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by ksdale 7y ago
Haha, this is where I was going with my point, which is that you absolutely do not want to please everyone who walks through the door (unless your business success is based solely on the number of people who walk through the door), you want
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by ksdale 7y ago
I feel like this is the sandwich shop example though, which I think is perfectly valid.
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I think this can be a two way street. I don't own a retail business, but I feel like, as a general rule, clients who complain about things like parking tend to not be the best clients. I think it's totally valid in the sandwich sh
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by ksdale 7y ago
I think there may be two schools of thought here, though. Some people interpret the very act of cursing as incivility, regardless of the purpose, and some people only view it as uncivil if it is meant to be uncivil. Personally, I don’t agre
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by ksdale 7y ago
Haha, I've never heard that before. I personally don't think socialization at public school has much to recommend it, but lots of people also have fond memories of their time in school, so I haven't found it productive to get
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by ksdale 7y ago
We're going down this path as well and it's been a struggle to find secular options, but it is indeed growing much more common. I'd suggest that social development can be served by literally just playing with friends though.
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by ksdale 7y ago
Thank you for your reply! I mostly wanted to provide a countervailing anecdote rather than any sort of fixed rule. I would say that I definitely had success, by your definition of social. I've never had a problem making friends, but so
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by ksdale 7y ago
Counterpoint, I had all the socialization I could possibly want growing up, and as an adult I had to unlearn a lot of social behaviors that I had learned when I was surrounded exclusively by my peers. I personally think that socialization i
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by ksdale 7y ago
Right, I agree completely. I was saying that it doesn’t make sense for the article to spin this situation as sinister. Who cares if Uber undercuts public transportation? If they provide it cheaper, the public wins, if they don’t, there is p
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by ksdale 7y ago
My grandfather always tells a cheesy joke about a donut shop owner who, when it is pointed out that he loses money on every donut responds, "But I'll make it up on volume." The article makes that passage sound sinister, but h
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by ksdale 7y ago
My wife and I are very interested in something like this, does your wife have a website?
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There's also a growing urban homesteading movement that combines the benefits of density with some of the benefits of self-sufficiency, a reduced environmental footprint, and the added bonus of potentially living in a city filled with
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by ksdale 7y ago
Very cool! Thank you for the link.
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by ksdale 7y ago
I would take it even farther than that and say that people vastly overestimate the time it takes to get good at most things. It might take 10,000 hours (or more) to be considered an expert pianist, but you could spend a tenth that much time
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by ksdale 7y ago
If benefits aren't graduated, then you can have a hypothetical situation where you can earn $25,000, and receive $5,000 of benefits, or earn $25,001 and receive $0 of benefits. In this hypothetical situation, every dollar you earn bet
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by ksdale 7y ago
Yeah, I appreciate the lengths you went to to avoid bias! This is spot on.
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I agree that it's unreasonable to argue against having a discussion for the sake of decorum. If the discussion needs to happen, it needs to happen, but I think you're ignoring the fact that many anti-gun control advocates think th
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by ksdale 7y ago
It is not a thing. The president doesn't have the authority to do this. There were some major lawsuits about this issue I believe around WWII relating to the redirection of certain industries to serve the war effort. If I recall correc
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by ksdale 7y ago
You're correct about how I feel about drugs, but I think the general argument applies across the board. There are times that enforcement costs are too high, given the crimes they prevent. One of the most common criticisms of airport se
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by ksdale 7y ago
That's very debatable. I, personally, would much rather that people in possession of drugs go free rather than the police using the dogs as an excuse to search people they don't like the look of.
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by ksdale 7y ago
The first time I heard Axl Rose speak in an interview I couldn’t believe how deep his voice was! Listening to basically every GnR song had led me to expect a much higher pitched voice.
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by ksdale 7y ago
That’s an excellent point, thank you. I hadn’t considered that, obviously.
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This is a complicated situation and I don't claim to have all the answers so I'm just offering a perspective here, but it's not at all clear that the world should loudly support Hong Kong. If the world loudly supports Hong Ko
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by ksdale 7y ago
Your point is well taken about the banks. I think the general principle still applies though. We have a system where all of these entities possess all kinds of information, and the main question is, "Who should pay when they get that i
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by ksdale 7y ago
Ultimately, yes, but in the lag between when the fraud is discovered and the criminal caught, who should bear the cost of the fraudulent transactions? There's a very good argument to be made that Wells Fargo, who was actually one of th
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by ksdale 7y ago
Every share they buy back is being disposed of by someone else, who is paying tax on their gain. The tax rate across all of the payees won’t be as high as it would be with a dividend, but it’s definitely not a tax free event.
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by ksdale 7y ago
I remember taking one of those tests in school when I was about 13. I also remember giving the answers that I thought would produce a career recommendation that would impress my friends. Then I wondered how this was different than me just c
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by ksdale 7y ago
Well said!
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I agree 100%. After purchasing a home and joining the local neighborhood social media scene, it's unreal how suspicious people are of the people and cars in the neighborhood (even ones that belong to residents!). We live in as safe of
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by ksdale 7y ago
I agree completely with your first paragraph, but then why bother engaging? My point is that there is no reason to write articles or have conversations that risk alienating. The people who can be convinced won't be more convinced by th

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