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by nverno 5y ago
> It's the market value that derives from the benefits the land itself provides (crops it can grow, proximity to a desirable job, etc) Do they really lump profitability from agriculture in with location, rent profit, etc.? It seems
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Yes, a common conception of race is nation/region/tribe- eg. Trojan, Roman, Mongol, or the various SA tribes. So, a modern US-centric version could be the state you are from, or rural/urban, etc. It's meaningless, thoug
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I think of race as an ideology- different groups seem to have roughly similar views about it when they have shared history- it's a social construct, so it's difficult/impossible to really convey to other people what it means
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> To use this approach today requires that your project also be written in Typescript. It also means you’ll need to forgo a separate flat-file for your configuration. You're right, the summary presents this configuration as a stop-g
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Now that you've gotten the ritual disclaimers out of the way, though, Emacs time investment pays off big time. Survivorship bias, sure, but you certainly don't need to go full Colonel Kurtz into the Emacs rabbit-hole like Bohzida
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No it's definitely not an 'American' thing, in the broader sense- it is the most popular show of all time, I believe. I'm with you, I love Seinfeld but consider it very milquetoast- the comedy is centered around mundane
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> I'd argue that we aren't It's been a hot-button issue since it was created. If it's characterized as a system run by a bunch of bankers with greedy fingers on the tap, it sounds terrible- if it's a system to s
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Ohio sues Facebook alleging it misled public about its effect on children(wsj.com)
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If this could work, there would no doubt be plenty of money happily poured into it. There must be countless charities/non-profits, already raising heaps of money and manpower, attempting to do exactly this. There needs to be either st
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> some models are simplistic Every model is simplistic, otherwise it's not a model, but reality. Societal models (I've never heard of a remotely reasonable one, aside from psychohistory) have the unique problem where they infl
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Somewhat related, in the US at least, homesteading wasn't ended until 1976 (1986 in Alaska). A rather large percentage of the land was given away by the government after the act was passed in 1862. Of course, the concept of land owner
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I think the difficulties/uncertainties you mention here are a large factor in the feds reluctance to break up monopolies. I have no personal opinion on these methods without taking a much deeper dive into the details. It does seem li
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In the US, they are concerned with economic impact, they do a whole in-depth economic cost/benefit analysis as part of determining if it's worth breaking up a monopolist. Whatever 'justice' means in this scenario seems
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I think it is a safe bet that there will always be new monopolies developing. There are always new markets, and benefits often don't scale linearly with growth. It's a complicated, error-prone business, trying to disrupt monopoli
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The DOJ has a lawsuit against Google in the works, it's even mentioned in the article. [[I'm hesitant to provide a citation as I'm not sure of the latest source]]
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at least they got rid of those $35 overdraft fees on a 50 cent negative balance, that was BS. So, maybe there is a brighter financial future
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this was commentary on the /hypothetical/ scenario from OP on which regime was more damaging, which I read as essentially ideology choice, not an endorsement of any particular methods
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Would you rather live under the American, Russian, or Chinese government? Probably as simple as that- what's considered damaging in this case likely depends on your preferences.
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I've never made it enough of a habit to feel like I've had long-lasting changes, but I do have one friend with serious life-long depression, who has approached psilocybin use methodically, as a means of treatment along with period
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Anecdotally, I've also noticed the most profound lasting positive effects on my mood after the worst trip I ever had- an absolute nightmare for no good reason (same people I'd tripped with before, familiar places, etc), but the fo
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by nverno 5y ago
"I'm not a gangster. I'm a businessman, and my business is crime." --Bobby Cummines
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by nverno 5y ago
Are you signed in? That link returns bacon results for me.
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It amazes me, when reading stuff from ancient Rome (currently I'm reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, which was basically his diary), how similar a lot of society, day-to-day worries and the like, are to ours today. However, I
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I feel bad for kids that will be the subjects of these social experiments. And if (when) the results aren't good, can you trust ideologically driven administrators to change their methods? [[it would be great if it ended up working we
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People will ignore new information when they've already made up their minds or are too attached to their own reality (pretend sleeping), but can easily change their minds if they accept/are aware of their ignorance (sleeping). The
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by nverno 5y ago
I love writing elisp, obviously! It wasn't some drudgery for me, it was the whole reason I even got into coding (from using R in emacs) in the first place. I got into a habit (obsession?) of automating as much as possible everything I
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Yes, it takes work, it's like learning how to dance, draw, or paint. My emacs config is literally 64183 lines of elisp + 2356 snippets (just checked), so I'm not really considering a major editor switch at this point. I've us
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You need dedicated tutorials, or equivalents, for all complicated tools and machinery. The power of Emacs (with respect to text editing capabilities) comes from mastering, by committing to muscle memory, a large number of key sequences. T
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My comment was about democrats on the whole (and republicans) making it an us vs. them thing, not you personally.
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That's why I phrased it as "genetic predisposition". As I understand, environment is of a major factor in gene expression, but the underlying genetics also vary between individuals, eg. Native Americans and other ethnic group

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