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by camelNotation 7y ago
What about the headache of maintaining a big home? I've seen what it is like to care for a large home. It's a nightmare, whether you have money or not. Every pool, every gymnasium, every commercial-grade appliance, etc. They all r
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by camelNotation 7y ago
On paper it sounds like a good idea. Limit brain drain, keep the high achievers in India. But in practice, it's not that simple. US businesses do well largely because our market is not nearly as corrupted by politics the way things are
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by camelNotation 7y ago
It's a choice, but also not a choice. I could pay for a nanny or childcare of some sort for portions of the day and allow myself to focus on things like food quality, exercise, etc. I prefer to sacrifice those things to be with my kids
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by camelNotation 7y ago
The highs are higher, lows are lower idea seems right. And a lot of the value comes from that. Life in more real, more genuine when you aren't as insulated from pain and joy.
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by camelNotation 7y ago
I have less than five kids, but more than one kid. My kids cause me a lot of stress. The burden of knowing I have to deal with them and their energetic, ridiculous antics every day when I get home really drains me. I don't really have
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by camelNotation 7y ago
> It's like the "Thanksgiving arguments" are engineered precisely to create a rift between generations. Isolation is a self-perpetuating thing. People hate going home for Thanksgiving and arguing with their relatives becau
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by camelNotation 7y ago
A lot of people are, though. I realize there are people who have no choice because life sucks and work is hard to find, but I'm not criticizing them. I'm criticizing the ones that choose to leave when they don't need to. We a
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Feminism has brought about a lot of changes, but I don't think we can lay this one at the feet of women trying to escape their compulsory reliance on unreliable, selfish, and inconsiderate men. Most people are alone because they don&#x
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by camelNotation 7y ago
I've known several people, like yourself, that had that sort of abusive experience while homeschooling. We've built our system with the specific purpose of avoiding those pitfalls. I think you're projecting your suffering on
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by camelNotation 7y ago
> Sure maybe homeschooled kids are slightly better off, but that comes at a huge cost for all the kids who have a single parent who works three jobs that will never be able to afford to homeschool them. You are proposing to offset econom
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by camelNotation 7y ago
> Any teacher must be familiar with both the subject matter and basic pedagogy, regardless of whether they're teaching one student or many I think you are imagining a homeschool from the 1980s. My kids learn many aspects of the subj
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by camelNotation 7y ago
> School is far too important as a social mixer and a way to educate well-rounded citizens to leave it to the whims of parents. Literally zero evidence for this. On average, kids that are homeschooled walk away with higher levels achieve
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by camelNotation 7y ago
> Dealing with petty drama in K-12 is good low-stakes practice for dealing with petty drama in adult life. There's really no evidence for this. The only reason anyone believes this is because modern school is a living hell and if th
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Professional educators really only need the training and certification because they are dealing with students at scale. One on one teaching is not remotely the same as teaching in a classroom setting where you have to adapt to multiple lear
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by camelNotation 7y ago
I don't think this is a problem with homeschooling as much as with a subset of homeschoolers - particularly religious fundamentalists and anarchist types. My wife and I homeschool, but we have our kids pushing well beyond their grade l
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Neuroticism in the context of personality is not necessarily the same as having a mental illness or being "neurotic." There is some crossover between the behavior of someone we would describe as "neurotic" and someone wi
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Sure, that is definitely an option. But people need to be willing to discuss those options and demand them from funeral services. The problem we have with this entire subject is that most people are not willing to engage with it too serious
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by camelNotation 7y ago
That's so weird. Consider what is really going on there. 1. They are removing all of this guys body fluids and injecting him with weird preservatives. He's been drained like a hunted animal and is puffed up with fake juices. 2. Th
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by camelNotation 7y ago
We don't embalm, but we also do open casket sometimes (if the body is in good shape), so one strategy that is used is dry ice around the body to keep the temperature as low as possible.
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by camelNotation 7y ago
If you don't want people to fly or drive to a funeral, just have a small, local funeral or no funeral at all. That has nothing to do with the way the body is dealt with. And land shortage is not really an issue in any real sense. Even
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Human bodies naturally decompose on their own, even without a tree. The problem is that no one is burying people unembalmed, everyone insists on mummifying the corpses of their relatives before putting them in the ground and this is just im
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Would a student be more likely to admit to "thoughts of doing a school shooting" if school shootings weren't stigmatized? Yes, probably. Would an abuser be more likely to admit to "thoughts of beating up his wife" i
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Yes, I realize that removing the stigma around suicide might help that subset of the population that are already in the midst of it, but what about in five years? Ten years? What effect will that have on others? We can't know for sure,
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Suicide is a perfect example of an anti-social behavior that must be stigmatized because the stigma itself serves as a major barrier to its proliferation. Removing the stigma might make it easier on survivors and family, but it will actuall
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by camelNotation 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree. The newer ThinkPads, especially the thin lines like the P1 and X1 are beautiful devices, solid metal, matte black, very clean. Sure, they sell a few big and fat workstation designs as well, but you are getting an
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Not only are Thinkpad keyboards the most comfortable and satisfying on the market, you can literally pour water on them and it will drain out the bottom of the laptop without ever touching internal components. After using my Thinkpad for ab
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Medicare-for-All is some sort of "far left" fantasy in the United States, but single-payer healthcare is center-right dogma in every other developed country. I have no idea why this is so hard for the American right to grasp: sing
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Yes, the Internet is part of foreign trade, that is my point. The same way that we restrict foreign trade in certain instances in order to protect our own interests will be reflected in restrictions on Internet connectivity in general. That
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by camelNotation 7y ago
Sure, but more importantly, in the event of war it would grant them a strategic advantage to be able to use the Internet exclusively within their own territory. The Internet as this wild west style free-for-all was never going to survive na
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by camelNotation 8y ago
Yes, there is a balance that has to be struck between how much of your economy is investment and how much is spending on real goods because they are symbiotic. The problem is that when inequality rises too high, you end up with too much mon

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