kritiko

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by kritiko 4y ago
Since you brought rhetoric into it: -you are straw manning pacifism -you are claiming no sensible person could be anti-war using that straw man -you are implying that war is generally fought for self-preservation against bad leaders I don’t
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by kritiko 4y ago
I think it's a mistake to sort people into such clearly delineated personas, especially if you're going to make judgments about them being driven by "fear" or "joy". Somebody could be very intrinsically driven
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by kritiko 4y ago
I think what's funnier is that statins have become so cheap through generics, but they are demonized because of their purported side effects, so people are spending way more money for e.g. red rice yeast, which is just an unregulated s
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by kritiko 4y ago
I thought we had some ideas - e.g. high sodium diets in east asia have been implicated in gastric cancers.
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by kritiko 4y ago
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... See Supporting Information section
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by kritiko 4y ago
I think they were using plain old thermal imaging cameras (not satellites). However, Kyllo v United States now requires a warrant for that.
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by kritiko 5y ago
> “it was clear they wanted to do more than just be developers.” This seems like a good problem.
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by kritiko 5y ago
The etymology of economics is household management. Children are dependents of your household. I'm not really sure what your objection to this analogy is.... Choosing to work more so you can send your kids to an elite private school is
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by kritiko 5y ago
Not really… there are 12 states, of those ~7 are traditionally red
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by kritiko 5y ago
In America, in most jobs you can be fired for any reason as long as it is not discriminatory against a protected class. What do you mean by “acceptable” here? As in, an average person would consider it fair?
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by kritiko 5y ago
>One other thing that's new, in America, is the idea that speech is less important than people's feelings. Lenny Bruce was convicted of obscenity less than 60 years ago. The civil liberties around speech went through a series o
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by kritiko 5y ago
Moral Mazes is an early 1980s ethnography of corporate managers and delves heavily into the situational morality of the workplace.
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by kritiko 5y ago
Bacon is ~40% fat. The sodium is probably carcinogenic in addition to any compounds developed in cooking. A lot of nutrition science has changed recently, but eating a bunch of saturated fat is still generally believed cause cardiovascular
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by kritiko 5y ago
Kilimanjaro, I think. Even Wim Hof hasn't summited Everest.
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by kritiko 5y ago
I would be interested to know how the claim here that 50% of all sites are tracked by Facebook compares to Google's profiling across the web...
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by kritiko 5y ago
The ACH thing sounds annoying, but your money is not at risk. I think the more concerning thing I have seen is banks deciding that they no longer want to do business with you with no appeals process or recourse as to why your account was fl
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by kritiko 5y ago
FB has Audience Network which extends their targeting off platform. But yes, Google’s acquisition of Doubleclick and investment in video through YouTube has allowed them to capture the publisher and buyer side of much of the open web (and u
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by kritiko 5y ago
Probably the most interesting thing Apple has going for investors is their move into advertising within iOS - and they’re kneecapping the competition through ATT.
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by kritiko 5y ago
If you're going to blame the victim, at least read TFA: "the founder of the far-right neo-nazi group the Proud Boys had done a whole episode of his YouTube series about a comic I’d made."
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by kritiko 5y ago
Hiring for "culture fit" is problematic. Hiring known commodities is not. I'm interested in hearing how you think the search for the most qualified candidates can be improved. Interviewing is, necessarily, a messy process and
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by kritiko 5y ago
I'd imagine there's nothing in the stack that's as powerful as modafinil...
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by kritiko 5y ago
In this scenario, I’m proposing that you rig it. Hire some of the best loot box designers from the gaming industry to replicate their addictive mechanics, but for the welfare state. You’d think the state would embrace virtual scratch offs
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by kritiko 5y ago
state run gaming, limit the bets people make, allow them to "win back" their UBI everyone's a winner, baby!
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by kritiko 5y ago
My local in NYC does a booming cash business (they offer a hugely popular cash special on Tuesdays & if you pay cash, tax is “included” - I think charging tax on card orders is to cover their transaction fees? But maybe a bunch of this
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by kritiko 5y ago
I highly recommend reading this series if you think obesity is a personal failure: https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p... Obviously, yes, medical conditions do place burdens on health
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by kritiko 5y ago
Negotiating price is extremely common in corporate environments. If I had to guess what it accomplishes, I’d say building a relationship with your trading partner.
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by kritiko 5y ago
The United States of America federal government requires a wage of at least $2.13 per hour be paid to employees who receive at least $30 per month in tips.
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by kritiko 5y ago
Cashiers - yes at a coffee shop. The local brewery uses the same Square / Clover POS system for cans to go and sometimes I'll tip a few bucks (though I'm unsure here). Cleaners - if you mean a house cleaner, if booked through
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by kritiko 5y ago
I had a doctor tell me it was probably preferable to have a beer after work to unwind than try to quit. I dunno, I think it's very dose and situation dependent. There are social aspects to drinking in our culture and being social has h
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by kritiko 5y ago
You raise several nutritional theories here. Dietary Cholesterol / Blood Cholesterol - cholesterol restriction has been removed from dietary guidelines in the US, so people have taken that seriously. Increased saturated fat is pretty w

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