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by LargeWu 7y ago
I think you've touched on an important point here: Not only do we demand perfect looking produce, we demand it out of season, and we demand it to be shipped in from all over the world on a daily basis. The reason we use pesticides is b
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by LargeWu 7y ago
This is a good argument for nationalizing drug production and research.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
They have shady business practices, for one. Also because it feeds clueless recruiters just spamming any developer they can find.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I think the trick to reducing food prep labor is larger batches. Maybe that means you eat the same thing 4 or more times in a week. Or maybe that means you freeze some of it for later. But it doesn't really take any more work to make a
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I agree that there's nothing inherent that makes it produce messy code, but it also doesn't really promote good code either. There's half a dozen different syntaxes for importing/exporting functions, creating functions,
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Yes, that's exactly my point. And the content on 8chan should also not be protected, as it's inciting violence.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
"But the point is: who´s to judge which ones are right and which one are wrong? " Judges. That's literally what judges do.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The courts decide this. That's their job. And they don't just get to make up rulings, they have a huge body of precedent to which they are bound.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I see you have invoked the Slippery Slope fallacy, which is primarily a way to sidestep talking about the actual issue at hand by comparing it to hypothetical events. What's not hypothetical is that scores of people are dying in the me
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by LargeWu 7y ago
To TallGuyShort, since I can't reply to you: Bartenders can be held criminally responsible if they continue to serve somebody who is obviously intoxicated, and who then goes out and kills somebody in a drunk driving crash. If bars con
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by LargeWu 7y ago
That's a completely irrelevant comparison. People who die from alcohol-related deaths have a choice whether or not to consume alcohol. The 29 people who died this past weekend in El Paso and Dayton were not given a choice whether they
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by LargeWu 7y ago
"individual is the base of all laws" Yes. The Individual. Well, what about the rights of the 29 individuals that were randomly murdered, plus the scores of others wounded this past weekend? What about their justice? I'm sure
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Society places limits on all kinds of things. Even speech - inciting violence is not protected under the first amendment.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
See, you didn't answer my question. You essentially only said that nobody should even be able to ask that question.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Can any free speech absolutists explain to me the legitimate public interest that is served by allowing terrorist breeding grounds like 8chan to continue to operate?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Agreed. The sort of radicalization that's going on at 8chan and the like serve no legitimate public interest. Think I'm wrong? Then explain to me why this sort of online domestic terrorism academy is good for the public. Explain h
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by LargeWu 7y ago
8chan has been a known commodity for a long time. If it was such a valuable source of intelligence, why aren't these attacks being stopped?
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by LargeWu 7y ago
It's not just the manifesto. Places like 8chan are positive feedback generators for this kind of extremism. Every time one of these events happen it fuels the sort of unofficial contest to see who can be the next one, to be the next he
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The reason markets don't really work well for healthcare is that 2 things efficient markets require are competition and symmetrical information. Drug companies have exclusive patents. Doctors require extensive licensing that limits the
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by LargeWu 7y ago
My circle of friends has a similar word, but it's an all-purpose verb. The word is "blomp". "Blomp some sour cream on that for me" "I'm gonna blomp over to the store" "...and then my kid blomped
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by LargeWu 7y ago
The idea that climate change is primarily a political topic is why we're in this mess in the first place.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Part of the problem with coral is that the oceans are becoming more acidic, and as a result, it literally dissolves coral skeletons.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
There have been plenty of instances of private, for-profit schools that operate in a predatory manner. States have a legitimate interest in regulating potentially predatory behavior. So-called code bootcamps are not special in this regard.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
Part of the problem is that it's become a completely different and independent body of knowledge. And you often have to learn a how a specific hosting stack (AWS, or whatever) works on top of that. Some people find it really interesti
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I grew up out there. Lots of those 100k+ jobs are oil jobs. It's hard work, even if you aren't working directly on the drilling rigs. It's incredibly easy to move there. My hometown of ~1,400 has something like a couple dozen
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by LargeWu 7y ago
When I was in the Palm Springs area about 10 years ago they were watering their sand to keep the amount of dust down.
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by LargeWu 7y ago
I think it takes something on the order of 2+ million gallons of water to frack a single well, once. Some wells need multiple fracks. I will say, though, that in North Dakota, they get a significant amount of their fracking water from Lake
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by LargeWu 7y ago
"Sell to someone who needs a place to live" This would have required me to take a huge loss on the property, which I would have had to pay out of pocket, to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, which I did not have. I would h
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by LargeWu 7y ago
We had to rent our former home for 4 years after we moved, but couldn't sell because the market value was too low after the real estate crash. It's really hard to find tenants that aren't total deadbeats. Raise your rent and
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by LargeWu 7y ago
This is essentially how horse racing works as well in the US. The majority of races are "claiming" races, which means that horses are entered into a race at a given price. $5000, $10000, $50000, whatever. Before the race is run, a

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