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by dieterrams 9y ago
> "Facebook messenger doesn't require a facebook account!" which I don't understand. You can actually sign up for a Messenger account independently of a Facebook account. However, this doesn't seem to be well sup
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Missing from the title is the qualifier "healthy", as in "healthy low-fat" diet vs "healthy low-carb" diet. What does "healthy" mean, here? It's not defined in the abstract.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I can’t remember if this still works, but you used to be able to set the privacy of your profile photo to “only me”, which would prevent it from appearing in friends’ news feeds. After a few days or so you could safely set the privacy back
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Well, "scientists" isn't a uniform population in terms of people management skills, and scientists who self-select to run for office are already in one important way outside of the norm for that population. So while it makes
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Yes, I read it as 'sneakers' as well. Pretty sure it's because the word if prefaced with "pair of", which is much more commonly used with 'sneakers'.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideal_speech_situation You're certainly right about the long tradition behind 'debate', and yet, it does still carry the connotations I mentioned earlier, to the extent that
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by dieterrams 9y ago
‘Debate’ does seem to have strong connotations of a rhetorical fight. ‘Discourse’ has been the preferred word among philosphers and other circles that discuss this sort of thing.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Lower costs do not straightforwardly translate into lower consumer prices, unless we're dealing with commodities in a perfectly competitive market. Moreover, in this scenario where the entire market is now able to spend their advertisi
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by dieterrams 9y ago
I think there’s a transgressive element to pooping on the sidewalk specifically, as opposed to areas that are still accessible but not directly in people’s walking paths. That said, I certainly don’t blame them for being transgressive.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> Make a left from a $400/night hotel room and you're standing next to human feces and needles. To be fair, there are human feces all over downtown.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Did company resist X? Does company need to generate more revenue? Company will give in to X.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
"[I]ncreasingly frustrated" suggests they were frustrated before, and are more so now.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Hey buddy. Flawed != bad or net negative.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
It's likely that what you're noticing is an artifact of how visual perception works. Even in pitch dark, your brain is still trying to do pattern matching, and because that process of pattern matching results in what we 'see&
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by dieterrams 9y ago
True. I was not familiar with the premise when I played it.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Lookup tables were indeed a common technique used by games in the past.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
This is definitely not merely what it appears to be.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
That's terrible, and I'm sorry you had to go through all that. My recommendation is that you take your life back , and refuse to allow what she did to you to harm you any more. There's life after this, and come hell or high
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Xenophobia could be part of it, but there’s probably an element of disdain (possibly deserved) for people who just chase Michelin restaurants but don’t have the palate necessary to really appreciate the food. An exaggerated analogy: someone
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> I think all of those who concluded that he was being a misogynist have no leg to stand on. I don't necessarily believe he's a misogynist, but I do think he's in denial about the impact of sexism on gender gaps. To quote
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> Do any actual respectable, academic or working economists make these arguments though? "Respectable" is questionable, but the economists that do are invariably motivated by ideology.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
> Personally, I can't conceive of a situation where, in a perfectly fair system, the man with the most money is utterly intolerable. I'm not sure how this is a response to what I wrote. I'm talking about the tolerability o
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by dieterrams 9y ago
As interesting as Frankfurt can be, this semantic quibbling is unhelpful. When most of us progressive types speak out against "economic inequality", we are not saying we want everybody to have equal wealth. The concern is about r
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by dieterrams 9y ago
It's unfortunate that you're unable to even imagine that some people see paying taxes--for this purpose specifically, even--as an obligation, however much they may grumble about waste and "lost" income.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
That's somewhat common, in my experience. It's just a basic quiz to screen out obviously unqualified applicants.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
You see it as enforced generosity. Others see it as general societal obligation to take care of its members when hit by forces not under their control. If you were hit by similar circumstances, I'm not sure you'd be as quick to de
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by dieterrams 9y ago
Behavioral economics.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
How about you read declarations of rights to a fair trial and point out where they imply that they are principally about ensuring the accusers' application of aggression is justified, as opposed to protecting the accused? Whether or no
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by dieterrams 9y ago
No, it is to prevent the defendant from being unjustly blamed and punished.
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by dieterrams 9y ago
The right not to be unfairly tried is easily satisfied by not having a trial at all. The right to a fair trial is about two things: you must be tried before being found guilty and punishment/sentencing is administered, and that trial m

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