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by ashark 9y ago
The structures necessary to support crazy-high incomes in the modern world are governmental creations of exactly that sort. If we stick to a by-the- and for-the-people kind of ethos, then adjusting how the government manages all this stuff
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by ashark 9y ago
Monarchs used to be a "oh cool, look, it's the 50-100 monarchs in that field which we'll see a couple times a week for the whole season" thing here. Now it's "holy crap, it's our one single monarch butterf
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by ashark 9y ago
Guess we can do away with all corporate structures, then, and the protections and benefits thereof. Plus a ton of other stuff necessary to a modern economy. Those things definitely don't (strictly) fall in any of those categories. Rath
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by ashark 9y ago
Voluntary action and overcoming coordination problems don't mix well. Best case is the volunteers overpay tremendously for things that benefit a ton of free-riders (those who benefit, and could pay, but choose not to). Worst case it al
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by ashark 9y ago
You might want to re-read the post you're criticizing.
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by ashark 9y ago
God, considering how much that'd be worth if invested it'd have to be a hell of a payoff from my kids to make up for it. Plus we're nowhere near done spending yet, and could easily spend a lot more. [EDIT] by which I mean
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by ashark 9y ago
> "enough to retire on" Solutions: > - having kids Whoa, no. I've had 3 over the last five years. Total expense of well over a quarter million so far, and we live in a fairly cheap city in flyover country. [EDIT] smal
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by ashark 9y ago
Plus the trackpad. Everyone's still playing catch-up on that. Mac laptops are the only ones I've ever used for which I don't halt all work immediately until I can find a mouse, if I'm doing something that'll tak
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by ashark 9y ago
> (Didn't King notice the word rights in property rights?) What's that supposed to prove?
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by ashark 9y ago
I'm sure Javascript's most of it, but styling's probably a (much smaller) factor too. Besides, these changes to Calendar don't appear to involve only styles.
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by ashark 9y ago
If it's as slow and RAM-hungry as newer versions of Gmail I'll be looking for the "basic HTML" equivalent for it ASAP.
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by ashark 9y ago
As soon as I get beyond surface-level info on almost anything, I find a lot of the good stuff is locked away in academic books and papers. Papers aren't as big a problem these days (ahem) but books remain difficult. You don't even
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by ashark 9y ago
Yeah, when I went looking for advice on couches and chairs that'll hold up to serious (ab)use, everyone in the know recommended a couple of modern heavy-duty manufacturers or finding something from the mid 80s or earlier and refurbing,
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by ashark 9y ago
Just about all childrens' shows with singing use it, I think. Some on harsher, obnoxious settings (Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood), some still very noticeable but toned down a bit (MLP). Someone could probably put together a spectrum
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by ashark 9y ago
Not far off from how much you pay for any tough sofa that has even a hope of surviving... ah, large friends or relatives. The steel frames on these make them seem like they'd possibly last for a useful amount of time under those ci
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by ashark 9y ago
Assuming they check your results before passing them along, it’d be noticed immediately. Hard to discover, easy to verify. Not much different than just blocking them.
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by ashark 9y ago
The Web has gotten so much worse since we started putting serious stuff on it. It's kind of a population-terrorizing monster, at this point. Could we, like... not do that? I seem to remember the world turning just fine when you couldn&
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by ashark 9y ago
> Civil War Generals 2 Oh, wow, another fan of that! Great, great game. Huge improvement over the first one, in every way. Still haven't seen anything quite like it. Closest I've played in feel (if not interface or actual play)
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by ashark 9y ago
Well, yeah, but a great deal of said cultural abundance assumes you've got a pretty strong familiarity with the Bible and a few classical authors. You're gonna be losing a lot from a pretty big chunk of Western art up the Moderns
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by ashark 9y ago
That's a shame, since one's understanding of so much of Western art of all sorts is greatly improved by familiarity with: 1) the Bible, and 2) a dozen or so Greek and Roman authors, including and especially Homer. By losing that f
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by ashark 9y ago
Middle and upper-middle around here move farther out for the schools (it's the only reason I'm not in the city). Our household income's not high enough to afford housing prices (for a family of 5) in the city and sending al
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by ashark 9y ago
So... why mention that charisma and speaking ability sometimes decide the winner, if they're all so equally matched that I'm somehow egregiously wrong for thinking that it could possibly be a factor, let alone an important and int
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by ashark 9y ago
"sometimes doesn't". I gave myself wiggle room precisely for the few standouts. My experience of Frankenstein , though (if that's what you're talking about with Shelley) was that it was almost (almost!) entirely in
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by ashark 9y ago
That was the first work of his I read, and I didn't like it at all. "Horror" from the 19th century sometimes doesn't hold up too well, and the same concept's been done to death at this point, arguably more effective
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by ashark 9y ago
Sure, but if the intent of a game you've constructed is to turn an ordinary activity into a scored competition, accidentally instead creating some specialized thing that veers far away from the original activity is a failure (and is
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by ashark 9y ago
> The "negative" side of this is that sometimes debates were decided by who was a better orator or came across as more charismatic rather than which side had the better logical argument (though you could make an argument that t
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by ashark 9y ago
> This was because if a team “dropped” an argument by its opponent—if it did not respond to the other side’s claim—that argument was conceded as “true,” no matter how inane it was. Chief among the strategies exploiting this rule was “spr
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by ashark 9y ago
Why would directly paying for those essentials have a smaller effect on their prices than giving people money to pay for the same?
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by ashark 9y ago
> It's stuff like this that really annoys me, and I feel gives academics a bad name. TFA's author bio: "Shai Shapira is a computer programmer and writer." Poli-sci academics usually don't construct their premis
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by ashark 9y ago
Holding kids back a grade isn't really a thing they do anymore.

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