phil248

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by phil248 10y ago
What's strange to me is that so many people seem upset about "stagnating" at such a high standard of living. Most of the people driving anti-globalization are flirting with the highest quality of life of any humans to live. B
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by phil248 10y ago
I'm a dedicated gamer who has found countless hours of enjoyment from games like Minecraft and Crusader Kings 2. But in my attempts to play Dwarf Fortress, I felt like I was being trolled. Like the entire thing was some 'in'
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by phil248 10y ago
I think you're missing the bigger point that we have been giving out food for generations and it has not helped reduce poverty. You're basically telling everyone to go do all the stuff people have always been doing that never work
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by phil248 10y ago
The size of my apartment, which houses one person, is a tiny fraction of the size of the house I grew up in, which housed 3 people. Living on my own is dramatically less wasteful than even 6 or 7 people living in that big house. So it depen
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by phil248 10y ago
I disagree. After a couple meager attempts I never figured out how to naturally follow conversations, and quickly parsing abbreviation-filled snippets of text is a skill I think needs to be learned.
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by phil248 10y ago
I think the complexity is part of the appeal. There's some sense of accomplishment or exclusivity from "figuring it out" and being "Twitter-savvy".
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by phil248 11y ago
But that's not true since our bodies process different foods in different ways. Marathon runners don't eat a bunch of steak fat before a run.
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by phil248 11y ago
You could improve your comment by acknowledging that most businesses cajole, skirt, finagle or ignore regulations when it suits their purpose and they think they can get away with it. Uber and AirBnB did not invent this game.
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by phil248 11y ago
What is an example of a "cure-all massive policy"? When I think through the list of common welfare state components, none of them appear to be intended as cure-alls, but rather solutions to specific problems.
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by phil248 11y ago
People told me farmer's market tomatoes were better. So I bought them several times and sometimes they were better, sometimes not. Then, I discovered "early girl" tomatoes and they blew my mind. Very limited growing season th
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by phil248 11y ago
Most of what I watch these days on Netflix are their original programs, which I'm pretty sure is completely in line with their master plan.
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by phil248 11y ago
Just curious how you would view Dollar Shave Club as "overpaying".
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by phil248 11y ago
Maybe it's just me, but for me, having plenty of non-working time to do things like sleep makes me more productive. I mean, maybe I'm weird, but things like working reasonable hours and having ample time off tend to make me a happ
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by phil248 11y ago
Sure, there can just be 150 million jobs in the United States that all pay more than $100k/year, right? Everyone can be rich!
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by phil248 11y ago
Many more people are living in to their 70's, 80's and 90's than previously in human history. While our lifespan may not have increased much, the proportion of people reaching the extreme ends of our lifespan continues to ris
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by phil248 11y ago
It kind of scares me that people with terminal or completely debilitating diseases don't have widespread access to whatever experimental treatments are available. Imagine watching yourself die and reading articles about promising treat
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by phil248 11y ago
If I want an accurate view of life in a foreign country, the last people I would ask are ex-patriots.
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by phil248 11y ago
That first paragraph is a chore to read. Parentheses, caps, asterisks, hyphens, quotes, slashes... it's like bad ASCII art.
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by phil248 11y ago
In most countries (that you'd want to raise a family in), it is the job of the government to ensure employers make allowances for child rearing - an activity some consider indispensable.
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by phil248 11y ago
"This is the technology industry, we don't have time for new technology!"
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by phil248 11y ago
We have Zenefits at my job and it really is amazing. All workers should be so lucky to have that type of interface for their benefits.
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by phil248 12y ago
Many people think they should be able to live in a place they can afford with the reasonable expectation that it will be their home for the foreseeable future. Many benefits, to both the economy and society at large, come from ensuring the
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by phil248 12y ago
In San Francisco, only residential units constructed prior to 1979 are subject to the local rent control law. This is for market housing, government subsided housing follows different (and differing) regulations, which often do take income
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by phil248 12y ago
Because of this: "Parents of Head Start participants in the 4-year-old cohort reported less aggressive behavior in their children at the end of 3rd grade than did the parents of the other children. For the 3-year-old group, Head Start
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by phil248 12y ago
My girlfriend and mother both started at community college, both transferred to Berkeley and both did very well there. They saved a lot of money in the process. And while those success stories are great (and not that rare) the more importan
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by phil248 12y ago
For those in the Bay Area, I highly recommend checking out Don Bugito. They've done a great job of making insects palatable for the uninitiated. Everyone I've taken to their food stand at Off the Grid has ended up trying some bugs
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by phil248 12y ago
For those that are interested, I've found that Certified Humane eggs are the easiest to find and that label carries weight. It's usually $4-$5 for a dozen, more expensive than factory eggs but still pretty cheap for food in genera