bamfly

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by bamfly 3y ago
You're taking the very much not-universally-shared position that concealing something you know would make a big difference counts as "honest". [EDIT] I retract the "circular" claim—you're right that it's n
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by bamfly 3y ago
Ours were cheerful happy babies until they turned into moody, constantly-bonkers late-toddlers/preschoolers/lower-grade-elementary-kids on whom zero disciplinary or behavior-correction approaches worked, whatsoever. None. Even a
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by bamfly 3y ago
When I read your comment above, I wondered if you'd gotten here by defining "fair" circularly. And... yep.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> It seems to me who is president does affect a lot of my life, from abortion, to Supreme Court rules that have majorly affected my life, to war, trade and the economy. It does—the problem is the value of a single vote. Odds are very poo
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by bamfly 3y ago
> news Following news, especially outside the very-local, has very nearly zero value for most people. It's a hobby with about the same value as watching a daily soap opera, that we fool ourselves into thinking is important. "
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by bamfly 3y ago
You are ignoring a lot about the situation of the workers, to reach these conclusions, and implying that they have so much leverage they're able to capture all the value of their labor: > The employees in this scenario have all th
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by bamfly 3y ago
This farmer claims it's about 50% of his costs. There are more steps before it hits store shelves. And price-charged is necessarily over costs for any non-failing business, so 50% (let's say) of costs won't equal 50% of the
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by bamfly 3y ago
Easy to do, even when people aren't doing it on purpose for propaganda reasons (which, you clearly weren't, from the tone of your post, but... it happens).
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by bamfly 3y ago
> many of these ag positions are exempt from minimum wage Child labor laws, too.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> A judgment of fair payment is up to the employee and the employer not the nation as a whole. Only true when it's two people of similar wealth and circumstances bargaining over how much one will pay for the other's labor. If y
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by bamfly 3y ago
There's a reason NPR's expanded as "Nice Polite Republicans" in certain circles.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> So yeah, raise the price of asparagus by 21%, to reflect the actual cost of picking, or better yet have the owners take a 21% pay cut. Wouldn't be anything like 21%. Tons of costs other than the labor to pick. I'd bet it&#x27
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by bamfly 3y ago
... or juicing the economy with a little redistribution, without simply giving handouts. Or a little of both. The CCC in the US was a similar thing: paying people to build nice things in parks and such while people were going hungry. We abs
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by bamfly 3y ago
I'm 80/20 on Musk's Mars thing being a way to get great PR in certain circles at near-zero cost. His periodically erratic behavior is the only reason I allocate the 20. Who else is seriously talking about space colonization a
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by bamfly 3y ago
This is exactly the romanticism I was writing about. Very little of the expense of historical exploration was undertaken just so people could scratch their exploration itch. Besides, we have a pretty good idea of what we'll find most
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by bamfly 3y ago
> [1]the sci-fi optimists' predictions of it leading to permanent colonies and starships within a generation or two have aged worse. Space-romantics tend to wildly overestimate the benefits of space colonization relative to the diff
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's physics-enthusiast for "time goes one way".
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by bamfly 3y ago
Pibb used to be cherry-forward, smoother-drinking Dr Pepper (nb I preferred Dr Pepper). Pibb Xtra is mostly just SUGAR punching you in the taste buds.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Dr Pepper tastes like raisin/prunes (caramelized plum if you prefer) + cherry + vanilla + a hint of black pepper way way way off the back end, in that order. For the young'uns: Mr Pibb used to be this, with more-forward cherr
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I'm not a native speaker and am finding it hard with how many qualifiers one needs to put into English sentences as to avoid looking like one is making sweeping absolute statements. Web-forum-English isn't like normal English
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by bamfly 3y ago
Probability in a given encounter , is how the post is written, which is fine. That is, in an encounter between police and non-police, it's much less likely that a police officer is killed or injured than that someone else is. Now, pol
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by bamfly 3y ago
> A lot of them are ex-military which is why every incident is treated like a mini-fallujah. The impression I get of the impression other ex-military folks have of veteran-cops , from the veterans I know, is that other veterans tend to
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by bamfly 3y ago
This is why I comment a "why" for any line of code that's not incredibly obvious. And 100% of the time when it's due to interaction with something outside the codebase, whether that's an OS, filesystem, database
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by bamfly 3y ago
I hate this in documentation. Snippets of code or config that don't work on their own, and it may not even be clear where they're supposed to go or what they're nested in. May use imports the name of which cannot be found
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I'm not sure how someone wearing body armor and carrying multiple weapons that can incapacitate or kill someone can be intimidated by a smile. They're wannabe military tough-guys with laughably worse training and culture, muc
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by bamfly 3y ago
You may enjoy the first episode of James Burke's Connections ("The Trigger Effect"), if you've not seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc
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by bamfly 3y ago
> That an overworked public school teacher is going to write a better letter of recommendation than a private school teacher? LOL. My understanding is the really good prep school college counsellors golf with one or more high-up folks
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by bamfly 3y ago
Might not be crazy to prefer someone with that ruling-class cred/connections (even if not, themselves, of that background) in certain very-lucrative sales positions. Or investing. Or law (especially the varieties that tend to pay very
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by bamfly 3y ago
Just look at who runs the government at the highest levels—elected, and appointees, both. Heavy representation of Ivies and other elite schools... sure, OK, not surprising, but you look farther back and more often than not, yep, expensive p
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by bamfly 3y ago
> The average reader there doesn't really have good taste in books. Massive problem everywhere. Sometimes I'll read some well-reviewed book-club sort of book, and it's usually somewhere between middling, and really bad.

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