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by mieseratte 7y ago
> you can’t really blame the pedestrians of ruling this system as stupid and opting not to follow it. Sure I can, they have a shit culture with little regard for traffic signals. My city has the same problem. I'm the odd man out for
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by mieseratte 7y ago
With an insurer, you at least have a backstop of changing insurers. If the government makes this decision, your backstop becomes "move to a new polity." This is the core of the argument, that the government should not have this po
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Well you have assumed wrong. It was a reference to giving the government, likely unelected bureaucracies, power to decide who receives what healthcare.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Well this is, in essence, the concern of the "ObamaCare Death Panel"! Only instead of determining by a board of doctors whether you are entitled to care, a bureaucratic measure to determine whether a company should investigate cur
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Or create the aforementioned delivery / pickup parking and charge a fee for their use. Gives citizens what they want, puts cost on the delivery services for their externalities, and doesn't engage in protectionism for local busine
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by mieseratte 7y ago
I have no trouble making and sustaining friendships with or without an office, in fact only one of my (former) co-workers is an actual friend. Regardless, something about the isolation of working from home for anything more than a day here
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by mieseratte 7y ago
So... uncritically take everything someone says at face value and ignore possible alternative explanations, assuming the worst about the person being discussed that isn't there to defend themselves or otherwise offer any possible conte
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> How do you get your employer to hear you? I don't think these problems are isolated to women. I think women just don't understand that there's an "old boys club" that attacks other men too. I know lots of men w
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> I bet you he said Newton metre. Are `meter` and `metre` pronounced differently? > It's an extra kicker that people who don't use metric units also get to change the spelling of metric units the rest of us are using. Assumi
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by mieseratte 7y ago
The corporation that owns it?
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by mieseratte 7y ago
She posted her side of the story, with no material backing information making, as I’ve said, a he-said-she-said tale. We don’t know anything material of the exchange. Yet everyone feels compelled to assume bad faith on SE’s part.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Perhaps the most striking thing here is the surety of all these responses, it’s all nefarious, lies, sleight of hand. I can at least sympathize with not being told what you did wrong, but this is still a he-said-she-said case. Until either
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> The whole "put family members in jail" bit feels like a worthless appeal to emotion. Using "but wouldn't you want to lock up those darn killers" is itself an emotional appeal.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
One of the biggest issues with the scrum (master|lord|bag) model of Agile is that any process grievances magically transform from "this process has issues" to "that person is wrong."
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> This is also why this new system is completely neutral. That it is neutral today does not mean it will remain so.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> superficial characteristics correctly signal group affiliation, something that is simply not true It does when appearance and affiliation are one.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Nothing gets incremented here. People's expectations and willingnesses are moved forward. Overton Window. > This is the automated checkout system for State services, nothing more. Look beyond the superficial, at larger issues.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> But it's not an incremental step. The French government already had that database. This is just using the data they already had in a new way. Yes, it is a new, small, incremental step! This is introducing a new procedure, a proced
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Which is fine and dandy until the day you're a target. Power is a sword that cuts both ways.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> This app doesn't provide the government any new information > wished to do what you described then this app wouldn't be the proverbial gateway drug to that point. It's not about "gateway drug" - it's ab
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by mieseratte 7y ago
1) I used to work in HFT, so I know what I’m talking about. 2) While it’s a joke, I have no knowledge that Schwaab engages in anything related to front-running: > Nobody is front running some guy day trading AAPL on their lunch break. Ju
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Of course not! They just sell your data to the people who do.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Unfortunately, your anecdote is not representative. Of teachers starting today? Probably not. Older government employees often had ludicrously lucrative compensation packages compared to what we have now. It may or may not depending on
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> What about things like healthcare costs, lifespan estimates, mass shootings, addiction rates, cost of housecare, and economic movement? What do any of these things have to do with corporations? It sounds like your gripe is with somethi
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> Nobody wins in trade wars. I would consider upholding higher-order principles to be a win.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> I think there is simply a trend of attacking the extremist trends that identify themselves as conservative 1. Outlaw "extremism" 2. Label your political enemies as "extrmist." 3. ??? 4. Eutopia
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Using weasel-words doesn't absolve ad hominem.
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by mieseratte 7y ago
> if American conservatism continues to pander to and fall back on its racist and reactionary cores. They don't. > It isn't clear to me why social disapprobation and pressure on the whole to excise reactionaries is inappropr
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Yes, and the baker was willing to sell them a cake. He was not willing to create a bespoke cake. This isn't about refusing service, but refusing compelled speech. As I've expressed over and over, this isn't about refusing to
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by mieseratte 7y ago
Just like a baker can refuse to create a White Power cake covered in swastikas based on their sincerely held views!

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