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by nnfy 9y ago
How incredibly odd, it is almost as though we are, perhaps, driven by biological imperative to find members of the other sex attractive. I'll just let myself out with these crazy conspiracy theories. In seriousness, I'm pointing o
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If I'm not mistaken, many publicly funded studies end up behind paywalls. Terrible model. Especially in the age of wiki based media. Combine this problem with low quality science necessitated by the publish or perish doctrine, failure
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>would it be easier to create a fusion reactor if we made it bigger? Absolutely-but only when you approach mass scales on par with small suns. So not in a practical sense. To elaborate, plasma in stellar bodies is essentially contained b
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by nnfy 9y ago
Why do people seriously believe that presidential administrations are motivated by petty childishness? Do people really believe it to be possible that someone incompetent could make it as far as the presidency? There's far more going o
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Our domestic talent pool has been decades on the decline for lack of support, uncorrelated with which side of the party aisle the current administration has been.
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I'm sure you had it worse, but public schools in non poor areas are pretty shitty too, unless you are in honors/ap courses. And this problem with our schools existed long before trump, and not to sound conspiritorial, but the both
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You're conflating free markets with capitalism. And once laws are influenced by capitalists, the market is no longer free. And this is again a failure of government, not capitalism. As an analogue, you cannot say that socialism is a fl
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I will sometimes put off (when I have other tasks) writing a new class for hours because I can't think of a resonably short but descriptive name.
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You and GP are romanticising socialism. Japanese people are, for example, very conscientious on average. I recall images of them cleaning up after themselves at world cup events. This has nothing to do with capatilism. And capatilism is not
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I think the reduction from 60-90 to 40 happened over the span of many rehirings. I think you're giving unions too much credit for microscale protections.
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This was (intentionally?) painful on my Nexus 5. Interesting nonetheless. I suppose it wouldn't be windows93 without some degree of discomfort.
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>Without collective enforcement of monetary value, currency is useless Absolute totalitarian drivel. Currency, like economics in general, is an emergent phenomenon, and does not require any form of enforcement. >Your wealth would not
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by nnfy 9y ago
The civilian application proposed in the article, mapping the many to many relationships between amazon purchasers and items purchased, is unsettling.
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Maybe there would be less toxicity in your life if you stopped looking for it. You sound like you're approaching the problem with the mindset that the entire industry is built around bro culture and harassment. I think that's a sl
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There is no question that Facebook is tracking you by other means, including IP. Even non-social media companies do so. Why, you may ask? Because mining data about the pages you visit after Facebook allows for targeted advertisement, at the
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Some forms of intrusion are more difficult to avoid than others; obviously that doesn't make it irrational to avoid as much as you realistically can. Also, Facebook holds a significantly broader type of information than uncle Sam or T-
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>The report found no evidence for the idea that people will work less under a universal income, and found that in some cases, like in the service industry, people worked more, expanding their businesses or pursuing more satisfying lines
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by nnfy 9y ago
My problem with an idle Facebook account is at least twofold: my activity is still being tracked against my will, and out of principle I refuse to support an organization which so blatantly disregards personal space.
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by nnfy 9y ago
Despite having deleted my little used Facebook months ago, Facebook still finds ways to remind me of its authoritarian intrusiveness; I have a fake account which I use for commenting, and I was asked to upload a copy of a photo ID. I was gi
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by nnfy 9y ago
This isn't really a question, all particles exhibit both wavelike and particle like behaviors. What matters is the scale (mass and energy) which determines which behavior will dominate.
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The prices have spiked because loans are guaranteed by the government and unforgivable, which creates a situation where loans are given to more individuals, which leads to a greater demand for college, and a resulting price increase. This i
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by nnfy 9y ago
Perhaps section 8 tenants are treated as "subhuman garbage" (quite an exaggeration, I'd say) because they are more likely to miss payments and destroy property? These evil landlords are not running charities. Maintnence is pr
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by nnfy 9y ago
That alone isn't enough data to answer the question. I arbitrarily picked 1962 as a starting point, and while the number of employees since then has approximately tripled, the population of US citizens has approximately doubled, in add
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by nnfy 9y ago
There was a large scale, long duration study which followed thousands of participants and found that the incidence of mental illness, including schizophrenia, in marijuana users was not higher than that in non-user populations. I'll se
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I don't think that's true. While the term is of course loosely defined, unless you are at the top of the middle class, you can't leave the middle class by simply doubling income.
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I don't mean to be sexist, but I've wondered purely out of curiosity if the decline in wages is related at all to the entry of women into the work force. You've nearly doubled the number of wage seekers without necessarily in
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by nnfy 9y ago
Would a vendor like coinbase be subject to any legal repercussions if its employees purchased litecoin before the option to purchase went live, and the price spiked?
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So you're proposing that we move to a totally shallow economy which provides little in the way of useful service, other than what is essentially wealth signaling. Meanwhile our consumption remains the same and our carbon emissions are
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I also wonder how the productivity gap has been affected by modern development technology, or even the languages themselves.
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The article wasn't very specific, I wonder what kind these so called new collar jobs are?

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