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by ksdale 8y ago
Haha I remember thinking that when I read the Epic of Gilgamesh in school. I thought, “this story can not possibly be as boring as the translation is making it.” Years later, reading all different sorts of literature in a effort to make mys
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by ksdale 8y ago
I completely agree that it’s not an inevitable state of affairs. And I don’t think your point about Manhattan necessarily refutes my point. Just because a place is wealthy doesn’t mean it will have great infrastructure, but there are wealth
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by ksdale 8y ago
Yeah I feel like comparisons to Europe often fall flat for this reason. There are plenty of small, wealthy enclaves in the U.S. where the infrastructure is perfectly fine, but the U.S. is so big that telling someone in say, Bellevue, WA tha
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by ksdale 8y ago
You could have said the same thing about China 50 years ago. Places aren’t appropriate for investment until they are, and then the change that can take place is staggering.
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by ksdale 8y ago
Over the holidays with the in-laws, we watched one of those Cops type shows and I was a little incredulous about the use of the drug sniffing dog. It occurred to me that they could just have the dogs alert basically whenever they wanted the
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by ksdale 8y ago
I appreciate this perspective, I definitely hadn’t considered all of the ways a hostage situation can arise. A very quick Googling turned up an article that said that 85-90% of hostage situations are resolved nonviolently. Another article s
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by ksdale 8y ago
I feel like occasions where the police react too slowly and hostages get killed would make it into the news. Instead we have stories about swatting. Any policy needs to weigh the harm to actual hostages against the harm to victims of swatti
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by ksdale 8y ago
Exactly. When I became a lawyer I was astounded by people speaking in lofty language about how serving people is the highest good and then turning around and saying that we have to protect the legal field from “low skilled” entrants because
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by ksdale 8y ago
A lot of people say they want to cut a lot of spending, but everyone wants to cut different things. Ask half a dozen people what they want to cut and they’ll say things like everything but military spending, or everything but Medicare or Me
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by ksdale 8y ago
We’ve seen lots of aircraft and birds though, even if we haven’t spent much time actively thinking about them. Even by the time we’re young children, we’ve been exposed continuously to something like tens or hundreds of terabytes worth of v
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by ksdale 8y ago
An anecdote from the flip side, our three kids have had very extensive access to screens since they’ve been able to use them, none of them have bad screen habits. They all happily put them down to play with anything else that seems interest
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by ksdale 8y ago
This. If parents expect their kids to obey for fear of punishment, they’re teaching the lesson that you obey people who are stronger than you. Out in the real world, when someone tells you to obey because they are stronger, you tell them to
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by ksdale 8y ago
There was an article (I believe on Noahpinion?) a while ago about how they don’t need to build cheap housing, if they built enough expensive housing to soak up all the tech workers, the price of everything else would drop enough that poor p
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by ksdale 8y ago
I think this is a question of relative popularity, they could hold a local arts performance at Centurylink and even if it were free, the stadium would still be mostly empty. The 5th Avenue Theater holds a little more than 2,000 people, it’s
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by ksdale 8y ago
This is a very underrated point. I feel like in the abstract, we should be asking how much a city should be willing to pay for a place where tens of thousands of people can gather for a common purpose tens of times a year to attend an activ
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by ksdale 8y ago
According the article it does not say it’s illegal, it says you have to make reasonable provisions for their supervision and safety if they’re unattended. That strongly implies that it is ok under certain circumstances to let children under
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by ksdale 8y ago
I think you nailed it from the armchair. My parents and my wife’s parents reminisce fondly about evenings spent playing cards and singing songs with their families growing up, and they’re sad that those things aren’t much a part of our cult
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by ksdale 8y ago
I don’t think there was as much of a difference to the person living in Rome at that time, what with disease and starvation and lack of geographic mobility and hostile invaders. And I might be wrong, but the worst predictions I’ve seen seem
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by ksdale 8y ago
I’ve often thought that this is like someone living at the fall of the Roman Empire deciding not to have kids because the world was falling apart. It wasn’t pleasant by any means for a lot of people and the population in Rome declined drast
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by ksdale 8y ago
Technically humans do own everything. The problem is not being able to find out who owns what because at some point in the chain, there's an entity outside the country or somewhere that has different disclosure rules.
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by ksdale 8y ago
I call those type of businesses "recursive businesses." Just like your real estate example, most multi level marketers make almost all of their money from bringing new sellers into the fold rather than selling to actual customers,
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by ksdale 8y ago
If I remember correctly, the entirety of that quote is really more about being a well-rounded person than about the best way to make a living. I'm betting Robert Heinlein didn't make his own clothes and shoes, though maybe he coul
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by ksdale 8y ago
I think this is an underappreciated point. I started learning to code a few years ago with online platforms and just flew through the exercises, but always hit a brick wall every time I tried to actually build something. I stopped and start
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by ksdale 8y ago
Just because the slippery slope fallacy exists doesn't mean that every warning about unintended consequences is necessarily wrong. That would be a fallacy in the opposite direction.
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by ksdale 8y ago
This view assumes that news that cultivates conflict and dwells on catastrophe is the natural way of things. Every news source chooses what to cover, and most of them currently choose in a manner to maximize viewership. It's important
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by ksdale 8y ago
I think this is an excellent point. I have no idea what the right answer is, but I think that the role of technology is really underappreciated. On the one hand, people are probably correct to say that it's an infringement on their rig
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by ksdale 8y ago
I remember watching an interview on Golf Channel long ago, someone asked Bubba Watson about his $100k watch, and he said he would never ever spend that much money on a watch. It seemed like the wrong thing for a person who was sponsored to
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by ksdale 8y ago
I agree completely! I remember having a conversation with my parents about one of those "robots taking all the jobs" articles and I brought up universal basic income as a solution to mass technological unemployment and they seemed
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by ksdale 8y ago
I think this is quite insightful. There was a post on here a while ago about William Faulkner being an absolutely atrocious postmaster when he was in college. Of course, a lot of artists tend to have a more meandering paths than a lot of CE
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by ksdale 8y ago
This is an underappreciated point. In a sense, it's only empathy for the "bad" guys that matters. Everyone treats the "good" guys well, regardless of empathy. Empathy is exactly what allows you to treat the bad guys

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