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541.
by adamc 2y ago
What you see there are the workings of power, particularly of large corporations. Not that different from copyright and Disney.
542.
by adamc 2y ago
I bought a set of Corelle 7 years ago that seems very much like the Corelle I bought 30 years ago. Not convinced it's any worse. I think dishwashing and/or age does eventually make it more fragile, but it seems fairly durable. I&#
543.
by adamc 2y ago
Because the assertion that good musicians are rewarded is unfalsifiable in that formulation. Your definition guarantees that you will always find it true. It proves nothing.
544.
by adamc 2y ago
No. That's tautalogical. You can't meaninfully say "good musicians are rewarded" and then measure goodness by whether they are rewarded.
545.
by adamc 2y ago
No, they often aren't, and UI can be complex to test.
546.
by adamc 2y ago
Undemonstrated. You might be right but I'd like to see the science.
547.
by adamc 2y ago
Great song, with one of the greatest guitar solos ever.
548.
by adamc 2y ago
Yes, this is a huge potential source of disease. We definitely didn't evolve to sit at a desk for long periods. (Or to stand at a desk, for that matter.)
549.
by adamc 2y ago
Not really. It's reasonable that it didn't kill them before they had children. There isn't much selection against diseases that affect us after our children have grown, and what little there is (grandmother care effects, say)
550.
by adamc 2y ago
My mom died of it, and at least one of my brothers worries about it a lot. But it's not typically familial, and my mom's parents both lived to their late 80s without any signs of dementia.
551.
by adamc 2y ago
I think all sorts of assumptions are baked into that statement. Would the CCP even survive if the population IQ was 130+?
552.
by adamc 2y ago
Maybe from the fact that half of all pharmaceutical revenues come from the US (and likely a much higher share of the profits). Single-payer systems are more cost-effective but definitely provide less revenue to pharmaceutical companies.
553.
by adamc 2y ago
There's an assumption here that such drugs will exist. They might not.
554.
by adamc 2y ago
Here's a guy who had epilepsy severe enough that his parents feared to send him to college who made an enormous difference in the lives of many people.
555.
by adamc 2y ago
Although I knew a woman who had breast cancer and a consequence was taking her off HRT. Which she was dreading.
556.
by adamc 2y ago
I think few who have watched the court think it is anything but a strategy used to work toward specific outcomes.
557.
by adamc 2y ago
Our court is now activist in a very regressive way. The ride is going to be a very bumpy one until it generates sufficient pushback.
558.
by adamc 2y ago
This is the wrong point of view for many (probably most) workplaces, where the officially "maintained" information repositories are often very out of date and where the alternatives are usually: 1) Find a conversation you can at l
559.
by adamc 2y ago
I could same the same of depression (in my case, arising from divorce). Difficult times enable values clarification.
560.
by adamc 2y ago
There are lots and lots of well-written, relatively obscure books. I don't think that has much to do with being "brand safe". It has to do with discoverability, network effects (people are more motivated to read books people
561.
by adamc 2y ago
Worse, when I tried to subscribe it then informed me I was already subscribed, and when I tried to reset the password... couldn't get it to work. I eventually gave up. It is very user-hostile.
562.
by adamc 2y ago
Thanks for the information... That sounds kind of dysfunctional, organizationally. It means well-established services are vulnerable to shutdown because they aren't new and exciting. As a customer, that would make me even less inclined
563.
by adamc 2y ago
I had some experiences with emacs that were like that. After 2 or 3 of those, I stopped bothering.
564.
by adamc 2y ago
I'm old and more likely to retire than start anew, but that's something that still calls to me. Got a doctorate in anthropology but wasn't entranced by academia. But science itself is interesting. In retrospect, I think I sho
565.
by adamc 2y ago
Snobbery is an expensive pastime.
566.
by adamc 3y ago
Someone who creates very dangerous items needs to take responsibility for them. Or their production needs to be very heavily regulated. That is just a reality. We don't let companies sell grenades on street corners. The running away fr
567.
by adamc 3y ago
I admit to not understanding why people assume meanings rather than look them up.
568.
by adamc 3y ago
Makes me sad to think of the fossils lost, but it's also kind of inevitable.
569.
by adamc 3y ago
The design is old enough that it needed a fair amount of tweaking to be tolerable. It doesn't really have a workable notion of projects, out of the box. Lots of stuff like that.
570.
by adamc 3y ago
I think that's probably true. You have to dig to see what's good about Emacs, and to get past the initial "this is so alien" impression.

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