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by frotak 4y ago
> losing body fat means that you must continuously make choices that decrease your comfort in some way - eating fewer highly rewarding foods, maintaining a state of hunger, increasing activity level It is interesting to see "increas
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by frotak 6y ago
> Do you expect to receive $15,000 of value from the F35 program? I'm not sure I won't: perhaps it'll keep oil/energy prices stable and I spent well more than $300/year on energy... But from the article > The
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by frotak 6y ago
Related - how peanut butter was central in food regulation: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/s02-1-p...
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by frotak 7y ago
Earnest question - how do you feel about the bakery owner who refused to bake a cake to celebrate the marriage of the gay couple in Colorado? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora... Same basic s
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by frotak 7y ago
Observing physical differences is not imposing an ideology. The physical differences exist today and are exhibited based on biological genders. That does not preclude that these differences are unduly influenced by environmental issues (inc
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by frotak 7y ago
The irony of your closing statement ("any result that just so happens....to agree with preconceived notions about "how things are" should be considered extremely suspicious and scrutinised....and noone who really wants to und
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by frotak 7y ago
Even with a concise and simple tax code the problem is that those with large amounts of wealth are better off spending a portion of that wealth on intentionally obscuring their assets and incomes than by simply paying their fair tax. From t
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by frotak 8y ago
I absolutely agree that there are questionable aspects to how the U.S. enforced drug prohibition laws and how non-violent offenders are treated. But again, the fact is that we can openly have, and pursue aggressively, discussion about and a
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by frotak 8y ago
> those are European concepts Only inasmuch as they were born in Europe who in turn had to flee their home country to pretty much make it a reality. In the article in questions here no one is talking about intervening in the internal aff
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by frotak 8y ago
I am not saying that there aren't parts of the U.S. government that actively work against free speech - because that is certainly the case. However the very fact that we can discuss these things (or that there is a book that is freely
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by frotak 8y ago
In the one case you have China actively violating the freedoms and liberties of the people living under its control and on the other hand you have the UN as a collective body seeking to have a discussion about that. China is actively seekin
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by frotak 8y ago
There was a time when there were powers and authorities in the Western world that would silence dissent via violence and murder. See Galileo and the Catholic Church as an example. Or the Inquisition. Or any number of other examples of absol
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by frotak 8y ago
I mean...if they could organize they could have the effective weight of a union - but the circumstances of Uber's employment scheme make that more difficult.
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by frotak 8y ago
I imagine that would only be orders of magnitude harder to manager in this circumstances than in previous generations. Especially for Uber who can incentivize payouts in an elastic fashion as the available labor pool shrinks. Service qualit
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by frotak 8y ago
> a common global framework ....will ensure that the Internet does not get fractured, entrepreneurs can build products that serve everyone, and everyone gets the same protections. Homogeneity favors business but does not foster independe
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by frotak 8y ago
My girlfriend tried out the Instacart gig for a while as she finally got her chronic low energy and fatigue addressed through B12 shots and wanted something to occupy her and give her a little extra spending money outside of what's bud
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by frotak 8y ago
> you end up on the list for being sued over the money you owe You mean like the summary judgments that can be leveled against debtors in the US by debt collection agencies... And which...ding your credit score. Which makes it harder to
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by frotak 8y ago
Western governments have historically been allied with and have had intelligence sharing and cooperation arrangements with the U.S. There is a general alignment of Western intelligence agencies as a cooperative group against the antagonism
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by frotak 8y ago
This > Its revelation that multinational corporations, including some of the most prestigious brands in the United States, had been making illegal contributions to political parties not only at home but in foreign countries around the wo
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by frotak 8y ago
In all earnestness I am curious what your definition of "suffering" is. Is your position that there is physical violence that has been done that would not have been done had Gab not been available? If that is your position do you
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by frotak 8y ago
> or search by brand name and even than the real ones are usually on page 2 with page one featuring the same crap from China So he does search for specific brands and is still stymied by Amazon ranking algorithms.
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by frotak 9y ago
https://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff-lottery/
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by frotak 9y ago
I am curious what you base your evaluation of "living conditions" on. Or rather, whether or not you have experienced what the living conditions of the poor are. I dropped everything and moved across the country when I was 20. I ha
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by frotak 9y ago
> if the poor still live long lives, are not hungry, have access to modern technology, transportation, and modern entertainment They have their bread and circuses, what are they complaining about?
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by frotak 10y ago
I think this piece captures brilliantly the emotional and psychological toll that rote and thoughtless application of harsh procedures and mindless judgment can be wrought on people by an uncaring system. When my daughter was conceived her
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by frotak 10y ago
Do you know what's worse than an infant being hooked up to a morphine drip? A spontaneously aborted fetus because the stress of withdrawal during pregnancy was too much for the mother's body. If an addict becomes pregnant and seek
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by frotak 11y ago
> "It’s hard to understand this much chaos, but imagine a city where the police and government have simply run away and five or six mafia gangs are running everything, each based in a different neighborhood. The thugs have total con
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by frotak 11y ago
Getting my degree many, many years after entering the field So would you say you had experiential learning in the subject matter of the classes you were being allowed to skip after demonstrating both evidence of this experiential learning
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by frotak 11y ago
I suppose I have a hard time empathizing with the archetype of the beginner as presented in this article due to just how markedly different my own experiences developing as a programmer were. I have never relied on the generosity of others
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by frotak 11y ago
The first attack on oil convoys was in November 2015 ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/17/world/middleeast/us-strike... ) Primarily this was to avoid unnecessary civilian and collateral damage: "U

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