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by natrius 14y ago
Mandated warning labels would be a better idea. Banning things is rarely necessary to achieve policy goals.
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by natrius 14y ago
Downvoting is disabled on threads a user participates in, so it wasn't me. My intent was to inform, not to insult. For the argument you made to be correct, textbook economics must be wrong.
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by natrius 14y ago
That's not how markets work. "if it takes a worker 2 hours to make product X, but then a new technology comes along which makes it only take 1 hour to make product X, then the value of labor has doubled." Wages are set by the supply and d
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by natrius 14y ago
The argument has been true in the past because technology lowered prices, and people used their new disposable income to pay people to do work they used to do themselves, which grew into the huge service industry we have today. There were a
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by natrius 14y ago
"The vastly disproportionate effort that's being recommended towards hiring women smacks of rank tokenism." There are very important distinctions between tokenism and disproportionate effort. In my view, tokenism is choosing someone for s
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by natrius 14y ago
Not only is "mansplaining" the type of destructive insult that has no place in reasoned discourse, it's also pretty sexist in itself. Your comment would be much better without that first line.
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by natrius 14y ago
It is fallacious to argue that since similar arguments in the past were wrong, then current ones must be as well. We could be entering a world where machines can do all of the work that a segment of the population is capable of doing. The m
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by natrius 14y ago
I've never understood why people care about this. Lots of people submit their own stuff. All I care about is the quality of the articles and discussion, which is orthogonal to the identity of the submitter.
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by natrius 14y ago
"Can I ask that same adult black male whether they'd want to be alive in America in 1963, 1943, 1893, and 1863?" Do you honestly think this is valid reasoning? "You might be in prison for a victimless crime, but at least you're not a slav
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by natrius 14y ago
What?
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by natrius 14y ago
Businesses are just groups of private citizens.
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by natrius 14y ago
Commonly consumed amounts of water don't make you ill. Commonly consumed amounts of sugar do make you ill. Is it an exaggeration to call trans fats toxic? Your body can use them to run, but if you eat them, you'll get sick.
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by natrius 14y ago
"If you put yourself in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight, as I have been doing." It sounds like you think establishing a caloric deficit is as simple as forcing yourself to eat less and exercise more. Research says it isn't. Some d
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by natrius 14y ago
If sugar causes diabetes and people die of diabetes, doesn't that mean that the amount of sugar that is commonly consumed is toxic? By the logic you've laid out, cigarettes aren't toxic. Smoking them can cause a variety of diseases that kil
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by natrius 14y ago
Starch is a whole bunch of glucose molecules chained together. No fructose.
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by natrius 14y ago
I consider your hypothetical question to be a legitimate one. The problem is that these sorts of questions are often the precursor to banning unconventional families until someone proves that no harm is done. That sort of thinking is harmfu
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by natrius 14y ago
Which is a shame really. Someone's open-minded curiosity shouldn't be cast aside because of a hypothesis that is politically incorrect.
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by natrius 14y ago
It's also just an incorrect use of the term "snake oil salesman."
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by natrius 14y ago
"...Unity is horribly inefficient with screen space, and getting anything done requires a ton of mouse clicks and waiting for menus to load." Screen space: The launcher can be set to auto-hide, giving you the same amount of space you'd ha
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by natrius 14y ago
Prompt for origins that have never been visited directly by the user.
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by natrius 14y ago
It's not her tweet. It's a tweet from a parody account. Her actual account is @alexia.
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by natrius 14y ago
It rarely works for many men, too.
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by natrius 14y ago
The split between a personal Google Apps account and a plain old GMail account was the worst for me. Anyone who lived through the era where Google Apps accounts weren't full-fledged Google accounts is in the same boat. The way I solved the
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by natrius 14y ago
If Microsoft were willing to provide pay as much or more, why aren't they doing it already to make Bing the default search engine?
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by natrius 14y ago
It's less painful if you invert those files. For example, create settings/defaults.py, then in settings/dev.py, import * from defaults and override what you need to. Set DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE appropriately. You'll thank me when you're addi
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by natrius 14y ago
Complaining about the article caused more people to read it, but I'd bet that most of the people who read the article have also heard about other news outlets replicating the test without issue. The most common understanding of the situatio
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by natrius 14y ago
Mangling a quote like that is effectively lying. It's a pretty stupid move to make after succeeding in challenging the negative PR.
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by natrius 14y ago
"no real use video" Here's a hands-on video of the phone version: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/2/3828266/ubuntu-phone-os-han...
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by natrius 14y ago
From the little I know, corruption in Nigeria is usually about bribery, not murder.
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by natrius 14y ago
This is not a Ruby or Rails issue. This is a software issue.

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