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by jpttsn 9y ago
Shouldn't we instead strive for the "right" not to be judged by the actions of our ancestors? I'm sure nobody actively condones persecution of people in revenge for what their ancestors did. But if we sweep anything n
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Sure, the fossil record ;) Animals who reason well enough to encroach our comfortable territory atop the food chain, tend to get killed off by H. Sapiens. The animals we see around are those whose tepid reasoning abilities we can abide.
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by jpttsn 9y ago
Some things that work for me: - Cultivating a slight bias for making a decision; I remind myself that sometimes any decision is way better than no decision. Especially when a) time is a factor, b) managing people who want leadership. - Prun
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I think you're right about that. I wonder if the best ways to avoid burnout, is to work on how you handle specifically these decision situations. In other words, finding a way to deal with low certainty situations might be key, compare
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The way I've always heard it, as a layman, is that red shift could be explained only by an expanding universe. I'm sure there's more rigor to it than that, but it always seem s like a pretty big conclusion. A mildly surprisin
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Bet you paraphrased the Bell Curve, too.
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Just parsing here: the walking doesn't affect you, but it is a symptom of some other "slumping over" tendency which you abhor, and which furthermore has other, more severe, effects on your lived experience?
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So the rational path takes us to a horrible conclusion. Are you saying it's time to throw out rationality?
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Depends, of course, how fast demand grows.
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Not explicitly. Instead, his/her argument has the form: "Every country claims to be the important country, and nationalists are bad, so it can't be Britain." I commented because I thought that argument was badly construc
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Sweden is smaller than the US, and plays a different role in the world. I don't think the same systems are apt.
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I disagree; I think that's just a lazy way to look at an unfamiliar field. Likewise, plenty of clueless non-techies suspect techies are intentionally making tech seem complicated. Why can't Apple make a back door for the FBI and n
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by jpttsn 9y ago
So if any aspect of my life affects you, then therefore the way I walk affects you? Or are you okay with the walking, but not with some other stuff you had on your mind?
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You suggest Britain is an unlikely candidate, merely because there are other options? Wouldn't it be much easier to criticize the notion that one country built the modern world?
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I don't understand what point you're making; can you elaborate?
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Walking prettily isn't really important to me.
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Good reasons, imho. The complexity is not (purely) a smoke screen thrown by conspiratorial insiders. Most of the harder tech HN articles would seem just as impenetrable to regular Bloomberg Terminal users.
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Just like dyslexia ought to be easier to spell, I don't think I'll be using that word.
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I don't really know why I'm sharing this but I hate the letter M. When I start sentences, I tend to avoid it on a whim, to the detriment of being expressive. I realize starting sentences with "my" or "maybe" wo
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I agree. So what do you make of the fact that these environmental policies are not government regulation? Maybe the voters claim to care about sustainability more than their actual choice of politicians reflects?
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I should've been clearer: I'm opining that regulation is probably the wrong word. As the article explicitly says: > It’s important to note that these are not government-enforced regulations
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Meanwhile, what consumers don't buy isn't available for long. It's a chicken and egg situation. Unless, of course, you're arguing that the suppliers have coordinated to screw consumers. But that would be illegal, wouldn&
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What does LIBOR have to do with regulation? What does regulation have to do with the OP?
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I don't think this is a true dichotomy. 1) "call it speech and you can now do it unrestricted" I agree, that would be silly; the perpetrator could choose to call any action speech. 2) campaigns of dishonesty Could these campa
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Assuming that's true for Facebook, how could they be so threatened by Instagram? Snapchat? And how could Facebook even make a dent in MySpace, who fit the natural monopoly definition above just as well? If social networking were a natu
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I've heard from someone who I think would know, that the editorial influence of owners on their newspapers' journalism has waned. Is it a matter of principle, or are you concerned with any tangible editorial slant?
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The term natural monopoly keeps cropping up, seemingly with a definition other than the one I'm familiar with. What does the natural adjective mean, the way you use it here?
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> And before anyone shouts "freedom of speech" - we already do that extensively for stuff like fraud, libel, and incitement to violence/terrorism, so this isn't really anything particularly new. So the slippery slope
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Today, an opponent would try to fire back at the killing machine's "pilot," is that right? With these weapons, the only defense is shooting at the machine itself, breaking it. That reduces your chance of stealing the killing
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It's tenacious to paraphrase the comment thread above you like that. I disagree with your characterization of the argument. But maybe you're making the subtle point that "it matters if HN comments abuse quotation marks."

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