J-dawg

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by J-dawg 7y ago
The part I don't understand is, how would the scissor statements be made real? E.g. The Russian scissor statement machine spits out a statement about a bakery refusing to make a cake for a gay couple. What happens next? They somehow id
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by J-dawg 7y ago
> people who are fed up with rational cost-benefit analysis and want to wreck their perceived enemies I've been thinking this for a while, and it seems to be creating some nasty feedback loops. At least some of the support for pol
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by J-dawg 7y ago
It might be silly thinking, but Unicef are actively encouraging it by making the '7 cents' claim. The cost of the vaccine alone is basically irrelevant, so why use it in marketing?
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by J-dawg 7y ago
> But if we really could save children's lives for 7¢ then why would we consider anything else on Unicef's list? I've always taken issue with this type of campaigning, and it makes me want to actively avoid any charity t
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by J-dawg 7y ago
A couple of others that baffle this British English speaker: - "I could care less" meaning "I couldn't care less" - "Entrée" meaning a main dish rather than a starter
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Tax credits deserve some scrutiny. A significant portion of tax revenue is effectively being paid as a subsidy to businesses allowing them to systematically underpay their staff.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Yep, that's why I was careful to say 'a chance'. I remember this being a key point of the 2014 referendum - the 'Yes' side seemed to be overly optimistic about the process of joining the EU. However if Scotland has
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Sadly that's my feeling too. He's already publicly said he would rather 'die in a ditch' than ask for the extension
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Any UK citizen can move there while it's still part of the UK. Do you think there would be minimum residency requirements for citizenship? It's a bizarre thought that we may be seeing English illegal migrants being deported from S
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Except that under the Benn act, the PM is legally obliged to seek an extension from the EU if a deal isn't agreed.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Related question: how would they decide who gets to be a citizen of (independent) Scotland? I expect that millions of people would try to find a link to Scotland for a chance of regaining their EU citizenship.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
What I fear is the UK government (and the press that support it) continuing its policy of doing very little and blaming everything on the EU. For example: 1. UK leaves without a deal, leaving an open EU border between Ireland and NI. 2. UK
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by J-dawg 7y ago
To be fair to the grandparent comment, some of the examples in the article could be interpreted as 'faking it 'til you make it'. What's most interesting is the nuance of what 'faking it' really means. The woman
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by J-dawg 7y ago
> I wonder how you look at vice-squad members? It was a poorly formed argument, but you've hit on the absurdity that I was trying to point out. Obviously somebody has to look at this stuff. But having low paid, poorly trained peop
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by J-dawg 7y ago
There seems to be a fundamental hypocrisy in a legal system that considers some material is so fundamentally corrupting that it must be illegal for people to possess or see it. If this were truly the case, it should also be illegal to com
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I've suspected this to be the case almost everywhere I've worked. Another reason it happens is that anyone questioning the adoption of a new tech risks looking like they don't understand it. However going the opposite way (st
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I know the term "fraud" is used throughout the article, but is this actually fraud in the legal sense? (I assume not). I certainly don't see it as anything approaching fraud in the ethical sense. Advertisers are paying for cl
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by J-dawg 7y ago
For using words that make people cringe
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by J-dawg 7y ago
My sincere apologies
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Damn, I've noticed it too. At these point I feel compelled to remember that quote from Socrates about how the kids are all rude and disrespectful these days. So maybe nothing ever changes and we're just getting old and grumpy. But
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Absolutely. It seems to have become popular to value "experiences over things" as if that's somehow virtuous and makes you better than materialistic people who just want to accumulate stuff. It's really just another bran
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by J-dawg 7y ago
This is a good point. I guess it's important to remember that dating sites do actually change people's behaviour, rather than being a representation of how everyone behaves.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
> No passenger on such a flight should be urinating That's a pretty weird statement. It's not really abnormal to want to go to the toilet every 1-2 hours.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
The offset seats also look like they create extra gaps for kids to poke their hands through and annoy people in front. Or if you're really unlucky, someone's gross feet.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
That's a great point. I hope they user test these things by actually simulating all parts of a flight.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
> one person's lemon can be another person's peach That's a nice way of looking at the world, and of course it's true sometimes. But...hasn't all the data coming out of dating sites kind of proved the opposite? E
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by J-dawg 7y ago
Thank you! This is exactly the kind of thing I am talking about.
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I'm not exactly sure why, but I absolutely love this type of post. Actually I do know why, it's because I get the warm feeling of knowing I get to be a smartass and point out Hofmeister Kinks to other people all over the place. An
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I bookmarked this article ages ago because the advice seems so sensible. This post just reminded me of it. https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-talk-to-human-beings/
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by J-dawg 7y ago
I suppose if you end up reversing an established thing, you'd better have a damn good reason why you were doing that thing in the first place. Why give any treatment that hasn't been through a randomised trial? (Unless, of course,

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