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by cjslep 9y ago
Look, I grew up in The South, more specifically in a small town that got swallowed up by Charlotte when the Yankees were moving down in droves due to the banking and housing boom that took place there (ex: when NationsBank and BofA merged)
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I agree with you, but I think you are purposefully conflating their long-documented drive towards obtaining nuclear weapons (of which I am talking about) and... well, everything else that's been horrible about the regieme (which I am n
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by cjslep 9y ago
I agree with you. So I don't know who you are arguing against. Perhaps an accidental strawman? Edit: I'm only talking about their drive towards nuclear weapons, not any other aspects of the regieme (starvation, kidnapping, torture
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by cjslep 9y ago
If anyone wonders why the North Korean are obsessed with nuclear weapons: it's our own fault (USA). During the Korean war, when ceasefire negotiations were straggling, both the US and N. Koreans came to the table expecting the other to
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by cjslep 9y ago
My point isn't "be as smart as me" and I do apologise if my tone is coming across that way. My point is "get educated on the issue" which seems reasonable to me (the tone of which I guess can also be misconstrued as
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by cjslep 9y ago
Yes, and radiation can be serious. But nature knows how to deal with high levels of radiation (see Chernobyl's flourishing ecosystem) after a period of time, same with any other disaster. You as a human could go into some moderately ra
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by cjslep 9y ago
You have a strange definition of "local" for Exxon Valdez/Deepwater Horizon. As well as "temporal", too. 20 years later species haven't recovered from the Valdez spill (unless you ask Exxon). Deepwater Horizon
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by cjslep 9y ago
This seems like cherry picking and the innate human bias at play. Given a big enough disaster, there isn't anything anyone can do as it unfolds. And spectacular failures stick in our mind. Here's some non-nuclear disasters that ha
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Same for Safari on iOS. The best we can do is flag it.
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That kind of disconnect and isolation is really well explored in the movie Fight Club: "Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-cond
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by cjslep 9y ago
That statistic (more trees than 100 years ago) is less impressive when you consider the baseline (1920's) had already clear-cut most of the old/ancient forests in the USA (hence the conservationist movement decades prior) during t
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by cjslep 9y ago
There's two things I'd like to say: 1) The media rarely characterizes the actual underlying science correctly. In this case, the journal entry [0] and an author of the paper herself[1] characterize it as simply a "difference&
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Opioids also alters the behavior of society as a whole, to a larger degree than terrorism (albeit in a less flashy manner). When people can't get their addictive painkillers legally, illicit trade and overdosing permeates society, caus
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by cjslep 9y ago
Posts such as this still don't address a large concern: What assurances are there about the "political" (for lack of a better term) controlling entities around the coin? For instance, Bitcoin is susceptible to a 51% attack to
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by cjslep 9y ago
I of course was mistaken to choose the word "systematic". I intended to use the word "systemic". Though I am not surprised you did not offer me the courtesy of possibly being mistaken and instead cast my position as a st
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by cjslep 9y ago
This is also exactly how EvE Online has worked with PLEX for years now.
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Systematic sexism is tens of thousands of men telling women to "smile more" at work to look prettier, the opposite of which does not happen at a huge scale (but is also wrong). There is a difference between institutional isms (eg
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by cjslep 9y ago
I don't think that first line is true, most adults are able to be disagreeable without using a slur, such as us. So no, I would say sexism wouldn't exist if people could disagree on merits of discussion instead of any insults (whi
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by cjslep 9y ago
Yes, to take your point further: instead of any of those names, for Obama people chose a racial slur. They could have just as easily used Hitler, Idiot, Psycopath. That would have been a better test of whether our society was in some post
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by cjslep 9y ago
> The former president of the US was a bkack man ...and when he was reelected president, the Free Expression tunnel at NC State was spray painted with the confederate battle flag background, his "Hope" pose portrait, and in hug
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by cjslep 9y ago
Alas! The Marquesas! Shun the beckoning land! Choose the open sea instead To whatever end! Took down to wondrous depths Sullen we did go Where shapes of unwarped primal Gliding to and fro ... (c) Ahab
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by cjslep 9y ago
The problem here (and the reason you are getting downvoted, I believe) is you think your anecdote of your friends' opinions trumps falcolas' anecdote about his/her family as untrue, instead of imagining the colorful world it
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by cjslep 9y ago
> So yes, this research does help eliminate nausea in VR. To say otherwise is misleading. Are you responding to someone? Because this doesn't really make sense to me. Can you clarify?
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As someone who has put effort into writing a reply to you,
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I too have a very rare last name. It doesn't even register in forebears.io (just using the simple search bar). Having to explain it's "sleep without one 'e'" and instruct people how to pronounce it every time i
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by cjslep 9y ago
Your hostile strawman/reducto-ad-absurdum is not appreciated. My criticism is a valid one, despite my mortal limitations.
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by cjslep 9y ago
They forgot the feature where if a smart contract doesn't go the way they want it, they create a default-opt-in hard fork of the currency. Sorry if I don't trust the "small group of legends" more than the government.
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by cjslep 9y ago
We define user loyalty on Reddit based on commenting behavior, which we view as a strong proxy for latent engagement. To focus our attention on loyalty in- stead of platform-level retention, all of the following defini- tions are restricte
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I think the bigger problem is the erosion of the distinction between "investor" and "speculator", which is often unclear for novices entering the market (for whom Robinhood is significantly lowering the barrier for). Rob
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by cjslep 10y ago
Liberalism (in the classic democracy enlightenment-age concept, not the US partisan party sense) has flourished and waned over the years across the globe. It will be interesting to see where this goes in the next 50 years.

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