NoMoreNicksLeft

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by NoMoreNicksLeft 1mo ago
Depending on how much older he was than you at the time, he might genuinely have been taught in high school that this was wrong. Only in the early 1970s did that even start to gain traction. If he was taught by one of the hold-outs that est
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
How long the server takes to process the 42 requests ahead of you in line, or possibly how long the 318 poorly architected microservices take.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>Since the invention of the printing press any important book has been duplicated by thousands, tens of thousands or even million of units. No, every popular book has been duplicated thousands of times. This is not the same thing as i
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>It all started going downhill once they started calling corporations "legal persons" and gave them all the same right as people, but The 1860s? Or do you meant he royal charter companies from centuries prior? This goes back so
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
It is a success at humor, not only the attempt. Finland did something, but "eradicating homelessness" wasn't what they did. It has nothing to do with political will in the case of the United States, and everything to do with
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
They aren't making use of their winters, obviously.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
If it's mandatory to enter into agreements, those aren't agreements, they're mandates.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
I think instead of my comment being silly, it's just difficult for you to understand because your Overton window only allows people who agree with you but differ on how much compensation should be allowed and the particulars of how tha
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>Finnland for example has nearly eradicated homelessness. It is not literally zero but 0.08% which is pretty good. If we had Finland's winters, I think we could eradicate homelessness by January.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>if you had a certain amount of cheap housing that even drug addicts and mentally ill people could afford. That was absolutely free, $0? >Like some housing that was built to be closer to "indestructible" than "nice&quot
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
The old saw about the engineer who says that the $100,000 bill was $1 for the bolt, and $99,999 for knowing which bolt it was... that's just funny AND true! But if it's a team of nurses, doctors, and other healthcare specialists r
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
When patients are harmed by quacks, it is a true problem and those quacks should be incarcerated and never allowed near medicine again. If there are too many quacks, then this is a systemic problem that needs to be addressed completely sepa
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>"fewer avoidable emergency department visits and hospitalizations" assumes greater insurance coverage leads to greater access to primary care. This is a hoot. There is an entire cohort of people who use the emergency room as t
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>Legislate transparent pricing for all medications and procedures first. This is an impossible ask. Truly impossible. The medical care providers have spent the last 50 years or more honing the art of making costs inscrutable. Not really
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
If I voted for this, could I save $1 trillion? Or would it save other people who are not me $1 trillion?
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>but how do you solve complex logic problems If a species were (human level) intelligent, how would they have language first, if there is no need for an unintelligent species to have language (you know, other than bee booty-shaking tier
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
No. There are people who cannot exist without the internal monologue, and if unusual circumstances interrupt that internal monologue they experience anxiety, dysfunction, and a rapidly intensifying irritation that they can't even artic
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
My email is fname.m.lastname@. My last name starts with a vowel. There is another surname that is mine with a leading consonant which happens to be my middle initial. There is an older man, late 60s I think, with that name. I receive his em
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
Animal rights nuttery. It is the product of an irrational mind, everything he says and thinks is suspect. While he might be accidentally correct on other topics, now I have to vet every single point and turn of logic on my own... and if I h
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
I've actually been wanting to try to raise my own. There is a freshwater member of the sardine/anchovy family native to Australia, Thryssa lackeyii. They're more towards the sardine size than anchovy, and they might (or might
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>Some of them are complex geometrical shapes that are too complicated to parse. What happens if you see Brown Jenkins?
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>Ads let you serve the same product to everybody, regardless of income, It may be true that if they just put a little bit of fecal matter in the soup that they could give the soup away for free... but why would I want to eat shit soup? E
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
This doesn't solve any of the problems. It's not a 19th century factory running on leather-belt-harnessed steam engines. There aren't 10,000 workers. There are at most a few dozen "individual-contributor-level workers&qu
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>ike availability of water, temperatures, etc. We should see a constant emergence of new life all the time. Why would that process stop, Anything that's so agreeable to abiogenesis that life might spontaneously manifest, is actually
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
If life could arise once, why would the conditions not be amenable to it arising more than once? Sure, life tends to pollute-terraform for itself, but it's a big planet, with more than enough distance between the first occurrence and p
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
Rehab friends are real friends, but a person shouldn't ever want to experience the circumstances necessary to have rehab friends.
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
I will remember that you don't care what I think or want... so that when I hear you and yours whining after you lose another election, it will be music for me. Since no one owns any country, you will of course be encouraged to move abr
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>Citizens are the beneficiaries of a trust. The land is held in a trust. That is not the same thing as ownership. Citizenship is the most absolute (though diluted) ownership possible. I own a car, but if I commit a crime heinous enough I
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>But they don't in absolutely any sense (legal, moral, philosophical) own the country. Citizens do own their countries. In any meaningful sense of the word "own", they do own them. Legally, morally, and philosophically. &g
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by NoMoreNicksLeft 2mo ago
>so the movie theater survives on selling popcorn and stuff) Apparently some of those profits now go to the studio too? Some of the deals being made sound borderline criminal to me.

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