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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
You act as if free choice occurs in a vacuum. It does not. Billions spent on advertising, public policy designed to benefit the agriculture and food industries: let's not pretend we are all perfectly informed rational actors, that fall
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
I find your argument somewhat specious. Terraforming entire planets in a few hundred years is feasible, if you devote significant resources of the entire human race to it i.e we have had a drastic impact on the climate by pumping trillions
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
This is an almost uniquely American point of view. To obtain this freedom you must : 1. Get a license and learn to drive 2. Buy or lease a large, rarely utilised machine 3. Keep it maintained 4. Keep it fuelled 5. Ensure your tax dollars
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
I just show up with mushrooms, vegetable skewers, salad and high quality sourdough to share. Even at company picnics and other events. Rarely is there an issue and very often people are very complementary of my food. Don't make it oth
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
I agree. I think a more nuanced assessment would be better, but for my part, i work in consulting and am moving from Australia to the us. All i have heard from my us counterparts is that they are lucky to get two paid weeks off a year. I
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
They are run by actual people who -must claim fiduciary duty to shareholders - Can delegate decisionmaking - Can obfuscate facts or decision factors - Are part of a country club that is full of other people of a similar mindset - Are insula
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
I would argue that a strictly rationalist or at least secular morality should be applied given the sheer religious or spiritual diversity of the global population. And regarding your latter point,it is as you say simplistic - much like the
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
Why is the supposition that fewer lives is good controversial? What do we owe the unborn and non existent? Surely in any moral framework, if one could prove that additional organisms in an environment degrade the quality of life for all o
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
This is the comment i came here for. SlateStars previous 'meditations on moloch' considered the idea of complex capitalist systems, and a relentless trend towards efficiency and Survival of participants within the system that eve
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
The FLOPhouse!
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
There are loopholes. I am a us-german-uk-other citizen, due to birth in Germany and naturalisation in the us and another country as a child. Acquiring new citizenships as an adult is difficult, but also possible if i obtain a waiver.
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
Not quite. I have worked with sap at many different clients. Some Reasons for buying SAP ( by that i mean their ERP as well as funxtional or industry specific tools and applications.) are as follows Scale: at this size, you pick SAP or Or
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
More of a Charles Strauss thing maybe?
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
No,i agree with parent. What is so damn hard about picking a recipe and then ordering produce/goods from your local grocery accordingly? It seems wasteful to use a service like that purely for convenience.
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
Don't be so naive, my friend. There is ample evidence to show that either a) those people believe in their ability to avoid consequences (see the difference between responses to rising sea levels between poor and wealthy florida neighb
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
I think that's a pipe dream. If it was a right wing totalitarian government, which is imho the likely lean of any totalitarian government in the us, there would be little defection or protest from folks in uniform. Think about any stan
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
If you genuinely believe this argument, wouldn't the logical parellal thought be to starve the government of manpower and weapons? Instead, most who espouse the '2 amendment is needed against tyranny' position are often vot
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
Who's giving real hammers to 7 yo carpentry apprentices?
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
Mandating storage or fcas capability for new developments is not the solution, as it would make such developments more expensive and less appetising to developers. Strengthening the market for those services and working with AEMO to drive
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by arbitrary_name 8y ago
I'm a management consultant. My work is not ridiculous. What is ridiculous is the level of damage caused by the utter apathy and incompetence that exists in many organisations. Just because someone is technichally skilled and highly in