Retra

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1411.
by Retra 9y ago
> I fear that the fractionism that George Washington cautioned us against in his farewell address is driving most of what we consume from the mass media. If you have a significant part of people's attention, then people will give yo
1412.
by Retra 9y ago
What you mean is that the status quo doesn't need protests in support of it. When the status quo is unpopular, protests are certainly important, especially in support of popular positions.
1413.
by Retra 9y ago
"Adult" doesn't mean anything when you use it that way. Many people reach adulthood without having the experiences necessary to conform to your expectations. What of them?
1414.
by Retra 9y ago
People aren't tried in a court of common sense, they are tried in a court of law. If the law doesn't protect the use of common sense, then the law should change. "Some lawyer in a YouTube video" is still far more qualifi
1415.
by Retra 9y ago
As a counter-point... why should we take your word on this over the word of the lawyer(s) in the talk. "Under no circumstances" pretty clearly includes the ones you've given.
1416.
by Retra 9y ago
The person shipping it doesn't need to know who the sending or receiving parties are, just where the pickup and drop-off are.
1417.
by Retra 9y ago
It's not hard to imagine spending that kind of money. Lots of people spend comparable amounts on alcohol, sporting events, concerts, tools, car mods, computers, collectables, board games, clothes, jewelry, gambling, whatever. > expl
1418.
by Retra 9y ago
You can't really expect to maintain equal bargaining power when you're in the business of signing away your rights. I mean, what you've said makes sense if you only have one relationship with one other entity. If there are mo
1419.
by Retra 9y ago
>vogue words. Ha. Best example of this I can recall: 'said' meaning 'aforementioned'. "I ate said taco." Never heard it before. Then suddenly... everyone seemed to be using it.
1420.
by Retra 9y ago
I'm not sure why you think that's a prohibition on political content in examples. Lots of technical books have diatribes concerning many things irrelevant to the subject matter. I read a programming book that dared to have jokes i
1421.
by Retra 9y ago
"I think" also marks a reflection on the state of mind without any implied uncertainty. That is, it implies that the thought originates from your own mind, rather than from some deferred authority. As in "I think we should do
1422.
by Retra 9y ago
You don't know what your students are paying you for. Maybe it's just a piece of paper. Maybe it's specialized knowledge. Or to fulfill a cultural obligation. Maybe it's to babysit them while the find a spouse. Or Maybe
1423.
by Retra 9y ago
What is this? "Write about what you want, but only if I also want it!" He wants to write a technical book with political examples, and did. How do you justify the requirement that books must into clean archetypical categories agai
1424.
by Retra 9y ago
Yes, something did change, or else why are you changing the rules? Your understanding of them changes. Your opinion changes. Something had to change. And even if you don't know when it changed, you can still explain that it has .
1425.
by Retra 9y ago
People who don't have a clue are better served by being exploited, rather than informed?
1426.
by Retra 9y ago
That doesn't seem much of an obstacle. Something did change, and you can certainly explain that.
1427.
by Retra 9y ago
> That's the same outcome of terrorist attacks and massive ad campaigns. You mean those things that have changed the world in massive ways?
1428.
by Retra 9y ago
Yeah, it's a lot of "100K seems good until the debt piles up", and I'm wondering where the debt came from and why they're letting it pile up. And why people making half that wouldn't have the same debt with eve
1429.
by Retra 9y ago
Catan has made me very wary of "open trade" games, because they always seem to devolve to "that one player surely knows how to manipulate his friends into handing him the win real good..." It'd be easier to enjoy if
1430.
by Retra 9y ago
Only if you're committed to the practice of declaring for yourself arbitrary rights.
1431.
by Retra 9y ago
The outcome of all that is that even insignificant people like you know that it happened and upset people. The alternative of protests that never happened certainly don't have your (or anybody else's) attention in nearly the same
1432.
by Retra 9y ago
No it's not. Some parts of a phone book search resemble a binary search, but choosing your pivot and processing the last few pages do not. I've never seen someone not do a linear scan at some point. But all that's irrelevant
1433.
by Retra 9y ago
> I don't want to hire engineers who can only mimic. How is a binary search not mimicry? Probably only 1 in a million people could figure out how to do it if they didn't already know how it is done elsewhere. The only reason mo
1434.
by Retra 9y ago
People don't pay a premium for the label, they pay a premium for the middlemen who host the label, because that is a presumably exclusive group and culture that they have access to.
1435.
by Retra 9y ago
Right, because non-western society has no racism or patriarchy. It's all just enlightenment and peace in the east.
1436.
by Retra 9y ago
Just because 1000 of something exists doesn't mean they have every property among them.
1437.
by Retra 9y ago
Let's write down the recipe for an modern social media comment: 1. Take person literally to a fault in order to create a counterpoint. 2. Say obviously true, yet embarrassingly vague things to defend that counterpoint. 3. Respond &quot
1438.
by Retra 9y ago
If by "truth" you mean "what is written on the page." I'm not sure why you're conflating the content of wikipedia with truth, because wikipedia is not a catalogue of truth, but of culture.
1439.
by Retra 9y ago
What it is RIGHT NOW, is fixable. I don't know what you're trying suggest be done instead.
1440.
by Retra 9y ago
The need for an equitable salary is just as legitimate as the need to care for children. I have a family to care for even if they are not listed as dependencies. I also have a future family to prepare for that I might want to get a leg up o

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