WarDores

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by WarDores 7y ago
Pretty sure he's not going to be doing much of anything after he dies.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Agreed. The heat/humidity starting in June are nigh unbearable.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Plus Ctrl + [ = Esc. That's so ingrained by this point I don't even notice I'm doing it 90% of the time.
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by WarDores 7y ago
On a long enough time horizon, the chance of recession is 100%. Warren is sounding the alarm here on some specific issues; whether or not those are the contributing factors to the next recession remains to be seen. But pundits claiming that
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by WarDores 7y ago
I'm typically a "when in doubt, free markets" type, but the three tier system (production, distribution, and retailing) has numerous advantages. The craft beer boom, for example, would never have happened in the absence of a
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by WarDores 7y ago
Oh good, instead of expanding the ways that people can build wealth through ownership, let's find ways of giving existing owners more "income potential" for less! Then we don't have to worry about pesky things like build
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by WarDores 7y ago
It seems more and more that the government treats us like a consumer. Both parties trying to deliver more and more "value" for the currency that matters to them: votes.
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by WarDores 7y ago
Precisely the reason that I just disable the network connection on mine and use my Xbox for media. The convenience isn't worth the hassle.
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by WarDores 7y ago
I can't refute the statistical point, but even if it is a small minority, the ones that do have a negative effect can be catastrophic. A vanishingly small percentage of wild animal bites transmit rabies, but we still treat the bites se
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by WarDores 7y ago
The philosophical argument here is "To what extent is it the government's job to regulate substances?" The author seems to think that if it causes harm, it should be under the government's purview to curtail. The second-
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by WarDores 7y ago
This right here. It's easy to talk about optimizing gut bacteria when people aren't dying in the streets of cholera. Not saying we haven't swung too far in the other direction, but we've solved some very big problems wit
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by WarDores 7y ago
Every CFA owner/operator (you technically don't franchise) I know (n=3) says those are basically money-printing machines.
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by WarDores 7y ago
But since the top 20% of taxpayers pay 87% of income tax[1] and the top 1% pay 37%[2], this makes total sense. 1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-20-of-americans-will-pay-87... 2: https://taxfoundation.org&
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by WarDores 8y ago
> Witnesses might not say what you expected them to; you might not fare well under cross-examination and there is always the risk that some unexpected piece of prosecution evidence might be served on the day in court (I’ve seen this happ
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by WarDores 8y ago
I think we agree more than disagree -- I believe the blame for abuse should go on the abuser. I think (you can correct me if I'm wrong) that you want to have the discussion "given there are abusers, what should a platform do about
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by WarDores 8y ago
I see what you're getting at. I took the question as being "on whom does the responsibility lie," which I would place with the individual. Anonymity does certainly contribute, but I'd still say that an individual can cho
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by WarDores 8y ago
People. You don't get a free pass on being an arsehole just because the platform makes it easy to do.
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by WarDores 8y ago
I decided a while back to shift my "news" consumption to reading print journals -- I have 2 or 3 quarterlies that I go pick up at Barnes and Noble. It keeps me up to date on current affairs, but provides well thought out commentar