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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
I strongly agree. Reading books about parenting like "The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child: With No Pills, No Therapy, No Contest of Wills" has done wonders for dealing with adults in my personal life and at work.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
Perhaps, but the children of all the people replying to this thread seem to be excelling.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
It's an interesting premise, but does not support the conclusion that for-profit companies are more sustainable than non-profits. Like at all.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
Yeah no thank you
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
This book holds a special place in my heart. I remember reading about it in the literary magazine The Believer about 15 years ago. At that point in time, the only way to explore the book was to find a rare used copy for a reasonable price.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
I also found Humankind to be very enjoyable, illuminating and worthwhile antidote to a lot of the default assumptions we make about human behavior.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
Just another reminder that you should never delude yourself into thinking these companies are a force for anything moral or ethical.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
Despite being called normal, not as much as you would think follows a normal distributon. But if your main point is that there is some mean value of ethicalness and 50% fall above and below that value then I suppose there's not much to
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
I think it's a reference to LexisNexis which still exists today in a similar capacity. Back in the day (1990s), it was an online service to search for and read virtually any legal or news article among many other things. It was very ex
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
Lol, completely agree. Scarlatti?! How silly! I have a very nice tube amp sitting on my desk (#pandemic-hifi) so I thought I'd take your rec and listen to Mr. Davies instead. The long bass strings produce a better sustained note which
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
It's a trap
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The idea that an athletic competition--conferring a first, second and third place, holds any substantial meaning at all is completely absurd. All other controversy simply flows from this fact.
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
Cool stuff. I've been getting into tube amps lately and there's some overlap between audiophiles and radio/tv restorers in that we're all after the same dwindling supply of vintage vacuum tubes. The 6DJ8 tube used in man
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by fumeux_fume 5y ago
This does not appear to be a very charitable interpretation of the above comment.