ewestern

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by ewestern 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo
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by ewestern 5y ago
> There are upper class Americans in particular who basically work extremely long hours (80-105 hour work weeks) to game the system, with no net productivity gains whatsoever compared to the middle and upper middle class who typically wo
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by ewestern 5y ago
I mean, all observations involve a subject. The question is whether there are other subjects that can observe an object and reach consensus about the object. If yes, then, in my view, it's objective. If not, then it's purely subje
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by ewestern 5y ago
Agree that "arbitrary" was a poor word choice, but it seems as though he meant something like "subjective", which is consonant with the rest of the article. I think differentiating subjective scales from objective scale
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by ewestern 5y ago
> Kail created and controlled a limited liability corporation called Unix Mercenary, LLC, This is like if Bernie Madoff named his firm Ponzi Holdings, Inc.
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by ewestern 5y ago
Its best to punish only one side of a bribe arrangement -- usually, the one granting access in exchange for cash. The reason is that the more parties that have a strong incentive to keep the bribe arrangement a secret, the more likely it wi
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by ewestern 6y ago
I think he's referring to a specific etymology of OK (specifically, one that was in a dictionary he had).
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by ewestern 8y ago
>> Unsurprisingly, USA near the top with 1780 hrs worked annually by the average worker According to the chart, US workers work < 1% more than the average for OECD countries. There are only two countries that are closer to the aver
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by ewestern 10y ago
You realize "privileged" in this sentence is a vacuous epithet and has no bearing on the term's origins in sociological criticism, right?
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by ewestern 12y ago
This is not really true. Here's the National Organic Program: http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/nop . Anything sold as organic in the US has to abide by these guidelines. Here's the equivalent EU program http:
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by ewestern 12y ago
"someone who the state claims, without presenting evidence, is actively trying to kill american citizens" FTFY
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by ewestern 13y ago
"Civility" enforced by a coercive state is no civility at all; it is the protection of the interests of the politically connected against the interests of everyone else.