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by gress 12y ago
This is by far the most relevant comment here. Any attempt to understand human reactions without also examining the environment, is absurd.
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by gress 12y ago
For 2 years when I was consulting, I worked a 4 day week, but I chose Wednesday as my extra day off. Nobody else had a long weekend, so it wasn't that great for me to always have one, but with a mid-week break I never worked more than
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by gress 12y ago
What do you do at the weekend?
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by gress 12y ago
In addition to this, bearing in mind that people with autism process emotion differently, it is very likely that shaming is an ineffective way to promote learning.
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by gress 12y ago
Is it? What proportion of mac laptops are used to run windows?
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by gress 12y ago
Any time there is treatment, there is spirituality. It's just that western medical approaches pretend there is none, whilst a lot of other approaches pretend there is more than there is.
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by gress 12y ago
As judged by you.
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by gress 12y ago
It's pretty simple. If you do otherwise, then you are doing a lot of needless harm.
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by gress 12y ago
So you treat people as if they have no worth until they do something you like. Got it.
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by gress 12y ago
Do you think it's good that men treat each other like shit? I think it can be just as oppressive when a stronger man treats a weaker man like shit as it is when a man treats a woman like shit. (By 'weak' in this context I am
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by gress 12y ago
Stereotyping is usually 'legitimate' in the mind of the person doing it. Few people are intentionally trying to be oppressive. It is usually an unconscious echoing of the culture one is accustomed to. That doesn't make it l
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by gress 12y ago
Your second paragraph makes it seem as though you didn't read my comment. If you had, it seems unlikely that you would have condescendingly said "Let me be clear" before repeating a point I had already made. Otherwise, why
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by gress 12y ago
Actually, if it reduces the living standard and opportunities of the majority of people, that's pretty much the definition of 'evil'. We don't know if that's the actual outcome yet, but we should be aware of the po
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by gress 12y ago
The drawback in this reasoning is that with Newtonian mechanics alone you cannot know whether your measurements are in the domain for which it is accurate or not. For that you need relativity and quantum mechanics. Newtonian mechanics alon
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by gress 12y ago
I use Simple, and Square cash, and I have to say that Square Cash is far superior for sending money to friends.
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by gress 12y ago
This is a fair point. The yardstick analogy was set up by the parent to be 'because the yardstick doesn't have marks less than an inch' Then yardstick is always an approximation that is useful within a particular domain, just
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by gress 12y ago
Your 'best practice' shows that you don't understand the problem here. ApplePay poses no risk to you unless your card numbers have already been stolen. If they have been stolen, some banks aren't doing enough to check th
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by gress 12y ago
Of course. Nobody is arguing that Newtonian mechanics is not a phenomenal approximation at scales that are very useful for humans, but that doesn't make the analogy any less flawed.
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by gress 12y ago
It's not the exact correct answer. It's an approximate answer.
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by gress 12y ago
Newtonian mechanics are not completely accurate at any time. However as you point out, the error in the model is often dwarfed by the error in the measurement.
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by gress 12y ago
This is a flawed analogy, because the yardstick is accurate at the scales for which it is practical, whereas Newtonian mechanics is inaccurate at all scales, just less so in its sweet spot.
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by gress 12y ago
Nobody is doing so except for the people who state "things are better now" based on their own set of metrics.
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by gress 12y ago
"A cost control normally afforded to the privilege of owning" This is the most important line here. This article is about reserving rights to the already privileged. Nothing more, nothing less.
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by gress 12y ago
What you are calling 'simple' is actually an absolutist position based on neoliberal principles that serve those with power and capital. That's far from the only way to think. By introducing terms like "Blood Right&quot
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by gress 12y ago
This is capitalism failing humanity.
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by gress 12y ago
The fallacy here is that you are acting as though these things are all fungible. Would you rather be a random American today who is unable to form satisfying emotional relationships because of the lack emotionally available parents during d
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by gress 12y ago
The concept of home is far older than 1000 years, and is deeply important to humans.
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by gress 12y ago
Sorry, B is not skepticism. B is another claim. It is the claim that men do not compete more strongly with women than with men in domains outside of physical activity. Unless you have evidence to support this claim, we should be skeptica
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by gress 12y ago
Given this study, do you think it is more reasonable a) to think this competition extends to other spheres, or b) to think that it does not. If your answer is b), what evidence do you have to support this?
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by gress 12y ago
You say 'they want to' but you ignore that junk food is designed to amplify the superficially appealing qualities of the food without regard to the nutritive value. Nobody 'wants' that. What they want is good tasting fo

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