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by lurquer 5y ago
> For one the fact that it’s preserved likely means it’s one of the finest homes of the era. Well put.
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by lurquer 5y ago
> the most critical and important jobs in society are among the lowest-paid: retail and foodservice Pay has nothing to do with how critical or important a job is. Nothing. Pay is determined — like everything else — by supply and demand.
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by lurquer 5y ago
Growing up around silos, I can tell you... of all the dangerous stuff on a farm, that was the one thing that folks warned about. They are death traps, particularly because it’s so damn tempting to climb up and get in. (As a kid, anyway.) Or
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by lurquer 5y ago
Indeed. I cringe when this mindset worms it’s way into technical terms. I remember cringing when the term ‘genetic algorithm’ became popular. (It’s a great optimization technique for some things, but it has little to do with biological evol
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by lurquer 5y ago
Literally hoarding... as in under your mattress? Yes. Instead, your ‘hoarders’ are loaning their money to a bank which then in turns loans many multiples of that money to borrowers.
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by lurquer 5y ago
> if you can make a unabomber type of device you can construct a weaponized quadrocopter It’s trivial, cheap, and simple to do massive harm to massive numbers of people. Fortunately, humans don’t usually do this unless part of the govern
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by lurquer 5y ago
No great fan of Google, but a large component of the problem is the Library of Babel phenomenon: there’s just too much crap being published. Let’s face it... the early internet was interesting because the only people who could use it (and p
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by lurquer 5y ago
You can’t cut someone’s hair in California without a license. You can’t sell corrective eyeglasses without a license. You can’t buy (or sell) penicillin without licenses. I could go on. California has thousands of ridiculous, out-dated, law
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by lurquer 5y ago
Sorry to hear about your wife. And your lack of food. Similar items were in your list. I ignored them. Because those issues are universal at all times and at all places. Dealing with a mentally ill wife in the 1300s was, I would bet, a bit
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by lurquer 5y ago
I read your list. It’s very comprehensive. I’d wager an average person from any previous century would trade places with you in a heartbeat. Indeed, I bet an average resident of many third-world countries would do the same. In fact, I bet t
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by lurquer 5y ago
I wonder how many were overworked doctors treating overworked patients. I could imagine a chain reaction occurring where you could wipe out several thousand doctors and nurses merely by showing up at the ER. (Not to mention all the overwork
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by lurquer 5y ago
The terms being bandied about pertain to intent or culpability. But, there still must be an actual harm. That’s a separate element. Western legal systems do not do very well with hypothetical future harms. If I build a big tower on my prope
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by lurquer 5y ago
That was years until the Flood. Had nothing to do with lifespans. (Biblical characters — contemporary with when the passage was written — were living past 120.)
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by lurquer 5y ago
Meh... not really. Our “entire system of law” exists precisely to channel and standardize vengeance and retribution. When the law breaks down, vigilantism (or, more commonly, protection rackets) will arise. I prefer law and order. But, let’
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by lurquer 5y ago
Why do we not make clothing that can last 1000 years, be passed down, etc.? I contend that buildings, with a few exceptions, are consumables. Whether wise or not, humans like to build new things, customizable to their own tastes. An office
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by lurquer 5y ago
Good point. What hubris for a landowner to assume there will be a need for a building 1000 years hence. Buildings aren’t usually demolished and replaced because they are dilapidated; rather, it’s because the new owner has a different need (
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by lurquer 5y ago
I can’t speak for the poster, but I learned that trick (and many others) to play a game while stuck in traffic. Namely, derive the prime factorization of the license plate number in front of you before you lose sight of it. (Usually a 5 dig
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by lurquer 5y ago
> In a way its more odious than violence. You have very little understanding of the Amish perspective. If your assumptions of their beliefs lead you to a conclusion that their pacifism is more odious than violence, it should be a red fla
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by lurquer 5y ago
I’m tired of looking. It’s in there somewhere. Somebody find it...
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by lurquer 5y ago
Not trying to argue. But, you clearly have little knowledge of religion and what motivates those with a religious outlook. That’s all. You seem to view religion and astrology on the same spectrum. That would be insulting, but it seems to be
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by lurquer 5y ago
> We humans are very unique though on how much care and dependency babes need. The marsupials of Australia called and would like a word with you.
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by lurquer 5y ago
Astrology is not a form of religion. It is a form of divination. The two concepts have little to do with each other. Christianity and Judaism have explicit prohibitions against sorcery, divination, fortune telling, etc. (I suspect it’s the
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by lurquer 5y ago
The quote is nonsense. The term “high-conflict marriage” is subjective. If one wanted to make the stats for the two sets of kids equivalent, it’s trivial to do so by tweaking the definition of “high-conflict.” It’s also meaningless without
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by lurquer 5y ago
It’s good practice for a cash business to make daily runs to deposit daily at the bank. Stupid to leave cash laying in the till overnight. Which is why thieves rob banks. But, money is fungible... if it’s stolen, it can be replaced. If the
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by lurquer 5y ago
So now there are two shoeboxes. Hasn’t solved exfiltration. In fact, you’ve just doubled the risk. There may not be a solution if the problem is untrustworthy people. The custodians of your ‘independent control’ will eventually get ransomwa
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by lurquer 5y ago
Nah. It will never stop. The problem is information density. So long as billions of records that are needed for the business exist in a device the size of a shoebox, we’re fucked. An insider can always take the shoebox, lock the shoebox, et
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by lurquer 5y ago
There’s something to that as well. To be clear, within a given category, the addictive substance will prevail: there are clove cigarettes and there are tobacco cigarettes, and I’d contend tobacco sells more than cloves simply due to the add
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by lurquer 5y ago
No it’s not. He’s pointing out an unspoken assumption that is incorrect. Namely, that a creature’s intelligence has any bearing on how they ought be treated. It obviously doesn’t. The most intelligent animal of all is routinely enslaved, ov
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by lurquer 5y ago
> caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, coca leaf You may have missed his point. The four you mentioned are highly addictive. You crave them after a relatively short period of use. An addictive substance — regardless of what it does or doesn’t do
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by lurquer 5y ago
Very interesting and well-written. Thanks.

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