anonunivgrad

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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
PG will never go on the record expressing any actually transgressive thoughts.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Collective action problem. You don’t have to sponsor to reap the benefits. You can pull it off for this or that cause celebre, but it’s not a workable model in general.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
It’s a different culture. In America, “the customer is always right.” That’s not literally true, but the general approach is that the customer, the one bringing the money, is the boss and his reasonable requests should be hastily fulfilled.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
No, we like it because it gets us better service, at least the way we define better. Europeans are fine with less attentive waiters, but Americans are not. There's no sinister or complicated sociological reason beyond that.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
I like American table service and can't stand European table service. I am a somewhat needy customer. I want another beer, different condiments, etc. and it's nice to not have to wait for them.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
It's a widely known social norm in America. The same way you know to say 'thank you' or 'excuse me', Americans know to tip 20% for acceptable service.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
It's not that complicated. Tip is $2 on top of every $10. You know the sales tax where you live.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
If the service is acceptable, you tip ~20% (still okay to round down a few cents). If the service is bad, you don't tip 20%. Usually, if you complain, they will give you some part of your meal free or otherwise provide an adequate reme
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The language and standard library are great. I mean that there's a tendency in the third-party libraries to abuse the features of the language for the sake of cute syntax and in the process create a difficult to understand beast where
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
It is a lovely language to use but it provides a few footguns too many. The main problem is that the community suffers from bad taste.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
There's also eigenclasses to further complicate the object model.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Having children is an essential part of the human experience. Not everyone does, but it’s a strong biological imperative for most. Good luck sending your kids to a decent school, where they won’t learn to be criminals, on a shitty income. P
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Unlike most stupid takes, this one is actually enraging. He is mocking everyone out there who is not a millionaire like him. Everyone who has kids and wants to give them a good life and is struggling to make it work financially.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
A minor should not have access to Snapchat. It’s all fun and games until she sends a nude picture to a boy out of naïveté, falsely lured into a sense of security by Snapchat.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The problem isn’t the phone, is that she’s being socialized into adulthood by a bad influence: the crowd. Not just her friends at school, but the national and global crowd she can access through the phone. You can stop it, but you won’t. Th
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
You are right. Honestly, it makes me severely question the judgment of the leadership. I can just imagine the kind of difficult tech personality heading such an operation that refuses to change the name. All of the replies disagreeing with
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
And which position of the people is that? The half that wants less censorship or the half that wants more?
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
This kind of hyper-optimization misses the forest for the trees. You need to have some love for your product and if you do, you do not let issues like this fester. Your bean counters can’t capture the full complexity of the world. They can’
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
We can’t rule out reverse transcription in the human body. It’s a very real possibility that introducing RNA results in longer lasting genetic change. Probably not! But I’d rather risk covid myself. So should all fertile people. At least un
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Reverse transcription is a real biological process. We can’t rule it out in the human body. We don’t have enough experience to be sure. If this was the Black Death, the risk would be justified. It might be justified here for people above ch
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Well an mRNA vaccine isn’t supposed to directly modify your DNA. But we really don’t know enough to be sure. We don’t know all of the pathways in the body. It could very well be that mRNA floating around in your cell does have an effect on
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
> Vaccines work by training the immune system to recognize a pathogen when it attempts to infect the body - this is mostly done by the injection of viral antigens or weakened live viruses that stimulate an immune response through the pro
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
It is sad that you have to defend yourself by saying “I’m not anti-vax”. Anti-vaxxers are rightly criticized for denying the overwhelming decades of evidence that the standard repertoire of vaccines is safe. That’s totally different than q
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Is this also an mRNA vaccine like the Pfizer? No genetic vaccine has ever been widely deployed. As a young healthy person who could yet have more children, I’d rather get covid than take a genetic vaccine that might affect me or my offsprin
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
You really can’t imagine why vigilates’ sense of citizenship would extend beyond a neighborhood? And if we are assuming only selfish self interest, what happens in one neighborhood doesn’t stay there. I’m not saying their actions were right
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
That’s not true. America, or at least its coastal big cities, leads the world in identity leftism. That is, the kind of leftism that finds its base in gays, transgenders, criminals, and other social “losers” (as opposed to economic losers)
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Is it a surprise that armed people would show up to oppose the trashing of their cities?
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
Fake spin meant to assuage the girondins, the well-to-do leftists. The footage and evidence is extensive and obvious.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
There is no rational middle. Liberalism, the 18th and 19th century ideology that America was built on, is really just a truce between the monarchists and the jacobins. Everyone in between is simply confused.
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by anonunivgrad 6y ago
The left and right deploy violence differently. Right wing violence is more precise, organized, surgical. Left wing violence is more chaotic, mob-driven, indiscriminate. Hence the mass rioting and destruction this summer, tacitly supported

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