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by apatters 7y ago
I disagree, if someone draws motivation and satisfaction from Epictetus' quote then that's great and I don't want to cast any shade on it. But I think it's very dated and we have better ideas today. Just to put forward a
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Emissions per capita is not a good metric. It favors states which have millions of people who are living in poverty and who thus by definition have low consumption, which translates to low emissions. The downside of course is that these peo
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Is the optimism about being able to bypass censorship really valid? SpaceX may be resistant to the censorship demands of some governments, but a lot of other things need to happen to get someone online. To begin with you need to acquire S
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Thanks for the catch, off the top of my head I remembered that India was #3 but didn't realize how far below the US they were. I still think the basic thesis I am driving at holds, instead of cleaning up their act 20 years ago, multina
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I guess if Chinese carbon turns half the planet into a desert we'll be able to use the economic motivation too!
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Victory Gardens worked because they had a patriotic, pro-war, pro-America appeal. Sort of a "Keep America Great" thing. I suspect there's zero chance that this type of sentiment could be harnessed for "Hey, let's of
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+1 for having zero issues at all with using DDG as my daily driver, I only use Google for some local searches and currency conversions. DDG results have improved every year even as Google's have gotten much worse. Edit: just realized t
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Why do you think the celibacy rate has risen sharply in young men over the last decade, but remained constant in young women? They both have access to the same entertainment options.
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I don't get it. You're saying that he's wrong because the issue has already been discussed?
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The parent is not making a legal argument, but a civic one. The argument is that our society will benefit from embracing free speech and suffer from censorship, regardless of legality.
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We should strive to lie less to the poor about what they need to possess.
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Is there mobile support? I tried to play with the 52 card deck on Firefox for Android and nothing was responding to my tapping. I second the call for having more info on the site about what this is, it looks very interesting
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I suspect most of them were told (by their mothers, continuously for the first 20 years of their lives) that this was in fact the way to land a good woman. Be a nice clean cut guy and earn $120K a year. If you know so much then what's
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The article makes a good effort to identify the root causes of loneliness and provide solutions, but it misses the mark a bit. Loneliness is an involuntary reaction that arises from a lack of meaningful social connections. Here a meaningf
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There's certainly a lot of boring, formulaic content out there. I recently watched Easy Rider and season 4 of Rick and Morty and in both cases my phone was left on a shelf and forgotten for hours. Yesterday I tried to watch the first e
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Website was inaccessible on mobile Firefox for me, obscured by a payment/signup nag.
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YouGov's numbers neither confirm nor refute the parent's hypothesis because women and feminists are not the same thing. No evidence has been presented to support the parent's anecdotal belief about what feminists think. I h
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Why not look at numbers rather than anecdotes? A poll by YouGov in 2016 found that Republicans were 7% more likely than Democrats to believe sex work should remain illegal: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/11/112037
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Of course not, but 10 years is a lot better than Google's 3-5 for Chromebooks. Though consistent with their habit of nuking their own products, it seems like a foolish business move by Google--I too was burned by this and will never bu
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Isn't it bad government policy to be strategically dependent on a single company? Boeing enjoys its dominant position in large part due to US government policy and the US military's procurement policies (in the 80s there were over
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Some people's brains are wired differently and they are not able to approach relationships in the way that you consider normal. I would submit that usually there is no malice in their analysis and in fact it's very hard to be one
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He is projecting his personal preferences on the human race. The idea that all the people in the world handle criticism exactly the same way is absurd. I have come across many people in my career who needed criticism to be broken to them ge
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This is the best comment. The only mistake this guy made was giving too much of a fuck about garbage for too long. I was burned by a bad manager early on in my career and in retrospect I'm grateful that I learned the lesson early. In t
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If the shit sandwich doesn't work on you, that's on you. In fact the goal for personal growth is to be able to take the shit with or without the sandwich. Feedback delivered roughly is still feedback, in fact the roughest feedback
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If we're being cynical, I think they would forgive the debt and bail out any large financial institutions who are damaged by the act of doing so. It would be very in character.
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Except that all of those angry debtors can vote, and elect representatives who change the applicable laws. So one way things are different this time around is that government action could precipitate events in unpredictable ways. Remember B
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I knew there would be some sort of issue with that comparison, thanks!
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Also to supply some context for those numbers (this is probably way too simple and wrong in some way though) The size of the US economy in 2008 (US GDP) was around $20T. There were $1.7T of MBS. That's about 8.5% of the economy which m
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Sure, the most relatable problem is that a lot of college grads have debts they can't pay off. That's not really the focus of the article though, which is an introduction to a potentially calamitous systemic problem. The 2008 cras
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To the extent that America is still a representative democracy, Americans are responsible for importing workers who have limited rights and no representation (they can't vote, they can't contact law enforcement for help, etc). The

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