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by eseehausen 11y ago
There's a pretty strong tradition of an arts vs. crafts dichotomy though. Edit: If anything, aren't the traditional dichotomies art vs. craft and career vs. hobby? Typically speaking, it's widely acknowledged that artists hav
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by eseehausen 11y ago
It's obvious this is some kind of pet peeve, but a little googling would answer your own questions. It seems like the NIST is the regulatory body in the US presiding over official measurements, and they provide a brief overview here:
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by eseehausen 11y ago
Again, for many Americans, using grams is introducing additional units of measurement. Obviously, the US should've moved to metric forever ago, but we didn't. When addressing a public health crisis, it's good to put things in
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by eseehausen 11y ago
A teaspoon is basically 5ml, which is around 5 grams. Most Americans have experience measuring foodstuffs with teaspoons, not with scales, and even if they did, it wouldn't be in grams.
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by eseehausen 11y ago
In the USA it's on the label (though on the back, usually) too. They're just allowed to say that no additional sugar was added. The real push is moving from something that people in the US can't readily parse (like grams of s
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by eseehausen 11y ago
> rather it has just uncovered what was already there Exactly! One of the interesting things that's happened is group discussions that would've taken place in private now often happen in very public places. Imagine, for instanc
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by eseehausen 11y ago
Books don't need to have a unique name, just like in normal libraries. You can basically assume a title is the first X characters of the total Y characters of a given text. The goal of the Library of Babel isn't to be a perfect ke
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by eseehausen 11y ago
Of course, the point of the story was not universal accessibility but the decisions made by people confronted by this incredible randomness (some burning whole shelves after finding one incomprehensible page, some frantically trying to prot
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by eseehausen 11y ago
I would imagine one of the primary reasons for not reporting to the police in the USA is to avoid reporting to insurance companies. A claim makes one's premiums go up, often higher than it would take to amicably settle the issue betwee
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Developers – Matt Takaichi(mtakaichi.com)
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by eseehausen 11y ago
The poor don't get taxed if the special tax is progressive (or non-existent at lower levels of income/wealth). Of course, the argument that such a tax being effective is impossible these days due to contemporary mobility of wealth
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by eseehausen 11y ago
It seemed to me that the interviewer was setting up the popular German objections so that Piketty could knock them down rather than actually believing those pretty naive arguments. Or is that the issue you have with it in the first place?
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by eseehausen 11y ago
I was more agreeing with the parent comment than disagreeing with you. Money, marketing, and discipline probably should be bigger parts of my life (definitely in the case of marketing). Getting to see your thoughts and that front has contri
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by eseehausen 11y ago
I agree completely. Honing that gut instinct and learning to market (as painful as it can be) seem to be the biggest things involved. I find that compared to a day job, one of the best things about freelancing is that if there's the so
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by eseehausen 11y ago
Nonetheless, this is a common strategy that's used by people with names that sound non-white. Not everyone is responsible for combatting larger structural injustice while they're just trying to get employed at a sustenance level.
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by eseehausen 11y ago
Looking back, I'm not sure I could imagine bootstrapping without having a supportive partner. Mine was earning slightly less than me, but she covered the insurance, so that was helpful too. Much more importantly, when there were times
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by eseehausen 12y ago
Ah, those links refreshed my memory- I was incorrect in my edit- that approach more closely resembles Locke's state of nature. But thank you for showing me that Rand gets there from another angle.
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by eseehausen 12y ago
"Flamebait" was certainly not my intention. I may be naive, but what is the difference between a society comprised of people with no obligations toward each other and the state of nature? Edit: For instance, for Hobbes, that prett
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by eseehausen 12y ago
How does that even square? According to your initial premise, your problems are not deaf people's problems (except insofar as they choose to act on empathy they may feel), and they should do everything in their power to maximize their
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by eseehausen 12y ago
This old chestnut, huh. http://www.vox.com/2014/12/7/7344963/scientists-scammed-at-l... http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/37798/... And so on and so on
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by eseehausen 12y ago
If you mean choice as something external to whatever deterministic/indeterministic framework we use to understand physical systems, it is mystical. If you mean choice as in "I wanted to do something and then I did it", which
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by eseehausen 12y ago
All that would mean is that you were incorrect before when you had some mystical idea of what choice meant. Choices still matter (in the most literal sense: they are material). If complete determinism is true, the choices we make and the th
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by eseehausen 12y ago
This issue you're running into is why I think trying to think about free will in that context is a category error. The concept doesn't make sense when it's something that depends on randomness or determinism. Instead, I think
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by eseehausen 12y ago
It does matter, because determinism generally (but not always) depends on causation. People making (determined) predictions would still influence the (determined) future actions of other people. Punishing people who acted in a (determined)
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by eseehausen 12y ago
Other people have answered this well, but I think that the question of determinism vs. indeterminism is essentially the question of an ordered universe vs. a random one (or picking a point between those two extremes). If that's the cas
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by eseehausen 12y ago
As the final section shows, this is more about the question of determinism vs indeterminism. Depending on your particular ontological and epistemological leanings, that question and the question of free will may be the same, or conflating t
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by eseehausen 13y ago
That's just reality. Pessimism would be saying that means no good can come of it, which GP did not say.
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by eseehausen 13y ago
It's 50MB. That probably revises #2. As for #1, isn't this a good thing in itself?
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by eseehausen 13y ago
You're right, but that makes it sound more, not less, difficult to accomplish.
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by eseehausen 13y ago
I agree, but I was addressing the fantasy that there is a different case, which remains pervasive, despite an abundance of strong arguments against it made by other replies offered to parent.

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