SkyBelow

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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Without enough instances of people losing support at EOL, consumers won't put a premium on such a brand label and thus I do not see companies willing to pay the premium and contribute the labor needed to complete step 1. By the time t
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
If we use a tax to pay for the child care, then depending upon how the tax is structured it could be that an increase tax on Jane (either directly, or on the partner in the relationship who is working) can make it so that it makes more econ
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
> This argument is pointless. No government has jurisdiction over the laws of mathematics. No government can prevent encryption. No government can keep people from layering their own encryption over whatever flawed system the government
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>brings the creeping threat of social decay ever closer Doesn't most available data indicate it is moving in the opposite direction and that people's perception are biased by the 24 hour news cycle which leads people to think c
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Isn't encryption really 'most likely safe' and 'unsafe'. It has been a while since I've spent much time reading into the details, but the encryption we depend upon generally isn't proven safe, just failed
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>prison abolition As in, no criminals go to prison? I wonder what these feminist feel should be as the punishment for rape. >I have never met people more passionately invested in the wellbeing of men than the feminists I read and liv
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Sexism is not merely about personal conduct but also how we structure society. Great. But my personal experience is that this notion seems to vanish as soon as we look at things like rates of workplace deaths, life expectancy, hours wor
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
"Owe" is a very strong word and can quickly get people into trouble once you start trying to break down human interactions into transactions where certain things are owed. Part of this is because to owe something is to indicate s
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Armchair psychology? No, I've made many friends and acquaintances, both online and in real life. The ones that bubble around posting online heavily, have developed antisocial tendencies that were reinforced through social exclusion
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Sure, but that DOES NOT mean you're immune to criticism, especially when it comes to security. But our society does not just openly accept giving criticism. There are rules. Unwritten and extremely vague ones, no doubt, but still
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Thus far the discussion has focused on non-Ph.D. posing as field expert and coming up with original research. I had thought we had already diverged from that when we were discussing noise filtering. In regards to original research in t
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
In matters of layman discussion, would you trust their input more than someone with no formal education in physics? To go with a more practical example, say a news report comes out that some new exercise called joopies are better than burpe
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Having dabbled in kanji, my initial assumption is that such a worry is justified. With English you have 60 or so characters you need to know how to write, many near duplicates (X vs x, U vs u). Kanji is far more numerous and also seems to
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
If you reduce your standard from a Ph.D. to a 4 year degree from an accredited university, how well does the filter work? If someone is speaking physics and has a B.S. in physics, while it isn't as good a check as a Ph.D., they are far
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>or that discrimination in the workplace is in fact normal and healthy One thing that bothers me is that discrimination is seen as a four letter word, when it is something we do all the time and celebrate. Only specific forms are consid
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>Why? That's the kind of question that makes up the entire field of game theory. I think it depends upon the person who is asking. The average person asking it comes from a different perspective than someone who studies game theory
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
It is interesting to ponder why we do either. We hammer nails because we want a flat surface. We grease wheels because we want quite wheels. If you get the hammer or the grease depends upon what is needed to fix the problem. Do you need a
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
An analysis of the Hippocratic Oath and its application in the modern day will turn up the same results as any other ethical standard. Selectively applied on criteria that would rarely be tolerated if openly stated, requiring unstated assu
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
A few years back I bought a cheap one at a black friday sell and it is plain ol' dumb model. I feed in an HDMI from a laptop and all I use the remote for is on/off and volume.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>property tax is used to pay for services provided by the municipality (schools, libraries, roads). Would not a wealth tax also pay for services that provided to that wealth? For example, especially at the billionaire level, there is an
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Do you see existing yearly property and car taxes as theft? In general, where does one draw the line between theft and taxes?
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
For the latter, the option would be to allow the person to sell at that amount. Thus if the government over estimated the worth you are capable of selling. This works far better with large businesses than homes due to the impact of emotio
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Car tax and land tax are two very common existing wealth taxes. I wonder why they are rarely described as a wealth tax.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
This is much more entertaining when you have family who are PEs and their eye twitches every time.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
From what I recall having read, there are health improvements, financial improvements, having two parents is much better for raising children (from what I recall this is independent of the gender of the two parents), and there are larger sy
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
This confuses me. I've discussed politics for over 10 years online, both in very conservative forums and very liberal forums, and have never once seen a person mention this before. Sometimes I have even been on forums where name call
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
>If you're not involved in adversarial contract authoring, I don't get the appeal of the "what about this edge case" game. My mind often goes to the boundary cases because that is where the real differences occur at.
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Would the definition be based on possessing or owning? What if one does possess a place they choose not to use (run away teen)? What about being able to stay in a place but only for a short term? I know a guy who recently sold his old hou
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
Is there a formal enough definition of 'blazes' that we can be sure it isn't talking about a blaze in a BBQ grill or something similar and instead is referring to an act of arson?
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by SkyBelow 7y ago
We might have a problem because scientists spend too much time just giving the information and not on working on the 'manipulation' side of it. For example, take any news site dedicated to scientific news and look at how much eve

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