Gifford

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by Gifford 12y ago
A slave master is highly motivated to invest in a slave's skills, because the master extracts the profit of that investment.
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by Gifford 12y ago
That's called a fried apple pie in the USA.
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by Gifford 12y ago
Two of the A endpoints are the same,so don't need to be encoded twice.
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by Gifford 12y ago
With good lighting control, you could set up he checkerboard illusion in the real world. That's part of he point.
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by Gifford 12y ago
The point of ACA was to make not being insured more hassle than being insured, to motivate you get insurance, not complain about the hassle of being uninsured. Maybe you philosophically oppose insurance, but it isn't ineffective at its
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by Gifford 12y ago
You may be confusing "isn't interested in disucssing it with you" with "isn't up for discussion at all". Maybe you bring less to the conversation than you think you do, in some cases.
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by Gifford 12y ago
On some topics of debate, as it goes, they say, "the Devil has enough advocates already".
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by Gifford 12y ago
But computer programmers are logical by training and profession, so we can trust that our own analyses are always correct.
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by Gifford 12y ago
Try putting as much effort into correcting your own mistakes as you do into correcting others. Being correct but in a biased way is practically equivalent to being wrong.
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by Gifford 12y ago
There aren't enough free ranges to product the eggs people want. Does everyone want tl pay $1 per egg? The answer is to be less greedy about animal produce.
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by Gifford 12y ago
Ultimately all you can do is gently guide the world toward secular humanism, as people raised under the irrational tribalism of any religion struggle to writhe out of the pit they were born in. Calling out the faults of one flavor of reli
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by Gifford 12y ago
Not really. SV employees pay 40-50+% income in tax. The founders, maybe, are at threat.
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by Gifford 12y ago
The easy way fight this is Schindlers List style: just fail to deliver quality when you work overtime. They won't fire you, because a priori they can't find anyone better.
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by Gifford 12y ago
Full time "benefits" (vs part-time hours) didn't exist in 19th Century USA wen Kellog practice changed.
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by Gifford 12y ago
After you slept, did you remember what you had previously forgotten, or was it a loss?
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by Gifford 12y ago
Why do you believe it's not an army of real people all burning themselves to the ground?
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by Gifford 12y ago
What else is in the "environment" that could be helping? It's made of people.
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by Gifford 12y ago
I though monoprice just sells out - of - tolerance factory seconds, and covers the high failure rate which a free-replacement. The MicroUSB cables I got from them were junk.
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by Gifford 12y ago
An athlete can't exercise all day and week long, their body would collapse. During the downtime, they can party or they can study.
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by Gifford 12y ago
There is 0 enforcement of this.
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by Gifford 12y ago
Yes, private parties stated, smd government partnership made it actually happen
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by Gifford 12y ago
99pi did a story recently on how the auto industry fabricated the crime of "jaywalking" to get people out of the streets and seize the streets for cars.
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by Gifford 12y ago
Is this a fabricated controversy to drive readers to medium? The author of the rebuttal is a medium employee, and the original article was utter drivel to begin with (and completely on trope: a grandparent quoting pseudoscience to explain b