jimmywanger

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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Well, there sort of is. The term you're speaking of "whataboutism" is not refuting the argument on logical priciples, it's an ad hominem attack. Just because the person accusing you of doing something wrong is doing the
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> The idea that the Russians invented rejecting someone's argument on the grounds that the person making the argument is a hypocrite strikes me as rather unlikely. That is definitely exactly what happened. We would say something abo
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I don't agree with the author, like most of the comments. She's setting herself up for a win-win. Either somebody fixes it and nobody else notices and she gets to escalate the severity/subtleness of her testing of teammates,
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> In my own experience I couldn't tolerate conventional anymore, and the difference is more than placebic: Headaches and yuck feeling. I think that would be the definition of a placebo effect. Headaches and yuck feeling when eating
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Apparently times have changed. http://aircarecolorado.com/index.php/consumer-information/20... If I'm reading this right, this just means if your car is older you have to get it inspected. I somehow doubt tha
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Those old Japanese sedans are good for far more than 280000 km if you keep up on maintenance yourself. Yes, anecotes are not evidence, but this article is interesting. https://jalopnik.com/5885287/how-i-put-750000-miles
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Yeah. Do you think that depreciation shouldn't be 39 cents a mile for an old bucket? Or do they have requirements for the age of your car? If you have like a 2000 camry (which runs forever) depreciation seems to be virtually 0, especia
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
What's so good about diversity? Arbitrary country lines don't count for diversity, as somebody else pointed out. China and India have huge populations, and China at least has a huge land mass. Why wouldn't we not "leave
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Sure. I'm just saying that the big four has the ability to deal with this contingency, and backing paperwork and documentation. You don't get rejected out of hand for not being authorized to work in the USA currently.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I think that this is useful for companies who abuse the H1B. I doubt that any of the big Four (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple) will have any problem with this, but the consulting body shops will be scrambling. And, this is something else p
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
This especially happens for shrimp. In Thailand, farmers are lured in by high short term profits for farming shrimp, so they clear a lot of biodiverse mangrove swamp. When they realize that shrimp are a bitch to raise in densities that make
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Well, bio changes every single month seems like but the basic stuff stays the same in any field like accounting. Changes in the tax code and the SO act are pieces of litigation that may or may not affect you. SO in particular is less concer
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I'd go with "blackmail" and "price inelasticity of goods without a substitute."
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> _work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value_ The verb version is "waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects." Basically the project is useless and unnecessary. Fo
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
When you are performing a boondoggle, you generally had a reason or purpose in mind, and what you're doing right now is pointless towards that purpose. For instance, let's say you wanted to improve the educational quality of a uni
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> Boondoggle isn't even the word. Boondoggles are unintentional. This is working as intended.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
FTA: "A new copy of the textbook for Intermediate Accounting II sells for $373.25, but the same book can be rented for the semester for $149.30." I'm pretty sure that the basic principles of Intermediate Accounting haven&#x27
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
It's amusing that you only bring up one part of my arguments. >That's one option. I can also call you out for being insensitive to my feelings. One of the things about emotionally mature people is realizing that few people real
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I think that the lack of shaming and the increase of a certain thin-skinnedness is causing this. I'm (or anybody else) am able to say what I want. You are also free to not associate or listen to me. If your feelings are hurt, stop list
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
You're not talking about the issue. Saying that white people are an invasive species is racist and stupid.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
It's sort of funny. Amazon now does is doing the same thing Walmart did back in the day. If you were a supplier for Walmart, you _had_ to adopt their business practices in order to stay competitive in the market. They would demand that
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Take this example. Black people are 37.8% of the prison population[0] and 12.3% of the general population[1]. They also have 72% of babies being born out of wedlock[2], compared to 29% of white-non hispanic babies[2]. Both those factors cor
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
I feel bad for the native species. Cane toads are prolific throughout the world, and they've driven many species to near extinction. At some point you have to decide what your priorities are and start culling. E.g. Australia wants to k
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Cane toads are an ecosystem destroying highly invasive introduced species. The crows are doing our work for us. The method might be messy, but cane toads should be exterminated in non-native habitats as expediently as possible. Instead of f
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Sure. But I'm pretty sure that there are more Asian people than Cajun/Southern people, and if you want to create a large market, it makes sense to focus on the really big markets.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
Well, you'd do a general marketing push, but Asian markets are a fairly narrow target market, some of them specialize in spicy crayfish boils, so it seems easier since the supplier and the demand are both there and you'd get more
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
One way to get rid of this problem is if they taste good, market them to Asian restaurants. Right now spicy crawfish boils are fashionable in China, and I'm pretty sure the other East/Southeast Asian countries like crawfish also.
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> The food market is more expensive if there are multiple vendors and the customer don't shop around. Wait, what? The customer is prevented from shopping around for rides? Before Uber, you couldn't call multiple driving service
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by jimmywanger 9y ago
> I thought Finland was one of the few places where taxi prices were high enough that taxi drivers could make a fair living off it. Please explain why taxi drivers, or any occupation should be able to make a "fair living" (ill

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