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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
The irony is that the rebel ant needs the colony in order to be a rebel.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Families are states. Anarchy is fascism. Violence is government. Law is force. Peace is control.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> We can argue over the fine details, but you can't convince me that this is not shady. He's not trying to convince you, he's trying to convince himself.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Living inside the state, you wouldn't have those fruits if it weren't for the state. Living outside of the state, tribute of fruits is the fee for belonging to the state. If someone were truly being forced to pay US taxes, they
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
I agree, but I think it's because a d-pad does two things: 1) it lets you press two directions at once with a single finger (all four diagonals are actually two presses, e.g. up+left); 2) it stops you from pressing two opposing directi
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
The term "international law" doesn't mean very much if we don't have a functioning international police force.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> Yet, with dwindling margins and a thriftier consumer base, it's going to take a lot to disrupt this industry. Although one part of travel is about the physical experience of visiting different places, another major part has to do
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Of course, but some businesses like banks are also run by the government.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Since it's a hard problem, it sounds like someone should write their PhD thesis on finding jobs for researchers at for-profit businesses.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Excellent question.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
In a balanced society, the needs of businesses do not outweigh the needs of citizens.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
In my experience, it's already at the point where a focus on trade and craft actually hampers innovation in an academic context, because so much of the funding comes from industry. Most papers today are about safe, incremental improve
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
A misunderstanding. >> Japanese students probably do not work less hard than US students !(work (J) < work (U)) --> work (J) >= work (U) --> work (U) <= work (J) > American students do more work than Jap
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
All I mean is that fixing non-essential bugs, making your code pretty, worrying about small performance regressions, writing thorough documentation, polishing the user interface, porting your code to N platforms, dealing with copyrights and
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
I'm not sure you can really write production quality code in a Ph.D., because that requires a production environment, which just isn't available in academia, and also because writing such code conflicts with research goals.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Well, for better or for worse, since millions of poor people die each year from readily vaccinated or treated diseases like polio and tuberculosis, it just doesn't seem like the rich nations of the world have the political will to prop
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
If we choose a 100 year interval, as long as there are no world wars by 2045, then things will have improved relative to 1845-1945.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> You're making a common statistical error You are the one that said things are worse compared to 1932. You don't get to have your cake and eat it.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> Modern history is increasingly an account of population control by mass death. I get that this is your claim, but I don't understand your argument that it's increasing when compared to WW1 and WW2.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> By contrast, when the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped in March 1932, it made national headlines for years -- years -- until the perpetrator was apprehended, tried, and executed in 1936. It's the story of one family, one child, one mu
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Wow... the inequity seems to be concentrated in the deep south. Something else is concentrated in the deep south too.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Both sets are non-empty.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
What is Terraria a clone of?
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Cool, glad my perspective was helpful. Sometimes stepping away from an argument, while it gets you away from being locked into either attachment to the argument or aversion to the argument, can turn into the third poison of disinterest in
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
There are also plenty of women that will tell you they are freely choosing to submit to male authority by wearing a head scarf, or binding their feet which requires breaking the arches so they can fold them in half (in centuries past), or w
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Oh, I didn't mean you by "we", I meant the culture at large, specifically the scientific education system which never talks about money, outside of philosophy / policy / ethics classes.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
The optimistic answer is that we pass on to our children what we wish were true for us, hoping that this time it will be different. The pessimistic answer is that idealists make very hard workers, such that by the time they become cynics th
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Hmmm, maybe a better way to say it is that the firm politeness pairing is a middle ground between the saccharine niceness / vicious back-stabbing pairing and the brutal honesty pairing.
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
> Perhaps you misread me. I'm claiming that saccharine niceness goes WITH vicious back-stabbing. Because people who are vicious back-stabbers are going to be inclined to overcompensate with niceness. I don't think we really dis
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by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Yeah, more or less. I think that whatever is unconscious (read: lost, forgotten, dissociated, unfelt, or unthought) ends up getting expressed anyway, in yourself or in your relationships. Seeing this expression clearly in the world requir

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