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by nverno 4y ago
Definitely the most common one in the states. I'm broke, but all this is the same, minus eating at restaurants. You'd have to go to countries where modern appliances aren't ubiquitous for most of these time-savers not to exi
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by nverno 4y ago
There are a lot of gray areas around imprisoning people. I (like all other apes and probably most intelligent animals in the world) believe 'eye for an eye' is basically the embodiment of true justice. Everything else is a mix of
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by nverno 4y ago
Well, yea, what else can you do with violent murderers and the like? Or POWs?
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by nverno 4y ago
Those were rationalizations. Nobody thinks enslavement like that is justified.
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by nverno 4y ago
I think 'slave' is overly negative usage in this case. A 'slave' implies people that were enslaved with no justification, imo. You don't normally hear POWs or inmates referred to as slaves. The fact that inmates a
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by nverno 4y ago
'inmates' is a more accurate descriptor. A 'slave' could refer to anyone being forced to work for no pay, whereas an inmate means that as well as a bunch of other relevant stuff.
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by nverno 4y ago
I get similar jittery+anxiety and also sweaty palms from coffee, but not from tea. Have you tried different sources?
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by nverno 4y ago
Trusting blindly is not a natural state. We evolved in the ecosystem you see around you. In freak cases, eg. the dodo bird, you can see what happens when blind trust meets competition.
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by nverno 4y ago
Everyone is a potential threat, that's the whole point of trust in the first place. If that wasn't the case, trust (in terms of safety) wouldnt even be a thing.
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by nverno 4y ago
I don't see this as a partisan issue. The same motivations exist for anyone in their position to commit fraud. I doubt people of one political tribe are any more immune to them than the those of another. Perhaps it is more likely fo
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by nverno 4y ago
What are you saying? The current maintainers have made huge contributions for many years.
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by nverno 4y ago
The worst non-package related offender is long lines imho. I think opening a file or buffer with a long line is the only immediately obvious hanging I see running plain emacs. I know there are a lot of technical difficulties, but fixing t
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by nverno 4y ago
If you consider nuclear a renewable source, we could easily cover our current costs with it.
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by nverno 4y ago
I've seen reports like this from anti-smoking campaigns before. It's hilarious they don't account for the estimated costs of treating those dead patients had they lived to old age. Calling BS on that one.
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by nverno 4y ago
The point is people support taxing whatever is convenient for them. Another of the many conforming effects of overgrown democracy.
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You're missing the point. It's too easy for the majority to support taxing the minority over anything like this, cause it's no skin off their back. [Not to mention there are already laws pretty much everywhere restricting s
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by nverno 4y ago
The dis/incentive aspect is already abused, imo. If a small percentage of society participates in one activity, eg. smoking, it's too easy for the majority to tax the crap out of them to fund whatever activities they want.
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by nverno 4y ago
The future for tobacco products is looking pretty bleak. In MA, now I can only buy juul 3%, no menthol or any other flavor, even worse than in CA. Besides, it costs as much as groceries now.
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by nverno 4y ago
Do you use a tool for that? Or just the browser?
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by nverno 4y ago
yea, embedding elisp in links, a feature I love, wouldn't be possible for example.
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by nverno 4y ago
Huh? The great depression had the highest unemployment rate on record for the states, nearly 25% in 1933! And stayed high for over a decade.
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by nverno 4y ago
Wholeheartedly agree with your analogy. Americans share a federal political system, but not much of a collective culture, at least not too far beyond that shared by liberal societies around the world. It's one of the best thing about
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by nverno 4y ago
No, I'm interested in how people learn successfully, and what scenarios lead to better outcomes. I highly doubt being a minority has anything to do with it, aside from being a confounding variable. It may be the case that people of so
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by nverno 4y ago
It just seems lazy, using race as a proxy variable without positing a hypothesis for what it means. It doesn't tell us, as readers, anything about why some kids didn't perform as well as others.
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by nverno 4y ago
> In the districts that stayed remote for most of last year, the outcome was as if Black and Hispanic students had lost four to five more weeks of instruction than white students had. Is this referring to differences b/w students in
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by nverno 4y ago
I agree, milking shows usually ruins them. On the other hand, if they are great shows that last a long time you can gain a loyal audience. This seems to be how HBO has found so much success- Sopranos (never lost quality, even by the end),
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by nverno 4y ago
College administrators themselves, are typically hostage to the views of students/donors/board of directors/governors, etc. these days- otherwise they don't last too long. They walk a fine line.
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by nverno 4y ago
without natural competition this would be a barren planet
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by nverno 4y ago
Putin wears lifts, Kim Jong Un is famously self-conscious, etc. - so, no I don't think these insecurities are in any way unique to with Western cultures. And every culture is materialistic.
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by nverno 4y ago
I think it is the dumbing down that makes it easier for mud-rakers. People know it's complicated anyway, and the average person can grasp complicated things as well as you.

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