lulmerchant

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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Well, TIL...
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If only they could run a payroll system as effectively as they can run a genocide.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
On this note, I can't believe that iOS the operating system and IOS the operating system have managed to get along.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Exactly. It's one of the safest and cleanest forms of energy in the world.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
>Basically, a complex mix of social expectations, social bias, how women are treated in society, and biological aspects of women’s personalities may contribute to an overall significantly higher rate of BPD diagnosis being a female diagn
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I'm not going hard on you at all, only on what you've said. The evidence about BPD is that it affects women far more often than men, the clinical data overwhelmingly supports this, and so does the genetic research on the topic. In
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
You've started with a presupposition that all of the clinical evidence is simply a misguided outcome based upon social constructs. How we choose to define BPD is entirely constructed, but the evidence is not, and the evidence very clea
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
How people perceive others is irrelevant to the question. Women are more often clinically diagnosed with BPD, not simply perceived by others to express it. The rest of your post is mostly unsupported speculation. Apart from the parallel you
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
>If cities build appropriate multi modal transportation networks and restrict the amount of space allowed for vehicle traffic, people will walk, bike or take the train rather than drive This is far from being an established fact. Ignorin
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
You shouldn't conflate the law with ethics so readily. The same logic could apply to lots of different encryption or security technology.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
The exact opposite is true. With all the pressure on diversity numbers, talented female engineers are very highly sought after. The truth is it doesn't matter what the data says. There's an entire political philosophy that's
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
I'll ignore the irrelevant marxist talking point and trump references, and redirect you back to the data. The Nordic countries always lead in these stats. These are the countries that are the most egalitarian in the world, where 3rd wa
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Of course it does. Feminism is ingrained into the cultures of these countries. The data overwhelmingly shows that when you give men and women equal opportunities and the freedom to make their own choices, that men and women, on average, mak
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
This data entirely negates that claim. In countries with the highest levels of gender equality, where women are least likely to experience any of these negative forces, they simply self-select not to participate in certain fields (on averag
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Legally this is most likely correct. But you can't have your cake and eat it to. If you support political censorship (which you might have a good reason to do), then you have to own that. You can't support political censorship and
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
CBS didn't have integrity issues as a broadcaster before expanding into news. Buzzfeed's entire business model has been based on no-integrity clickbait garbage, that's what their brand represents. It doesn't matter if th
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
They built their business on the lowest form of tabloid clickbait that could possibly be imagined. You can't go from a position of 0 integrity, and then say "Hey, we're expanding into an integrity market. You're simply i
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
My point is that it's still censorship, whether done by a private company or by a government, and whether they have the legal right to do so or not.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
You're correct, they do have the legal right to censor anything they like.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
How could banning the_donald possibly be considered anything other than censorship?
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Maybe that's how they became successful. It's a well established fact that industriousness is one of the strongest predictors of success in people.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
"Organic" and "Chemical" are words that already have a clear meaning. In the alternative context in which these words are used, they have no meaning. You won't find a consistent or concise definition that describes
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
"Organic" is almost as bad in my opinion.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Years ago I discovered a bit of a trick for getting through customs in Jakarta in about 5 mins (I was travelling there a lot for work). However, what I always ended up with was standing around for about 15-20 minutes for my bags to be unloa
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Since watching King of Kong, I haven't been surprised about any of the shady stuff I hear about TG. Also, I'd recommend that anybody who hasn't watched that movie to watch it, it's hilarious.
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
>New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance has nothing to do with nuclear power. This is absolutely false. https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/nuclear-free-new-zealand/... >Labour campaigned against nuclear prop
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
Port 53 is still a major pita though.
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Most of the poor pay 0% tax. A company is mostly just a collection of assets, and many of them can move their operations from one country to another if they're motivated to do so, you can't just say "this company belongs to t
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It's still a clickbait headline, no matter how interesting it otherwise is. "Negative mass" and "negative effective mass" change the implications quite a lot. One potentially means wormholes, warp drives, quantum gr
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by lulmerchant 9y ago
The problem with this argument, and most of the other disparaging (and borderline nihilistic) comments in this thread, is that it ignores the fact that competition is a two way street. Delivering value to stakeholders is undoubtably an indi

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