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by gorkonsine 9y ago
There's still plenty of conservative people who believe the being gay is a personal choice, or perhaps something caused by your upbringing/environment, not something you're born with. Of course, this has as much veracity as t
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
These laws don't usually get changed until people violate them en masse, showing utter disrespect and contempt for the laws. Remember Prohibition? That wasn't lifted because people wrote to their Congresspeople, but otherwise res
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Also, many (most?) venues are not really designed for acoustics, and arenas are especially bad because of the concrete walls: the sound get reflected around a lot. Wearing earplugs attenuates those reflections so you hear the primary signa
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
> Bell Labs and Xerox PARC would never happen via telecommuting. I'll bet Bell Labs and Xerox PARC didn't have modern open-plan office spaces. When the choices are telecommuting or open-plan offices, telecommuting is clearly th
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>The American way of dealing with crime is to move away from it to a shoebox in the exurbs. The other way of dealing with it is to gentrify an area so the inner-city housing prices are so absurd that the poorer people can't afford t
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Amtrak is a mess. But between Philly and NYC the NE Corridor train will actually hit 125mph at one point.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Yeah, but how much ridership does Amtrak even get in those places that "will never see a hyperloop"? Amtrak has coast-to-coast routes, but who actually takes them? At Amtrak speeds, it takes days to cross the country (I could dr
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
We're not talking about individuals here, we're talking about corporations. Collusion between companies for the sake of negatively affecting the market (such as establishing a cartel) is illegal in any jurisdiction with proper, f
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>What happens to the mom and pop coffee shop or the grocery store that charges more than Amazon Fresh? Coffee shops aren't known for being places to get cheap groceries; they're places where you get fancy drinks and/or sna
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>Do you also have huge neighborhoods of million dollar houses and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cars in the driveway, but there's no tax base because everyone's income is below the poverty level? Wait, how does that work?
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I will sometimes counter with "if you're offering a rate and no one is taking you up on it, by definition, that's not the market rate" And what do they say to that? Blank stares? Acting like you're crazy? Whe
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
We're disenfranchised in the current system for other reasons. One is that the country is simply too big, and two is that there's a huge rural/urban divide in culture, and it's growing. Giving power back to the states
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
This should be proof of illegal collusion and grounds for a gigantic fine for each of them. It's just like the no-poaching agreement they got in trouble with a few years ago.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Cars are generally faster than scooters. If everyone else is driving a scooter too, you're much less likely to get hurt in a crash, or to have a crash, because the energies are much lower and the speeds are much lower (low speeds make
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Where? If you're in a place where everyone drives a moped or bicycle and cars are rare, then mopeds are a lot safer. Stick the moped in traffic surrounded by clueless SUV drivers and now the moped is a death-trap. Go to a place where
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
>I like how the U.S. Founders tried to approximate a solution: a group of federated states The Founders didn't design that. The colonies, started by various people or groups for differing purposes, existed long before the Founders
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
I switched to Chrome around that time too, for many of the same reasons (mainly performance and stability). I've since switched back because Chrome is a terrible memory hog and I can have tons of tabs open on Firefox with no impact on
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Why wouldn't MS complain? If MS can be good for anything, helping keep Google in check ranks #1 on my list.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
The recruiter gives a damn about you because the higher compensation he negotiates for you, the more he gets paid (usually). It's in the recruiter's interest to get you the best deal possible, if he's acting as your agent.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Generating value is only a small part of it. You can get fired or laid off for any reason in most places in the US. You can be doing great work personally, but if upper management screws up, or the business environment is just bad (despit
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
It's a very interesting analogy, and shows the terrible and wrong mentality that managers like 'scaryclam' have. Work is NOT like having a girlfriend. Like the other poster said, a better analogy is your relationship with a
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
To claim that those societies didn't survive solely because they weren't monogamous, patriarchal societies is either profoundly ignorant or intellectually dishonest. Societies don't survive for many different reasons, usuall
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
If you'd rather have less time to yourself, then that's a perfectly acceptable choice. As an introvert myself, I'd rather have more people to share household and child-care activities with, because that would increase the am
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Do you two not have any other friends? You don't even have to have sex with other people: add up all the time you spend taking care of kids without any help from extended family. Now imagine you join up with another couple just like
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
No, not always. There were matriarchal societies in ancient times where women had multiple partners. You're looking at thing through the lens of western history. Besides, what does it matter? We're talking about the future here
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Women couldn't hold most jobs until the 1960s or later; they could only be nurses, teachers, secretaries, etc. Suffrage was earlier, but just like black people (men) who got freedom and suffrage way back in the mid-1800s, they still w
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
It's simple: with a polyamorous relationship, your wife would have another boyfriend/husband to spend her time with, and also to help take care of the kid, leaving you alone more of the time with the cats. There's no requirem
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Most modern polyamorous relations end up with the women having more partners than the men. Women have a far easier time finding sex partners than men do, on average.
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
Wow, this article isn't scientific at all, in the least. >As mentioned in the previous essay, single parenthood correlates with a number of social maladies. >The best environment for these children is a home with their biological
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by gorkonsine 9y ago
That's a good point. A lot of bad reviews are clearly user stupidity: I even see ones where they obviously bought the wrong thing, had unrealistic expectations, etc., and then gave a poor review based on this. Or reviews where the me

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