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by gsk22 4y ago
> Not only is it thinkable, it could be done responsibly, today. How? You have a metro area of 1.3 million which is totally economically dependent on the river. A huge volume of freight moves through the delta daily. Billions of dollars
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by gsk22 4y ago
I assume you're referring to the Old River Control Structure? I know it's a controversial project, but the alternative -- to let the Mississippi divert itself away from New Orleans and Baton Rouge -- would be an unthinkable econom
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by gsk22 4y ago
Even the assertion that humans aren't naturally anything is absurd. We're naturally many things: social, food-motivated, curious, horny. Those traits are not cultural, and are common to humans as far back as we can trace (many sha
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by gsk22 4y ago
Surely there are trees smaller than that, unless they just pop out of the ground 40 feet tall?
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by gsk22 4y ago
> On the contrary, I find it immensely irritating when others change/delete their messages And yet, you edited your comment. How irritating :)
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by gsk22 4y ago
When were we ever talking about flow restrictors? You were defending a market-based solution to water usage, which I asserted would be inequitable and therefore immoral. Flow restrictors are pretty anti-market, and I think they're a gr
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by gsk22 4y ago
For other natural resources, sure. But without water humans _die_. That's not subjective.
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by gsk22 4y ago
Markets solve problems efficiently, but not equitably. In the case of water, an equitable solution is a moral prerogative, no?
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by gsk22 4y ago
How is that related? That book is about educational policy, not student mental health?
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by gsk22 4y ago
Or YouTube? The homepage and literally every video are full of recommendations.
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by gsk22 4y ago
Weird, I've seen some of those exact names on delivery apps in Minneapolis. Ghost kitchen chain?
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by gsk22 4y ago
Well if you want to follow that line of argument, the Supreme Court is irrelevant since the executive branch or military can just choose to ignore its rulings. But assuming the rule of law still exists, there is no way the Supreme Court wou
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by gsk22 4y ago
All I meant is the only way we would allow our water to be taken to feed unsustainable growth in the West is if it was taken by force.
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by gsk22 4y ago
> cant your government just change it? Short answer: no. The federal government (Congress) can propose amendments, but ratification requires the approval of a 2/3 majority of the 50 states' legislatures (38/50). And rememb
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by gsk22 4y ago
Some of those are fair, but he loses a lot of credibility by comparing an opinion article and a news article as evidence of the NY Times distorting the facts to fit some preconceived narrative. It's hard to see that as an innocent mist
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by gsk22 4y ago
On the flipside, I wish I lived in the EU so there would be rules about what your company does with my data. I don't know why anyone besides company owners would disagree with data practices laws.
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by gsk22 4y ago
> It's very nature is without-meaning and without-originality. That's a pretty bold claim. What are humans but statistical models that generate based on pre-existing training -- and yet, are humans not with-meaning and with-ori
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by gsk22 4y ago
Isn't every "new style" just a novel combination of pre-existing concepts? Nothing new under the sun and all that. Either way, I feel like your view is an exhaustingly pessimistic take on AI-generated art. I mean, sure, most
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by gsk22 4y ago
That's fine for you, the adult, but the kids are gonna wanna go to Disney. I remember going to the state fair growing up, and it was excruciatingly boring waiting for the adults to finish looking at cows and trinkets. Whereas our famil
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by gsk22 4y ago
> Substitute 'Nazi pride' (whatever the hell that actually means) with 'being black' and tell me you still support this. I mean, the difference is right there: one is an ideology, while the other is a state of being.
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by gsk22 4y ago
Which question in the parent are you even responding to?
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by gsk22 4y ago
Ctrl-F "miracle" 0 results. Kinda feels like you're the one exaggerating... Of course he shouldn't get 100% of the credit, or perhaps even a majority of the credit, but it's clear from the article that the project w
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by gsk22 4y ago
> However, Slack isn't that much better. It still gaslights Firefox users and tells them their browser is not supported. Where do you see that? I exclusively use Firefox and have never seen such a message from Slack.
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by gsk22 4y ago
Unless you outer join, in which case NULL values pop up out of thin air...
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by gsk22 4y ago
> I do have a solution to this conundrum - I think we should give leaders a bonus that is a percentage of savings. For example, if an agency has $200 million budget, give the director 10% of all money saved every year. So if they success
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by gsk22 4y ago
Isn't an expanding regulatory state an inevitability as population growth explodes and companies gain ever-greater power? More people and more powerful companies means more abuses of power, which we solve (or try to solve) with regulat
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by gsk22 4y ago
Not as of 4 months ago: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-approves-50-billi...
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by gsk22 4y ago
> That's a bit different than claiming time theft, isn't it? That's more of a suspicion that someone couldn't possibly be doing a good job if their attention is split. The reason employers would not approve isn'
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by gsk22 4y ago
You can still "double-bill" in an exempt position. Most employment contracts I've seen stipulate an expected work week of 40 hours. If I sign 3 contracts like that, now I would need to work 120 hours to fulfill the obligation
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by gsk22 4y ago
Are you really claiming that all 3 companies would have approved the situation if they knew? Of course not, which is why overemployed people hide this information from their employers.

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