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by paisawalla 4y ago
On the third hand, the idea to ask "is more actually better than less" can only occur to people after they've become accustomed to a certain level of prosperity.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
In the 90s, my relatives first came to the US. In those days, there were newspaper dispensing machines on the sidewalk, which worked like this: 1. It was a box on the sidewalk with a locked swing-out door facing forward. 2. You put coins in
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by paisawalla 4y ago
This is a common pattern with all organizations, but especially charities, non-profits, or volunteer roles. At first, the work is done by those who love that cause, and commonly some combination of - the cause becomes prominent enough that
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by paisawalla 4y ago
I run the Nano, with 32gb, without any issues. My previous laptop was the X280, then the X220. Obviously the 220 was of a completely different philosophy, comprising almost totally user-serviceable parts. However, barring the serviceability
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Correct. Columbus's behavior was de rigueur for X=[those European engaged in exploration, settlement, and the slave trade]. It was also better than the equivalent behavior when X=[non-Europeans engaged in the same]. And the slave trade
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by paisawalla 4y ago
X1 Nano is an extremely strong option for those looking for a compact, Linux-friendly laptop: 32gb with a 13" display. Lacks USB-A ports however.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
In addition to Europeans, the contemporary set I mentioned also includes 1. Arab slavers who made eunuchs of their captured (kidnapped) slaves, and 2. the Mesoamerican civilizations whose religious imperative was to keep their sacred pyrami
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by paisawalla 4y ago
> "Columbus bad" isn't really a "thesis", it's a fact. Bad compared to who? Whatever faults you'd lay at his feet were not only de rigueur for both Europeans and Muslims of his time, but exceeded in m
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by paisawalla 4y ago
You may enjoy "The Years of Rice and Salt," by Kim Stanley Robinson.
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Sure, but apart from a rebuttal, it's also a valid critique to simply point out that this is a structurally bad article which insults the intelligence of the reader, without responding to the content. The entire field could be occupied
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by paisawalla 4y ago
This article is poorly/un- sourced, and ham-handedly forces the class-oppression dynamics in defiance of obvious alternative explanations. This is why it doesn't even attempt to seriously explore causes of popular opposition to op
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Hah point taken, let me put it a different way. In American films, if someone does extreme, superhuman stunts, the filmmaker typically feels pressure to explain that the character is actually superhuman in some way and not an ordinary guy w
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Indian action films typically don't strive for believable action scenes, like American films do. Instead, they apply the effects and stunts excessively -- they go over the top in a major way. The embarrassment is for the comparably uns
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by paisawalla 4y ago
In my case, we had a grandparent living with us for more than ten years when growing up. Living in a multigenerational household, and having friends and family who did the same, gave me the certainty that that's what I wanted for my fa
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Toleration here means commitment to combat the bad ideas in the sphere of debate, and not to work the refs e.g. by appealing for bans. It doesn't mean you have to listen to it, but that your strategy for opposing it is to debate agai
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Eliminating the word fascism from discourse, and replacing it with a description of the thoughts and attitudes you find intolerable, would clarify your claims are here. It's not an invitation to argue about those views mind you, but if
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Agreed, it really does not seem far off now to imagine a world where I can request artifacts like "This episode of Law & Order, but if Jerry Orbach never left the show" "Final Fantasy VII as an FPS taking place in the Cal
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by paisawalla 4y ago
> Doing anything is better than doing nothing. Reading the history of man shows that the opposite is many times true.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Sure, go ahead and ask those laid off if they'd feel better if they were given a nice grant of $HOOD, which was worth about 500% more in 2021. The post-IPO 2021 price stabilized for a while around $50, so $50M is about 1M shares. The a
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Personally, some of these are evocative of Alegria[0] -- the bubbly monochromatic (hideous) corporate art style that is dominant in America -- with a Chinese flair. 0: https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/dont-worry-these-gangley-ar
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Who is on which end of that crapware spectrum? And what is the crapware? Asking as someone who's only had a Pixel, or iPhone before that.
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Do you have anything other than unearned moral condescension? It is not my experience that clicking your tongue at people and badgering them to prioritize the collective over their own individual health outcomes in a healthcare policy is
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by paisawalla 4y ago
I am asking you to define "good effect" precisely because it seems to be subject to the kind of cherry picking you don't like. I'm a median to upper-middle American, and I get great value from my healthcare. It's no
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Just looking through the OECD's datasets [0], I see a lot of health care quality and utilization measures missing for the US and many other OECD countries. How are you defining "good effect"? [0] https://stats.oecd
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Among other things, that profit owes to the fact that the price for their product was substantially higher at sale time than at the time when they bought their inputs. If your issue is that someone made a profit, then you want the market pr
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by paisawalla 4y ago
It seems like this means artists would mostly be needed for creative art, e.g. spaceships, monsters, etc. That is, things that don't exist, so can't be photographed. But there are already commercial and free libraries of commonpla
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by paisawalla 4y ago
TLDR: democracy is rule by the people, unless the people choose poorly or refuse to accept what is Obviously Good and Right. Your ideas are bad and naive, and because you seem to be disavowing my natural right to refuse to participate in th
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The whole point of exit is that there are too many people, such as yourself apparently, who consider their underdeveloped and underinformed notions of society to be universally applicable -- under force of law if necessary. Put bluntly, I d
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by paisawalla 4y ago
> Like nationalism, bigotry and racism weren't enough. Please no. I would like to exit the bureaucracy of mother hens pecking me to death as they enforce ever-narrowing boundaries of permissible thought -- that is, when they are not
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by paisawalla 4y ago
Everything I've found suggests that 1800F is minimally required for full cremation. But even if full cremation is not the goal -- I have laid out a sketch for what the logistics of a large scale field cremation operation would have to

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