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by pbourke 6y ago
IIRC, there wasn’t a permanent settlement in New France until Quebec City in 1608.
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by pbourke 6y ago
It’s hardly a benefit if your goods are 20% cheaper but you no longer have a stable job to pay for them with.
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by pbourke 6y ago
I’m sorry, but this comment is in bad faith. Plants do no have brains, they do not emote or feel pain. Someone will chime in with a "well actually ..." no doubt, but to ascribe any form of equivalence between plants and animals in
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by pbourke 6y ago
“What’s wrong with the church?! We’ve got some theses!! (You’ll never guess how hard-hitting no. 95 is!) <next>”
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Unlike doctors and grade school teachers, if programmers had more contact with end users, they'd probably get burned out faster. The things we build rarely make anyone happier. The one time that this was not the case was a wonderf
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by pbourke 6y ago
Are participants eventually informed whether they’re in the treatment or control groups?
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by pbourke 6y ago
Basically this. Lots of people leave. Lots of companies go fully remote or are wound up. Lots more people and companies get more bang for their buck in the real estate market. Some real estate businesses tank. The market finds a clearing pr
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by pbourke 6y ago
Money is cheap now.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Foxconn provided a bulk quantity of unicorn farts to power the Walker and Trump administrations through tweets, photo ops, TV ads, etc. In return they were expecting the angel of tariffs to skip their door, in addition to the river of incen
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by pbourke 6y ago
> I bet there will be a third-hand market where people haul this junk away to Ikea, and resell vouchers/new furniture That already seems to be a thing - at least at the Seattle IKEA. Whenever I return something I spot at least one &
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Were either of these characters even PoWs? I doubt it. What’s your basis for doubting that McCain was a POW?
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Rational, educated populace doesnt explain away the difference between Italy vs Austria, Belgium & Netherlands vs Germany, the US vs Canada In the case of US vs Canada, perhaps it does. Canadians have a high level of trust in exper
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by pbourke 6y ago
There is no point in engaging with outgroups that operate in bad faith. We are at the point in the climate crisis in which “shame on you” is an appropriate response to climate deniers and bad faith actors.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> moral acts You spelled "wear a mask and avoid crowds" wrong.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Neither of those are sparkling businesses during the pandemic
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by pbourke 6y ago
These kinds of switches are perfectly analogous to technical debt. Doing things the right/straightforward way involves costs that we don’t want to pay (holes in the wall/labour to run a new circuit) so we shoehorn a complex hack u
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Why not help your origin country with your knowledge? I moved from Canada to the US in 2007. Things were different then, and the opportunities in the US were unique (I joined Amazon). The longer you stay, the harder it is to return: yo
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by pbourke 6y ago
This Would be so beyond the pale that it could lead to honest to goodness civil disorder.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Democrat senators Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid ... *Democratic Chuck Shumer, a Democrat, is a member of the Democratic Party. When used as an adjective the correct usage is “Democratic”
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by pbourke 6y ago
Certainly, but such a system is not a monolith. A core trait of the monolith is that there are no network calls between components.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> How many years worth of a cut salary would the bonus be? Who gives a shit? You’re still making good money. What’s your life worth?
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by pbourke 6y ago
How is it untrue? The proportion of Americans living in urban counties (31%) has not changed in 20 years. The proportion living in suburban counties has increased slightly (53% to 55%) [1] The proportion of new vehicle sales that are SUVs o
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by pbourke 6y ago
It’s easier to set up a system to provide nonpartisan funding and review of scientific work than it is to have everyone read and source all of the research. It’s also easier to set up an apolitical body that makes recommendations based on r
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by pbourke 6y ago
> I feel like there are some pretty good reasons to hold opinions you probably find so ridiculous that it isn't even worth your time to consider them I am curious about these opinions. Care to share some?
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Iraq war, where our intelligence agencies were sure about WMDs and the senate voted 97-0 to wage a war that ended up wasting thousands of American lives, trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives along with destabil
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by pbourke 6y ago
> We need to be building massive amounts of housing in city centers to let as many people live in them that would like to. All else being equal, Americans will choose to live in a detached house on a 1/2 acre lot with an SUV or pick
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by pbourke 6y ago
> I suspect that they may be incorrect, here. I’m curious why you’d think that? It will be over a year before many workplaces are in a position to end the WFH policies. A year is a long time, enough for cultures to adapt. * edit: I mean
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by pbourke 6y ago
I imagine that your first 10th century peasant would be much more interesting than your 500th
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by pbourke 6y ago
> And yet the majority of people at those companies vote for leftist economic policies that do that very same thing. And you’ve decided that the people complaining about the new corporate policies are the same that vote for leftist econo
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by pbourke 6y ago
> There are surprisingly many people who think that "anarchists" simply want to see the world burn and are promoting a society where their children are as likely to be murdered while out playing as not. Indeed. Anarchists clear

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