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by civilian 8y ago
Where are houses being given away in the US? I imagine that you need to be a Japanese citizen to get a free house.
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by civilian 8y ago
My uncle is an architect (now a master architect) and knowing his career path makes your comment kinda amusing. Uncle got a Bachelor's in Architecture, and was able to draft plans, but wasn't able to give them actual approval. You
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by civilian 8y ago
(People have always had sex outside of marriage. If anything, the current generation is doing it with honest communication, rather than going behind their partner's back.)
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by civilian 8y ago
How about drone strike via due process? :(
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by civilian 8y ago
It's sad you liked ranked choice voting last. That's all we need to end the duopoly. I also feel, as the supreme court does, that Citizens United is a free speech issue. You should listen to this podcast about it to get some persp
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by civilian 8y ago
There's nothing wrong with this usage of the word? (I've got a degree in biochemistry is that helps at all??) What kind of crappy conversations tend to happen from the usage of that word? It's weird that the title was changed
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by civilian 8y ago
"As the Gig Economy hits Tech, ALL TECH JOBS will be performed through Moonlight! Market cap > 4q"
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by civilian 8y ago
Yes we are! I first had the same thought when I was reading about Galley division: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_division and then I think I found a website that could switch between english and arabic translati
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by civilian 8y ago
In American english tariff is usually used as "tax". Especially in the context of import & export taxes on goods and services. (E.g. The American colonies revolted over the tea tariff.)
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by civilian 8y ago
It seems like it's just limited on desktop? After dragging a certain amount on a desktop, I can't pull the swing back any further.
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by civilian 8y ago
Awesome!!
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by civilian 8y ago
Why can't we use privatekeys as a way to log into websites? It's good enough for servers, and it's good enough for git access. I'd be way more comfortable about simply having my browser have access to a privatekey, and p
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by civilian 8y ago
I found one link with some pictures-- it really doesn't show the sleeping area though http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2012/09/06/midoriso-collaborativ...
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by civilian 8y ago
The number of available jobs is _not_ limited, it's a supply and demand curve! An employer doesn't just have X jobs to fill a business. They have some number of tasks to do, and there's always more they could be doing. If the
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by civilian 8y ago
Their competitors were not paying "living" wages. Brick and mortar retail, especially mom&pop stores, were notorious for paying low wages. Destroying jobs is a good thing. It means that Amazon can pass on the savings to consum
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by civilian 8y ago
Flip it around. These people needed government support, and Bezos is giving them a job, so now they need less government support than they did before. Bezos is helping to give money to people who would have otherwise been totally on welfare
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by civilian 8y ago
(what does 'stanned' mean? I can't figure out if it's a typo.)
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by civilian 8y ago
I think that legister means that few Cartels, as in a cartel-collaboration-pricing-strategy, are successful in the long term. Yes OPEC exists as an organization, but it's price-fixing & supply-fixing strategies have failed. Especia
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by civilian 8y ago
When a building is being knocked down and replaced with another, the construction workers usually don't clear the rubble. They just flatten the rubble and build ontop of it. That means that cities like Rome and Vienna truly are buildin
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by civilian 8y ago
You might read this. It doesn't defend the insulin hypothesis, but it explains how freaking _weird_ nutrition is. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry-... Specifically it shows tha
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by civilian 8y ago
You'd probably want to drink it beforehand, but maybe! You'd have to make the chemicals also resistant to being dissolved and absorbed by stomach acids & the gut.
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by civilian 8y ago
They shouldn't. Now, you should make sure that your employees and hiring managers aren't making hires based on race. And that goes for favoring _any_ racial group.
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by civilian 8y ago
Scott Alexander gets deep into labor force participation rate in those post (with lots of good charts!): http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/02/19/technological-unemploym... A sister-comment mentioned baby boomers
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by civilian 8y ago
But cancer isn't a parasite. It's a flaw in an information system. We have several gates, oncogenes, that protect us against cancer forming. But then those genes take damage, then cancer can form. This isn't a determinist &qu
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by civilian 8y ago
I think your understanding of cancer is a little flawed. It's not just "the organism will get cancer" or not, it's horribly complex. Different cancers develop from different differentiated cells, and often it's a
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by civilian 8y ago
Stupidity is general slowness in learning. If someone is not good at _anything_ then it's a good bayesian guess to say they're stupid. If someone has high-achievement in one or more specialities it's safe to say they're
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by civilian 8y ago
You're absolutely right. And the Big5 factor named "conscientiousness" is another word for grit. (AndI assume ardit33 was using the Big5 meaning.) I'd further say that emotional intelligence and charisma correlate somewh
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by civilian 8y ago
Hey, here's a crazy thought. Why don't we end the drug war? Then people can easily get safe drugs with accurate dosages. The deaths, money laundering. They're not symptoms of drug dealers, they're symptoms of the drug wa
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by civilian 8y ago
Yup. And additionally, the mobile app is a sub-par UX experience compared to the desktop website.
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by civilian 8y ago
I think that in most situations the pressure would still not change much as far as atom-to-atom distances go. And in those situations, carbon is still smaller and workable.

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