HiYaBarbie

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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> The primary consideration of helping people in need is not necessarily to reduce the number of welfare recipients, but to meet their immediate needs on ethical grounds. We've been meeting their "immediate" needs for de
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
Have we got enough data on whether Aid works, though? Untold billions of dollars have been poured into the general direction of poor people in Africa, but they're still very much poor over there. Do our welfare systems lift people out
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> Not following FCC rules seems a stupid and pointless transgression Perhaps unless the FCC rules themselves are pointless? The reason why Uber and Lyft are given a hard time is that they're a serious threat to state-maintained taxi
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
Are you trying to make an argument? What is it?
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
From the article: In the United States, individuals join the military as a way to serve their country with honor and pursue new career opportunities. But that’s not the case in Eritrea, where men and women risk their lives and those of the
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> The key to identifying difficult people is first realizing that the interactions with the person leave you mostly feeling worse. But you're not a psychiatric professional so how could you possibly identify "difficult people&
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> Most people use a custom class loader, container and module system. Huh? That sounds like a lot of work reinventing the wheel. Could you give me some details on how that's arranged?
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> I'm not comfortable in general about the idea of labeling people based on their neurological makeup, unless one is in a therapeutic/psychiatric setting. The setting you're in has no bearing on whether people actually dif
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
One central reason for why psychopaths are having such a great time in the world is that we keep giving them the benefit of the doubt. In general, it's good to be "rigorous", but in this case, it's not.
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
For the record, your boss there is a psychopath, which means he's physically incapable of feeling remorse or guilt, and has no conscience. That's why he was able and willing to screw you over like that. Here's a brief ove
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> My mom has no idea what force touch is. She'd not going to get 3d touch. She'll get it if she uses it. It's not any more difficult than using the current touch gestures.
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
Twitter at least helps people from different countries follow global current events, but do we even want a competitor for Facebook?
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
So you're proudly sticking your head up your ass, or something? Do you also think Greece's problem of having way too much debt was fixed by loaning it ~80B dollars more?
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
That's certainly true, but not really relevant :)
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> What was the pitch for such a bill? I can't think of any reasoning that benefits the consumers of france. Obviously, consumers don't benefit from bills like that, but they're not meant to either.
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
> A stock market crash is always coming. And you complain about a statement containing no information? The thing is, no one knows exactly when a crash will happen. But some people know that one will happen say, within the next five yea
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
A stock market crash is coming either way. Why? Because nothing has been fixed since 2008, the official US unemployment rate is a sham, and so on.
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by HiYaBarbie 11y ago
Oh come on. As if governments all over the EU weren't monitoring their people as best they can, just like the US does. In theory, they might bicker a bit behind the scenes over who gets access to what data etc, but it's also in th