GavinMcG

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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Ok, but what about literally every other scale ? Because those are the ones that matter re: morality and how we show up in the world. Saying "both sides can't answer this one question " as though that implies that both side
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I'm curious if Melzer addresses Discourses on Livy or only The Prince . In an introductory political science course at my college's Straussian department, The Prince was read early as an example of esotericism, and that readi
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
...not if you're trying to get people to think of 1984.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
But they have the right to do so. Blaming people for being uncautious makes no sense when there's no reason they should have to be.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
"Remained exceedingly vague" isn't exactly fair. How much do you expect from a comment on a discussion board? If you want more specifics, ask for them! You're in attack mode here right out the gate. He has admitted to &q
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It's a book, by Malcolm Gladwell. The comment said the audiobook is like a good podcast.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Fortunately it wasn't regular, but my record was 84 hours straight. (And for $11/hr!)
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
When I was working 48 to 72 hours a week as an EMT, I didn't find many of my coworkers to be "mediocre lazy donkeys." Far from it. They were kind and hardworking people. They were also frequently subjected to incompetent or i
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
It's not adverse possession, but does your jurisdiction not recognize implied easements? Easements don't change ownership of the underlying land, they just establish a right to use/control the land in a particular way. Road a
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The comment said that your boss can likely do your job, not that everyone more senior than you can.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
...and also due to a legal requirement : > The language rule is enshrined in law in B.C.'s Business Corporation Act, which states: "A company or extraprovincial company must display its name ... in legible English or French ch
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I think this misunderstands what a "cold" is. Merely being a respiratory infection doesn't make something a cold. We call something a cold when it's 1) a mild upper respiratory infection that 2) is viral, but 3) is not s
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
In the book titled "The 48 Laws of Power."
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Is there an analogous practice in your region? (Is it also subject to mouse plagues, or is there another way enough rodents are gathered?)
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
More data is obviously convincing. Why would you off-handedly suggest that I'm fundamentally irrational?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
No. The evidence against the rate being 1 in 2.3 million is that the total number of cases divided by the total number of people vaccinated is a higher rate. You can't take a subset of the population, find that that subset is out of st
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
n=3 here. It's misplaced to be talking about orders of magnitude when a single case would drastically move the needle. If there were only one case in Norway (i.e. 1 in 130,000) it would still be orders of magnitude difference. But
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> Norway has also had at least three serious cases with 130.000 people vaccinated, so the incidence is certainly higher than 1 per 2.3 million. That's not how numbers work. You can't look at California, for example, and conclud
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
You can look at the retraction itself [0] and it says nothing close to "it wasn't based in reality." What it says is that Trump's actual words were that the state official would "find things that are gonna be unbeli
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Here are a lot more representative articles that aren't from a Huffpost opinion piece by a "novelist and photographer" Clinton says Comey's letter, Russian hackers cost her the election [0] Russian hackers, Donald Trump,
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
The (Republican) Senate committee found that there were in fact extensive ties between Russian intelligence and the Trump campaign, and that Russia actively attacked state election infrastructure. And the (Republican) special counsel found
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Who said anything about not allowing curation? > make them responsible for promoting or curating the content, if they choose to do so
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I mean obviously there are ads, but if my friends post something, it's at the top of my feed, and I can scroll through only content that my friends post (and ads).
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Fine. Websites aren't responsible for the content. But make them responsible for promoting or curating the content, if they choose to do so. Instagram just shows me all the stuff my friends post. That's it, as far as I can tell. I
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
Because literally the only step that's been taken in that direction is that Ethereum exists?
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> which guys test all the time Guys "testing" your boundaries all the time may be common, but it's not the same as respecting your boundaries. What it teaches is a defensiveness and independence that shouldn't be ne
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
They do matter because they decrease signal:noise, lower the quality of conversation, and reinforce a troubling assumption that expertise brings nothing to the table.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
No; as far as I can tell, they're just trolling.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
I didn't say anything about mask-wearing itself - just offering an example of naive but faulty reasoning. You're looking for a fight that I'm not interested in having.
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by GavinMcG 6y ago
> The real reason must be... > When something makes little sense it's probably based in religion. > Maybe nobody thought of it so far. Plus a good handful of comments that don't acknowledge the countervailing evidence in

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