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by neaden 7y ago
If your stance is that you can't risk alienating people who already have decided what you do is without value and based on lies then I don't know what to tell you because you have already lost.
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by neaden 7y ago
The problem is we don't know if it is harmless. We don't know what the short and long term effects of this is going to be. We don't know if these teens are going to be more likely to smoke cigarettes later in life. And when y
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by neaden 7y ago
It's also because she sees how Darcy's servants and tenants view him. He is a popular man and treats the people who depend on him well which speaks positively to his character.
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by neaden 7y ago
Agatha Christie once said that when embarking on her writing career she never thought she would be wealthy enough to afford a car, or too poor to afford servants. Things change quite fast. And I would say that a $2M inheritance is set for l
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by neaden 7y ago
That is not what I said, I think you have to read a bit more carefully.
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by neaden 7y ago
But it's always very specific universities that attract a small and specific subset of students. Where are the examples of this happening at community colleges, or rural land grant schools? As I said it comes off as the only college st
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by neaden 7y ago
I think extreme examples are useful. The Neo-Nazi's marching in Skokie is an extreme example of Free Speech, and the ACLU fought to allow it because the First Amendment is extreme. On the other hand, I believe that when you are dealing
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by neaden 7y ago
You got kind of dog-piled for this which I think was unfair. I would broadly agree with you that "the left" controls public universities in the USA. I think that is just a natural result of a couple things though. First, liberals
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by neaden 7y ago
Because the dis-invitations that get press happen at very liberal universities, either private or well known public liberal universities like Berkely. Academia as a whole leans left, so this is unsurprising. I'm unaware of any right le
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by neaden 7y ago
Honest question, do you think liberal speakers are getting invited to places like Liberty University in the first place?
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by neaden 7y ago
Do you think all view points should be heard? Should Jewish and gay students have to debate Nazi's about whether or not they should be murdered? Should black and women students have to debate if they should count as property?
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by neaden 7y ago
I'm tired of articles that talk about young people today and then only give out examples that happen at small elite liberal arts universities. What that generally tells you is that the author only interacts with a small slice of young
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by neaden 7y ago
True, and drunk drivers, and unlicensed drivers, and people driving while very sick or tired. Really we will need a couple billion miles driven to really start to get into fatalities as a metric compared to humans. Fortunately most car acci
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by neaden 7y ago
The average is 1.25 fatalities per 100 Million miles driven, so not that telling yet.
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by neaden 7y ago
That assumes your bodies need is static, but unless you are living in a place without seasons, consistently exercising the exact same amount, and not aging, that is not going to be true.
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by neaden 7y ago
Juice isn't actually healthy due to it's high sugar content.
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by neaden 7y ago
I would add that besides the police we outsource a lot of this stuff to public transportation workers and librarians. All night subways operate as mobile shelters, especially in winters and libraries are frequently the only place a homeless
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by neaden 7y ago
That is true, but there are ways to get it either with some footwork or money. The second concern is tracking people who you know. Imagine if I tracked every time my neighbors cars entered or left their garages, and every guest that came an
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by neaden 7y ago
There are an increasing number of things that were so person-hour intensive before that they were legal but not practical, with the understanding the police would only do them if they had a good reason, like following a suspect as they went
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by neaden 7y ago
This is just silly. I'm allowed to go into my house whenever I want and you aren't. That isn't me being a hypocrite, people who own things just have more rights to those things.
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by neaden 7y ago
The other alternative is that the inferior and more expensive version simply stops being produced.
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by neaden 7y ago
The article is not recommending people don't mow the lawn. It's not even saying to get rid of grass. Just to plant native plants, minimize herbicides/fertilizers and watering.
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Who Should Live in Flooded Old New York?(nytimes.com)
2 points by neaden 7y ago|0 comments
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Amazon and the Cops Set Up a Sting Operation That Accomplished Nothing(vice.com)
8 points by neaden 7y ago|1 comments
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by neaden 7y ago
While the Soviet Union lost a huge number of people, the 25-30 million dead is an inflated estimate because it counts people living in areas that were conquered by the Soviet Union. Polish people by and large do not appreciate being lumped
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by neaden 7y ago
To be fair, some of the German spies were pretty bad at their jobs. Josef Jakobs stands out as a man who was just not a good spy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Jakobs
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by neaden 7y ago
Sorry if I was unclear, I agree that using BMI to categorize people is a mistake. I think for it's original purpose of comparing two populations it has some value. In terms of a better model Body Fat Percentage is pretty easy to take n
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by neaden 7y ago
To expand on this, BMI was created as a population level comparison in the early 1800's, which it does a decent job at. It was not designed as something to look at a single individual with, let alone diagnose a health condition.
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by neaden 7y ago
Pigeons can do better than humans when they work as a team: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/using-pigeons-to-... but obviously no one is going to trust pigeon diagnosis anytime soon. Computers have a bit mor
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by neaden 7y ago
A leveraged buy out and flat sales left them in debt to the vulture capitalists that bought them. It would have been doing mediocre but sustainable if that hadn't happened.

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