joshgrib

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by joshgrib 5y ago
I'd argue both statements do make the same amount of sense. The wording of "owe" doesn't make as much sense for the big bang but my overall argument was that people shouldn't feel ownership over a causal chain they
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by joshgrib 5y ago
One interesting case of "locks" getting less secure is for bank bags. On one of the recent LockPickingLawyer videos he talks about how these bags are easy to cut through but that's not usually an issue because they're ma
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by joshgrib 5y ago
It was pretty commonplace to lie to avoid the social persecution of having a baby outside of marriage. This was still fairly common even recently - a young girl would go to a nunnery and them come back with a child "they adopted".
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Christianity may teach that today, but it isn't what the story is. Do you have any evidence from the text showing that she had another choice? God also murders tons of people in the bible without consulting them, which definitely canno
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I can agree with that, but as far as we see in the text it is a command - she's never told she has another option and we as the readers aren't given any indication that she thinks there is. I get that there's a charitable int
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by joshgrib 5y ago
It seems like the angel tells her in Luke 1:31 that it's happening whether she wants it to or not > "You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus" It's nice that she accepts it afterwards,
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Oof I never really realized that the Christian god is canonically a rapist
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I think this is overlooking the main argument - having someone waste time by getting their own food/shelter isn't really any better than having them waste time doing a job to get money for food/shelter. We would likely be bet
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I think you're sneaking in some assumptions here that people just develop these skills within themselves and have the same opportunity to do so as anyone else. If you start the clock with them already having those skills and other peop
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Maybe we're just getting philosophical about word meanings here but how can you have governance that isn't imposed/hierarchical/authoritative? If whoever is making the rules says you can't do something and someone w
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Yeah I think the initial motivation behind setting it up this way was good - "let's try to get as many people into college as possible". I'm narrowly making an argument against loans that are not dischargeable by bankrup
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I'm not trying to make it black-and-white, there's certainly some degree of personal choice weighing in here - but it's not the core issue and it's probably a distraction. When we realized cigarettes were bad it was part
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by joshgrib 5y ago
This is an institutional problem and they should be blamed though. It doesn't really matter what students "prefer", if a bank doesn't do their due diligence and a student isn't able to repay their loan, then the ban
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Not an expert on the topic, but my understanding is that anarchy rejects governance in general - there wouldn't be any "elevated decision-making body". It's not as much "you can leave if you don't like it"
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by joshgrib 5y ago
The best explanation of anarchy I've heard is by debunking the common view that people think anarchy is when a a disaster happens and a warlord takes over - but it's really when a disaster happens and neighbors start checking on e
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by joshgrib 5y ago
This is totally how I feel, and it's even worse than that - we're still subsidizing fossil fuels, so we're not only NOT taxing the pollution, we're actually helping to make it cheaper for companies to do. I think step 1
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Maybe I'm implying too much intentionality but that's not how I meant it. I'm not trying to say anyone truly _wants_ it to happen - just that it happens one way or another, whether subconsciously or as a second-order effect o
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Do you have a source? This is coming from how I feel when depressed so at least for me it is definitely not false. But that's just anecdotal and I don't have any studies to back it up. Just on intuition I have a hard time believin
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Just want to add that I think these are useful to get general ideas of what different personality traits there are, but there's little to no science backing the Meyers-Briggs assessment. These type of tests can be nice framework for a
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Can't give any great advice here, but my intuition is that it's going to depend a lot on the company. I have friends that have worked retail jobs where they aren't going to care at all and will probably use it as an excuse to
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Something that's helped me in this situation is to explicitly tell people "I'm only looking for someone to listen please don't suggest anything to help". Otherwise as you said people want to help, and generally if s
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by joshgrib 5y ago
If this is your experience then I think it's important to recognize that those are just anecdotes, and if you have a lot of those anecdotes it's only going to make it harder to base your view on facts. There's tons of evidenc
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by joshgrib 5y ago
This seems like a fair solution that could have the same impact - if the pollution tax is high enough and the mining profits are low enough then mining would no longer be profitable. At a minimum it at least makes sure people are "clea
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Agree with this reasoning - NFTs seem like they clearly have little to no real value and I think the people buying them understand that and are just doing speculation (and we know how that ends up). BTC/ETH are a little harder to gauge
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I'd agree with the "pay your own vacation" thing as long as there is profit sharing to ensure people are still getting the income they deserve from the work they already put it to build the company. But with healthcare, at le
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by joshgrib 5y ago
This is always the stat I want from gig-work jobs and never the one they want to show. For example Uber will often tout paying upwards of $25-30/hr, but the actual average is closer to $11/hr, which is below minimum wage in many p
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I've read a bunch of the reviews and they seem kinda sketchy - no one will say how much they actually make in an hour and it's a lot of general "no trust us it's good". I can't find anyone saying "I'm
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by joshgrib 5y ago
Thanks for the info! This all seems good but it basically seems like what you'd expect from gig-work code reviewing. I'm mainly concerned about the pay and how it relates to experience, haven't been able to see any comments h
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I was raised with religion and then later realized it doesn't make sense, I went through a lot of the same feelings You could still have subjective value even if there's no "sea level" from which to assign an absolute va
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by joshgrib 5y ago
I'm a big fan of when there's a self-hosted option, then you could get around that need and keep your own data too

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