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by hsitz 10y ago
The recording seems okay, but I find it really odd that the scripted voice says "feel your chest rise on an in breath, and feel it fall back down on an out breath." Chest-breathing is something to be avoided, especially in mediat
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by hsitz 10y ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about, but it's definitely not the ACA/Obamacare. The ACA has has nothing to do with "free healthcare for all", and is only tangentially related to free healthcare for anybody
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by hsitz 10y ago
I don't think most people understand how social security works. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_(United_States... SS is not quite a pension fund, but it is also certainly
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by hsitz 10y ago
Haven't you ever heard that "the squeaky wheel gets the grease"? There's a reason the Christian right has a political voice far out of proportion to their actual numbers: they're active and loud. No, of course the
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by hsitz 10y ago
Can you give a cite to any statistics or resources that suggest that real estate fully explains the wealth gap? The ultra-wealthy tend to have much higher percentage of their assets in securities than real estate. So that real estate expl
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by hsitz 10y ago
I agree. If anything, the idea tends to be a conservative one, given that conservatives tend to avoid problem solving of any kind at the federal (i.e., large scale) level. Conservatives fight against solving almost everything at national
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by hsitz 10y ago
At the very least, evidence demonstrating a persistent, long-term trend would seem to be evidence in favor of the trend applying to the current day. Especially when the main thing driving people's perception that life is _not_ getting
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by hsitz 10y ago
That is precisely the thing. The link between service and tip was the "fundamental conceit of tipping culture". But no longer. You simply tip for certain kinds of jobs (e.g., coffeeshop baristas) and not others (McDonald&#x27
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by hsitz 10y ago
You say "just" the psychological impact. Which is of course true, but I would leave out the "just" and emphasize that, yes, this is all about psychological impact. I go to these kind of POS restaurants/coffeshops
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by hsitz 10y ago
Yes. Another inconsistency involves the point in time at which a tip is expected. Historically tips came after the meal (or other service), and in theory you would tip well if you were happy with service, and badly or not at all if you we
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by hsitz 10y ago
I use i3 wm and I like it a lot, don't ever want to go back to a non-tiling WM. But I do understand complaints about the hassle of configuring wifi, power options, and other stuff, e.g., sound, display brightness. All of this is done
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by hsitz 10y ago
The pay phone definitely reveals you're dealing with an old Law & Order episode. But it's not an anachronism. Law & Order doesn't purport to display a period of time different from the one in which it was made. Whe
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by hsitz 10y ago
After reading your comment, I was surprised to take a look at the paper and find that it does, indeed, appear to support conclusion that IQ is less important than many people think. Neither the paper nor the linked article argue that IQ is
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by hsitz 10y ago
The counterpart to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" was spreading FUD: "fear, uncertainty, and doubt". This was the strategy they took towards Linux, which as open source was not susceptible to embrace, extend, extingu
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by hsitz 10y ago
Using a random driverless car will be much cheaper than owning (perhaps roughly as expensive as taxis would be if there were no taxi driver who needed to get paid). Random cars can be in use virtually all-the-time every day. The portion of
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by hsitz 10y ago
The Microsoft Store itself has online ordering, so why not order online from there. The return policy specifically allows returning an online purchase at a retail store ( see near bottom of https://www.microsoftstore.com/st
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by hsitz 10y ago
There exists doctrine in constitutional law where its guarantees are deemed to apply even when the actor infringing the right is a private party. This can occur in cases where a private party is deemed to be a "state actor". See
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by hsitz 10y ago
Yes, in mathematics sets are by definition unordered, so it would be strange to have a language that supported indexing of a set.
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by hsitz 10y ago
I'm curious, did you read any documentation on sets and bags before experimenting, e.g., https://docs.perl6.org/language/setbagmix Are things not working as described by that documentation?
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by hsitz 10y ago
Yes, but if you're trying to communicate to other people, you can't focus on what you yourself consider to be the meanings; you need to focus on how other people understand the words. I suspect that your use of "compulsory&q
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by hsitz 10y ago
>when you tell them that it's in fact voluntary, but compulsory they tend to downplay it and wonder why you just don't stop It sounds like you should find another way to explain things. "Voluntary" and "compulso
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by hsitz 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you understand both Turing completeness and the practice of actual programming, then you know that in most cases the one has virtually nothing to do with the other. (Which is not meant at all to imply that the a
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by hsitz 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the fact of microevolution goes a long way in justifying our belief in evolution generally. As far as I'm aware, the theory of evolution was developed by observing macro phenomena. Once the theory developed, the i
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by hsitz 10y ago
I've had zero driver issues on my Asus UX305 laptop. Even if I had, those issues are generally solved once on installation, not continually tinkered with.
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by hsitz 10y ago
>Don't take it the wrong way, but that sounds like a personal problem Yes, and in addition one that exists regardless of what OS/WM/DE you're running, since Vim and Emacs configuraion works basically the same whatever
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by hsitz 10y ago
>Having to repeat some of those modifications 3-4 times because I'm using a slightly different terminal app for each individual task would, I think, drive me batty. I have no idea what you're talking about. What are these &quo
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by hsitz 10y ago
I'm not sure why you think you "have to tinker". I run Ubuntu 14.04 and use i3 window manager. I haven't "tinkered" with the setup in about a year-and-a-half, dating back to when I installed i3 shortly after
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by hsitz 10y ago
When you say "highly illegal", what sort of legal expertise and/or understanding of this do you have? I'm a lawyer, but don't know much about pay-to-play crimes. My understanding is that it's a pretty goddamn
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by hsitz 10y ago
"My point isn't that all of those administrations were fascist, it's that each item in this list allows too much range for critical analysis." Well, maybe any one of them taken alone. Combined together it seems to give
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by hsitz 10y ago
Probably not. The people that get sold out are not the innovators, not the highly educated. The people that get sold out are the people on lower rungs of economic ladder, whose jobs are automated and/or done more cheaply overseas, an

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