adamsea

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by adamsea 7y ago
Perhaps, but being the decider about who does and who doesn’t deserve some assholishness is the heart of what an asshole is. Someone who disregards the wishes and feelings of another. Like if you said you like asparagus and I said “you shou
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by adamsea 7y ago
In an ideal world, growth which took true account of things we currently consider externalities (i.e. pollution), would be ecologically sustainable, and, drastically reduce the human suffering and loss of life of countries which practiced i
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by adamsea 7y ago
What then, is Elon Musk marketing? Space? For whom? In what fashion, and for what purpose? Exactly how many people, in the best possible scenario, would we have the capacity to transport to Mars, or even simply into space? What happens to e
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by adamsea 7y ago
Well, not quite -- the post was saying that if you never interact with the other party again, regardless of whether they're playing hardball or softball, there is no post-agreement fallout if you play hardball, because, well, there is
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by adamsea 7y ago
Function keys seem like a stretch for the use case it is designed for - being able to type online or in apps while also having a very compact form factor.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Hard not to read this with some sadness and bitterness ...
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by adamsea 7y ago
Or America will cut funding for science and make it more difficult to afford higher education or have a career in sciences while simultaneously making it harder to immigrate.
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by adamsea 7y ago
> I chalk it up to incompetent city government (which frankly right now, is actually hostile to proper policing -- with a DA who has openly said such ... What did the DA say? Not familiar.
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by adamsea 7y ago
If the true goal is to educate the patient, I'm 100% certain there are more effective and ethical ways to accomplish that goal other than for-profit advertising (which by definition cannot be unbiased).
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by adamsea 7y ago
Just as an interesting historical note, during the Nixon-Humphrey election Nixon made back-channel communications with various foreign players to sabotage ongoing negotiations with North Vietnam by the current administration, so that his e
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by adamsea 7y ago
There were then and are now legitimate concerns about nuclear fuel storage and how trustworthy and transparent the human organizations managing the nuclear plants are. Imho the industry brought it in itself. Even now — look at how TEPCO was
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by adamsea 7y ago
Imho both would improve because of the change and innovation required. New technologies, new service industries (“decluttering consultant”, maybe). Plus of course what good does income do if the world around you is shit? Air quality, water
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by adamsea 7y ago
The one thing theater can do is raise the consciousness of those around the one performing and socially normalize previously “weird” behaviors, both of which are useful groundwork for effective political action.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Yeah but you have to think about it. I feel like for many businesses thought/effort/time — even only a little - is more valuable than money. [edit] and you also need to have someone whose aware of those options to begin with which
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by adamsea 7y ago
The iPad Pro keyboard is pretty slick for what it is.
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by adamsea 7y ago
I think that is different from being “user friendly”, where “user friendly” means “the UI for this application is as intuitive as we could make it do that a wide range of nontechnical users are able to comfortably use this application with
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by adamsea 7y ago
Reading. A hobby available to anyone who can read. Playing music. So many ways to do this now — people all over the world play music without lessons. Listening to music, live or recorded. Being a lover of music. Dancing. Drawing. Poetry, al
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by adamsea 7y ago
IMHO what you are saying and accurate diagnoses which result in positive-to-lifechanging treatment are not mutually exclusive. There's always more than one way for a thing to go wrong ;). And I'll check that book out. There's
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by adamsea 7y ago
I'm reading "Driven to Distraction" now, and it's excellent and very close to home for me.
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by adamsea 7y ago
> Instead, we are soft forcing Mothers to drop their kids in the care of poorly paid strangers What is a "Mother"? Is it different from a "mother". And I was a bit surprised by your conclusion - initially I thought yo
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by adamsea 7y ago
While like any other substance LSD can be abused it doesn’t make sense to mention it in the same breath as the opioid crisis or alcoholism.
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by adamsea 7y ago
While I sympathize with your sentiment a more accurate and less provocative way of saying almost the same thing would be to say that the biggest barriers to dealing with climate change are social and political, and so changing social norms
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by adamsea 7y ago
> Climate science has become far too unquestionable. Seems to me climate science is constantly being questioned. It’s questioned publicly by roughly half of the most powerful politicians of the most powerful country in the world, and t t
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by adamsea 7y ago
FWIW I would argue that Sketch (and other applications like it, plus Unity, etc) are most accurately described as graphical programming languages -- highly domain-specific ones.
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by adamsea 7y ago
Well, you could argue that _all_ software applications -- web browsers, word processors, etc, are highly abstracted instances of graphical domain-specific programming languages. I actually think this is a useful way to think about things. W
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by adamsea 7y ago
> but I don't wash my hands because I observed my elders, or because some cultural figure told me it was merely the way of our people. Some just told at some point to wash my hands cause otherwise people get sick, and if I had had q
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by adamsea 7y ago
That’s a great link. And the gun in the shooting game is very very similar to Han Solos ...
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by adamsea 7y ago
Can’t recall off the tip of my head but brands usually advertise on the packaging if the fish is line-and-pole caught.
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by adamsea 7y ago
... and if the same conditions which create work for said sixty-year-old person to return to are the same conditions that led to them being unable to retire at sixty (perhaps because they never had the opportunity to do anything other than
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by adamsea 7y ago
What if the job has terrible safety conditions and a high injury rate. Is it still good? I’m not arguing that it doesn’t provide some value if it staves off financial ruin, but, the world is composed of more than only “good” and “bad”. If i

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