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by hopler 8y ago
Those things are are all regulated and get a hard time. They are not "medical" fields, and none of them operate under the license of "medical doctor". Dangerous ones are banned, and ineffective ones are required to carry
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by hopler 8y ago
Facebook was originally Facemash, a hotornot clone.
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by hopler 8y ago
Civility and tone policing is the refuge of the privileged scoundrel. It's akin to the literacy tests that prevented black people from voting in the US, which used to be legal in the US that
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by hopler 8y ago
Per the article, the EU court ruled that EU nations are individually permitted to ban criticism of Mohammed, as long as the criticism is ruled less valuable than the feelings of the people who dislike the criticism. It's legal to call
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by hopler 8y ago
The US prison system is a direct reaction to the Constitutional Amendments that banned chattel slavery except for prison. Et voila, immediately a huge prison system immediately popped up.
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by hopler 8y ago
That book was a huge exaggeration. It's central thesis was that most things that that are felonies are larger scale versions of minor acts (like battery is unwabtedt touching, so supposedly you could be convicted for bumping someone o
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by hopler 8y ago
Why do people awaiting trial for petty crimes need to go to jail? Rich people don't have to go to jail. Give them an ankle monitor and a court date.
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by hopler 8y ago
Those "factor" zeros look like infinitesimal forms, which are well studied.
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by hopler 8y ago
Yes, that's what qubex said, in correcting the error in your previous comment.
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by hopler 8y ago
That sounds like the illusion of consciousness. Neural networks show that you don't need "dog" in order to do whatever you need to with the idea of a dog.
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by hopler 8y ago
How much does shipping cost actually vary? I always assumed that first//last mile handling of a package dominates over the fuel/depreciation cost share of driving the item farther.
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by hopler 8y ago
This is what drives me to MGTOW -- Men Getting Their Own Wallet.
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by hopler 8y ago
The name brands taste better because they have put more effort into researching weird chemicals that taste good
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by hopler 8y ago
You haven't lived until you are comparing "buy 2 get 3 free" to the other brand with a simple price but a different package size.
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by hopler 8y ago
In USA it is no longer legal to forbid cash discounts / CC surcharges. Still uncommon though.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's really easy to kill yourself if you go messing around in your house wiring. It's possible to be safe, but it's not on the same plane as messing with an unplugged washing machine or TV.
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by hopler 8y ago
A few years ago if you downloaded a web page you could repair it with Greasemonkey and user scripts. Now web pages are React or native apps and near impossible to tinker
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by hopler 8y ago
I think it was Marvin Minsky (but not sure) who blamed LEGO for displacing Meccano and destroying engineering culture in USA. All the complaints about kids toys being too dumbed down have been played out before. Edgar Dijkstra complained t
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by hopler 8y ago
There is a big range between 40wpm and 200wpm. Typing is a cost, a waste. After spending an hour thinking, I don't want to be stalled out by delays typing. I need to rewrite my code several times to get that clean bugfree 100 lines fo
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by hopler 8y ago
Through my 20years of typing and texting with terrible posture and exercise habits, and bouts of debilitating RSI where I immobilized my arm, and experimenting with Dvorak, I found that the main way to reduce my RSI symptoms was to stop han
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by hopler 8y ago
To raise children, to have regular access to safe and intimate sex, and all the lifestyle, cost saving, and health benefits of cohabitation with someone, in the expanded pool of potential partners that includes women who want marriage. But
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by hopler 8y ago
The trick of it really is that being a homemaker had gotten exponentially easier over the last century thanks to automation, creating an awkward imbalance in responsibilities where one person works 40+ hrs plus half of nights/weekends
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by hopler 8y ago
In USA it's usually expressed as a percentage of income and a mandatory willingness to generate income.
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by hopler 8y ago
Substitute "alpha" with "cad", then. The fact remains that when transaction costs are reduced (as with mobile app dating), polygamy increases to that number of 20% of males mating with 80% of the females, with reproduxti
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by hopler 8y ago
It's not true. Alimony formulas are on a sliding scale based on years of marriage and employment history.
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by hopler 8y ago
If we paid more, would the factory owners have built a safer factory? No, they'd pocket the profits. If they didn't have factory jobs, would they be subsisting on coastal fishing and be killed by tsunami? Poorer parts of the worl
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by hopler 8y ago
I buy $12 synthetic fabric shirts that last for 100+ wear/wash cycles without needing mending.
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by hopler 8y ago
I think it's a mistake for you to value your own mending time over my particular hobby, which contributes to a sense of well-being.
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by hopler 8y ago
The waste and pollution of mass production are kind of a problem,if you believe in anthropogenic climate change, for example.
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by hopler 8y ago
Am I going to pay you $100 to come fix my scale, or am I going to buy 10 scales? Manufacturing is cheap. Labor is expensive. wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease

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