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My opinion on this is somewhat controversial, or at least non-mainstream, I think. I'd say that responsibility and power are perpendicular. One way to put it is that you can respond to anything: responsibility in my mind is nothing mor
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How responsible and how powerful you are are two different things. Your equation is a mix of both. Also, your equation does not account for the disparity in motivation. For every truly motivated individual, there's hordes of people who
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I agree with what you said about responsibility, except that, in a democracy, you _are_ responsible for your government. I'd argue that even in an authocracy you're responsible for surrendering your power to the authority.
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To be fair, different countries in Europe are culturally different. And, to be even fairer, what we mean by "dirty" is wildly personal, I think.
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You're saying that people who work in grocery stores don't care about their job performance, because their level of pay is guaranteed by workers in other industries being productive? That's a cynical thought. By the way, wher
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> Costco is generally clean That makes it sound like cleanliness is not the norm in grocery stores in US.
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Same with sanctions, or any other form of violence (violence, in the most abstract sense). The idea is to positively influence by exerting pressure. That's the ideal, anyway. It can become difficult to tell whether violence is motivate
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> I pretty much have to use it for some things, but as sibling commenters have pointed out, there are some serious flaws with both it and its maintainer Your sibling comments have not mentioned or alluded to any such flaws. Do you have c
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Someone's doing work.
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> unraveling mysteries of the commit messages that were written with this attitude https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/19211#issuecomment-9859 ... Curious to know what your vision of commit messages is. My
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How well it works depends on how well you've applied it. I've seen some botched applications. Good news is that they're cheap, so you can try again with a new one. Try searching Youtube for application walkthroughs and tips.
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You can apply a third-party non-reflective screen-protector. My guess is that the main reason many devices have reflective stock screens is that a reflective screen has higher brightness, while a matte screen is dimmer. I think most will ag
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Thanks for linking to firefox's dns-over-https instructions. I wasn't aware that I can just enable that in the settings.
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Thanks for the recommendation. These books are surprisingly hard to get a hold of in Europe.
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I would disagree.
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I heard good things about Viktor Frankl's books, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning . He went through Auschwitz and learned (and then tought) how to deal with hardship. People who are wil
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Ask HN: How do you solve big, complex problems?
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The writing is a problem. It's a call to action, it's a history lesson, it's an opinion piece. And, it's a mess. This is not The New Yorker: I want to know the gist of what you have to say in the first paragraph, and I w
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Let's get down to business. How do I use this as my Android TTS engine?
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How are these exams performed? It's a red flag to me that it's even possible to pass exam answers around. Do the examinees surveil themselves?
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To say that you need a clinician to diagnose depression, is like saying you need an MRI machine to detect pain. I'm not saying the person we're talking about is depressed (or that he's not), I'm just commenting on what y
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A fall in price doesn't mean that people are losing their savings. They might be short and thus gaining savings.
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Article has a refreshingly neutral tone. I wish all news were like this.
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There's woodworkers who buy unsharpenable saws and throw them away when they're not sharp anymore. There's also those that buy sharpenable and sharpen them themselves or send them to be professionally sharpened. Do what you l
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I keep a reasonably sharp straight edge knife (not razor-sharp), but find getting through the crust a chore with it (crust != crust, to be fair), and thus prefer serrated. Breadcrumbs all over are annoying though. Maybe keep a razor-sharp s
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by dmos62 4y ago
Sorry to hijack, but what is the minimum set of desktop environment utilities that need to be running for everything to run fine (on Linux)? I run xmonad via startx, but some basic stuff like EasyEffects (and possibly other stuff based on G
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> But the embarrassing incident prompted an apology from officials, with the city's mayor and other leaders bowing in apology to residents. > "We deeply regret that we have profoundly harmed the public's trust in the ad
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Here's an instance of the phenomenon. > In fact, in the case of the V-2, more than twice as many Allied prisoners died outfitting the factory and producing it than did Allied civilians and soldiers hit by it in rocket attacks. http
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> The system could track an object the size of a soccer ball from a distance of 300 miles (480 km), and its mission was to monitor Soviet ballistic missile testing in the reentry phase Sounds pretty cool.
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> Or at the very least lied to me. It sucks that they requested work from you that was not necessary, but would you really prefer that they lied about it? I'd say they mismanaged the situation, but at least were honest about it.

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