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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Heck, Standard Oil was accused of this. EDIT: Although it may well be that they actually didn't: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~twod/oil-ns/articles/research...
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Reasonable, given the title, but as someone who had no idea how smell receptors work, I thought it was neat. The nut: > [T]he limited repertoire of receptors on its olfactory sensory neurons must somehow recognize a vast number of compou
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Good question! When there is not a pandemic they can go to daycare and play with other kids. When there is? Well, I am not proud or happy about this, but my kids have very detailed knowledge of and strong opinions about Minecraft. BTW, home
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
My data point is that it sucks, distance learning sucked, and my wife just quit her full time job so we could at least get to your manager's state. None of this bears on whether people should be allowed to work remotely, of course.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I'm surprised this article didn't mention direct government subsidies for shows with anti-drug storylines: https://www.salon.com/2000/01/13/drugs_6/
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Those movies were a long time ago. Wouldn't Law and Order, with all its spinoffs and syndication, be more present in people's minds?
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The "elementary freedoms" you list should more properly be considered entitlements. The advantage of the seasteading scheme is that different groups can pick different hills to die on. There are probably people who would like the
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
At least some of them just want to be able to choose a better central (or decentralized) authority.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
A strong benefit of seasteading is that a small group of people can pick and choose which things they want to be legal. For example, you cite a couple things which are legal in Germany, but homeschooling isn't legal there, nor is vacuu
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
> So what would it be used for? Let's be honest: Tax evasion, human trafficking and gambling. I can think of a lot of uses besides those. Prostitution between consenting adults, fun drugs, medical drugs which are tied up by the FDA
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His public persona had that (and he made a lot of people with soft bigotry mad with it), but in his act, he is just a guy. Giving his children chocolate cake for breakfast and helping his wife breathe during childbirth.
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
You can still listen to Cosby. He is still funny. Just don't dope your dates with quaaludes.
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To a great extent, Coates's career was accelerated when he joined the Atlantic. They actively promoted his work and let him work for two years on "The Case For Reparations". This is not to say that he wouldn't have writt
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
A Gish gallop involves many points. Mine is singular: a list of names that sound funny in English is not racist. If a racist enjoys the list, that does not make it racist. Racists also eat toast. That does not make toast racist. If people t
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Sorry, I'll make it clearer for you: the metric for being on the list is "sounds funny in English", not cultural origin. Thus there will be names from all different cultures, but for any given culture, most names won't b
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Would you see a racist undertone in putting "Rod Johnson" or "Dick Fuller" on a list like this? Would you claim the humor comes from those people not belonging? Because I would bet anything that the list would have such
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
An ally should take up the hurts of others, but not make up the hurts of others.
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You're not "the person in pain" though. You are pretending to speak for them. In fact, one could say it's racist that you're feeling entitled to appropriate their pain when you claim to speak for them. Your racism i
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
I have empathy for people who experience prejudice, but not for people who think "this name means something funny in English" is racist. Those people don't know what racism means, and they devalue claims of actual racism when
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by Uhhrrr 5y ago
Making fun of a culture is culturalist, not racist. And all cultures have aspects worthy of mockery. And making fun of names doesn't even rise to that level. No one thinks less of a culture or a person just because their name reads lik
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
That's wild. I wonder if they just always toss that in, in case they accidentally hook someone for whom that's true. A number of things they say indicate English isn't their first language: "We could wait you forever&quo
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
Besides complicated apps, I think this could be useful for dumb web pages that are making a bunch of requests. Instead of having all those requests go from the browser to the provider to the pile of services, advertisers, and spies, and bac
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
I think mockery is better than blocking. Many of the people involved have convinced each other they have the moral high ground.
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
The too-risky one is another part of the trick where the magician is putting in a ridiculous amount of time, in that case practicing in front of a mirror. Or maybe indeed the magician doesn't use any of those. Another aspect of magic I
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
Gossip is useful, though, because social networks around work usually outpace org chart changes by (ballpark guess) 10x.
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
Is there a scenario where releasing an update to virus detection software is better than releasing a kernel security update? I guess maybe if the former was many days faster than the latter?
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
I just went back and watched the BBC adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
I'm absolutely fine with that being your opinion, but will say I'm a huge fan of Glass (and Bach), and can enjoy it as foreground music, even the most meditative works like Music in 12 Parts and the piano pieces. But I've bee
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by Uhhrrr 6y ago
I say that because you would think a community site would have some sort of filtering process for predators and their enablers, and the Reddit statement says their vetting failed. But I don't know.
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I would like to say no, because the admin in question very likely lied about her background, and you'd think that would be enough to get someone fired once it leaks out. In any event, her background would seem to make her unfit for a j

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