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by ergothus 8y ago
Sounds like sex is a deeply emotional practice for human which intersects with any faith, rather than being a consequence of LACK of religion. (those pagan practices you cite WERE religious, after all). Several (all?) prominent religions
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Agreed - While I have HUGE sympathy for doctors that have to deliver this kind of news, I have numerous complaints about the care and attention I get from my doctors today when they AREN'T remote - I don't see remote as really bei
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by ergothus 8y ago
I too prefer feature folders. I wish it was the example most used...as it is we have a convention that has no reason other than "this how I first saw it done".
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by ergothus 8y ago
> It's becoming boring and boring, so that's why I believe people are leaving. I'm not much of a user myself, but among my friends that use it heavily I've noted a number of complaints that it has gotten HARDER to use
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by ergothus 8y ago
I love this phrase
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You're assuming that the costs are fixed, and that the only issue is when we decide to stop spending. An alternative is that the costs AREN'T fixed - that a significant portion of the money involved goes to costs that aren't
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...which I literally acknowledged.
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While the article talks about loneliness and friendships, the headline contradicts a common saying: "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
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by ergothus 8y ago
> You can't reason about ethics from the standpoint that whatever you are doing right now is known to be ethical. An excellent point...but we DO reason about ethics. We can draw parallels from our decisions in other areas to see if
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by ergothus 8y ago
Do you have the maximum number of children biologically possible? If not ( and I assume you haven't ), then you've made choices that have prevented others from existing. Assuming you are okay with that ( and I assume you are )
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by ergothus 8y ago
> using their capacity to come ahead in the game of life I, as an independent conscious entity, don't get a benefit from "coming ahead at the game of life". If someone has a child that they love and cherish, that's gr
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by ergothus 8y ago
See, this FEELS like a simple choice - but think of the implications of what you're saying. If existing is flat out always better than not - and I want to note this is NOT about suicide (ending existence) but about creating the existen
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by ergothus 8y ago
> the best thing you can do for the world is to have kids ...yet what is the best thing for the kids? That's a harder thing to know - you can't really compare "not existing" with "living in a world that has a t
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The real top Stack Overflow Questions(towardsdatascience.com)
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by ergothus 8y ago
When I was in middle school, I wrote an essay about how outrageous it was that someone would get upset at me for holding a door for them. That was over twenty years ago, before online communications were commonplace. Somewhere between then
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm hardly qualified to have anything but the most grossly informed of opinions, but yeah, I'd expect that in the current environment most tech-area (i.e. Seattle, SF, etc) devs can and should demand improvements and be able to ge
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by ergothus 8y ago
Rephrasing from my original comment: Because Google worried about a very supply-limited audience (tech workers, including related non-programmers). Most fields, the ones paying their employees far less and with far fewer perks, don't
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by ergothus 8y ago
I was thinking of things like a personal accountant for a mega-millionaire or a doctor on a crisis case...but even then you're right. Even with my qualifier of "sliver" and that I was mentally thinking in time-spans of less
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm not saying unions won't work...I'm saying they weren't involved in this case. This case doesn't look particularly repeatable WITHOUT unions.
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by ergothus 8y ago
Sure...but is there really a debate? I'm willing to accept a sliver of jobs that require that availability, if they involve saving lives or huge sums of money AND are explicitly agreed to by both parties. Other than some quibbles abo
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by ergothus 8y ago
> collective employee action can be used to force an employer to stop exploitative behaviors? I'm all for balancing the employer<->employee interaction, but is this truly something that works for most industries? Google cares
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by ergothus 8y ago
TL;DR: lawsuit claims dude's boss had unreasonable-but-believable demands on availability, yelp denies it. No real information is given as to the up-front understanding of expectation, nor evidence for either side. I'd be interes
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by ergothus 8y ago
> that's called a multiple point of failure, which is a good thing. Totally leaving aside the argument you were in - multiple single points of failure are bad, and very different than the opposite of a single point of failure. Havin
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by ergothus 8y ago
> This author is trying to make an actual argument Is there such an attempt? I see a lot of discussion of Dystopia, a few restatements of the thesis, but I don't actually see anything attempting to prove the thesis. The logic is
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by ergothus 8y ago
> ...some foe personified. > ...make sure he doesn't think he lost anything While I have vast respect for those that can have a different viewpoint, I'm not sure I'd be able to look on it as anything but an intensely pe
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by ergothus 8y ago
An interesting question. Once a mistake is made, what response do we hope for? Truthfully, once enough mistakes have been made, you can't have people happy, you can only have less UNhappy. Speaking off the top of my head (The questio
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by ergothus 8y ago
I worked at a state govt job that allowed for 4 day weeks. Being govt, and with my manager in particular, time was closely managed. It worked, but it was HARD! The difference between an 8 hour day and a 10 hour day is having to find a se
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by ergothus 8y ago
> None of this is rhetorical, as I'm actually genuinely curious what people think about this. I have no background knowledge that gives my opinion any weight, but like you I generally appreciated the article for being more practical
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by ergothus 8y ago
I was looking for a job commonly believed to not have creativity, so the stereotypicalness makes sense, but if you want me to confess to elitism, sure...I have plenty of bad biases. The point is not to say I'm free of them but to say
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by ergothus 8y ago
Agreed - there are tons of work that is creative. Heck, I think the best workers of any kind are the ones that take pride in their work and try to do it effectively - which even for jobs like cooking food or janitorial work consist of plen

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