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by jmcqk6 8y ago
Amazon's interface is pretty bad, though, especially in the video and kindle areas. I know I'm constantly frustrated using the site, and as far as I can tell, they don't appear to be very interested in reducing user's p
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>I love how in proper Christianity One common thing religious people tend to share is that they all think their own interpretation of their religion is the right one. Is there any reason to believe your use of "proper christianity&
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>trivially solvable from a pure technical perspectiv You have a trivial technical solution to removing gigatons of carbon from our atmosphere? You have a trivial technical solution to cleaning up microplastics? Please, would you kindly s
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
My tv is not connected to the internet, but I connect devices to my TV that are connected to the internet. The devices that I connect are computers that I have full access to and control over. My whole point in my post is that I don't
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>Really, my issue is stuff on my own network. I want to see what my TV sends home. Same with an amazon-echo, or really any IoT thing. I'm with you 100%. The reality is, though, your only choice is to not run those devices with acce
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>Fake news first and formost is a clickbait scam to get advertising dollars, NOT a political propaganda approach and this tendency to keep using it as if it's an actual political issue is really absurd and itself an example of what
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
I've used words from that dictionary as part of regular conversation. If that doesn't make them real words, I don't know what does.
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Fight to change it. Laws are not set in stone for a purpose. They're supposed to evolve as they people governed by them evolve.
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There is a difference between law and morality and for good reason. There has never been massives groups of people that completely agree on right or wrong. Instead of trying to codify right and wrong, law is about defining how we can all
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There is an effect where the progress of science can stay the same, but the progress is in expanding details. So instead of Einstein reshaping our understanding of spacetime, we gain a more detailed understanding of the consequences of that
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The big problem in that scenario is how to do you switch between the two?
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It is perfectly possible to have too many regulations, but that doesn't mean that the answer is no regulations. The simple fact is that we (human beings) have demonstrated quite well that when there are no rules, exploitative power st
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I'm sure you probably realize this, but it's hard to believe that she would be the only one to have this type of routine. It seems fairly common...
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This mirrors exactly the way I've been approaching redux recently as well following the same realization. I feel like this is much cleaner and easier to reason about.
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>Do you think a privately run system would not have been fined to death over that? Yes. We have a big problem with accountability in this country, especially when profits are involved. The issue is not private vs. public. The issue is
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Relevant: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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Wow that is a misleading argument. Wave particle duality is not a logical nightmare. It might be to someone who only has an extremely superficial understanding of it, but the more you dig into the topic, it becomes easier to understand. Th
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You seem to be acting like California is not taking the most active steps among all the states for curbing emissions. I have absolutely no idea what point you're trying to make.
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Your argument is that a good understanding of economics will inevitably lead to good gains in your investments, and a lack of performance in your investments means that you lack a good understand of economics. That seems kind of shaky to me
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I just learned about microfluidics[1] the other day, so now I'm seeing possible applications everywhere. I wonder if this is one such possible application. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfluidics
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>Ansible expects you to write host address into a file in /etc. So inconvenient. When I was first learning ansible, I was very frustrated about things like this. I came to learn, though, that it is very flexible, and this behavior,
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
>Give me an example of a regulation, and I'll tell you why it is either unnecessary or actively harmful. The various requirements to wear a life jacket. Fire codes. Removing lead from gasoline.
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I can appreciate what you're saying, but please don't ignore the countless counter-examples. Compare health outcomes of countries with socialized medicine to those without, for example. How many regulations exist because private c
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> or hurt poor people (aka your customers) by raising prices. This is bullshit. Walmart profits are such that they could pay higher wages without changing prices. Sure, i'll accept you'll piss of investors by paying higher wa
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He would have a hard time justifying that in the face of historical fact. Historically speaking, people who have gained power have used that power to limit the freedom of others. I think history is pretty clear that optimizing for "m
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So what about the fact that the average worker earned a salary low enough to qualify them for foodstamps (given a household size of 2)? Basically walmart is paying these low wages and getting subsidized by the federal government so that th
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by jmcqk6 8y ago
Why is engagement the metric to optimize for? I can find utility in a post that I don't engage with.
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There is a difference between something being subjective and the ability of people to understand it. Subjectivity has nothing to do with how well something is understood.
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I believe the topic is "Climate Change" so I don't know why you're talking about diabetes and heart disease. The argument is probably that meat production emits higher levels of carbon than other types of food production
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>Why would the parent mean anything else than what they wrote? Why would someone ask for more details about something if they already understood it? Just because something is clear to you doesn't mean it's clear to someone else

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