
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There are a lot of affairs that get passed along to family (or others) after someone death. It would be completely inappropriate for family to close someone's bank account while they still lived; we have no qualms about their doing so
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I'm willing to shell out so that I don't have to buy all the games I already paid for.
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Human relationships just can't be boiled down to a single term in that way. My relationship with the cashier at the grocery store is obviously transactional, yet we can interact in a variety of ways, and how we do so will affect how we
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It would not be hard to substantiate the existence of both apps, the pilot's expenditures, nor the fact of those meetings.
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That may be an accurate technical meaning but lay people still just meant "harmful" well before it started being applied to behavior.
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I mean, same with "harmful" right? But I've rarely heard a person described that way. Usually it's a behavior.
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Don't ignore the sentence that "it doesn't matter" applies to : > You still caused me damage and it's still not crazy for me to hold you accountable. Obviously it matters in other ways.
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"Toxic" is just a catchier-sounding synonym for "harmful." It doesn't imply intent — in fact, that's one of its strengths, and one of the major components in the shift in the way we collectively talk about thin
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As a side note: I think the author probably is still getting it wrong on a certain level. He concludes that "[t]he most important cog in the machinery of my personal happiness turned out to be a simple one: Having a wonderful partner.
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I agree. The author blamed his former partner's unhappiness—in her own words, a feeling like they weren't "going anywhere," like there was no "forward progress," like there was no longer a "sense of moment
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Both of these list "meaningful" as a synonym of "expressive": https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/expressive https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/expressive Of course, &quot
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"Flawed" does not simply mean "bad". It means "defective" or "broken" or "blemished" or the like. A poor design is merely unappealing to certain consumers. A flawed design fails to fully fu

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