M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
I truly don't care; the notion that somehow fucking someone makes you a bad person, while fucking an economy or a nation doesn't, never sat well with me.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
That sentence is correct however you read it out.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
We'll be very lucky if in 20 years, the world is still so free and functional as it is now... and I'm not trying to talk up the state of the world today.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Sure, and I'm for limitless sharing of feelings, but in the context of, "Here are my feelings on 'X'."
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I specifically am for legalization of prostitution. So... time to rethink your position; I'd be absolutely furious in this guy's position, and "The risk is incredibly low," would frankly piss me off even more. Your arg
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...It's an insignificant risk that a reasonable person renting their home under AirBnB contract should neither expect, nor tolerate. As to the rest, I've talked about the other reasonable concerns a homeowner might have in other p
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It reminds me of Hamilton Morris talking to this guy who's been taking huge doses of PCP for years. He gets absolutely lit, and then does "art", which is highly meaningful to him, but... pretty much just to him. Some people n
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's painful, but it's "the hot topic", and nobody likes to be told that in the absence of new information, an absence of noise would be nice so we can focus on the things for which there is new information. The proble
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by M_Grey 10y ago
To be fair, 'Mad Max' isn't something you project, it's an overly optimistic post-script to a total nuclear exchange. It may be that pressure from climate change and poor coping mechanisms on an international scale could
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Until recently I wouldn't have disagreed with a word of your post, but now... I think 50 years is probably optimistic. It seems more like 30 or so where Miami is concerned, and that means that the inevitability of it all should actuall
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I know that on the face of it, this seems like a strange choice for HN, but I think it's a great example of surprising results that come emerge from good science/research.
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Smoking Hot: Study Finds Heat of Hookah Is Biggest Health Culprit for Smokers(sciencebulletin.org)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|2 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm not claiming a causal relationship, I'm pointing out just how fresh and unstable the country was, by bracketing the period in question.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...Of course a revolutionary war had just been won, and civil war would later be fought, so maybe this isn't terribly comforting.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Hep C is more than able to survive outside of the body (especially in a little pocket of nutrient-rich fluids) for quite some time (as in weeks). I grant you the odds of contracting it from even sexual contact, never mind casual contact wit
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't know if it's moral or "squigged out". The former I have no patience for, the latter... I'm human too, and I like spiders, but they repulse me. Sometimes we don't make a ton of sense, but when you don&#x
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If they opened a pop-up restaurant or nightclub, I'd be pissed too; this wasn't a contract to sublet a space for commercial use after all. You can get libertarian about sex work, while ignoring the abuse of an agreement between to
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Higher rates of STD's however... I'm all for legalization, but if you run a brothel out of my place I'm going to be seriously pissed off and not just get all libertarian about it. I will after all, have rented under non-comme
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Danny Dyer built a new home and then promptly sold it because he believed that it was haunted. People are really, really irrational much of the time.
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These Startups Are Ditching the Uber Model and Hiring Full-Time Workers(backchannel.com)
1 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I find it impossible to muster even a false sense of hope at this stage, and frankly if enthusiasm solved problems they'd all be solved. Throw some realistic hope my way that doesn't include, "First human nature needs to chan
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I've never been part of an online community in which veterans didn't feel that the community had "lost its way". Sometimes they're correct, and sometimes not, but I would be shocked if ten years of success didn&#x27
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I think we have enough examples of people being paid a fortune to run a company into the ground to dispel the myth of some link between compensation and success. Unfortunately many many people still conflate the concepts, since compensati
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Oh I see, yes I agree completely. We're going to exhaust resources in last-minute desperation, waste it in war and conflict, and then in the end maybe try to geoengineer out way out, which is one hell of a gamble if it's even plau
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't think that saving Miama is really possible, it's facing too much from too many sides. I think the biggest issue is that people love living there, and they'll believe it's over after it's over. Of course,
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...I didn't say "insidious" at all.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm not really disagreeing with the point that I suspect you're making, I'm just saying that it's a lot more cynical than "hero worship".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
It's not really hero worship, although it can morph into that or just look like that. Really, it's just that so many people aligned with the "SV culture" you mention want to be them . When someone has achieved all tha
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by M_Grey 10y ago
As a fan of series, I can say that you've achieved missile-lock on my fantasy taste; I would further that recommendation to anyone else reading this who like WoT.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Modular malware... that's nasty and efficient. This is also interesting, and must make forensic attempts to determine origin of a hack even harder: >One of the persistence mechanisms used by the CIA here is 'Stolen Goods'

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