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by bronbron 12y ago
I'm not really talking about kids getting addicted. Not sure why you thought I was. I think we've done a pretty good job of regulating legal substances for minors. > And being gay should be discouraged because it spreads AIDS.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> I don't know. What I do know is that we should let people use/do what they want to their bodies. Will this have negative effects? Sure, they might, they might not. Personal choice trumps any sort of wide/vague societal b
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by bronbron 12y ago
You just supposed that to be true without really explaining WHY you think that's true. > What's more, it's already happening right now No it's not. The birth rate in the US has been steadily declining over the last ce
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by bronbron 12y ago
> Because we don't want to support a permanent underclass of parasites? Why do you think that would happen?
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by bronbron 12y ago
I think there are two issues: 1) Evaluation inflation/simplification. Happens with grades, happens with reviews. 4 stars becomes the new 'adequate'. If you're under 4 stars, you're bad. Everyone subconsciously knows
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by bronbron 12y ago
> It doesn’t count if some foreign scientists already did a bunch of studies. It doesn’t count if millions of Russians have been using the drug for decades and are by and large still alive. Um, no, it doesn't. What's the FDA go
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by bronbron 12y ago
> In most cases current residents do not have a tie to the original culture or history. > living through race riots does not have any relevance whatsoever. Oooook then. I'll let you think about these two statements side-by-side f
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by bronbron 12y ago
> A lot of the gentrifying neighborhoods in NYC have histories that go much too far back to be attributed to the current residents That's kind of a silly argument (Harlem's 50+ year residents were most certainly in Harlem durin
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by bronbron 12y ago
> people fixing up a run down neighborhood Whoa there, let's not put words in people's mouths. Gentrification has benefits and drawbacks, like everything else. First, and foremost, the neighborhoods aren't always run down
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by bronbron 12y ago
Fellow new yorker here, I'll contribute my 2c: The hypertrophic city is undoubtedly going to have advantages that suburbs and traditional cities don't (he touched on some of the disadvantages, so I won't repeat them here). Th
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by bronbron 12y ago
I'm glad when people post things like this. Obviously I take it with a grain of salt, but it's beneficial data nonetheless. I'm glad as a consumer, because I use Grooveshark semi-regularly and I would be pretty upset to lose
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by bronbron 12y ago
Sure, but this article isn't really about that group. Regardless of being a super responsible person saving/investing your money wisely while living at home, if you're unable to obtain fruitful employment by your early 30s th
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by bronbron 12y ago
> thus can take jobs which focus on experience rather than salary and they can save money for entrepreneurial activity Yeah, but the tone of the article is that they're not doing that. They're working menial or frustrating jobs
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by bronbron 12y ago
Compounding that problem, however, I would imagine that parents with "boomerang children" are inclined to keep working longer (because they're essentially supporting a dependent again). It's kind of a vicious cycle.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> I'm surprised its not getting traction faster. There are so many novel, cool "JS replacements" that it's easy to feel some paralysis about the whole matter. Do you go with Dart? TypeScript? Clojure? Or do you stick
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by bronbron 12y ago
I don't think that's always true - there are certainly movies that are "so bad they're good" (and thus become the fodder of MST3K/RiffTrax). But, there are movies that are just straight-up bad and can never be
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by bronbron 12y ago
If anything, I think it's easier in the city. I don't really have to worry about walking back to my original location - wherever I end up, I can probably hop on public transportation and get back home.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> size (employee wise) of a family, Sure, but what's that - like 10 people? Yeah I'll agree then you don't need processes.
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by bronbron 12y ago
It's very, very unlikely that he would fire someone on a whim. He has the ability, but it's very unlikely that he would exercise that ability.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> The comparison was meant to highlight that people who share culture have less process. Yeah, I guess I’ll need a different example to really believe you. I think if cultivating relationships aren't a possibility (and they aren&#x2
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by bronbron 12y ago
Excellent point! I actually wasn't even thinking about religion. I was thinking more broad (e.g. Dowries), but you're absolutely right there are tons of explicit processes as well.
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by bronbron 12y ago
You actually brought up an interesting point that I was going to address: Netflix also has a legendary policy of expedient, rapid termination (see: The presentation that circulates around every so often). The caveat to my statement was that
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by bronbron 12y ago
I think you're inadvertently proving my point, though: The family members have less process because they know each other pretty intimately. And while you can have those kinds of relationships in a company that's composed of 5 peop
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by bronbron 12y ago
Interesting! I didn't know there were different distinctions. Still, I think your source really just proves my point: by no means is anyone earning 120K a year "solidly middle class". By pretty much all of the definitions you
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by bronbron 12y ago
Sure, I'm not discounting that. I live in NYC, and the cost of living is certainly an adjustment to your wealth. That said, I think it would still be disingenuous to consider anyone making $120K a year middle class.
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by bronbron 12y ago
> Ever notice how families or tribes don’t require much process? That is because there is such a strong trust and culture that it supersedes any process. In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundanc
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by bronbron 12y ago
While this seems like a really cool idea, I have a feeling that this is the sort of feature that everyone will enable at first, and then one single bad event will cause them to disable it forever. I'm sure everyone has told a "whi
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by bronbron 12y ago
> They are solidly middle class Not really. If you earn $120k a year (just over 6 figures) you're in the top 10% of income earners in the US. The fact that you think they're 'middle class' (and relatively speaking, I
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by bronbron 13y ago
> this is not how we settle political disputes in a civil society Um.. what? We don't settle political disputes in a civil society by boycotting entities who choose to associate with actors we believe are immoral? That's silly.
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by bronbron 13y ago
That's true of pretty much any knowledge you don't gather first-hand, though. It's not a binary thing, it's a spectrum. I don't have any first-hand knowledge that black holes exist, but there's a great deal of

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