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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
The article makes a reasonable point, that hoarding can be motivated by rational frugality. I think it is a little unfair in its criticism of the original article, whose target audience is really people with many options (i.e. they have mo
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
If you act in compliance with the wishes of criminals, as if they were holding a gun to your head, without them even lifting a finger, you are rewarding them greatly to your detriment. If fear you are being watched is going to color your th
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
Yes, because your claim you thought it was just a dumb empty suitcase will be very believable. You forgot it because (A) it was not your bag and (B) it was not valuable, so it was easy to forget.
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
You could go to a police station and ask for assistance searching the bag. You could go early to the airport and ask for the help of a drug sniffing dog. Assuming you are innocent, what will absolutely doom your defense is any indication t
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
Straw man. As I said, it boils down to guesses about the limits of Sauron's power. Reasonable people can disagree about the best guess. Unreasonable people pretend their guesses are not guesses. That it is, to some degree, possible to eva
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
I do not agree that it is a plot hole, unless every possibly important unanswered question qualifies as a plot hole. I agree that the use of eagles is an unanswered question, that might, to some, seem somewhat surprising that it was never m
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
Both the pro- and anti-eagle arguments make assumptions. The pro-eagle argument is built on assumptions about the limits of power. We know that Sauron is unequaled in power among the Maia. We know that Sauron built mountain ranges. We kn
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by comrade_ogilvy 14y ago
We understand early on that employing the Ring is too hazardous to contemplate, and will simply lead to a different kind of doom, at best. Sauron is worried that Saruman or Gandalf or Galadriel or Elrond or Aragorn could successfully comman
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by comrade_ogilvy 15y ago
Apple drastically cuts feature scope early and often. The result is products that seem a little feature light to many technophiles and reviewers, yet sell like hotcakes to the real customers. How many companies could resist putting a came