LaGrange

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by LaGrange 13y ago
This is a great article, with one exception: There have been a handful involving regional affiliates, but the majors have been virtually accident-free Now, I realize that even including those the stats are still fairly good, but it makes
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Reversal of German subsidies and subsidies on Chinese side (that's what you mean by price dumping, right?) causing the German side to implode => failure of subsidies. Right. Also, I would replace "the sole purpose of grabbing g
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Why bother owning a car at all? I dunno. In well developed cities people used bikes and public transport instead since decades now. Driverless cars sounds so silly, if I ever used a car, it wouldn't be in the city, be to go out somew
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Decentralization is horrible from environmental standpoint. It also makes cities much less pleasant, it hurts the ability to create useful schools, it horribly limits the pool in which those kids you mentioned can find friends. It makes it
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by LaGrange 13y ago
She tried. It was actually no problem, but didn't help. Apparently the lack of impact (i.e. "I'm gonna die and can't do anything about it") is exactly the point. In some ways it's hilariously similar to my soci
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by LaGrange 13y ago
My friend with flight anxiety actually got it from researching airplane safety. While they did learn about probabilities n'all, they also learned about way too many details, after which every single sound seems like the oscillating ele
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by LaGrange 13y ago
If the subject of the story were a guy would the thought of sexism even cross your mind No, because it wouldn't make any sense. Now, in this specific case the criticism turns out to be unfounded, but being suspicious of word choice i
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Again, blame the web designers who don't even do enough diligence how others do the same. And demands of proper, obvious labeling is one of the better tools to stop companies from putting useless crap everywhere.
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Actually, it's possible to implement in it an unobtrusive way that makes users feel more comfortable. The huge popups usually comes from the same websites that do popover ads (that commonly end up invisible and blocking scrolling with
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by LaGrange 13y ago
A bit tangential to the point, but still: get out, wherever you live. If you have the ability (which may be non-trivial), moving country is of a huge benefit. Even if you love the place you live in, you just don't have a comparison if
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by LaGrange 13y ago
That's... horribly pathological. I'd even claim that's bordering on being unethical. Also, it's like the facebookey "like" button, in trying to paint everything in rainbow colors. There is an issue with media p
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by LaGrange 13y ago
"Will there be a user method to override/exclude this optimization on processes where this has an undesirable effect?" The answer to this is in the article: yes.
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As a society, are we rallying behind an app that helps people engage in extramarital affairs as this post suggests? Without getting into morality, don't we agree that affairs impact not just the two participants but the families surroundin
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The thing that matters is the power imbalance, which would be nearly always present. This is highly undesirable, as it invalidates consent to a large degree (i.e. while the initial consent might be unquestionable, it gets really murky when
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by LaGrange 13y ago
16 years old is also no longer considered minor as far as sex is concerned in many, many countries. A bit on the creepy side for someone on the other side of 20 to date, yes, but not illegal.
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If the "organized, ongoing campaign to get this man out of politics" is done using media, avoids slander, and the guy gets a reasonable amount of chances to speak back, then I would say the situation is perfectly democratic.
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"progressively less broken solutions" Now that's a controversial statement if I've ever seen one.
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Outside of computing: health and diet. Sure, you get some feedback, but you also can screw up things in some ridiculously slow-acting way. Pharma companies (are supposed to) monitor drug use for decades after introduction for the same rea
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by LaGrange 13y ago
Even in silly Poland (not to speak of Netherlands) abuse of ambulance service is treated very seriously. If the hospital makes the case that you made a call either as a prank or frivolously, you're in a world of trouble.
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There are 7 billion people on Earth right now. You are going to find some that don't know what the hell "breathing" means if you just try hard enough. Using this to pick apart at the word "everyone" is just as pedantic as picking at the spe
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by LaGrange 13y ago
For me, and a few other people, 'personalized ads' is something that sounds very, very bad in itself, even if separated from the privacy issues. There really is a point on the scale of ad effectiveness where it stops being useful informatio
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by LaGrange 13y ago
For me one of the main benefits of an adjustable desk is exactly that I can move around, and if I think, I don't have to stand up to shift elsewhere, for example. Pure standing desks are murder.
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Actually I'm from EU country(-ie, actually), and it works... inconsistently. There's fraud, and there's shifting the blame on drivers while trying pressuring them to take the risks anyway (works especially 'well' in countries where many tru
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Eh, I wouldn't relate it to squat strength, and it has diminishing returns. But biochemistry of the brain during exercise is fun stuff, and explains a lot of elation people have.
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From personal experience, you start moving a bit differently, and not shy away from certain positions and ways of doing things. It's certainly nice, but it didn't change the way I interact with people or make different people attracted to m
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And also fight this article as if it were advertising a paid strongman programme, not an openly available paper describing a routine that only needs a chair (maybe it's sponsored by IKEA?) and the purpose of which is to get some slobs heart
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by LaGrange 13y ago
It's highly ironic then, that you respond to a not-asking-for-money article on "how to get some basics off the ground" with advice to buy yet another "this time it's totally right, honest" book buy a guy who considers a quarterback more use
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"Mostly truck drivers that are dead tired." This. People don't even realize how important it is that people operating heavy machinery are well rested, and sometimes even put down appropriate regulations as just "worker's issues". Then you g
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Actually, while not really addictive, virtually all anti-depressant/anti-anxiety drugs turned out to be habit forming, to pharma corps dismay and nobodies surprise.
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What causes suicide is that at the point where depression lifts a bit , you suddenly are able to take action, but not necessarily any happier. In fact, did you not that part about "hate" in the OP? That's when people kill themselves. It

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