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by kbutler 8y ago
"Professional model" is a common phrase that has nothing to do with licensing, just that someone is paid to appear in a photo. Old: Manufacturers create advertising, including professional models. Journalists write reviews, but a
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by kbutler 8y ago
"The radiocarbon ages of tree fragments and peat discs found on proglacial forefields indicate 12 phases of glacier recessions during the Holocene. Locations and type of occurrence of the dated samples show that trees and mires grew wh
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by kbutler 8y ago
https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/worlds-riche... Central African Republic, $712, US average $62,000. There's a 100x disparity in averages. You don't get shared yacht enthusiast clubs at $
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by kbutler 8y ago
So, it's OK for a group of, say 20 people to have enough disposable wealth to pool together to fund the amortized annual expense of buying and maintaining a superyacht. But it's not OK for one individual to invest that money for 2
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by kbutler 8y ago
I just don't get the perspective that says, it's OK for someone to be 10 times as wealthy as I am, but no one should be 100 times as wealthy as I am, but it's OK for me to be 1000 times as wealthy as some other people.
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by kbutler 8y ago
jonnycomputer didn't propose redirecting that wealth or increasing the cost for redistribution (e.g., a consumption tax), just that only "yacht enthusiast cooperatives" would be able to afford them. It's a crabs-in-a-buc
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by kbutler 8y ago
Because it's better to have professional models in ads rather than self-educated hobbyists? It could be improved by journalistic standards of disclosure - but instagram/facebook already requires that, though I don't know that
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by kbutler 8y ago
What an awful attitude. Not seeking to benefit anyone, just prevent anyone from being fantastically well off, while endorsing those who are merely incredibly well off.
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by kbutler 8y ago
I'd say that there are reasons that both higher and lower price vehicles should have fewer defects, but it's not clear which reasons would dominate. (And probably different factors dominate in different periods of car production).
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by kbutler 8y ago
Hold up a second (ahem): "Celia pulled an automatic out of her pocket,... Ed then whipped out a gun in each hand and cleaned out the cash register. " If he's got a gun in each hand, how is he cleaning out the cash register? A
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by kbutler 8y ago
1890s/1900 was actually a local maximum in women's marriage age that would not be equalled until about 1980. http://users.hist.umn.edu/~ruggles/Articles/Fitch_and_Ruggle... shows 10% of native-born, whit
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by kbutler 8y ago
No reason at all. It was generally allowed in the U.S. Age of consent was typically 10 years old until 1885 https://discover-the-truth.com/2013/09/09/age-of-consent-in-... "After 1885, age of consent la
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by kbutler 8y ago
> "True recovery requires nurturing a recovery mindset,” she writes, “one that fully honors the body’s need to recuperate and senses when it’s time to chill." ...and there's the proposed next bogus pseudoscientific fad for
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by kbutler 8y ago
But the indictment (pun intended) of the legal system is that it took a billionaire's $10 million to see that justice was done.
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by kbutler 8y ago
Absolutely - cooking is a totally unnatural thing that humans have learned to do, because it provides additional nutrients, calories, and variety. Find an animal in the wild that cooks its food... Closest may be the firehawks, which may sp
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by kbutler 8y ago
Eating meat and being against animal cruelty is no paradox. At most it is a dilemma - "want to eat meat, don't want to hurt animals". The fact that many (most) people continue to eat meat means that people resolve the dilemma
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by kbutler 8y ago
Almond and coconut milk? Yes, almost as natural as cow milk. But why are you blending and steeping and straining the coconut/almond material instead of just eating it? Oh yeah, because you want it to be like what you'd get from &q
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by kbutler 8y ago
Redistribution is required for Pareto efficiency (improvement without making any individual worse off). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency Free trade allows exchanges that make both involved parties bett
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by kbutler 8y ago
> One is natural, one isn’t. Yes, but not the one you mean. Cow milk: can consume it straight as it is produced by nature, right out of the cow (but chilled is probably tastier). Can consume milks from lots of other animals, too. The onl
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by kbutler 8y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, and I agree that the data supports "rest and fluids". But I have relatives that make similar statements about lots of health treatments that are absolutely not supported by the data, and prob
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by kbutler 8y ago
Pseudoephedrine does have a stimulant effect. I find that if I've got bad congestion, the stimulant disturbs sleep less than the congestion would, but I'll still reach for something like afrin (Oxymetazoline) at night in spite of
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by kbutler 8y ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I took megadoses of vitamin C and my cold I was sure would knock me out for a week went away!
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by kbutler 8y ago
So global increases in wealth and global improvements in health mean every individual in the world is getting healthier and wealthier?
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by kbutler 8y ago
...to 1970...
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by kbutler 8y ago
Laundry is still a repetitive and mind-numbing task - how are software engineers going to improve it further? Currently it's mostly outsourcing (commercially or to a spouse or parent) And regarding the time savings of the washing mac
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by kbutler 8y ago
Eight and a half years of lawsuits? Yeah.
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by kbutler 8y ago
I'm not sure that it's the visual appearance (loved the prof-or-hobo page!), I think it's the behavior. Do you think standing around holding signs is an effective tactic? Is that what you would do if you were directly impact
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by kbutler 8y ago
Laundry.
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by kbutler 8y ago
That begs the question - it assumes that the work in the world needs innovative, agile, and high-performing employees, when maybe the world needs a bunch of people that will dig in and do the stuff that needs to be done.
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by kbutler 8y ago
It would depend on the effort to do the methodology vs. the expected return (savings of finding a failed drive times the probability).

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