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by gerbilly 8y ago
I do a bit of both, as I'm sure you do. I'm just advocating for the full contact approach to living which I think is being subtly eroded by disney, cruises, resorts, cashless restaurants and uber and so on. I don't know if yo
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by gerbilly 8y ago
* An argument against the disneyfication of everyday life where all the risk is taken out of face to face interactions with other people. To me this reduces us all to the level of automatons in a machine controlled by large companies. * An
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> I don't want to have a stand-up argument with someone about money, thanks. Why not? It's not so bad. I prefer to negotiate my own contracts. To rely on some third party to do so is infantilizing. If I got into the habit of
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by gerbilly 8y ago
In all friendliness let me offer a counterpoint to your post: You guys are so funny! Afraid of negotiating a price? Really? Perhaps it's time we became grown ups? To me uber is just an extension of the habit of calling your parents to
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by gerbilly 8y ago
>Dickens was fascinated with jails, asylums, homes for the deaf, and other reformatory institutions. In 1843, the city’s two prisons held twice as many Irishmen as native-born Americans; “paddy wagons” carted them to jail. The Irish, alo
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by gerbilly 8y ago
>John Lennon’s and Paul McCartney’s artistic partnership enabled them to vertically integrate the hitherto separate functions of songwriting and performing. Ugh, really? We're going to bring corporate buzzwords to the Beatles now? L
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by gerbilly 8y ago
This smells like pharmaceutical industry propaganda to me. Even if it's true, we should just fund drug research explicitly.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
It seems to me the US never outgrew it's frontier mentality. Before, if you felt too hemmed in you could always move west and get free land, get together with other locals and form a small town. Better to be the founder of your town th
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I agree that we overvalue reason. To reason about something you have to reason from premises . But where do the premises come from? I'm sure many of us have had that experience, when dealing with a difficult problem, where an insight
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by gerbilly 8y ago
They should make a move about Singapore and call it "Crazy Strict Asians".
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> A well run “dictatorship” is much better than your average democracy. Until the benevolent dictator dies and is replaced with a 'less principled dictator'.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
TED talks have been coopted into a promotional venue for 'clever people'. It's an advertising platform aimed at a certain demographic: people who like science and tech and just so explanations for things. I did however enjoy
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by gerbilly 8y ago
I would never go to Singapore. They'd probably end up whipping me a hundred times for something I did without even being aware of it. [1] IMHO that whole country should serve as a counterexample to all the rest. Humans really are goo
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The thing that makes HTML and CSS different from Javascript is that they are declarative languages . The execution engine is elsewhere and the 'code' is really configuration for the HTML/CSS engines. Same thing for SQL whic
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I Left a Buddhist Retreat in Handcuffs(esquire.com)
8 points by gerbilly 8y ago|1 comments
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Notably, this does not stop us from making new cars. We don't understand brains either but it doesn't stop us from making new brains. The best way to make a brain is still the old way.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> That's not the solution, that's the definition! Whether its the problem or the solution depends on the legitimacy of the government.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Facebook is a voluntary surveillance platform as well as a colossal waste of time. Just leave!
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Sure, but I was comparing the theoretical longevity of biodegradable plastic to wood. OP was worried his atari would have disintegrated by now if it had been made 40 years ago out of biodegradable plastic. I was giving wood as an example of
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Well imagine you Atari case were made of wood, if it weren't exposed to excessive moisture, or kept in contact with soil it would still be in fine shape.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Ok, let me tweak my list of additional conservative values then: heightened concern for purity, intolerance of ambiguity and a heightened concern for security. NOTE: I am not conservative, so take that for what it's worth.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> That doesn't work because liberals are unable to understand and empathize with conservative views. Actually conservatives and liberals do share a lot of values. Let's call this the foundational set V. Conservatives go on to a
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Without the workers, Yahoo wouldn't exist. In fact workers can form and grow a company alone, but passive investors can't.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
The advertising revenue was likely paying my friend's salary. The investor's make money off of Yahoo (or lose) because they had enough money lying around to buy a stock or mutual fund.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Maybe that's the problem is that we only value as a culture what is valuable to investors.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Worthless to who? The headline seems mean spirited. A friend of mine used to work at Yahoo in the in the news department. She said it was one of the best teams she'd ever worked in (they were supportive with a spurious but difficult le
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Yeah, but if they hire Oracle or IBM to come up with a solution, as big organizations often do, then you might prefer the 100 year old control system.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
> Voting should be the only way to influence government. Sure, and when the elected representatives get a majority they get to be kings for four or five years. I don't think that's a good idea.
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Why not convert tractor trailers into pickups? I bet they would sell really well. You know the bigger the better, right?
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by gerbilly 8y ago
Probably yes, but aside from that, this tactic is moving upmarket and starting to affect the 'more valuable' jobs too.

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