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by leftyted 7y ago
France banned paternity tests for the sake of filation, i.e. to protect the rights of children and to promote stable families. I differ with the previous poster in that I don't think that many men are unknowingly raising children that
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think the ultimate source of Seattle's wishy-washy attitude toward serious crime is summed up nicely by an excerpt from something written by Ilhan Omar: > The desire to commit violence is not inherent to people — it is the consequ
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by leftyted 7y ago
I don't think this is about "your employer owning you". I also don't think this is about capitalism (which is just private property, economic freedom, and a government to enforce those two things). Instead, I think the
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by leftyted 7y ago
I have a much different perspective on this. This seems like a case where demand and financial motivations have happily converged. > Although It was and still is the best game I ever played, without constant releases, it just won't
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by leftyted 7y ago
I don't know if it's the right incentivization model but there's a difference between diagnosis + cure vs. treating symptoms. Painkillers treat symptoms but they don't cure anything.
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by leftyted 7y ago
I think the source of this is professional "career adviser" types. When applying for jobs out of school, I was told: 1. I needed to "tell stories" about myself (doesn't matter if they're true) 2. I needed to bo
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by leftyted 7y ago
> Hollywood isn't scared of climate change. They are good at understanding what we're scared of and making entertainment out of it. I don't think it's fear. People fantasize about the collapse of civilization. It do
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by leftyted 7y ago
I find it difficult to distinguish between people with legitimate complaints and people who are ideologically opposed to amazon (BigCo) existing at all.
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by leftyted 7y ago
I doubt these are bots. One of them says: > I don't get compensated per tweet. I get paid $15/hr whether I am answering tweets or out on the floor stowing. I do this 2 days a week and 2 days a week I stow. While I think it&#x27
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by leftyted 7y ago
> I feel like human behavior will change as culture evolves. In some ways it will but in other ways it won't. There are many patterns of human behavior that have not changed, ever, as far as we know. > How do you conduct science
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by leftyted 7y ago
I have no idea. But there's an important difference between "finding something funny" (i.e. laughing) and "seeing the humor in something". To put it another way: sometimes I don't laugh at a joke but I can sti
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by leftyted 7y ago
> There's quite literally no humor on this I'm sure more than one person said this about Lenny Bruce, probably during his obscenity trial.
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by leftyted 7y ago
"Identical in every way" is strong wording that I didn't use. > why is the inverse version bad, requiring that people "take a step back"? What I'm saying is that if you don't see the humor, you're
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by leftyted 7y ago
A pole shift has occurred in the US. In the past, transgressive comedy almost exclusively came out of the left (I'm thinking Lenny Bruce, Hunter S. Thompson, John Waters, etc). The right, by comparison, was straight-laced. These days
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by leftyted 7y ago
You can view this as the result of the emancipation of women. Or you can view it as the sacrifice of the private sphere (family, children, home and hearth) at the altar of the economic sphere. I suppose I view it as a bit of both. I certai
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by leftyted 7y ago
There's a certain amount of irony here given the FBI's history (I'm thinking of COINTELPRO). I support conspiracy theorists. I think they are canaries in the coal mine of free speech. Right now we seem to be wrestling with
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by leftyted 7y ago
Is that what "safer" means? Fewer people died? Nuclear reactors have the (demonstrated) potential to make a large swath of earth uninhabitable for thousands of years. "Air pollution" doesn't. I hope we do build mo
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by leftyted 7y ago
I don't understand why Netflix doesn't open up the website to everyone, build out the search tools (they suck), and let people pay per episode, per season, or per movie. I bet they'd make more money. I also wonder if Netflix
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by leftyted 7y ago
Will anyone remember these works of art in ten years? Twenty-five? Fifty? One-hundred? Beyond that?
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by leftyted 7y ago
If I think my coworker is disagreeable and is preventing me from being productive and my coworker disagrees, am I "defining his/her identity"? That language seems very odd to me. What's the difference between "defi
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by leftyted 7y ago
People who tend toward 1. would say that Google has bent over backwards to accomodate protesters and has acceded to their demands multiple times, e.g. canceling their project in China and dropping their contract with the US military. Seems
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by leftyted 7y ago
There are two narratives: 1. These people are rabble-rousers who will never be happy and are disrupting the work environment at Google. 2. These people are highlighting legitimate problems within the company and are trying to enact positive
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by leftyted 7y ago
> There’s been an explosion in the engine, and the plane is going to crash in 15 minutes. There’s no chance of survival. There is a potential way out—the plane happens to be transferring a shipment of parachutes, and anyone who would lik
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by leftyted 7y ago
There are things in the world that matter more than economic efficiency and if you want to argue that limiting carbon emissions will have a positive impact on some of those things, go ahead. I'm on board. But I see this article, and y
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by leftyted 7y ago
> A carbon tax is perhaps the most common proposed solution to the climate change problem. It would increase quality of life, not reduce choice nor induce rationing. Currently, burning carbon imposes externalities that are not paid by th
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by leftyted 7y ago
There has to be a balance of power between labor and management. When management has too much power, that power will be abused. When labor has too much power, that power will be abused. Unions make sense when labor doesn't have any p
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by leftyted 7y ago
> The lack of even a dynamic array Are go slices not dynamic arrays? They grow automatically when necessary.
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by leftyted 7y ago
...you say this not having read the post or met the person who wrote it. In theory I have nothing against codes of conduct. In practice they are too often vague and written by the perennially-offended.
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by leftyted 7y ago
I regret my degree (though I'm doing fine). It's in History, but that's not the issue. The issue is that I wasn't mature enough or academically inclined enough when I was 18-22. I did very well in High School due to fe
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by leftyted 7y ago
No one said said "calls" until your post... I think the point is well made - the jury has to decide what "I can't help you" means, and it means different things depending on who says it. This is the nature of human

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