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Facebook's underclass(theguardian.com)
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A modern equivalent, that I found uplifting to read about: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jan/29/blind-backpac...
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I thought the photo of the two basins at 90 degrees to each other was a nice example that it sometimes makes sense to violate the DRY principle. Someone must have looked at installing a gimballed basin, realised how complicated the custom-m
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"The world belongs to the easily amused" sounds like a great philosophy to live by. I'm going to remember that!
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It actually sounds awful. Imagine having to miss something you were really looking forward to, then spend the following week on enforced leave. It would get old fast.
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> when washing machines lasted ~5x as long Planned obsolescence is so damned depressing. Imagine how much CO2 and energy could be saved if washing machines simply lasted as long as they did 25 years ago (concrete counterweight or not!)
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Thanks for asking this. Here's another one that was posted and then disappeared without a trace: https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6t1cpx/if_w...
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Update from the developer: https://twitter.com/chrispederick/status/892780120032681984
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I'd love to be able to simply buy clothes with sizing that is 100% consistent and doesn't vary from year to year. Several times I've ordered what I thought was an identical product to something I already own, only to find the
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by J-dawg 9y ago
That's an interesting counter-argument, thanks. But I still don't think I agree with you. The problem here is that it's left up to police to decide what is a "dangerous ideology". It's not something that you ca
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I happened to catch a Radio 4 documentary [0] on Sunday about the government's "Prevent" strategy, which aims to find evidence of extremism in places such as schools and "nip terrorism in the bud". It featured sever
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I've been having some therapy recently, and one of the things the therapist has pointed out is that the more anxious I am, the more I make negative generalisations. I believe this is quite a common pattern in anxiety & depression.
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Thanks for sharing your story, it was nice to read. It's good to have a counter-example to prove that people can and do meet their spouses online. I tried online dating about 7 years ago and found it ok, had a few interesting dates but
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by J-dawg 9y ago
> Plus, it varies by the context I guess this is the core of my question. How much is something allowed to vary by context before it's basically rendered meaningless as an idea?
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> Forget about introversion vs extraversion. Its waste of time. What makes you say that? I ask because I've also become slightly sceptical of the idea. Is there real, empirical evidence for people being one or the other? I remembe
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I guess trying to reverse cultural change will always be seen as more xenophobic than keeping outside influences away in the first place. This is illogical, I suppose, since really they amount to the same thing.
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I strongly agree with this. Internet dating generally has become a toxic experience for men. It definitely increased my feelings of loneliness. Anyone who is already lonely or lacking self-esteem should stay well away.
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This is a very interesting question, and one that's being asked all over the world at the moment. To use the example of Brexit - I sometimes feel like the 'Remain' side, in accusing 'Leave' of xenophobia & racis
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This is a great point, and I wish stuff like this was talked about more often. I think I often naively assume that advertising only exists to encourage us to buy one product in preference to another. Of course, as you say, it's much mo
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But then how would the Food Standards Agency get access to my browsing history? https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/5ei5dz/list_...
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That is indeed incredibly disturbing, and appears to answer my question that the police would use someone completely unrelated to the person they're trying to arrest. There seems to have been no link between the crime Hoffman was accus
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by J-dawg 9y ago
Gideon is the one being entrapped (or not, I don't know the law around this). I'm specifically talking about the treatment of Frank, who appears to have been coerced into helping to catch Gideon.
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Good point. I was aware of the Mark Kennedy thing. It's utterly shameful. I certainly didn't mean to imply some kind of moral superiority over the US system. Our police have done some appalling, corrupt things. Conducting surveill
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That sounds awful. It does make you wonder what could have happened if you hadn't been there to provide a clear alibi.
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> Also, whoever you want to target may already know the informant and have some implicit level of trust in them. Yeah, I get the idea of using an informant who is linked to the person you're trying to catch. It makes sense as a wa
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OK, I feel very naive now! I am quite shocked by this. Is this a thing throughout the USA? I'm pretty sure I've never heard of anything remotely like this in the UK (maybe being naive again, please correct me if I'm wrong.) T
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> This man, let’s call him Frank, was in trouble for some financial infraction. Frank cut a deal with the authorities. They’d go easy on him if he’d wear a wire and lure Gideon into plotting to burn down his building. Is it common prac
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I'm glad I scrolled far enough down my 'threads' page to see that you'd replied! Thank you for the recommendation. I will check out the book and may also take you up on your kind offer to speak directly. Should I use the
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This seems like rather bleak advice but it is a very good point. It can create so much tension if you're not 100% on the same page financially. Also, if you plan to have kids and are likely to be both the higher earner and not the prim
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the analogy to taking away an epileptic's driving licence. People who regularly suffer epileptic seizures are not allowed to drive, for example, but we don’t think of this ban as “punishing” the

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