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by Rule35 6y ago
They can test an embryo before implantation which means you don't have to abort so it has much less emotional impact.
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by Rule35 6y ago
> If the hoops to get a gun were increased 10 fold it wouldn’t effect me at all. I imagine this line is annoying people. That you aren't bothered isn't the issue if others are. That you don't see the issue with a delay, or
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by Rule35 6y ago
I heard good advice for life and interviews (be they for work, marriage, etc). For life, it's that you aren't your weaknesses but your strengths. Don't worry about filling the skill hole in juggling for instance, put that tim
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by Rule35 6y ago
> but interviewers are really just selecting for people that think like they do. No. We don't care how you get it done, but that you try in a way that would be worth paying you for. My job isn't a calm safe place, it's the
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by Rule35 6y ago
And yet people report less enjoyment from looking at art if they think it's a reproduction or forgery, even if they're told it's so close to identical that it fooled the experts.
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by Rule35 6y ago
So? Censor history to keep us from making its mistakes? Nothing down that road is workable even if you could convince yourself it was justified.
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by Rule35 6y ago
It's a decentralized implementation of a quota system. By slowly releasing supply you prevent anyone having to self-regulate (which requires unreasonable deprivation, OR global knowledge) and everyone bases their decisions off of the o
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by Rule35 6y ago
Because your culture is either your day-to-day life, or it's a performance you put on to self-reenforce your identity. If the later, it's not important and you can relegate it to a historical observation. In this case, if they&#
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by Rule35 6y ago
I wish I'd been named drop tables; or something to interfere with search engines and newspapers. My friends could call me anything so it wouldn't matter socially. Is Prince's legal name [Insert Symbol Here], or is it '
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by Rule35 6y ago
That's the difference between an indigenous language and not. The goal of recognizing the UN resolution wasn't that anything an indigenous person wants has to be accommodated, but that indigenous traditions must be recognized an
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by Rule35 6y ago
Nothing more offensive? That's a stunning admission of historical ignorance and is itself so offensive. And this is why nobody outside of the fake-justice bubble cares at all about these issues, they're just social signaling for
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by Rule35 6y ago
One thing I saw was someone logging all system calls their software generated and comparing that between runs. They'd been bitten by some minor library upgrade that had changed directory scanning which caused huge multiples of normal l
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by Rule35 6y ago
The article mentions the Damore incident but doesn't capture the essence of the war. It wrongly draws many self-aware groups whereas it's really two, marxists and lulzites, fighting a war for territory on top of everyone's ho
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by Rule35 6y ago
> When you hire a contractor, you pay for the work done and that's it Generally, but I could plan to have that contractor back for each repair as long as they do a good job. > The state has allowed NTTA to have a lifetime contrac
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by Rule35 6y ago
> The code of conduct provides a process for people to address grievances. No, that's the general procedure for handling adding and removing board members. It's the same procedure you'd follow if someone was arrested in th
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by Rule35 6y ago
It's the law of maximum outrage. What justifies more third-party outrage victimology? That an ND {of some intersections} was unfairly expected to know the rules, or that a rude {same intersections} was making {some other intersections}
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by Rule35 6y ago
>> RMS’s loss of MIT privileges and leadership of the FSF are the appropriate responses > I think it's clear that the GNU project needs a code of conduct Why? It seems from your quote that people can be removed without a code
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by Rule35 6y ago
There's a difference between 'fails at the extremes' and 'never worked a little'. In a society where life is cheap and legal advancement is painful and opportunities are rare, you'll have the situation you ment
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by Rule35 6y ago
That doesn't follow - I save money by hiring a plumber, who makes money from being hired. The city simply made an analysis of the number of roads they'd build over the years and the cost of being a capable engineering organization
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by Rule35 6y ago
No. That's not right. Just think about it a bit - if a cop asking you to commit a crime tainted the investigation then bad-guys could prove they weren't police by telling you to commit a crime. "Hey, buy some drugs from me.&q
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by Rule35 6y ago
It's not some one-for-one trade where Mom A shows up at Family B's home for her shift as nanny, while Mom B does the reverse. In reality Mom A is a nurse, and cares for 20+ people in a day, and Mom B is a school administrator, bot
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by Rule35 6y ago
Do you have evidence (or even a reason to believe) that the costs are misrepresented such that the government allowed a higher ongoing toll than is appropriate? Because otherwise ... yeah? Private toll roads can be a good solution.
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by Rule35 6y ago
Nobody questions Baristas starting early to get the coffee shop ready for the day's workers, but you cleverly ask why have work ready for the workers at all. Yes, actually investment banking is kinda critical because every day that pap
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by Rule35 6y ago
> Smart people will always gravitate to something like this to justify all the abuse. It was inevitable, reading this, I figured it was coming up in the first sentence. No. The justifications come in around making employees also work a 9
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by Rule35 6y ago
Sounds pretty nice and fairly foolproof. I remember seeing my first solar panel leaning against an old blue and white school bus at a music festival somewhere on the west coast, decades ago. They had a bunch of old auto batteries for storag
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by Rule35 6y ago
There's a difference between laughing at and being outraged by. Pointing and laughing is perfectly reasonable, getting bent out of shape over imagined slights is paranoia. Despite you using the word 'funny' I don't think
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by Rule35 6y ago
>> Also, it's sex not gender people are referring to. > I don't think so. You don't think lady in 'mail-lady' refers to woman? > why would you describe someone as "the mail carrier with a vagina&quo
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by Rule35 6y ago
That's what they're trying to do, but they failed. It's not an issue of over-reach (omg, did you just ...) it's that Apple isn't beating (abusing in any way) anyone. People sign up for it. No abuse is happening. So
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by Rule35 6y ago
> Meanwhile, Apple doesn't let you do anything on an iPhone if it isn't bought from their app store. The level of control that Apple has over iOS is ridiculous compared to what Microsoft had. Apple is 10 times worse towards con
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by Rule35 6y ago
> Approving scam apps hurts Apple. The point isn't that they wanted scam apps, it's that they were so readily approving apps in the space that they even approved scams. This suggests that they did so little review as to miss a

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