mmirate

10 ms·

31.
by mmirate 8y ago
For some martial-arts, it may be necessary to account for the likelihood that bystanders will actually be close enough to be able to intervene before the fight has concluded.
32.
by mmirate 8y ago
> Obviously, there is large political disagreement on this issue (viz: conservatives vs. liberals, to use American jargon). There is not as much disagreement as it can sometimes seem, between those particular groups, as ID'ed using
33.
by mmirate 8y ago
28 cultures is quite a lot of diversity to suddenly and forcibly slam onto a single party-line. Have you considered that maybe this collection of cultures might have values and methods that are sufficiently mutually different, that there of
34.
by mmirate 8y ago
The important difference here is that most adversarial examples for the human perception: (a) do not occur frequently in nature, (b) are not frequently - if at all - produced in man-made architecture or transit-constructions, (c) often cont
35.
by mmirate 8y ago
It is presumably a big deal to those whom it affects. But why is it a big deal to anyone else besides those folks' friends, family, etc.? (And, perhaps, to some hypothetical peddlers of self-help books targeted at those with impostor s
36.
by mmirate 8y ago
When you discover that an intuitive result is wrong, the production of a thorough debunking is but a tiny sliver of the total work needed to change the world's minds away from that wrong result.
37.
by mmirate 8y ago
The cyclical nature would be overcome in the relevant areas if, as stated elsewhere in this thread, this exodus from the Bay Area is a slow and steady trickle. That trend is so powerful precisely because lots of trade-working parents don&
38.
by mmirate 8y ago
No, it's literal allocation of scarce resources. Their homes would do quite nicely as office-parks or some other commercial property, but those people both are rich enough and value their places irrationally enough, to [pay out their
39.
by mmirate 8y ago
Skilled construction workers that aren't yet half-disabled , you mean. They have a shelf life, not unlike those of professional football players, stuntmen, longshoremen, firefighters, soldiers, pre-Industrial-Revolution farmers, etc.
40.
by mmirate 8y ago
This article really makes taxonomy sound like life-sciences' bikeshedding.
41.
by mmirate 8y ago
Why is some random actor's opinion unusually important, let alone on a technical topic such as this?
42.
by mmirate 8y ago
Well, if different courts were allowed to exist in the same geographical area, with different laws, selling their services (and their laws) to customers, competing for these customers, and negotiating between themselves as to how inter-cour
43.
by mmirate 8y ago
Does this mean that anyone wanting to run anything non-Ubuntu-based on a System 76 product, gets to take upon themselves the joyous tasks of extricating these drivers from Pop!_OS, monitoring Pop!_OS for driver changes, and re-extricating n
44.
by mmirate 8y ago
Problems and consequences? Yes. Problems and consequences that affect non-homeless people who are just passing through and minding their own business? Doubtful.
45.
by mmirate 8y ago
upthread: > they are just sure the homeless are all drug addicts and thieves /upthread > but martial arts aren't much of a solution for malaise that isn't in the form of physical direct combat. Attempted theft doesn&#x2
46.
by mmirate 8y ago
> Even if the suburb doesn't have "bums", the area around your job still does, no? It doesn't have very many, actually. I'd say more about why not, but that would get into self-doxx territory. > So now you als
47.
by mmirate 8y ago
That, mind you, merely shifts the problem to "make governance-groups smaller". But no politician wants to reduce their job responsibilities such that they now govern fewer people, that's bad for their egos and their resumes
48.
by mmirate 8y ago
A steamroller is a steamroller; if all we have are steamrollers, then the only protection that $good has, is might. And I think most would agree that might shouldn't make right. That's why it's important to move away from nee
49.
by mmirate 8y ago
Or you could learn a martial art, and not live in terror nor take the entire world's burdens upon your shoulders. (Or do what I did, and take a job within commute range of a suburb that isn't infested with bums.)
50.
by mmirate 8y ago
Open borders, and mold all other policy to match: i.e. limit all safety nets and the franchise, abolish the federal minimum wage, remove the indenture from H1Bs, etc. The benefits of open borders far outweigh the costs of doing it right. (A
51.
by mmirate 8y ago
If we must accept the combination of "closed borders, with safety net for all warm bodies within" instead of its superior alternative, then this seems like a reasonable way to prolong this status quo. Most unfortunate.
52.
by mmirate 8y ago
> I also see it as insurance against bloody revolution. Why do you believe that our government does not - like any government purported to be by&for its people - slowly and inexorably march towards needing a horrifyingly bloody r
53.
by mmirate 8y ago
How so, and more importantly, how?
54.
by mmirate 8y ago
It's a service, just like any other; and, in the occasion that the customer is able to utilize that service to the full extent, it is also a creation of a valuable good (human capital).
55.
by mmirate 8y ago
To be fair, a (hypothetical) non-morally-bankrupt hosting provider would do just that but for Rust instead of C#.
56.
by mmirate 8y ago
On the contrary, tabula rasa is one of the most sacred axioms of modern Progressivism.
57.
by mmirate 8y ago
> Our entire province is struggling with a housing crisis right now. Things are complicated unfortunately and conventional wisdom doesn't always match up with reality. When there is such a mismatch between housing costs and salary o
58.
by mmirate 8y ago
> As it stands, if I wanted to rent my own apartment, 50% of my monthly income would be gone right there. That's not including utilities, internet, or food, and that's not a "nice" place - it's just what you can
59.
by mmirate 8y ago
> Now, as written, that seems to be not so bad for X who already have Y , but bad for other competing services starting up which would have to develop it? That is generally the cause, effect and purpose of all government regulations,
60.
by mmirate 8y ago
I truly believe every word that I post here. How can that be trolling? (Or are you using "trollish" as a shorthand for "things that disagree with the virtues that SV claims to espouse"?)

More ›