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by TT3351 6y ago
We also pay for public transit with our taxes in many states/cities in the United States, but they still charge riders. Taxation is implicit in public transit, I'm not aware of a single viable public transit model that doesn'
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I believe the implication is that AI handles this complicated work
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Meritocracy set out from birth, no? Are not all people in that book test tube children with specific selected genomes? I fail to see how creating a class of genetic garbage men, relegated to working with trash for their entire lives is &quo
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This camera stuff scares me
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I find that last statement a little confusing; I have horrendous luck offline and have significantly better luck online. I have never been able to "ask someone out" conventionally in person without making a fool of myself. It&#x27
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More of a transitory news cycle in a few years worth of distractions
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Just to give an example of a famous resister with convincing arguments: Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden
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The city of Ur? (Joking)
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I hope we can both agree the standards of measurement for doctors and economists are not exactly comparable, given that one is just "is the patient better" and the other can be judged in any way imaginable. Is the economist macro,
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"Had they done so, they’d have found only confirmation that CUC was a healthy, hungry start-up well-liked by Wall Street. While CUC wouldn’t let Sierra see its internal financial data, it did have assurances from the Big Four accountin
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I had never heard of this service before today. Thanks MPA!
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Most of the article isn't even about the business in the headline... very lame stuff from BBC
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The government can at least ideally be replaced/restructured popularly when it gets its hands dirty with conflicts of interest. The redress for private corruption is much less powerful. I don't understand why it's so often ta
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by TT3351 6y ago
The Indian government is also unusually (as far as my impressions take me) dedicated to supporting domestic Indian firms in direct competition with international firms. (It's not clear to me from the article you shared that's what
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by TT3351 6y ago
Targeted ads in politics seem like one possible line; Dem SC candidate Jamie Harrison has been fairly open about how mobilizing voters who lean right to vote for third party candidates will help him win. With a few ads like "[3rd party
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by TT3351 6y ago
0 of those jobs consist of solely "pushing a broom," which as a phrase dehumanizes and strips "unskilled" workers of their dignity.
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Certainly reminds me of the Kool Aid in "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test"
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I have a close family member who works in pharma who regularly tells me there is no way the FDA would approve Tylenol over the counter if it was invented today.
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In times of rationing, it was apparently not uncommon for grapefruit eaters to substitute added salt for the usual sugar to take some of the bitterness off.
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by TT3351 6y ago
Hijacked product pages and price swings are two of Amazon Shopping's biggest vulnerabilities from my view. Do you know of a price history website/app like you're describing? Sounds like a very good idea.
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by TT3351 6y ago
Whenever I see "meritocracy" used like this, my hair stands on end. From Wikipedia: "Although the concept has existed for centuries, the term "meritocracy" is relatively new. It was used pejoratively by British poli
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Most Android phones used to have swappable batteries. Too convenient and not thin enough, I guess.
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Do we need another 71 year old running for office? I'm not so sure
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Strictly speaking this is correct. Even in cases of treason, the only crime defined in the Constitution: "The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, o
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by TT3351 6y ago
Are you open to the possibility of competing brands bombarding decent products with negative reviews? FWIW, almost every [negative, because I'm trying to warn others about wasting money] Amazon review I leave is removed for arbitrary r
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by TT3351 6y ago
Similar experience here in suburban southern California public schools around the 2010s, except for one class on digital art, which was 90% packet work (funnily enough almost the equivalent of just copying out novels, but for Illustrator&#x
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"Skeptics of the hologenome idea—that microbes and host comprise a single evolutionary unit—argue that microbes aren’t always passed like heirlooms between generations. And if they’re not, then does the holobiont really persist over ev
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Fascinating reading about the agony of requesting permission to string the line; I would be surprised if the practitioners who established NYC's eruv jumped through the same hoops. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places&#x
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by TT3351 6y ago
Certain publishers will always market their goods by promising to teach you the secrets of SQL [or insert field] in 10 minutes
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I see your (apocryphal) quote about eating books and raise you another: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read,

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