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by HEmanZ 3y ago
I just want to point out, this may not be the physician’s fault. A friend of mine, who is a primary care physician, just quit her job after the clinic changed its policy so that she had to fill her schedule with 10 minute appointments (6 pe
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
It's interesting, the actual implementation sounds like what I had a couple decades ago in middle and high school. And it sounds exactly like what I had in college. The only thing new is the word "equitable". e.g straight fro
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by HEmanZ 3y ago
17 year old you should be able to default on student loans and get a clean slate, like any other kind of debt. If student loans worked exactly like regular loans (e.g you could declare bankruptcy, they weren't subsidized, etc.) then no
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I think the issue is that for much software it’s not a clear distinction. For a few years of my career, I spent about half of my dev time improving a gigantic distributed system. Much of this work was inventing a new algorithm somewhere in
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Normally I would say, “don’t be so sure”, but a book I just finished this weekend changed my mind: “The Guns of August”. I agree with you and do think the western world would be really hard to bring into a world war nowadays. The amount the
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Is your comment serious or satire? Hard to tell these days
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Ya this is why I used “Christian God” instead of generic “god”, because you’re totally right.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I love the stories here, but this article seems so “duh, of course” to me that I wonder, is there really a target audience who doesn’t think “splendid useless” (I would use the term “beautiful”) things are a huge part of the life well lived
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Yes they do, and even morality can be independent of free will. It just becomes impossible to assert that a Christian God judges some super-natural “You” without Free Will. That’s about all your lose.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Has a popular podcaster or news stating been saying this recently? I never heard this excuse until a few days ago and then all of a sudden it’s all over the Internet forums. A lot of people in the west have not believed in capitol “F” Free
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
It’s only a Reddit-ism that rich people don’t do time. Especially rich people who’s crime is massive fraud, the system works just fine putting them behind bars.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Just to be clear to other readers here, you are decrying Dawkins, not John Mackie (who died in 1981). Mackie was an exemplary, thoughtful philosopher who treated the topic of theism very seriously and empathetically.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Dawkins gives off “edgy teenager” vibes and doesn’t really go deep into helping understand the real arguments under beliefs in some kinds of God. If you’d like something much more thorough and professional, Mackie’s “The Miracle of Theism”
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Kind of a side point but “free will” means so many different things to so many different people, that conversations about it are pretty useless unless you have a lot of shared understanding about how it’s defined. The author seems to assume
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Have you ever thought, maybe, they are exaggerating? To a high achiever who feels like they should be working 80 hrs/wk, a 40 hr work week feels tiny
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I’ve worked at 40% of FAANG plus other similar tech companies and have never seen this.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Shit happens in every city in the world. I was assaulted by a raving lunatic with a metal pipe while I was shopping… at a Christmas market in Oslo, Norway, probably one of the safest cities in the world. Had I not been aware or mobile enoug
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
The one sentence gist is that they were built to be more walkable (not everyone had a car) and people used land more diversely (most of our crazy zoning wasn’t invented yet). How it looks in practice is a fun rabbit hole to go down.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
A pre-war suburb is an entirely different thing than a burb built in the 80s. Generally, urbanists love the prewar burb in America, their criticisms are of the postwar burbs.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
In America, people believe there are only two ways to live: Manhattan high-rise or suburban McMansion. My pet social theory is that an unbelievable amount of our societal woes stem from this false dichotomy in the American mind, and the cit
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
This screed has almost no use of or understanding of actual Roman Empire history and reads like your Fox News loving (as-opposed-to Washington Post loving) uncle’s Facebook rant.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
My unscientific pet theory is that poorly built/zoned neighborhoods and cities, designed as if every human needs to drive a giant car at all times, are to blame more
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
The game probably matters a lot. “This definitely improves my mood” - said no League player ever
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Probably a selection bias, most (all?) ancient works we have were copied by hand (expensive!) and widely circulated enough for us to still have them. So we still have Marcus Aurelius but not Caesars poetry.
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I really think you strawman to the extreme with this. I’ve never met one of these people, but on the internet they get made up because they need to exist in order for posters to feel so justified and unarguably right in their political opin
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Like others are saying, there’s a huge risk of getting bit. I have a family member who was bit on the foot while cleaning his basement. He still walks with a limp 20 years later from the damage it did, and is lucky he didn’t lose his leg. O
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I don’t think anyone idealizes those kind of physical labor jobs. Usually “the trades” is much more skilled manual labor: plumbing, hvac, welding, specialized mechanic work and repair, woodworking/carpentry, etc. No one says people sho
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
Why work on ad optimization when you can work on insurance billing optimization?
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
I think the balance should be something like: - most libraries going the “modern” route the author doesn’t like, because that’s what most people really need from a library - some libraries keeping the “old school” approach for aesthetic and
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by HEmanZ 4y ago
The old Italian classic movie “Bicycle Thieves” is almost 100 years old now. In many places (I’m most familiar with Seattle) the rate of bicycle theft is so high it has to be organized crime. I once saw (assumed “homeless”) people on Capito

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