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by camelNotation 11y ago
This is terrible. There's a Wal-Mart Express about 25 minutes from where I live, much farther out from the city in a very small farming town. When they came in, they drove several local stores out of business since they couldn't c
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I believe in the afterlife and for that reason, I don't take my own advice. I do what is virtuous, not what is always enjoyable. However, for someone like the OP, it sounds like they don't care too much for philosophy or religion
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I think you're reading more into my assertion than what was there. Don't assume that superiority gives us the right to abuse (I would argue quite the opposite) and don't assume that regarding ourselves as equal to other forms
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by camelNotation 11y ago
Agreed, that was the essence of what I was trying to say.
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I think our difficulty comes from the fact that we are unable to admit how exceptional we are. There is a fad at the moment, and it's been ongoing for a century or more, to assign a degree of banality to the biological classification o
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I think the organization process itself is what most people will find questionable about this. Making statements like: "You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprisin
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by camelNotation 11y ago
Reality: You're going to die. Good Idea: Take a vacation. Enjoy life.
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by camelNotation 11y ago
People say that and it seems true to some extent, but financially, people rarely fall into the categories of "limitless wealth" and "not a penny to my name." It's almost like a false dichotomy is being implied by th
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by camelNotation 11y ago
How do you enjoy a salary without time? Do you just glance at your mobile banking app in between meetings for kicks?
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I am always gone before or at 5. I am always here before 8. I am never late, I don't take lunch breaks, and I never stay late. I've never had an employer complain about this. I've had some bosses who regularly work past 5, bu
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by camelNotation 11y ago
People will disagree, but this is the sociological purpose of religion. Religious communities bring diverse people together, elevate the weakest, and promote societies that are competitive, but tempered by the empathy which comes from a sha
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by camelNotation 11y ago
That's a manufactured narrative. In actual war, the US attacked civilians all the time. If nothing else, we constantly bombed entire cities and strafed civilian populations during World War 2. Attacking civilian populations during war
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by camelNotation 11y ago
Putin isn't soft, but he also isn't a fool. He's managed to actually conquer and hold territory (Crimea and East Ukraine) in the post-Cold War world through a mixture of rhetoric, propaganda, and timing. Not only that, but he
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by camelNotation 11y ago
It does stand, though. "Harm" is a vague concept.
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by camelNotation 11y ago
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't seem like the sort of individual from whom I would seek a book recommendation.
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I live far below my means and save a ton of money. I do it partly for moments like this. If my employer comes to me tomorrow and says "we need you to move to X city/country or else we have to let you go" or "we are elimi
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by camelNotation 11y ago
You can suspect that, but Hoffman's research doesn't support it.
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by camelNotation 11y ago
Wages are set by the market, but two major market factors are revenue and how much money senior leadership want to keep in their own pockets. If he is okay making less and his company revenues are high enough to pay these salaries, then it
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I find it ironic that in order to remove the false idea of human exceptionalism, a human does what no other species is capable of doing (self-identify as something). This is not about fair treatment of animals or a "realistic" vie
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by camelNotation 11y ago
That's one of the key points of the article. You can't reasonably extrapolate that the goalposts will always move. Just because science is able to discern more than we expected in the past and will continue to do so in the future,
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by camelNotation 11y ago
Mine is 1400 square feet in a major city and I only paid 130k. You're getting ripped off!
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by camelNotation 11y ago
But we still need to factor in X and Y sometimes because there will always be areas where that X or Y advantage will cause disparity. Are we going to draw a hard line and say the military should be exactly 50/50 representation of men a
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I think that's probably a given for most of us. I work in the financial sector and it's the same here. The longer you stay put, the more is expected of you until finally you either move or quit. Work-life balance is a buzzword mos
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I'd consider the HTC One series and the new Galaxy S6 to be luxury phones on par with the iPhone or even better in some respects. The build quality and refinement is top notch.
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by camelNotation 11y ago
It's hardly a new concept, either. In fact, the root of the latin word "pagan" just means "rustic villager in the country". When Christianity became en vogue in the Roman Empire, it was the rednecks out in the count
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by camelNotation 11y ago
I've never heard the idea that "moderate drinking" was good for your health. I've heard that having 1 or 2 dark beers per week can positively impact your HDL Cholesterol levels. I've heard that drinking a glass of r
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by camelNotation 12y ago
My pet theory: Quantum mechanics is a statistically based science because we have yet to discover the constants that would unify it with general relativity, making this entire thought experiment irrelevant. Imagine if you are watching 10 pa
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by camelNotation 13y ago
No, in a perfect world, THIS is how web sites would handle login forms: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm